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FBOs Prepare to Kick Off Super Bowl Festivities

As those lucky enough to see the Giants take on the Patriots in this year’s Super Bowl rematch prepare to make the trip to Indy, a number of FBOs are taking extra steps to vie for the large increase in private aircraft traffic. One FBO kicking off the festivities in a big way is Million […]

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FBO Spotlight: Cardinal Air (K5W8)

In our FBO Spotlight series, we’re highlighting FBOs around the country that have received rave reviews from our readers. This latest Spotlight is brought to you by Lin Caywood, who recently stopped by Cardinal Air in Siler City, North Carolina, in a Cessna 182T. Here’s what she has to say about the experience. Cardinal Air […]

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A New Cockpit

__Never have I enjoyed glass so much. This is even better than the Learjet martini glasses a friend gave to me — much more expensive too. Nor am I speaking of Dale Chihuly’s glass concoctions. What we’ve done, my wife and I, is to replace the old instruments in our 31-year-old Cheyenne with the Garmin […]

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Biofuel Future

It wasn’t many years ago that the idea of using biofuels for flight was dismissed out of hand as a utopian fantasy. The conventional wisdom said we’d never be able to produce enough aviation biofuel to make a difference, and even if we could it wouldn’t matter — biomass-sourced fuel would wreak havoc on the […]

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FBO Spotlight: Executive Air (KBIS)

In our FBO Spotlight series, we’re highlighting FBOs around the country that have received rave reviews from our readers. This latest Spotlight is brought to you by Mike McIntee, who has nothing but good things to say about Executive Air at KBIS and how they treat him and his Cessna T206H. Executive Air (KBIS)_ _ […]

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Pima Air & Space Museum Launches Boneyard Art Exhibit

Boneyards – the graveyards of worn out airplanes – are generally depressing collections of airplanes whose useful life has come and gone. But art aficionado and gallery owner Eric Firestone saw these airplanes as an opportunity to create something beautiful. Along with curator Carlo McCormick, Firestone conceived The Boneyard Project, which put retired historical airplanes […]

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The Search for a Fuel-Efficient Aircraft

(January 2012) The news cycle is like a carousel whose riders are ever changing. For a brief moment in September, the Green Flight Challenge swept past: NASA handed a prize of $1.35 million to an airplane that had achieved an efficiency of 400 passenger-miles per gallon. Huh? said the world — and then along came […]

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A Kinder, Gentler FAA

(January 2012) Some time back, Congress decided that the FAA’s goals were just downright incompatible. How could a federally mandated regulatory agency “encourage and develop civil aeronautics” while enforcing the regulations and exercising its authority to levy fines and suspend or revoke certificates? So guess which functions were eliminated? Washington also reminded the agency that […]

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FBO Spotlight: Alexandria Aviation (KAXN)

In our FBO Spotlight series, we’re highlighting FBOs around the country that have received rave reviews from our readers. This latest Spotlight is brought to you by John “Randy” Olson, who recently flew one of Alexandria Aviation’s Piper Warriors and has nothing but good things to say about the experience. Alexandria Aviation (KAXN) Alexandria, Minnesota […]

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