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February 08, 2006

ANN Special Feature: Mechtronix Ressurects Old Planes As Sims 02.09.06

Think of what Mechtronix does as reincarnation. The Montreal-based maker of aviation simulators has been searching the aircraft boneyard at Mojave, California... and has come up with gold. It's in

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ANN's Daily Aero-Tips (02.08.06): Retractable Landing Gear

Aero-Tips!

"Positive rate, gear up." What pilot doesn’t want to command an airplane with retractable landing gear? What advantages does gear retraction bring? And what’s the down side?

Aero-Linx!

We don’t want to leave out any readers across the pond in the UK, so here’s a site to locate some places for hot air ballooning in your neck of the woods.

Aero-Terms!

A defined area, on an airfield, intended to accommodate aircraft for purposes of loading or unloading passengers or cargo, refueling, parking, or maintenance.

"Frankly, we don't believe that airspace should be walled off simply because UAVs can't play with the rest of us." Source: Melissa Rudinger, AOPA vice president of regulatory affairs, on the ongoing battle over the government's use of TFRs to "wall off" airspace from general aviation traffic to allow UAVs a safe zone of operations. Although one such TFR along the US-Mexico border has since been scaled back by nearly 50 percent, AOPA maintains such TFRs aren't "temporary" enough.