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Aviation advocates work to inspire teachers, students
The Aerospace Center for Excellence (ACE) will host a Classroom to the Sky program for K through 12 educators interested in igniting a passion for avi...
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Aviation stories, local knowledge and adventures from the FLAL community.
A preserved collection of older aviation news. Repeated archive headlines are grouped; original article links remain available.
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Backcountry for the rest of the country
Backcountry pilots out West have all the fun. Mountains, challenging strips, and raging rivers make for great flying adventures. But if you break down...
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Dusty desert checklist
Pilots tend to be take-charge people. The passive among us just don’t make the cut. Carry that energy into preparing for High Sierra Fly-In in Nevada,...
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Keeping it clean in the backcountry
Mud, dust, sand, grass, insects. All of these and more await you in the backcountry and, more than likely, will accompany you home on the windscreen,...
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AOPA’S AIR SAFETY INSTITUTE RELEASES EARLY ANALYSIS: N126WK VIDEO
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Air Safety Institute (ASI) released a new video from its Early Analysis series providing an initial examina...
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eVTOL hopeful Kittyhawk done, dusted
Those casually following the eVTOL scene may not have noticed the Kittyhawk Heaviside, a single-seat, autonomous (pilotless, remote-controlled), winge...
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‘I knew … that he knew he was in trouble’
Fort Worth Center controller Kerri Fingerson cleared the flight for another approach on a rainy April afternoon in Oklahoma, but something was not qui...
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Boeing, Wisk envision uncrewed aircraft
Wisk Aero, developer of the all-electric, pilotless, Cora eVTOL, pioneered by Google’s Larry Page, partnered with Boeing Co. in January in a $450 mill...
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Aircraft Maintenance: The most dangerous aircraft system
With the autopilot engaged, the boys and I cruised along smoothly, IFR at 6,000 feet, remarking on the terrible weather we had to navigate around duri...
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FAA shrinks Class E surface area around Sitka
The FAA has reduced the size of the Class E airspace around Sitka, Alaska, to allow approaching VFR pilots to get close enough to check the weather.
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Keep awareness high as leaves drop
A change of season need not stop your aviation adventures, though if the colors you seek are far afield, you may want to line up a good weather inform...
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Forcing the “silent killer” to make noise
In December 2021, after reviewing several fatal accidents, the NTSB recommended that the FAA require carbon monoxide detectors in all enclosed-cabin a...