The March of Dimes' Continental-Boeing online auction ends tomorrow at 2pm (EST). For those of you that do not know, the auction will allow someone to fly first class from their home, have dinner with top Continental and Boeing executives, stay at the Renaissance in Seattle, tour the Boeing plant...

Hi everyone, this is a press release we put out over the weekend, which I hope is okay to post here. If not, my sincere apologies. Thanks... --Kev FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Support Against Brantford Airport Closure Continues to Grow Petitions obtain over 500 signatures BRANTFORD, ON, 2007 February...

In case anyone here who knows him and might not have gotten the sad news, I just received an e-mail that Kelly Teague, of Teague Aviation http://www.okaerobatics.com/, passed away this weekend.

Arrived at my t-hanger this morning in Syracuse, NY (KSYR), to pull the Bonanza out for my weekly commute to my customer's city only to discover 3 feet of snow (.9 m) in front of the t-hangar and on the adjacent taxiway, as well as snow banks higher than a low-wing aircraft can safely pass. The...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Brantford Airport Closure Questioned City's direction has over 700 petitioners in disbelief BRANTFORD, ON, 2007 February 21 -- Two petitions, one online and one in paper, have now reached a total of over 700 signatures. The petitions, started by a small business at the...

The plane I usually rent is probably going to be sold relatively soon. I will miss the Garmin 430 since most of the planes left in the fleet available to me do not have a GPS at all. So I am looking at the Lowrance Airmap 1000 as a portable alternative, but for the life of me, can't find a single...

I hope to never hear this first-hand. Of course I've increased the odds in my favor quite a bit by flying a fixed-gear aircraft. http://www.flightlevel350.com/Aircraft_Cessna_182_Skylane_RG_II-Airline_Private_Aviation_Video-7951.html Enjoy, err, I mean cringe! Marco

I am just about ready to buy an older Taylorcraft that has no electrical system. I am looking for recommendations on a battery operated radio to use in the plane. I would really like one that also works as an intercom. Danny Deger

Can someone identify this radial aeroplane piston engine? http://y23stockpic.free.fr/200608-hawaii50/n20060827_074431.html As photographed on Hawaii's Oahu Airport ... Really interesting info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_engine

I am looking for places on-line to study for my upcoming biannual for a private certificate. Any ideas out there. Does the FAA post the list of questions on-line? Danny Deger

How complicated is it to fly into Sun-n-Fun? I read the stories of Oskosh and, as an 80 hour private pilot, I wouldn't touch that by air. I fly out of Orlando executive, so Lakeland is only ~49 miles and I think it would be cool to motor down for one day (maybe bring one or both of my boys...

Does anyone know the mechanics behind the funding of Automated Weather Observation Systems (AWOS) at airports? I ask this because on our recent flight to St. Louis we were again struck by the fact that Iowa has a plethora of AWOS, while northern Missouri has painfully few. See here (select...

My wife and I recently relocated to Manhattan Beach, CA, a few miles south of LAX. Having flown in and out of LAX dozens of times in the last few years, I'm familiar with the pattern for east-bound aircraft -- take off to the west over the ocean, turn south out over the water, parallel the beach...

Okay, so it's not quite spring -- but with sunset finally breaking 5:30 PM, we at last have enough time between school and darkness to do a nice dinner flight. This annual rite of spring is always a relief, coming, as always, after the long, dull darkness of winter and a loooong cold spell. Today...

New York tries to ground student pilots, again As if New York legislators haven't made it difficult enough for aviation enthusiasts to start flight training with the background check law that was enacted last year, they are at it again. The legislators are proposing to prohibit anyone under age...

http://machineitright.com/movies/060213_flying_motorcycle.wmv I want one.

Read the following in the February edition of AOPA magazine by Thomas Haines the editor in chief. "General aviation of the future may look like that in Europe today - where user fees have existed for years. There only the ultrawealthy fly anything. The wealthy fly microlights and non of them...

"I haven't even told you about the plane yet. It's a four-seat, single-engine Cessna 172, which was also my blood pressure when I spotted it in the field behind West Air. This $80,000 Costco shopping cart with wings was undoubtedly chosen for this mission because it's the fleet's most...

Most of the software out there will compute a flight based on the user's route, time of departure and altitude. This is a fairly straight forward task which could be done without a computer, as has been the case for decades. What I am looking for is the reverse. Given a destination, aircraft type...

Does anyone have a copy of Magellans DataSend you would be willing to part with? Or, do you know somewhere to get a copy cheap? I'd like to load an aviation database onto my Magellan 315. Thanks, Brad