Pia Bergqvist

When you think about U-Haul, you probably envision a small or medium sized truck used for personal moving. But this week, the company took delivery of one of the most advanced business jets on the market – the Pilatus PC-24. Featuring an orange paint scheme reminiscent of the design on the easily identifiable trucks, the […]

Aerobatic performer Spencer Suderman got a nasty surprise this weekend as he was flying over the San Fernando Valley, one of the most congested parts of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Suderman was cruising at 7,500 feet on his way to Yuma, Arizona, when his propeller suddenly departed the Pitts S-1C biplane he was flying. […]

Have you ever flown around in the summer with your iPad running an aviation app only to have the iPad shut down, cutting you off from what might be your most useful navigation source? This can happen when the temperatures get hot or if you leave the iPad in a window where the sun beats […]

Tactical Air Support, Inc, has completed a first on a Northrop F-5 equipped with Garmin‘s G3000 integrated avionics system. The supersonic airplane will soon be used by the U.S. Navy for air-to-air combat training, close-air support training, tactics development and evaluation support, Garmin said. “The maiden flight of the G3000-equipped F-5 is a significant achievement […]

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced that the FAA has provided certification for commercial drone service operations to Wing Aviation, a Gooogle X project. The certification allows the service to start delivering packages via UAS in Blacksburg, Virginia. Wing Aviation’s success has come through a collaboration with Virginia Tech’s Mid-Atlantic […]

Pilots and aircraft operators considering an airplane purchase will have an opportunity this week to experience first-hand a large gathering of new airplane manufacturers and vendors at the TAC Air FBO at the Centennial Airport (KAPA) in Englewood, Colorado, located in the southeastern corner of the Denver metropolitan area. The event will run from 10 […]

A piece of aviation history was lost yesterday as the last of four 1/3-scale prototypes built during the development of the Northrop XB-35 Flying Wing bomber, the N9MB, crashed in a prison yard in Norco, California. The Flying Wing has been maintained and operated for many years by the Planes of Fame Air Museum in […]

Major U.S. airlines have been forced to cancel hundreds of flights as a result of the grounding of Boeing’s 737 MAX fleet after two accidents in the past six months, one in Indonesia and the other in Ethiopia, killing a total of nearly 350 people. American Airlines reported it is grounding all 737 MAX flights […]

Major U.S. airlines have been forced to cancel hundreds of flights as a result of the grounding of Boeing’s 737 MAX fleet after two of them crashed in the past six months, one in Indonesia and the other in Ethiopia, killing a total of nearly 350 people. American Airlines reported that it is grounding all […]

Premier aviation app maker ForeFlight continues adding features and making improvements to its app. Recently, the company updated its Documents feature, streamlining document management. The new features within Documents will be available with ForeFlight’s next software update. A ForeFlight subscription provides access to hundreds of documents from official government sources, such as FAA, NAV Canada […]