Kirby Chambliss dodges the Texas Star Ferris wheel, whizzes under a bridge, zigzags between trees, and buzzes police vehicles with sirens blaring in a promotional video for the Red Bull Air Race World Championship, which comes to Texas Sept. 6 and 7. Can the police #CatchKirby?
The recent warrantless stops and searches of general aviation flights have drawn the attention of mainstream media. On April 15, the "Los Angeles Times" published an article citing the high number of stops and searches involving law-abiding general aviation pilots.
The site of AOPA's first regional fly-in is at once modern and rich with history. San Marcos originally was known as San Marcos Army Airfield, and tower from that era remains. The airport is also home to the cutting-edge flight training facility Redbird Skyport.
The last of the 1.5 gallons of oil chugs into the left engine’s tank, satisfying the big Pratt & Whitney R-985—for now. Meanwhile, grunts on each of the Beech 18’s massive straight floats furiously work hand pumps, sucking gallons of lake water from leaky compartments. On the right wing, a pilot pours avgas from five-gallon jugs into the softball-sized filler port.
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Friends of wing walker Jane Wicker want to restore her 450-horsepower Stearman biplane, destroyed in a June 2013 accident that killed Wicker and her pilot.
Internet giant Google will acquire Titan Aerospace, the New Mexico-based developer of high-altitude unmanned aircraft systems.
The National Aeronautic Association has awarded the Collier Trophy for “the first unmanned, autonomous air system operating from an aircraft carrier.”
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The FAA proposes to supersede an airworthiness directive requiring modification of the aft main spar of some Diamond Aircraft DA40 and DA40F airplanes.
The movement to exempt thousands of general aviation pilots from the third class medical certification process is gaining momentum in Congress and the aviation community.
The FAA needs to create a safety framework for the flights, said a diverse group of organizations in a letter to FAA Administrator Michael Huerta.
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