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A little more than three years after being announced, the Diamond D-Jet had its first flight April 18. Conducted from the London International Airport in Canada, home of Diamond’s North American operation, the first flight lasted one hour and six minutes. The flight was designed to evaluate 19 test points. After take off and climb […]

Scott Crossfield was a hero who lived up to the expectations of his admirers. Not all of them do, you know. Crossfield died during the night of April 19 after encountering a Level 6 thunderstorm over Georgia, while flying his Cessna 210 toward Virginia. The wreckage was found the next day in a wooded gully […]

Many improvements are in the works for the 28th Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In (RMRFI), scheduled June 24-25 at Front Range Airport (FTG) in Watkins, Colo. Expect to see more classic Warbirds — static displays as well as aerial performers — during the fly-in’s third year at Front Range. Activities include daily aerobatic shows, workshops and […]

When most of us think of Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) we envision police helicopters looking for people on the ground or expensive all-weather systems in Gulfstream cockpits. It’s hard to imagine FLIR in small general aviation aircraft at a price of $18,680. Harder to imagine than that is the many ways in which FLIR can […]

Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, has been selected as the host airport for the Gathering of Mustangs & Legends, slated for Sept. 27-30, 2007. The 1999 gathering at Kissimmee, Fla., brought together 65 P-51 Mustangs and 12 Legends for what was considered one of the great aviation events of the 20th Century. Columbus is […]

If you’ve never heard of ADS-B or seen how it shows what’s sharing airspace with you, you need to get together with Todd Sprague of PC Avionics. He can show how his software and an ADS-B box aboard your airplane can enhance your safety exponentially. ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) tracks all air traffic around you […]

The Transportation Security Administration put out an advisory April 20 warning aircraft owners about a message, posted in Arabic on a Web forum, that explained how to identify private American airplanes. “Destroy private American aircraft…We call upon all Muslims to follow and identify private civilian American aircrafts (sic) in all airports of the world…It is […]

The FAA and the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) recently signed an historic joint initiative on land use planning around the nation’s airports. On March 28, FAA Administrator Marion Blakey signed the agreement on behalf of FAA, while NASAO Chairman Richard Turner of Vermont signed for the 50 states. Late last year, Blakey […]

The very newest thing in Light Sport Aircraft looks for all the world like an airplane from the early years of aviation. It’s the Aerolab LoCamp from Italy, sporting two open cockpits, fabric covering, a fine wood instrument panel and a radial engine – but it’s so new that it has yet to achieve LSA […]