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A new plane, a new season and lots of reasons to go gaga over planes. There’s been so much noise politically in aviation these past few months that we’ve been so busy protecting our freedom to fly against some very real threats that it’s been too easy to forget the flying part, which is, after […]

NASA study finds significant difference between biofuel and traditional jet fuel emissions

President Trump’s budget proposal threatens the lifeblood of General Aviation. Over the past couple of days, the general aviation community has responded to a common threat to our way of flight. Earlier this week President Trump issued his budget, and while there is no shortage of controversy associated with it, for those of us who […]

One researcher thinks we should start round landing ’€œstrips’€ tomorrow and says he has the research to prove it’s a great idea

In fear of losing funding for this critical cog in GA’s infrastructure, advocates gear up to get the message out that we need our towers

Like most of you, I think of avgas in a very one-dimensional way, regarding our old true blue 100LL as the only aviation gasoline, at least until a 100LL alternative hits the pumps in a few years. But it turns out that’s not really true. There’s another approved aviation fuel for sale today, Swift Fuels’ […]

With a little more than a year to go before all of the satellites are in orbit, testing has begun on the ADS-B system

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Enhancements and improved features make Garmin’s G500H better

The CES of aircraft featured few new products but lots of interesting questions about aviation’s digital future. The 60th edition of the Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) trade show in New Orleans got underway on Monday, and the first day of the show was an eye opener, but not for the usual reasons. Usually at this […]