Rob Mark

Just a few short months after Workhorse’s SureFly personal helicopter completed a short flight at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company reports the electric vertical takeoff and land aircraft completed its first untethered flight with a pilot on board. OK, so it only hovered about six feet above the surface of a […]

Thousands of people read reports of last July’s near collision on the ground at San Francisco International Airport when an Air Canada flight nearly landed on a taxiway. Until the NTSB last week opened the docket of information related to the incident, almost no one realized just how close all the aircraft involved came to […]

Van Nuys Airport has created another truly impressive, “The Sky’s the Limit: Aviation Career Day.” The airport last Thursday hosted no fewer than 1,500 Los Angeles-area students for a day’s worth of adventures into what makes the industry tick. Participants were also treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the history and daily operations of VNY, […]

Kathy Fox, Chair of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said, “We don’t like having to say ‘We don’t know’ when asked what caused an accident and why.” To minimize those kinds of responses to the families of victims of aircraft accidents, the media and the rest of the industry, the TSB is recommending the […]

There’s only one aviation event in America that draws annual crowds in the hundreds of thousands, one of the reasons men, women and children from around the world eagerly await EAA’s springtime release of the flight planning information necessary for people around the globe to plan their aviation-themed vacations. Yesterday, EAA published the official AirVenture […]

Pacific Sky Aviation’s new Twin Otter flight simulator was recently certified by both the European Aviation Safety Agency and the Civil Aviation Administration of China, following Transport Canada’s certification of the simulator last December. The simulator was installed in Pacific Sky Aviation’s Calgary location. The simulator, built by TRU Simulation+Training of Montreal, recreates the flight […]

I have never thought of myself as much of a warbird guy — at least until I went back in time to the summer I was unsuspectingly infected with a love for old military airplanes. It was during a summer volunteer job at the EAA Airshow in Rockford, Illinois, the precursor to AirVenture. I worked […]

The FAA has addressed a long-simmering aircraft availability issue that focuses on pilots trying to earn some pilot certificates. Until yesterday, the agency required commercial pilot applicants, as well as applicants for single-engine flight instructor ratings, to fly at least a portion of the checkride in a complex aircraft, that is, one with retractable landing […]

The first time I spied that chunky Beluga on the ramp at Toulouse France as I taxied out for takeoff, it was clear the converted Airbus A300 was created for a very special task, carrying large, oddly-shaped cargo. But there’s little denying the Beluga is also one of the homeliest airplanes I’ve ever seen, reminding […]

May 1-31 is Learn to Fly month, a month-long effort to help flight training providers attract new pilots. This year, the drum beat is even louder than in the past as the shortage of career pilots continues to make news. Of course, Learn to Fly month doesn’t focus only on career aviators. The efforts will […]