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One of the defining features of Diamond’s little four-seat DA42 Twin Star is the choice of powerplants, the newly certified Thielert turbo-diesel engine. With light weight, impressive fuel consumption figures and excellent high altitude performance, the diesel seems a great fit for the airplane. Still, Diamond has been test flying the airplane with a pair […]

Click here to see FLYING’s video coverage of AirVenture – Watch streaming videos online! The 2004 edition of AirVenture Oshkosh is just around the corner. If you’re heading out for the festivities, or if you just want to follow along, check out all the news at flyingmag.com. While last year’s EAA AirVenture celebrated the achievements […]

Renowned actor Harrison Ford, an active pilot and a member of the EAA, is the association’s new chairman of the Young Eagles program. Ford replaces Chuck Yeager, who will carry on as chairman emeritus. Young Eagles has flown more than one million young people since its inception in 1992. While the program achieved its goal […]

Personalities In late February, 600 of Gordon Baxter’s friends and admirers gathered at the Holiday Inn in Beaumont, Texas, for an 80th birthday tribute celebration in his honor. Flying readers perhaps know Baxter best for his much-beloved “Bax Seat” column, which ran in Flying from 1971 to 1998 and made it common practice for readers […]

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