Travolta, Ocala Equestrian Community Prevail In Jumbolair Expansion Protest Owners of the Jumbolair Aviation Estates fly-in community near Ocala, Florida, home to avid pilot/celebrity John Travolta, have withdrawn a plan to dramatically increase the size of the residency with a proposed rezoning. Travolta had filed a letter to local[…] Read this article
GAMA 2023 Numbers Show More Than 4,000 GA Aircraft Delivered New-aircraft sales were up in all categories in 2023, with piston models leading the pack at an 11.8% increase compared with 2022 (to 1,602 deliveries from 1,505). That was the takeaway from today’s release of aircraft sales numbers from the[…] Read this article
Sergey Brin Facing Lawsuit Over Pilot's Death In Twin Otter Crash The widow of one of the pilots killed last May when flying Sergey Brin’s float-equipped Viking Twin Air 400 Series Twin Otter is suing the billionaire Google co-founder for wrongful death. Both pilots died when the Twin Otter crashed trying[…] Read this article
Near-Historic Jet Streams Lead To Record Groundspeeds For Airliners Near-historically-strong winds over the mid-Atlantic Saturday night caused a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight from Washington, D.C., to reach London 45 minutes early. As reported by multiple news outlets, the National Weather Service (NWS) calculated the peak jet stream[…] Read this article
Short Final: Hold Your Horsepower From sister publication IFR Magazine’s “On the Air” letters page: A female tower controller at a flight-school airport was known to have a sultry voice that the young male instructors found … appealing. On one occasion, she advised one of[…] Read this article
