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EAA Announces Rod Hightower as New President, 3rd in Organization's History
Find AirVenture Exhibitors Here: Booth Locations, URLs
No-Ethanol premium Mogas:$3.49; 100LL:$3.96; Jet-A:$3.60 at KAID (near Indy) Through OSH
Rotax Releases Revised Manual and Service Documents
Cheap and Easy Pilot Certificates?
Big Fly-in & Airshow -- Make Plans Now ;-)
SAIB Issued on Certain Rotax 912 Engines: Possible Fuel Pump Problem
Private-Built Rocket Carrying Student Payloads Achieves 70-mile Altitude
Cozumel's New CEQ Airport Celebrates Six Great Weeks in Operation
Solar Impulse: First Flight
Prop AD: McCauley on certain C-152s and other Lycoming O-235 powered airplanes
A&Ps and LSA: What, When, and How Much can you do? ATP found the answers.
New White Paper: Security Management Systems; scalable, and free (!) from NBAA
Russia's FA-22? Sukhoi T-50 First Flight
FAA's Carburetor Advice: SAIB
Cessna's C-162 Skycatcher LSA: First Delivery
Comment NOW on TSA's Untenable Repair Station Requirements (NPRM and comment link)
50 Years Ago: Flying a T-33 Through the Grand Canyon (video)
FAA: "Polished Frost" Now Prohibited (in most cases); Remains a Bad Idea (in all cases)
Gulfstream's New G650 Completes Abbreviated Initial Flight
TCM's Emergency Hydraulic Lifter AD
TSA's Latest Attack: See NPRM [Docket No. TSA-2004-17131] w/ URL for Comments
Factory Response to FAA's Move on CH601XL, 650
The Motorcycle Flies at Dusk
FAA: Don't fly your Zodiac CH601XL and CH650 until you read this (and fix that).
How to Lose Your License Through Overt and Dangerous Stupidity
Incredible Networking: ASA Saves Mercy Mission in Indonesia
TCM six-cylinder MSB goes AD
EAA eHotline: Reno Air Race Recap
FAA Finally Clarifies 51% Evaluations, Lifts Ban Imposed in February, 2008
EAA eHotline from Reno Air Races
First Production Cessna Skycatcher Flies Near its Chinese Factory
New Acoustic Anti-Collision Paradigm from Kansas U
"Wind Turbines: Problem for ATC?" -- Eurocontrol
Important Info on Bolts: Tension and torque don't necessarily equate
FAA Rules on Sport Pilot Training re. Private Certificate
Win $1.5 million -- NASA and CAFE Announce Green Aircraft Challenge
MGL Avionics Guides LSA Circumnavigation of the World
Video: Why Flying GA is Better than Part 121, if You're a Guitar
AMOC For Baron, Bonanza Circuit Breaker AD
New Top Management at Piper
TSA vs GA: "risks associated with general aviation are relatively limited" (pg 7)
DHS Sec Napolitano "Suggests" GA, Small Boat Owners Form Coalition
First Flight of First Emivest SJ30-2 Portends Serial Production
Twin-Engine Rotax Powered... Golf Cart (video)
Confirmed: Randy Babbit Heads FAA
Pinch Petrol, Win a Million Bucks: Draft Rules for NASA / CAFE Challenge Released
Piper Acquired by Imprimis
Cessna suspends Columbus jet project and Corvalis (Columbia) piston production
Cirrus Increases Production
"We Are Under Attack" Sun 'n Fun message from Piper President Jim Bass
NTSB Urges FAA to Ground XL601
Certain Warning and Marking LEDs May be Invisible to NVG Wearers: FAA
Possible Hybrid Power Breakthrough for Experimentals?
Log Time in The Spirit of St Louis (EAA replica, benefits to Lindbergh Foundation)
TSA's Attack on GA, Airports Rekindles in Colorado
Cessna Statement on C-162 SkyCatcher Program
Some Sport Pilot Instruction Won't Count Toward Private
Revised-Design C-162 Skycatcher Down; Pilot OK; No Comment Yet From Cessna
Creditors Petition for Eclipse Aviation Liquidation
TSA's List of Targeted GA Airports (246 Airports Affected in First Wave)
The Business Case for General Aviation: "No Plane, No Gain"
TSA's Plan Could Destroy GA: Read and Comment on Docket TSA-2008-0021
NBAA Merges Planned March "Light" Show Into Annual October Event
Judge Approves Sale of Eclipse Aviation's Assets
AeroCopter's Mono-Tilt-Rotor (MTR) VTOL with Electromagnetic Frictionless Tech
Why GA is a Threat and Needs to be Crippled: DHS Secretary Chertoff
DAHER Group confirms signature of SOCATA takeover deal with EADS
Superior Air Parts Petitions for Chapter 11 Protection
Embraer Phenom 100 Earns FAA Certificate; Deliveries Start Immediately
AIA: Jobs Available Soon, but Depend on Foresight Now (white paper)
Oshkosh Airventure 2009: New Improvements, Requirements, Restrictions: Plan Now!
Bruce Bohannon Retires Record-Setting Flyin' Tiger
Piper Matrix Earns EASA Certification, Leads Company's Piston Sales
Eclipse Aviation Files for Protection Under Chapter 11
U. of Michigan Students Set Fuel-Cell-Powered UAV Endurance Record
DHS Adds to GA Burden; Requirement Exceeds Airlines' in Some Ways
Stemme S6 Motorglider EASA Certified
Dornier Promises Modern Twin Turboprop Seaplane
Steve Fossett Discovery: Wreckage Found
DayJet Stalls, Iacobucci Out. Credit, Eclipse Problems Cited
AVweb: Cessna C-162 Prototype Wrecked After Unrecoverable Spin; Pilot OK
Reno Air Race Results: Reno Gazette Journal
First Flight: Way Cool Sikorsky X2
First Flight: First Production Citation CJ 4
Mooney Aircraft, Rolls-Royce to Explore RR500 Application
PiperJet: First Flight Video
RR500: New Turboprop from Rolls-Royce
Eclipse Founder Vern Raburn Edged Out
C-340 With RR 250 Power
FAA Releases Policy Revisions on 51% Rule
First Flight: IKON A5 Amphibian
Plans: EADS to Sell Socata to DAHER
First Flight: Cirrus SJ50, a.k.a. "The-Jet"
Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan™ Engine Cleared for First Flight
GE Finalizes Buy of Walter Engines
AOPA's Boyer Retiring; Fuller Takes Reins
F-35B First Flight
NextGen Shouldn't Wait
Rutan Steps Down at Scaled
Murphy Aircraft Selling Renegade Line
AP Sensationalism Aside, Cialis Not For Pilots
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