Ashley Burns

It’s impressive how much buzz Elon Musk can generate with a simple tweet. He recently offered the world the first look at the Tesla Roadster and caused his fans and followers to freak out with a simple description: “0 to 100 km/h in 1.9 sec.” More than 123,000 retweets later, you’d think that would be […]

Limousine driver and self-proclaimed rocket scientist (who doesn’t believe in science) “Mad” Mike Hughes was all set to pilot his self-designed and self-built $20,000 rocket over the California ghost town of Amboy on Saturday. Sponsored by Research Flat Earth, an organization that he aligned with after several months of his own research, Hughes was going […]

For the first time since 2014, “Mad” Mike Hughes, a “Guinness World Record Daredevil” and “The world’s most famous limousine driver,” according to his website, will blast off in a rocket that he designed and built on his own for $20,000. His latest attempt at infamy will take place on Saturday, November 25, as he […]

Part of what makes Flight Chops videos so successful (and entertaining) is that Steve Thorne gets to fly the planes most of us don’t have the opportunity to fly, and he gets test gear that we don’t necessarily get to use. For his latest episode, Chops and friends tested one piece of equipment that we […]

As my flying routine typically involves cramped middle seats on bargain commercial flights, the thought of actual high-speed Internet at cruising altitude is about as realistic as finding the treasure of Oak Island. So, when SmartSky invited me on a recent flight to test its 4G LTE network over Florida, I was skeptical at best […]

It has been a year-and-a-half since Mooney Aircraft’s first Ovation Ultra took flight from the company’s headquarters in Kerrville, Texas, and it hasn’t all been good news for the manufacturer since then. But Mooney is closing out 2017 on a strong note, as it recently celebrated the delivery of the first Ovation Ultra, before bringing […]

Officials at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington issued an apology after a pilot drew male genitalia in the sky above Okanogan County on Thursday. Residents captured photos and video and sent them to local news outlets to complain about the inappropriate prank. “The Navy holds its aircrew to the highest standards and we […]

“My friend MJ is deathly afraid of flying,” Steve Thorne explains in the opening of one of his more popular Flight Chops videos. He’s not embellishing her fear at all, as MJ becomes the ultimate pessimistic passenger the moment she simply sits in a cockpit to get a feel for the airplane. “That’s scary because […]

For most basketball teams, the hardest part of air travel is the lack of leg space. For the Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball players and staff, however, small seats would have been a blessing compared to how their March flight to the Big Ten tournament played out. In all, 109 passengers and seven crew members were […]

Since its inception early last year, the goal for Airbus’ Vahana project was to fly a full-size prototype of the VTOL aircraft by the end of this year, and have a “productizable demonstrator by 2020.” This week, the A³ team took one step closer to that goal by moving the Vahana to its new home […]