Video of the Week

Best Of The Web: Pure Power

The F-104 Starfighter was the pointy end of the stick on the front lines of the Cold War, and hundreds of them flew in defense of NATO and NORAD in the 1960s and 70s. Flying examples of the Widowmaker are now rare but hitch a ride on a recent launch from the Kennedy Space Center.

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Featured Video: Airthre’s Cabin Oxygen Generator

Here’s one we missed in our Sun ‘n Fun 2024 coverage. Oxygen bottles rule the general aviation space because pedestrian oxygen generators simply aren’t optimized for use in small aircraft cabins. Aithre Aviation said there has been sizable demand for such a system so it developed one—called the Turbo Oxygen Maker—and it brought one to […]

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FAA Fit? Wingman Med Backstops

More and more pilots show up on the AME’s doorstep armed with the wrong or not enough paperwork to pass an FAA medical exam. That could be mean waiting a half year or more for the FAA to issue a medical when you could have been issued a certificate on the spot if you only […]

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Video Of The Week: Garmin GNS 430: Throwaway Or Keeper?

Despite false rumors and misinformation that the hugely popular Garmin GNS-series navigators are at the end of their service life, Garmin says that 99 percent of GNS users can keep using their units. Moreover, the Garmin factory will still continue to support common repairs and refurbishments as it has for the past 25 years. For […]

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Best Of The Web: Farmyard Find

When Capt. Walter Workman, a helicopter instructor for 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training School in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, was surveying training areas he found an artifact from the Royal Canadian Air Forces’ long history on the Canadian Prairies, a Bolingbroke bomber.

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