Day/Night, VFR/IFR, Single Pilot, RVSM... Yup, That's A Working TC ANN REALTIME REPORTING 09.30.06 1515 EDT: Today, before a happy -- soon to be happier -- crowd of customers at its Albuquerque, New Mexico headquarters, Eclipse received a full type certificate for its revolutionary Eclipse 500 Very Light Jet.
Pilot Glides To Safe Landing Following Engine Failure Southbound drivers on I-75 near Macon, GA on Friday must had gotten an eyeful as an oncoming B-36 Bonanza (file photo below) glided to a landing right in front of them.
"We have a near-sacred responsibility to protect and defend the United States and Canada against any and all threats. We will not waver in this responsibility." Source: NORAD Commander Admiral Timothy Keating, commenting on an eerie flashback to different times this week.
Passengers Feared He Was A Terrorist In yet another sad example of how the acts of few can lead to the stereotyping of many, a Spanish university professor says he was briefly forced off an airliner in Mallorca last month, after passengers were frightened by his long beard and dark complexion that made him appear to be Muslim.
Unusually Lush Vegetation Hindered Search Effort What once was launched, has now been found in southern New Mexico... where UP Aerospace reports after five days of searching the not-so-arid desert landscape, it found the landing site Saturday of its unmanned SpaceLoft XL vehicle.
Pilot Walks Away From 'Horrific' Crash A BE95 Travel Air (file photo below) crashed Thursday just east of Safford Regional Airport in AZ due to apparent fuel exhaustion. Miraculously, the pilot was uninjured.
ASA Pilots Seek Arbitration A four-year long battle between Delta Connection carrier Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA), a subsidiary of Skywest, and its 1600 union pilots may go to arbitration.
Ask any area outdoorsman if they'd like to visit Alaska, and they're sure to say, "Yes." This northern state is a classic example of a great place to pursue almost any outdoor sport in an often spectacular setting of snow-capped mountains, rushing rivers and broad tundra or taiga.
