Aircraft

Burt Rutan has started testing his latest airplane design, the SkiGull, an amphibious design he says will be his last. This week, the legendary airplane designer took the airplane to Hayden Lake for some early water testing. The fuselage was launched into the water before the wings were attached and Rutan briefed test pilot Glenn […]

Imagine taking off and flying around the sky without a fuselage, wings or even so much as a framework around you. Flying with a jetpack is not a new concept. Jetpacks have been a reality for decades, but the technology has never reached a point of being commercially viable. A company called JetPack Aviation hopes […]

Earlier this year, a massive spire was erected atop the Incity Tower in Lyon, France, one of the tallest buildings in the country at 650 feet. The spire, which measures 164 feet and weighs 25.9 tons, is made up of several massive tubes all connected together. What makes the project remarkable from a flying standpoint […]

A unique historical flight took place recently at the Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas, bringing together airplanes with easily distinguishable red tails, a P-51 Mustang and a T-1, both part of red tail squadrons. The P-51 is part of the Commemorative Air Force’s Red Tail Squadron, which educates the public about the […]

The Avro Vulcan XH558, a British bomber with a beautiful delta profile and an unmistakable howling sound, has landed for the last time, concluding its “Farewell to Flight” season. The charitable organization Vulcan to the Sky Trust has operated the last of the breed, named The Spirit of Great Britain, for the past eight years, […]

I see in The New York Times that rugged-individualist Western farmers are using drones to inspect crops and locate lost cattle, defying FAA regulations that forbid commercial use of the ubiquitous gadgets. “Precision agriculture,” as this kind of eye-in-the-sky farming has come to be called, seems like a pretty harmless thing — a good thing, […]

Earlier this month, Garmin invited Flying’s editors to join them on Wingfoot One’s first trip home to its renovated hangar in Pompano Beach, Florida. After riding along in the right seat for a bit, chief pilot Michael “Doc” Doughtery let me try my hand at flying the beast. The experience? Doc said it best: “It’s […]

The Canadian government has agreed to bail out Bombardier after the company posted a bigger than expected $4.9 billion loss in the third quarter due to writedowns to its CSeries and Learjet 85 aircraft programs. The Quebec government will take a 49 percent stake in the CSeries program while the Learjet 85 program has now […]

The Tecnam P2010 is one of those airplanes that you can’t help but stop to look at when you see it on the ramp. Mainly because you’ll be wondering why that Cessna Skyhawk looks so good. Until you realize it’s not a Skyhawk. It’s something different. Something silky smooth. With flowing lines. My goodness, it’s […]

It’s been decades since the B-29 named Doc, currently in restoration by Doc’s Friends in Wichita, Kansas, was brought back to life from the boneyard in the Mojave Desert. And with all the work and funding required to get the structure, systems and engines restored there may have been doubt as to whether the quest […]