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Michimasa Fujino, lead HondaJet designer and president and CEO of Honda Aircraft Company, has received the 2021 Reed Aeronautics Award for “the invention of advanced aerodynamic and structural techniques.” Fujino was honored on Thursday by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics during its Aerospace Spotlight Awards Gala, which was held virtually this year as […]

Temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) caused by presidential movement cause headaches for operators of flight schools, folks doing banner towing and skydivers on the DelMarVa peninsula—the landmass shared by the states of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. But solutions are in the works through the cooperation of local operators, the FAA, the U.S. Secret Service, and via […]

Your wish is a VTOL’s command, perhaps.

The first Diamond DA50 RG to be delivered in the U.S. will go to a buyer based in New England, Premier Aircraft Sales announced on Monday. The single-engine retract was put under contract as one of 10 Diamond aircraft sold at EAA AirVenture 2021 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Premier’s vice president of sales, Jeff Owen, projected […]

As a longtime contributor to Flying, I have been blessed with the good fortune of attending many events, including airshows. Having spent a career mostly mastering the art of straight-and-level flight in the stratosphere, I have tremendous admiration for the aviators that perform physics-defying maneuvers at stepladder altitudes. I am awed by the skills involved. […]

Statistics released this week by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) paint a sharp picture of the effect the COVID-19 pandemic had on the global air industry in 2020. Among the more startling numbers released by the trade association for the airline industry: The number of passengers dropped more than 60 percent, from 4.5 billion […]

Excitement over electric flight is palpable. That excitement has the folks at Bye Aerospace, an Englewood, Colorado-based electric aircraft company, very busy. George Bye, the company’s founder and CEO, provided an update his company’s work at EAA AirVenture last week. Bye Aerospace has established itself as a leader in the emerging all-electric aircraft industry. While […]

Have a look at the various aircraft types parked on the ramp of a busy general aviation airport, and the mission of each quickly becomes evident. Lancairs and Mooneys utilize their sleek lines to achieve speed and efficiency. Well-worn flight school aircraft spend their days enduring all the various lessons learned by the steady stream […]

When you reach back 75 years for the memories, they come to you in bits and scraps. Recounting them feels disjointed, out of sequence, stripped through with a full range of emotions—much like the war you lived through, perhaps, or the otherworldliness of returning to those countries now at peace. Lieutenant Colonel David Hamilton is […]

At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, Swift Fuels announced the expansion of its high-performance UL94 Unleaded Avgas product into the US Pacific Coast corridor. The expansion will provide dozens of airfields across California with unleaded avgas. Airports in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties will receive this distribution, which builds on the six-year […]