Pia Bergqvist

The U.S. Air Force has awarded an enormous contract to Northrop Grumman to replace its aging fleet of bombers. The contract covers the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) and early production for a new Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B), and could be worth as much as $77 billion in 2010 dollars. The Air Force’s current […]

Space-geeks rejoice! NASA recently released into the public domain a collection of thousands of digital photos from the Apollo era, including a wide collection of spectacular shots from the lunar landings. The collection includes images from Apollo missions 7 through 17. Many of the images have never previously been released. In addition to loads of […]

It’s been decades since the B-29 named Doc, currently in restoration by Doc’s Friends in Wichita, Kansas, was brought back to life from the boneyard in the Mojave Desert. And with all the work and funding required to get the structure, systems and engines restored there may have been doubt as to whether the quest […]

What could be better than a long cross country in a massive amphibian? A group of three pilots recently had a chance to ferry a 1943 Grumman G44 Widgeon all the way from Pensacola, Florida, to Victoria on the west coast of Canada. The pilots chronicled the flight using several video cameras and put together […]

While we all love flying, there are times when there is not a whole lot to do in the cockpit. Once you have climbed to your cruise altitude and configured the airplane for cruise you may ask yourself “what’s next?” After you’ve enjoyed the view for a while, the idle time in cruise is a […]

Quicksilver Aircraft, which recently launched the LSA qualified Sport 2SE, is shutting down its production facility in Temecula, California. Quicksilver’s president Will Escutia told Flying sales have dropped 25 percent in the past year from a level he described as already being at a “breaking point.” The company has produced more than 15,000 ultralights and […]

An F/A-18C fighter jet based at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar outside San Diego crashed in a farm field near the Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, yesterday. The airplane was part of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232 and was on its way back to California from a mission in Bahrain, MCAS Miramar reported. The […]

While the FAA has been lagging in its effort to implement safety rules governing drone operations, the DOT and FAA have now come together to create a registration process for unmanned aircraft systems. U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta announced yesterday that a new task force will develop recommendations for the […]

The Red Bull Air Race World Championship took place this weekend at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, concluding the 2015 season. Australian Matt Hall won the eighth and final race, but, despite major challenges, it was the runner up, Paul Bonhomme from Great Britain, who took home the accumulative win with 76 points for the […]

This morning at the Flying Aviation Expo in Palm Springs, California, the Lightspeed Aviation Foundation announced the winners of the organization’s Pilot’s Choice Awards. Five aviation charities were awarded grants of anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000 to help them achieve their missions. The grand-prize winner for the second consecutive year was Pilots N Paws, an […]