Pia Bergqvist

The Solar Impulse team has completed its last test flights in Switzerland and has started to disassemble the Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) in preparation for shipping to Abu Dhabi, where the all-solar-powered airplane will take off on its round-the-world journey. The team expects to start the historic flight in early March. After the first Solar […]

The FAA has implemented NextGen technology in the Washington, D.C. area, activating new satellite-based paths into the three busiest airports in D.C.’s airspace: Washington Dulles International Airport, the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. “These new and improved highways in the sky mean increased safety, more on-time arrivals and […]

Drones once again made headlines last week after several airline pilots flying around John F. Kennedy International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world with more than 400,000 annual aircraft movements, spotted at least one drone flying around the airport property at altitudes as high as 3,000 feet, according to a statement from […]

With technology constantly changing, you may use aviation apps on several platforms, some of which change shape with each new release. Whether you want to bring an iPad, an iPad Mini, a Samsung Galaxy or a Kindle Fire into the cockpit, you may have found you need a separate mount for each platform. But MyGoFlight […]

Garmin has achieved supplemental type certificate (STC) approval for two additional airplane models for its G950 integrated avionics flight deck, the retrofit version of the very successful G1000 avionics suite, making the glass panel available for the Metroliner and de Havilland Twin Otter. Both of the new STC installations feature a 15-inch MFD in the […]

A little more than two years after Gulfstream achieved certification for the ultra-long-range G650, an airplane that held the crown as the fastest civilian airplane in the world until Cessna’s Citation X+ reclaimed the spot this year, the Savannah, Georgia-based company announced it has delivered the 100th airplane in the series. That is a very […]

Are you ready for some serious fighter pilot daydreaming? This video is a beautifully shot compilation of a variety of fighter jets in flight, from airplanes taking off from aircraft carriers to formation flying to jet teams performing formation aerobatics. The airplanes fly over various terrain, such as deserts, oceans and snow-capped mountains, and dodge […]

While the weather data that we can now collect live in the cockpit on our avionics suites or on a portable tablet is fairly well updated and accurate, there is some weather information that can only be delivered by a human inside a cockpit. Critical information, such as cloud tops, cloud layers, turbulence and icing […]

One of the pioneers of solar-powered flight, a company aptly named Solar Flight, which has been developing solar airplanes for the last 28 years, announced a new solar-powered aircraft, which appears to be a real-life Lego-version of an airplane with interchangeable components. Named the SunStar, the aircraft is chiefly designed for High Altitude Long Endurance […]

The development team at German airplane manufacturer Flight Design is getting ready for a significant milestone in its four-seat airplane program, named the C4. Flight Design USA’s president Tom Peghiny said the composite airplane is expected to take to the skies for the first time by the end of the month. Members of a technical […]