Aircraft

As part of a plan to produce 63 A320 family aircraft per month in 2021, Airbus announced that the company will expand its footprint in the U.S. by increasing the production rate of aircraft at its Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility in Mobile, Alabama, to seven per month by the beginning of next year. This increase, […]

Sporting a unique orange and blue, University of Florida Gators-inspired paint scheme, Hondo, Texas-based Colt Aircraft Manufacturing last week delivered the first of its new-generation Colt-SL S-LSA to Richard (Ricky) Youschak, Jr., in Gainesville, Florida. Ricky Youschak holds a private pilot certificate, while his father Richard Youschak, Sr., is sport-pilot rated. The Colt, an S-LSA […]

Hyundai Motor Company this week unveiled its Personal Air Vehicle at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company calls the PAV—an autonomous electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle—the centerpiece of its urban air mobility vision for smart city transportation. Hyundai and Uber tapped specialty design-engineer-build firm Aria Group to bring the one-of-a-kind, […]

The three-brother team of Keegan, River, and Ryley Karl came up with the idea to develop a better composite kitplane several years ago while helping Ryley to construct a Cozy Mark IV kit airplane shortly after graduation from college. All three have degrees in the fields of aerospace, electrical or mechanical engineering, and they were […]

When a person’s life is at stake, every minute counts. That’s the premise behind Carl Dietrich’s motivation to enter into the electric-propulsion-aircraft sphere, with a vehicle that proposes to cut emergency response time in half. Dietrich, co-founder of Terrafugia, has partnered with co-founder Anna Dietrich, of the Community Air Mobility Initiative, and Jeff Myjak, of […]

Rolls-Royce took a big step forward recently on their path to stay at the forefront of aviation electrification by unveiling their new all-electric, zero-emissions plane at Gloucestershire Airport in the United Kingdom. As part of their ACCEL initiative (Accelerating the Electrification of Flight), work is accelerating as they develop a ground-breaking electrical propulsion system to […]

NASA’s first large scale, piloted X-plane in more than three decades is cleared for final assembly and integration of its systems following a major project review by senior managers held December 12, 2019 at NASA’s headquarters in Washington. The management review, known as Key Decision Point-D (KDP-D), was the last programmatic hurdle for the X-59 […]

If you’ve ever seen “What Dreams May Come,” with Robin Williams and Annabella Sciorra, you know it’s a beautiful and extravagant movie that won the 1998 Oscar for Visual Effects. But as easy as this great flick is on the eyes, it is the story that grabs your heart and refuses to let go. So […]

The sad saga of the Boeing 737 Max has been a slow-burning corporate, engineering, regulatory, human-interest and public-relations nightmare for going on six months now—with no end in sight. The magnitude of Boeing’s deadly foul-up is a frequent topic of conversation in airliner cockpits, and considerable ink has been spilled over the subject in both […]

Bombardier announced today that Latitude 33 Aviation, a private jet charter, executive jet management, and aircraft sales and acquisitions company based in California, has taken delivery of the first Bombardier customer aircraft to fly away on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Latitude 33 Aviation will manage and charter the Challenger 350 business jet in Seattle, Washington, […]