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This is the neatest thing I have seen our government do in a while. Basically they gave us access to much of their charting data. You can find out about approaches in development, what it takes to get a new approach commissioned, how to get a private strip on the charts, and best of all, free charts! You still have to print them, but for those who fly IFR infrequently it sure beats buying a whole ...

The sun has been out and the grounds are drying amazingly fast, but there is still standing water in many places and there are a ton of aircraft waiting at satellite airports to get into Oshkosh for Airventure 2010. Arrivals have picked-up on Sunday and the airshow was compacted to get more birds on the ground here, but there is still lots of catch-up to do.

We snapped some shots of ...

Mud is what everyone will remember about Airventure 2010!

We pulled into the Camp Scholer gate just in the nick of time. Campers right behind us were stacked-up on the road leading-in for miles. And they were ultimately turned away. Also, we didn't get out usual spot because it is currently occupied by a foot and a half of standing water and a few hundred gulls. We really need some ...

An experimental aircraft has set a new record for the longest hypersonic flight after streaking across the sky Wednesday for more than three minutes while flying at Mach 5 – five times the speed of sound — the United States Air Force has announced.

The vehicle, called the X-51A Waverider, dropped from a B-52 Stratofortress mother ship while flying over the Pacific Ocean just off ...

If only all missions went this smoothly...

Check out this video on the search for Steve Fossett. Civil Air Patrol's involvement is discussed many times. The trailer is here. The title of the show is Lost in The Nevada Triangle.

Take a look at this. It's from the Avweb.com website:

February 12, 2010
Allegedly Prolific Teen Thief Steals Another Cirrus?

By Glenn Pew, Contributing Editor, Video Editor

18-year-old Colton Harris-Moore is apparently the prime suspect in a fourth stolen aircraft episode in the northwest -- this one involving a Cirrus SR22 and the 2010 Vancouver ...

Don't try this in a CAP bugsmasher!

Here is a very depressing documentary that aired on PBS about the crash of a Colgan Airlines commuter turboprop in an upstate New York neighborhood last year (2009).

Many of you likely heard about the crash. Well, the final NTSB report was recently released and a good chunk of the blame was placed on the quality of the piloting due to a number of factors. Among the so-called causal factors ...

A very nice piece done on a squadron in the CT Wing...