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1,500 Students Explore Aviation Careers at Van Nuys Airport

Van Nuys Airport has created another truly impressive, “The Sky’s the Limit: Aviation Career Day.” The airport last Thursday hosted no fewer than 1,500 Los Angeles-area students for a day’s worth of adventures into what makes the industry tick. Participants were also treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the history and daily operations of VNY, […]

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California Aviation Hall of Fame Announces 2018 Inductees

Santa Monica Airport’s Museum of Flying last week announced that this year’s inductees into the California Aviation Hall of Fame are Angela Masson, Mike Melvill, Dick Rutan and Barry Schiff. The California Aviation Hall of Fame is a subsidiary of the Museum of Flying. The award ceremony will be held at the museum on Saturday, […]

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Pilot Proficiency

Aviation, Social Mobility, and the American Dream

One of the things I love about living and cruising aboard Windbird is the way it drastically simplifies and slows the frenetic pace of modern life. Where most of my flights are of a few hours’ duration, passages under sail are measured in days and weeks. Three hours on watch, three hours off, ad infinitum […]

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Maintaining Airport Access for General Aviation

There was nobody to marshal us in as we wheeled into the parking spot. After we shut the old Navajo down and started looking around to see where to go after we got out, a man ran up to the pilot side of the airplane. I opened the little side window and expectantly bent an […]

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2019 Federal Budget Includes ATC Privatization Language

The Trump administration presented its budget for fiscal year 2019 this week and, once again, it includes language that would move the responsibility of air traffic control from the FAA to a non-governmental organization run by a private board, “effectively dominated by the airlines and unaccountable to Congress” according to the National Business Aviation Administration. […]

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Aviation Luminaries Honored at Living Legends Awards

It was a star-studded affair as John Travolta, Harrison Ford and other Hollywood stars toasted aviation’s best and brightest in Beverly Hills, California, over the weekend at the 15th annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards. This year’s inductees included AOPA president Mark Baker, record-setting helicopter pilot and businessman H. Ross Perot Jr., freefall parachute daredevil […]

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Top 25 Aviation Stories of 2017

As we do at the end of each year, the editors of Flying have compiled a list of the most important, compelling and industry-shaping news stories to emerge in the preceding 12 months. As always, the year was jam-packed with major news stories, from the political battles that gripped Washington to new airplane introductions and […]

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Diamond Aircraft Purchased by Wanfeng Aviation

China’s Wanfeng Auto Holding Group announced it has completed the acquisition of Diamond Aircraft Group, just a year after it acquired a 60 percent share of Diamond Canada. The company said the move will have a significant impact on Diamond’s long-term future and increased global sales. When it announced last year’s cash infusion to Diamond, […]

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Careers

How to Become an Aviation Professional

Opportunities for advancement in aviation and aerospace aren’t only for those within the industry, says executive recruiter Rod McDermott, whose firm is searching for professionals from unrelated fields interested in aviation and ready for a career change. “We have so many people passionate about aviation who make their living doing something else, and we want […]

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Pilot’s Discretion: Incorporating Technology in Flight Training

GPS, datalink weather and autopilots have dramatically changed how pilots fly, but you wouldn’t know it visiting some flight schools these days. Many student pilots will learn more about VORs and telephone weather briefings than the tools they will actually use after flight training. True, the recently updated FAA Knowledge Test questions and the new […]

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