Rick Durden News Today

For any used model, a look at the most recent 100 wrecks that make the NTSB database is the same as it's been for years.

There is no shortage of aviation books to read for every type of pilot out there. Find the best aviation books for your interests!

This week's letters brought comments from readers about new leadership at the NTSB, Embraer's plans for a rear-engine turboprop airliner and how the NTSB is doing on general aviation.

AVweb Once again in an egregious snub, the Nobel prize for literature did not go to an aviation novel, such as Rick Durden’s “The Old Man And The Seaplane,” about an aging CFI’s lone struggle against an enormous walleye on a lake up in Michigan. Not aviation’s first rejection from the Swedish rodeo. Instead, Nobelers went with Peter Handke, who’s not even a pilot. Apparently, Peter “explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience, blah, blah, blah�...