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Volume 26, Number 10a
March 4, 2019
 
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SpaceX Launches Crew Dragon (Updated)
 
Russ Niles
 
 
SpaceX celebrated the successful launch of its Crew Dragon capsule toward the International Space Station early on Saturday as a prelude to the resumption of manned U.S. space flights, possibly in the next year.
 
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One Man’s Career: Fighters to Airliners to Drones
 
James Belton
 
The World War II pilot generation went from pistons to jets. Gen X pilots got the piston part, too, but some of them are completing their careers from inside air-conditioned vans half a world away from the airplane they're flying.
 
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EAA's Pilot Proficiency Center
 
Paul Bertorelli
 
 
Every year a AirVenture, EAA offers simulator-based pilot proficiency training for pilots attending the show. This year, AVweb's Paul Bertorelli showed that he can make a hash of a sim session just as well as the next guy can.
 
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Lycoming 'When can an engine give you 200 
extra flying hours?'
Atlas 3591 Cockpit Voice Recorder Found
 
Kate O'Connor
 
 
The NTSB has located and recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 cargo jet that crashed in Trinity Bay in Anahuac, Texas, on Saturday. The flight data recorder has not yet been located.
 
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Banner Pilot Dies In Condo Collision (Updated)
 
Russ Niles
 
 
A banner towing pilot died and dozens of others had a close call on Friday when a banner plane flying along Fort Lauderdale’s beachfront hit a condo building and fell about 150 feet to a pool deck below.
 
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Superior Grounds XP-382 And XP-400 Engines
 
Kate O'Connor
 
 
Superior Air Parts has grounded all of its XP-382 and XP-400 experimental engines due to detonation problems found in some XP-400s, according to AVweb sister publication Kitplanes. The company has also implemented a mandatory buy-back program for both engine types.
 
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Re-Engined B-52s To Serve Until 2050
 
Russ Niles
 
 
That telltale trail of smoke from the Air Force’s longest serving airframe will soon be a thing of the past but that’s not because the B-52 is going anywhere.
 
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F-117 Back In Action?
 
Russ Niles
 
 
Military aviation forums are buzzing with reaction to a Facebook posting by the Dutch-based Scramble Magazine that four F-117 Nighthawks were pulled out of retirement and snuck into Syria to fly clandestine missions on behalf of the U.S. in 2017.
 
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Top Letters And Comments, March 1, 2019
 
 
This week's letters brought comments from readers about ICON Aircraft's St. Louis demonstration flights, flight maneuvers and the evolution of GPS units.
 
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Picture of the Week, February 28, 2019
 
 
This was shot a couple of years ago in the fall just as winter was approaching. A good reminder that winter can be beautiful. Photo by Douglas Morley.
 
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Short Final: Jumpers Away
 
While flying on a pleasant Sunday afternoon near Northwest Missouri, I heard the following on a local Unicom frequency...
 
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Brainteasers Quiz #253: Stop Me If You've Experienced This
 

A pilot and a wallaby walk into a pilot's lounge, and the FAA says ... a whole lot of regulatory nonsense that sends the pilot running, and the Wallaby thinking how easy it's going to be to ace this quiz.

Click here to take the quiz.

 
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