by Isabel Goyer

Earlier this week at a Cessna Citation owners conference in Wichita, Cessna President and CEO Scott Ernest responded to a blog in Tuesday’s Flying eNews entitled “Cessna CJ Hiatus: End of the Niche Jet.” The article wondered what Cessna’s slowdown in Citation production, announced earlier in the week, might mean in the long run for […]

View our Global 6000 photo gallery here.| When I saw the it on the ramp at Bradley International Airport (BDL) in Connecticut, my first impression of the Bombardier Global 6000, the company’s latest ultra-long-range wonder, was simply that it is a staggeringly beautiful airplane. The one I was looking at, and which I’d shortly get […]

If cool videos of people flying real airplanes in amazing locales inspires you to go flying, then the video you’re about to see might have the opposite effect. It shows wingsuit thrillseeker Alexander Polli flying his… err… body at speeds that defy common or any other kind of sense through a rock arch barely bigger […]

Sun ‘n Fun closed in style over the weekend with a reported 5 percent uptick in traffic compared to last year’s show, according to organizers. Reports from companies attending the show varied. While all reported a drop-off in overall foot traffic, a number of them told Flying that the quality of the folks who stopped […]

At Sun ‘n Fun AOPA and Redbird, along with numerous partners including Flying, launched a new kind of simulator. The AOPA Jay by Redbird is an all-in-one solution for pilots and other flying enthusiasts who want to get up and flying using a desktop sim without having to engineer a system themselves. The Jay, which […]

Winner of a Flying Editors’ Choice Award last year, the Appareo Stratus portable battery-powered ADS-B receiver, designed to integrate seamlessly with ForeFlight Mobile Pro, is no longer king. A new portable receiver, from the same award-winning trio, has taken its place. The new box, called somewhat confusingly the Stratus, combines ADS-B with weather and traffic […]

Fond of Friday afternoon announcements, the FAA made another today, putting off the closures of nearly 150 contract control towers until June 15, 2013, more than two months down the road. The move, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, was intended to do something critics of the move have been suggesting since the closures were […]

In a disturbing development in the increased focus on Gustave Whitehead possibly beating the Wright Brothers into the air by more than two years, Flying has learned that a monument to the flying pioneer in Bridgeport, Connecticut, apparently has been vandalized. Early flight enthusiast Andy Kosch heard about the damage and checked it out firsthand: […]

Garmin today announced a major upgrade for its popular Garmin Pilot iPad app — we’ve already been flying a beta version of it for a week now — and this one might be a game changer. There are a few cool new features: version 5.0 adds track up, chart annotating and cloud-based syncing (so your […]

It’s not often a new craze sweeps the aviation nation, but over the past couple of years just such a phenomenon has taken hold at airports large and small across the country and, increasingly, around the world. The IMC Club is, just as it sounds, a club that provides a fertile ground for pilots to […]