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What’s Your Angle?

What’s Your Angle?

In the April issue of Aviation Safety, we explored the theories of generating lift...

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Poll: Would You Fly on an Airline That Requires Covid Vaccination?

Poll: Would You Fly on an Airline That Requires Covid Vaccination?

Each week, we poll the savviest aviators on the World Wide Web (that's you) on a...

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SpaceX To (Maybe) Send Starship To 50,000 Feet

SpaceX To (Maybe) Send Starship To 50,000 Feet

SpaceX plans to launch the eighth version of its Starship interplanetary rocket...

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Reno Looking For Donations: 2021 Races In Doubt

Reno Looking For Donations: 2021 Races In Doubt

The National Championship Air Races is more than a quarter of the way to raising...

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Best of the Web: How Dodge Built Bomber Engines

Best of the Web: How Dodge Built Bomber Engines

Wright designed the R-3350, but it took Dodge to build it in volume only to have...

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Final Wing Spar AD Affects 11,476 Pipers

Final Wing Spar AD Affects 11,476 Pipers

The FAA’s Piper PA-28 and PA-32 wing spar inspection AD takes effect Dec. 28 and...

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Embry-Riddle Added 17 Aircraft To Fleet in 2020, More Planned for ’21

Embry-Riddle Added 17 Aircraft To Fleet in 2020, More Planned...

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University continues to grow and with it comes demand...

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Pitot Blocking Wasps Disrupt Australian Flight Ops

Pitot Blocking Wasps Disrupt Australian Flight Ops

The average wasp’s interaction with an airplane almost always ends up as an...

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Five-Bladed H145 Earns FAA Type Certification

Five-Bladed H145 Earns FAA Type Certification

Airbus Helicopters announced on Monday that its new five-bladed H145 helicopter...

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Short Final: The Briefest Readback

Short Final: The Briefest Readback

Some years back at Bradley International Airport, there was a local air taxi company...

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American Pilots To Reassure Passengers Before MAX Flights

American Pilots To Reassure Passengers Before MAX Flights

It’s not often that passengers hear from the captain days before their flight but...

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Industry Round-up, October 23, 2020

Industry Round-up, October 23, 2020

This week, AVweb’s news roundup found reports on a lease signing for an aviation...

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F-35 ‘Overwhelmed’ By Pilot Attempts To Save It (Corrected)

F-35 ‘Overwhelmed’ By Pilot Attempts To Save It (Corrected)

An unstable approach, a misaligned helmet and an “overwhelmed” flight control system...

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Navy Instructor, Student Killed In Texan II Crash

Navy Instructor, Student Killed In Texan II Crash

A Navy flight instructor and student pilot were killed in the crash of a Navy Texan...

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Eclipse Assets May Be Sold For $5.25 Million

Eclipse Assets May Be Sold For $5.25 Million

A British businessman has entered into an agreement with OneAviation to pick up...

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Your Analysis Of Priorities Matters

Your Analysis Of Priorities Matters

It's not the quality of the facilities that matter, but rather the proximity to...