Bethany Whitfield

Two men were killed on Saturday when they made a forced landing in a replica Wright Model B Flyer in a rural Ohio field. The men were conducting a test flight in the replica, known as the “Silver Bird,” when they made a radio call from the air alerting authorities about their impending forced landing. […]

Piper Aircraft Inc. is taking a mock-up of its PiperJet Altaire on the road, along with a message of the company’s commitment to the development of the single-engine very light jet. While the mock-up was on display at EAA AirVenture last week, Piper announced that the company has started fabrication of the Altaire’s first conforming […]

The F-16 seen below was caught on amateur video as it overran the runway last week while landing at EAA AirVenture, America’s biggest airshow held annually in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The fighter’s nose gear collapsed and its nose cone broke apart upon impact. Emergency crew on site immediately responded to the incident. The exact circumstances of […]

The French authority responsible for investigating aircraft accidents, known as the BEA, just released a new report on the Air France 447 crash that occurred in the summer of 2009, killing all 228 people on board. An initial report issued by the agency in May stated the Airbus A330 stalled at high altitude after the […]

Aircraft distributor SportairUSA is bringing a new LSA option to the American market, and an aerobatic one at that. On Tuesday at EAA AirVenture the company unveiled a prototype of the aircraft, which is a single-seat, 130 horsepower aerobatic LSA known as the Snap. The Snap is a low-wing taildragger manufactured in Italy by Dallair […]

Despite great uncertainty within the FAA, Administrator Randy Babbitt took some time to show support for the general aviation community today by stopping by EAA AirVenture. With 4,000 FAA employees still furloughed and 70,000 construction workers commissioned for aviation-related projects out of a job, Babbitt gave little indication of an expected end to the shutdown. […]

The official Air France 447 accident report will be released this Friday, French officials announced. According to the BEA, the national aviation investigative unit of France, “This report will present the exact circumstances of the accident with an initial analysis and some new findings based on the data recovered from the flight recorders.” The official […]

Nearly 4,000 FAA employees were furloughed Saturday after Congress adjourned Friday without passing an FAA reauthorization bill, prompting a partial FAA shutdown and triggering a ripple effect throughout the country, including at this week’s EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The FAA has issued dozens of stop-work orders for multi-million dollar airport improvement projects, and approximately […]

Ever wondered what kind of cockpit NASA’s finest relied on when they ventured into and out of space? Well, here’s your chance to get an up-close look. This quick interactive film was taken of Space Shuttle Discovery’s flight deck during the decommissioning process in the Orbiter Processing Facility. Here’s a 360-degree look at what the […]

The wing of a Boeing 767 clipped the tail of a regional jet while taxiing last week at Boston Logan International Airport, adding to the growing tally of commercial airliner ground incidents in recent months. The Delta 767 involved in the collision was taxiing out for departure at around 7:30 p.m. last Thursday when its […]