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Legacy Flight Academy and Joint Base Charleston will host an event for young people this month.

Editor’s Note: This article is part of a month-long series celebrating Black History Month through aviation: Feb. 1: African American Pioneers in Flight and Space | Feb. 4: Legacy Flying Academy | Feb. 10: Why Aren’t There More Black Pilots in the Air Force? | Feb. 11: Jesse L. Brown | Feb. 15: Meet Four African Americans Making a Difference in Aviation | […]

“The Overture Superfactory,” expected to open in 2024, will be Boom’s first supersonic airliner manufacturing facility.

The gargantuan size of modern mega-planes would eclipse the tiny Wright Flyer that spurred on the aviation industry more than a century ago. In fact, the wingspans alone of these airplanes stretch wider than the entire 120-foot distance flown by the Wright brothers.

A U.S. Air Force pilot recently successfully flew an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft during remote pilot in control (rPIC) training, marking the first government flight of a remotely piloted eVTOL, the Air Force said.  “A crucial thing that the RC controller allows you to do that a completely unmanned or a completely […]

Leaded aviation fuel is no longer available at Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose and San Martin Airport in San Martin.

The first flight of Eviation’s electric commuter test article—dubbed Alice—could take place within days, CEO Omer Bar-Yohay told FLYING on Monday.  “I’m having a hard time committing to a date for first flight,” Bar-Yohay said in an email, “but I can say that we are about 5 to 6 [nice weather] testing days away from […]

Although the fledgling electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) industry faces a long path to aircraft certification and entering service, avionics giants are already defining the future of this new aviation sector.  No pressure. They’re just taking on the challenge of merging electronics and visual displays—across flight controls, navigation, communication, fuel systems, and threat detection—for […]

A week after Archer Aviation’s first hover test of its electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, the eVTOL company posted a short video with a pilot offering his analysis of the flight.

On December 20, 1941, an all-volunteer group of American mercenary pilots took on Japanese bombers in their first air combat mission to protect China.  By day’s end, the American Volunteer Group (AVG)—better known as the “Flying Tigers”—would go on to down nine out of 10 Japanese bombers in the first of many air battles in […]