In one of the most exciting finales in years, legendary P-51 race airplane Strega, piloted by James Consalvi, beat Voodoo to claim the coveted National Championship Air Race trophy in the Unlimited class Gold heat. Voodoo, flown by Steven Hinton, beat Consalvi (then in Czech Mate) last year by 10 seconds, was a step ahead […]
Despite the lack of any discussion this week about the inevitable march toward an FAA reauthorization extension, six of the nation’s major aviation associations today voiced their continued collective concerns over the move to “hand over control of the nation’s air traffic control system to the airlines and other special interest groups.” The AOPA, NBAA, […]
The scariest part of my aerobatic flight over Oshkosh at AirVenture 2017 was undoubtedly the moment that Team Oracle’s Cameron Jaxheimer offered me the controls and guided me through a barrel roll. It was probably more thrilling than terrifying, but it was still a tense moment, because in addition to repeatedly telling myself, “Don’t puke […]
Young people looking for a valuable professional development experience should take a close look at the International Civil Aviation Organization’s Young Aviation Professionals program. Selected participants could be offered a 12-month long opportunity to contribute to one or more of ICAO’s strategic objectives under the watchful eye of a subject-matter expert at the organization’s headquarters […]
Stop off at the USA.gov website and you’ll find a long list of government organizations that halted production of their podcasts, from the U.S. Air Force, to the Consumer Product Safety Commission and even the White House. But the NTSB plans to soon join federal podcast survivors like the National Institute of Health and NASA […]
On Friday, September 8, country music star Troy Gentry of Montgomery Gentry passed away at a hospital following a helicopter crash at the Flying W Airport in Medford, New Jersey. The pilot of the Schweizer 269, 30-year-old James Evan Robinson, was also killed in the crash, after he tried to perform an emergency landing. On […]
Pilots at the National Championship Air Races at the Reno-Stead Airport are getting deeper into the game of pylon racing as the weekend approaches. The excitement is building as the racers attempt to get faster and faster laps times to move up to the next group or get into a better position to reach the […]
Time is running out to claim the $500 rebate checks the FAA is making available to piston airplane owners who equip with ADS-B. Launched last September as an inducement to pilots still on the fence about the ADS-B mandate that takes effect at the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, 2020, the program ends on […]
The General Accountability Office was tasked by Congress in November 2015 to research two questions following more than a decade of NextGen planning and implementation by the FAA. One, how has the agency implemented NextGen to date, the second to review the FAA’s plans to mitigate the challenges the agency still faces to complete NextGen. […]
Florida airports were slowly resuming operations yesterday in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, which caused widespread devastation in the Caribbean and Florida Keys, but not as much destruction as feared elsewhere thanks to building code improvements and residents who heeded warnings before the massive storm. Many pilots, aviation businesses and schools like Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University […]
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