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Pilots in Eatonville, Washington, say that a developer’s plan to build homes adjacent to their local airport, Swanson Field (SW3), is a back-door attempt to close the airport. The proposed development would create 23 to 27 lots on 18 acres that wrap about the south and east sides of the airport, which was built by […]

What do beer, beans, cabbage and carbonated beverages have to do with aviation? These are foods that the 1944 edition of the Pilots Information File suggested pilots avoid because of the excess gas they produce in the body and the expansion of the gas at altitude.

Usually, when a school is built next to an airport, school officials express concerns about the proximity of airplanes to the classrooms. At Tradewind Elementary School in Amarillo, Texas, Principal Kim Bentley couldn’t be more excited about the location. The new school is being built next door to Tradewind Airport (TDW) and Bentley, who is […]

Recovery efforts are still ongoing following a Christmas day tornado that caused extensive damage to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach, Fla., campus. There is substantial damage to several buildings on the campus, including Spruance Hall, which houses administrative offices, and the Student Center. The university’s maintenance hangar was destroyed when the tornado cut a 100-foot-wide […]

“It’s big.” “It’s beautiful!” “What is it?” These are just some of the comments visitors at EAA AirVenture 2006 made when they approached the Norseman UC-64A owned by Forrest Klies from Basin, Montana. The gold and maroon high-wing beauty was parked in the vintage aircraft area amid the rows of Stinsons and Stearmans. The aircraft […]

The Commemorative Air Force’s “Diamond Lil” may be no more. The B-24, the oldest in existence, is in the midst of a restoration that will return it to its original B-24A status. Based at the B-29/B-24 Squadron at the CAF’s Midland, Texas, headquarters, “Diamond Lil,” was put in the paint scheme and markings of the […]

When something bad happens, a lot of people can let it get them down. Not Jason Newburg, who took something bad and turned it into victory. The Edgewater, Florida, aerobatics performer bought a Pitts Special S-1 in Jamaica. When it arrived in Florida, he found it had been damaged in shipping. The plane, now named […]

It all started for Jeff Laskin when he was in first grade in Chicago. “I was so excited about wearing a ‘Mighty Mouse’ costume for Halloween,” he recalls. “I remember jumping off the desks pretending to fly until the teacher ‘grounded’ me.” But that teacher couldn’t ground his dreams of flight. Those dreams were put […]

The 2007 hurricane season will be one of “above-average” activity, according to Dr. William Gray of Colorado State University, one of the best-known and most accurate forecasters. Gray’s “early season forecast,” issued Dec. 8, predicts 14 named storms, seven of which will become hurricanes. Three of those will be major hurricanes, meaning category 3, 4 […]