Pia Bergqvist

Solar Impulse cofounder and CEO André Borschberg took flight yesterday in the all-solar-powered Si2, beginning the journey across the contiguous United States. Borschberg flew from Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, California, to the Phoenix Goodyear Airport in Goodyear, Arizona, at the western edge of the Phoenix metropolitan area. As far as an Si2 flight […]

Another historic airplane model has flown its final leg as the last flying Boeing 247 landed this week at King County International Airport/Boeing Field in Seattle, the same airport where it was built more than eight decades ago. The Boeing airplane will become a part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Flight. As […]

After years of battling the city of Santa Monica for a reasonable business environment at the Santa Monica Airport, several businesses have thrown in the towel and vacated the airport property. The biggest hit came on Tuesday as Justice Aviation, one of the biggest flight schools in southern California, settled with the city and will […]

The 2016 Red Bull Air Race continued this weekend in Spielberg, Austria, at the challenging Red Bull Ring racetrack, which presented additional challenges this year with snow, rain and high winds. With the margins of error of this fast-paced, twisting course being extremely narrow, mistakes are easily made. And they were. Last year’s Red Bull […]

The Solar Impulse team has done it again. After being grounded since last August, the Si2 continued its round-the-world flight, completing the leg over the Pacific Ocean from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Mountain View, California. Flying met up with the team there and spoke with the Solar Impulse initiator and chairman Bertrand Piccard and cofounder and […]

An aviation experience of a lifetime is in the cards for the winner of the ACEMaker Raffle, which supports STEM education at Sun ‘n Fun’s Aviation Center for Excellence (ACE). Stallion 51 and Experience Kissimmee have put together a stellar package, which includes an all-expenses-paid trip to Florida for the 2017 Sun ‘n Fun International […]

Redmond, Oregon-based RDD Enterprises, a professional builder of Lancair’s experimental aircraft models, is in the process of developing a conversion for the ultrafast Lancair IVP model named LX7. The new model uses existing IVP airframes and brings them through a major modification process — new wings, a new empennage and a completely revamped cockpit. RDD […]

You may recall a German company called Remos — a manufacturer that arrived on the U.S. LSA scene early with several airplane offerings that had previously been available as ultralights in Europe. The company was forced to reorganize in 2014, and its future was questionable. However, Remos is now coming back in full force with […]

Once in a while we run videos that fit in the “don’t try this at home” category. This one definitely belongs there. Red Bull Air Race pilot Hannes Arch recently flew a slalom course around a line of windmills at the Tauern Wind Park in Oberzeiring, Austria — Arch’s birth country. The result is the […]

Daher once again surprised the aviation world last week by announcing a new model of the TBM single-engine turboprop — a model that is already FAA and EASA certified. The TBM 930 was announced at a press conference at the company’s Sun ‘n Fun exhibit as the cover was taken off the new model to […]