Rob Mark

An Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University spokesman confirmed the flight school’s fleet of Piper Arrow training aircraft will remain grounded for the foreseeable future following the recent morning crash of a PA28R being flown by an ERAU student on an FAA flight test. The left wing of the aircraft separated from the airplane shortly after the pilot […]

It took nearly a year of often contentious debate, but the U.S. House this week passed a long-term reauthorization of the FAA to replace the series of short-term extensions that have plagued the agency since 2015. The bi-partisan effort will run for five years. While the new legislation did not include his controversial amendment to […]

Safran’s Silvercrest engine certification delays caused Dassault in December to scrap its Safran-based Falcon 5X. Yesterday Textron announced it too had halted work, at least temporarily, on its largest new business jet, the Silvercrest-powered Citation Hemisphere. Textron’s announcement did represent the first time a specific timeframe had been mentioned, between an “18-24-month delay of the […]

Bombardier’s soon to be certified Global 7000 business jet was last week named a winner of the 2018 Red Dot Product Design award in Essen Germany. The Global 7000 was selected by the 39-person jury from more than 6,300 submissions nominated from nearly 60 countries competing in several categories. The Red Dot award honors innovation, […]

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University recently asked pilots in a number of certificate categories how well they understand weather information presented to them in written and graphical form. The NTSB in 2014 labeled identifying and communicating elements of hazardous weather as one of its Top 10 safety priorities, calling weather, “a frequent cause or contributing factor to […]

Samson Sky says it’s now holding 615 reservations for its new Switchblade kit-built, flying sports car. The company is sponsoring a Sun ‘n Fun forum at midday on Friday about the state of the flying car industry where visitors can chat with the Switchblade creators. The Samson Sky reservation program was launched at Sun ‘n […]

Belite Aircraft’s short takeoff and landing airplane, the Chipper arrived yesterday sprouting a new pair of metal wings, as well as a few other updates. An experimental kit-built airplane, the Chipper can now be created with aluminum-skinned wings riveted at the leading edge and bonded to the wing ribs. Belite’s President James Wiebe told Flying […]

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) says, “Innovation is key to competition and accessibility.” The Utah senator yesterday introduced new legislation he calls the Aviation Empowerment Act. Should the act become law, Lee says it would create a new class of pilot by tightly defining a few key FAA terms as they relate to a contemporary transportation […]

Rotorvox is on a mission to publicize the manufacturing quality of its new gyrocopter, the Rotorvox C2A that is making its U.S. debut at this week’s Sun ‘n Fun show in Lakeland, Florida. One of Eisenach, Germany-based LIFT Air’s divisions working with their partner Lindig builds the Rotorvox, an all-carbon Rotax-powered machine by “signifying the […]

Santa Monica Airport’s Museum of Flying last week announced that this year’s inductees into the California Aviation Hall of Fame are Angela Masson, Mike Melvill, Dick Rutan and Barry Schiff. The California Aviation Hall of Fame is a subsidiary of the Museum of Flying. The award ceremony will be held at the museum on Saturday, […]