Aircraft

King Air 350 owners and those considering a King Air purchase got some good news yesterday at EAA AirVenture as several companies announced performance-enhancing modifications for the largest version of Beechcraft’s twin turboprop series. Hartzell Propeller and Raisbeck Engineering have partnered to create a supplemental type certificate for a swept five-blade composite propeller. The propeller […]

Another would-be flying car has hit the market, this one a three-wheeler with an unusual folding-wing concept that solves the problem of what to do with the wings in driving mode but presents a potential problem of how to handle crosswind landings. Called the Switchblade, the Experimental kitplane from a Northern California company called Samson […]

After months of debate and speculation, we have a winner. Honda Aircraft received the inaugural Flying Innovation Award on Monday night at a party in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, hosted by the magazine on the picturesque shores of Lake Winnebago. In awarding the prize, Flying Editor-in-Chief Stephen Pope said the HondaJet was selected as the first Flying […]

Piper has grounded the in-service fleet of M600 single-engine turboprops after production workers identified a section of the aft wing spar that did not meet designed measurement tolerances. Piper notified the FAA of the discrepancy and ordered wing spar inspections to determine if the issue affects other airplanes, according to Piper CEO Simon Caldecott, who […]

The Stratos 714 VLJ has been more than ten years in the making, originating with a conversation between CEO Michael Lemaire and Chief Technology Officer Carsten Sundin. On Monday, their team proudly displayed the fruit of their labor at EAA AirVenture, as the 714 kicked off the morning’s activities at Boeing Plaza. With fresh paint […]

Scaled Composites has a busy week coming up. The Mojave, California-based company is going all-in at the 2017 AirVenture show at Oshkosh (June 24-30), presenting some of its most iconic aircraft and offering more than 30 forums that will focus on, among other things, its future endeavors. This includes meeting people who are interested in […]

“The M400 is a flying car that promises to let you take off from your backyard and fly to your destination at 350 mph, ignoring, if not gazing condescendingly upon, land-bound commuters stuck in traffic below,” reads the March 2000 Popular Science cover story on the Moller M400 Skycar. And, really, that sums up the […]

No one aboard a HondaJet was hurt Wednesday when the landing aircraft departed the hard surface of Runway 31 Center at Chicago’s Midway Airport. The aircraft skidded and came to stop in the grass just a few feet from the airport’s west field boundary fence. Ironically, the aircraft just missed capturing the Engineered Materials Arrestor […]

George Antoniadis wouldn’t have missed this “marriage” for anything in the world. The President and CEO of PlaneSense has the distinction of being the owner of the first Pilatus PC-24 (https://www.pilatus-aircraft.com/) business jet, and so he made the journey to the manufacturer’s head office in Stans, Switzerland, to watch firsthand as his plane received its […]

The FAA has awarded experimental certificate renewal to the Bell 525 Relentless, allowing Bell Helicopter to resume the flight test program after last year’s crash. “Bell Helicopter has worked with the NTSB and FAA since the accident and we are confident in the resumption of flight test activity,” said Bell’s president and CEO Mitch Snyder. […]