Bethany Whitfield

Approximately 35,000 people witnessed the crash of an old Marine CH-46E helicopter as it happened Wednesday afternoon, but most didn’t come away with the emotions such an event typically evokes. That’s because Wednesday’s crash was intentional — put on by NASA as an experiment to test the safety of new seats and seatbelts while collecting […]

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has long provided its members with online flight planning tools, but with the advent of FlyQ, AOPA has taken those services up a notch, providing fliers with plenty of capability on the go in a user-friendly, intuitive platform. While the app has some detractors who question why AOPA is […]

Asiana Airlines is offering $10,000 to each surviving passenger aboard Flight 214, which crashed on approach to San Francisco International Airport in July. The money is being made available to all 288 surviving passengers, including those who received no injuries as a result of the accident. According to Asiana spokespeople, the money is being given […]

Flight Design’s new C4 four-seater will come equipped with a Garmin glass panel, Flight Design announced at Oshkosh this week. While complete details of the avionics deal have not been announced, Garmin and Flight Design hinted that features such as angle of attack, dual air data heading reference system and synthetic vision will all be […]

Lightspeed took the wraps off of its new Zulu PFX headset at AirVenture on Monday, unveiling what it claims is “the quietest aviation headset available.” The company says the PFX, which stands for “personal flying experience,” was developed over the course of two-plus years using a number of new features to improve noise cancellation and […]

Video footage and other evidence shows that the Southwest 737 whose nose gear collapsed upon touchdown at LaGuardia Airport last week landed nose gear first, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The Board reported that at four seconds before landing the 737-700 was pitched up about two degrees, whereas at touchdown the airplane was […]

Just a few months after Garmin introduced its G3X avionics system, the manufacturer has unveiled its newest product for the experimental and LSA markets: the GTR 200 comm radio. Designed by Team X — the Garmin group behind the new line of homebuilt avionics — the GTR 200 features a two-place auto-squelch stereo intercom, 3D […]

A Sukhoi Superjet 100 landed on its belly at Keflavik International Airport in Iceland over the weekend during a test evaluation of the airplane’s fully automated landing gear. The incident occurred while the jet was performing a landing with a simulated engine failure amid strong crosswinds. None of the five individuals aboard the Superjet were […]

Lisa Airplanes recently announced the company is resuming development of its Akoya LSA, a two-seat amphibian with foldable wings and retractable landing gear. The project was put on hold last summer when the young French company entered receivership after much-needed funding failed to come through. Lisa Airplanes said it “coped with the observation period during […]

Nine passengers and the pilot on board a de Havilland Otter died on Sunday when the airplane crashed on takeoff from Soldotna Airport in southern Alaska. The weather included light winds and high clouds at the time of the accident, which occurred around 11:20 a.m. Soldotna Airport has one gravel runway and one paved runway […]