Stephen Pope

It’s one thing to tell a pilot “Avoid loss of control!” of his or her airplane in flight, but providing additional tutelage on exactly how to prevent such a dangerous situation from developing in the first place is a completely different matter. That’s because there are so many ways to lose control that you probably […]

With the weather turning nice in many parts of the country, the FAA and GA industry have partnered to launch the “Fly Safe” summer safety campaign, highlighting the dangers of aircraft loss of control and encouraging general aviation pilots to install and use angle-of-attack indicators. Loss of control, notes the FAA, is the number-one cause […]

Cessna’s Citation Latitude business twinjet has achieved FAA type certification, clearing the way for deliveries to start later this summer as parent company Textron Aviation continues a rapid succession of new airplane introductions in the last year and a half. Based on the Citation Sovereign type certificate but featuring big changes just about everywhere from […]

Five survivors were plucked from the waters off Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, late last night after ditching in a Cessna 172 and clambering into a life raft as the sun was going down. The group floated in the water for three hours about nine miles southeast of Nassau before finally being located at […]

Warner Bros. Pictures announced on Tuesday that the life story of Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger is coming to the big screen in a yet-to-be named motion picture that will be directed by none other than Clint Eastwood. The film will be adapted from Sully’s book, “Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters,” co-written with […]

Sonex CEO Jeremy Monnett and a company mechanic were killed on Tuesday in the crash of an experimental Sonex Sport Acro at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where the company is based. The two-seat single-engine taildragger crashed into a row of Oshkosh trucks near the east end of Runway 9 for undetermined reasons. Nobody […]

For those wondering if Harrison Ford would ever fly again, now we know. Three months after crash landing his Ryan PT-22 on a southern California golf course after an engine failure, the Hollywood star was back in the pilot seat, taking to the skies with an instructor in his Bell 407. He arrived at Santa […]

In a ceremony at its Bordeaux production plant attended by hundreds of customers, suppliers and employees, French business jet maker Dassault rolled out the first Falcon 5X, the latest in its family of fly-by-wire luxury airplanes. Announced at the NBAA Convention in 2013, the Falcon 5X twinjet features a digital flight control system derived from […]

Wheels Up, the membership-based private aviation firm formed nearly two years ago by former NetJets vice chairman Kenny Dichter, is aiming to expand the private aviation customer base in the United States by millions of travelers with introduction of the industry’s first bizplane ride-sharing app. Dichter says the app will let Wheels Up members share […]

The FAA suddenly finds itself at the center of a swirling cheating scandal relating to its air traffic controller hiring practices, and now Congress is demanding that the agency investigate and respond to the allegations. Fourteen members of Congress led by House aviation subcommittee chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) sent a letter to FAA Administrator Michael […]