FIRST POWERED-LIFT PILOT CERTIFICATE IS AWARDED
Tom Macdonald, a Bell-Boeing V-22 tiltrotor aircraft test pilot, received the first powered-lift pilot rating. The rating is new and was included in the rewrite of FAR Part 61 that went into effect August 1. A ``Pilot Report'' on the smaller XV-15 tiltrotor starts on page 86 of this issue.
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