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What he “discovered” and suggested might shock you!but then again! United States Senator Chuck Schumer (D, NY) is worried about airplane accidents, specifically accidents involving small airplanes in New York. In a press release and open letter to the NTSB and FAA, Schumer made the “demand” that the agencies investigate a spate of aircraft accidents […]

Hundreds of free NASA-developed software programs are now available to the public

Aviate, navigate, communicate? Well, yes, but if you plan to penetrate a Presidential TFR, those happen only after find, phone, copy, file.

The supersonic QueSST could fill the niche left empty by the retirement of the Concorde

The agency’s blindsiding GA on its Santa Monica capitulation was more than the alphabets could take.  A couple of weeks ago when the FAA made the surprise announcement—“surprise” as in Pearl Harbor and not Happy Birthday, by the way—we weighed in that the move was something we’d never seen the agency do before. Our suggestion, […]

2017 marks another successful year for WAI

Don’t admit to loving taildraggers unless you want to be regarded as an aviation traditionalist

Presidential TFRs: security vs. harm

Exhibitor registration opens for 2017 AOPA Fly-ins

Experience, planning and discipline were all sorely lacking in this accident that didn’t need to happen