Rob Mark

The great American radio and television comedian George Burns emerged in America during the vaudeville era and became known as a king of the one-liners delivered in his uniquely subtle deadpan style—and always with an El Producto cigar between the fingers of his left hand. Before his death in 1996 at the age of 100, […]

As I stood on the Textron Aviation ramp in Wichita, Kansas, for my first look at the company’s new turboprop flagship, the King Air 360, I slipped back in time to a different era and form of transportation: cars (muscle cars as they called them). My pal Lennie had just bought a brand-new, fire-engine-red Chevrolet […]

If all goes as planned, a passenger-transport trial using an autonomous, all-electric air taxi called Cora may soon begin in Canterbury, New Zealand, as reported in a press release by Wisk this week. That government recently inked a memorandum of understanding with Wisk, an urban mobility company based in Mountain View, California. Wisk was created […]

GE Aviation’s Catalyst engine will be the company’s first, all-new clean sheet turboprop engine in 50 years, according to the company’s website. It borrows many technologies from GE’s big engine business to create a full-authority digital engine control (FADEC) turboprop that—if it lives up to expectations—is certain to give Pratt & Whitney Canada’s venerable PT6 […]

Volocopter’s mission is simple: bring urban air mobility to life. A Volocopter 2X flight at EAA AirVenture on Tuesday, July 27, helped refine that mission. It represented the first ever publicly-crewed test flight of a fully electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) air taxi in the US. The aircraft took off at 2:45 pm and […]

Melbourne, Florida-based Avidyne, the designer and builder of avionics for the aviation industry said yesterday that they’ve chosen Planephd.com from Dallas, Texas, to provide them with intelligence-based data solutions to track general aviation market trends using Planephd’s OEM insight tools. With a rich database that includes eight years of historical data and a constant influx […]

An EAA news release yesterday confirmed that the association “is partnering with Siemens Digital Industries Software to collaboratively grow youth engagement and education in the aviation industry as part of the EAA Aeroeducate initiative. Siemens Digital Industries Software will become the official technology partner of EAA for education in aviation and aerospace. EAA AeroEducate brings […]

FlightAware operates the world’s largest flight tracking and data platform through a network of more than 32,000 of its own ADS-B receivers combined with ATC radar data. James Parkman, a senior technical project manager at FlightAware, helped steer members of his team at the flight data company to create Aviator, a new add-on option for […]

As soon as I walked into the Icon booth at AirVenture, my eyes immediately focused on the paint scheme of the demo A5 amphibious aircraft sitting front and center. The green paint scheme wasn’t anything I thought about. It just drew me toward the airplane. Not surprisingly, it turned out the new color scheme—one of […]

The National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) said in a news release that it plans to host 16 professional development center (PDC) sessions running Monday throung Friday at EAA AirVenture 2021 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. All sessions will take place at NAFI’s booth, #316, and they are open to member and non-member CFIs. “Launched in 2017, […]