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Volume 25, Number 52a
December 24, 2018
 
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Couple Cleared In Gatwick Drone Closures (Update)
 
Russ Niles
 
 
U.K. police have cleared a married couple of any involvement in the Gatwick Airport drone incursions after they spent most of the weekend in jail. Paul Gait, 47 and wife Elaine Kirk, 54, were arrested at their home in Crawley, near the airport, late Friday.
 
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A Good Time For Doing Good
 
Mary Grady
 
It's the giving season, and aviators have a special gift we can share all year.
 
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A Visit to Kitty Hawk On First Flight Day
 
Paul Bertorelli
 
 
For pilots and aviation enthusiasts, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, is hallowed ground and visiting there on December 17th—First Flight Day—is a special thrill. At this year's First Flight Day ceremony, a newly refurbished museum was unveiled with new displays and exhibits. AVweb's Paul Bertorelli reports on the event in this video
 
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Lycoming 'When can an engine give you 200 
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777 Loses Electrics, Lands Heavy In Brazil
 
Russ Niles
 
 
The Aviation News Herald is reporting that a TAM Boeing 777-300 made a successful but dramatic emergency landing in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on Wednesday.
 
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Proposed AD Could Affect 20,000 Pipers
 
Kate O'Connor
 
 
The FAA has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the adoption of an airworthiness directive (AD) that would require wing spar inspections on nearly 20,000 Piper aircraft. According to the FAA, the AD comes after an investigation into the report of a fatigue crack on a Piper PA-28R-201 “revealed that repeated high-load operating conditions accelerated the fatigue crack growth in the lower main wing spar cap.”
 
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Aircraft Registry Stays Open During Shutdown
 
Russ Niles
 
 
GA groups can claim a victory in the fine print of the latest government shutdown. The FAA has confirmed to AVweb that aircraft registry services will be maintained throughout the shutdown, which began at midnight Dec. 22 and is still the subject of political machinations in Washington.
 
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Four Dead in Atlanta Plane Crash
 
Kate O'Connor
 
 
A Cessna C560 Citation V crashed shortly after takeoff from Fulton County Airport (FTY) in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday, killing all four people onboard. The aircraft went down in a football field in English Park at approximately 12:10 p.m. local time, about two miles from FTY.
 
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Legal Wrangling Hobbles Boeing-Embraer Deal
 
Russ Niles
 
 
Boeing and Embraer continue to navigate the complicated and apparently fast evolving legal landscape to formalize a deal they’ve reached for Boeing to buy 80 percent of the Brazilian company’s commercial airplane business.
 
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A319neo Certified
 
Russ Niles
 
 
Airbus got a joint type certificate from both EASA and the FAA on Friday for its A319neo. The smallest of Airbus’s single-aisle family (not including the recently acquired A220/Bombardier CSeries line) has the CFM Leap-1A that brings quiet fuel efficiency to the Airbus line and look after the lower-volume routes that are beyond regional aircraft.
 
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Brainteasers Quiz #250: Still Teasing After All These Years
 

This 250th Brainteaser Quiz builds on a legacy of over 2500 questions -- some, admittedly, with questionable answers -- and asks not what the quiz can tease for you, but what you can do to ace this quiz.

Click here to take the quiz.

 
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Short Final: Ready for Departure
 
I was preparing for some instrument and maneuvering practice with my instructor, Andy. Sitting in the apron area in a Cessna 172 with the engine running, I made my initial call to Texarkana Ground as follows...
 
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Picture of the Week, December 20, 2018
 
 
Shot while climbing out of Tallahassee between layers on November 7th, 2018. Taken with my iPhone. Copyrighted photo by David Stone.
 
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Top Letters And Comments, December 21, 2018
 
 
This week's letters brought comments from readers about the safety of towered airports, Cape Air's fleet, the Lion Air crash, Piper the airport dog, and Bernoulli's principle.
 
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