Aircraft

With an increasing number of UAS incidents including several reports of close calls with airplanes, the UAS industry has worked with the FAA to come up with a campaign that sheds some light on how drone operations can and should be conducted in order maximize safety in the sky. Named “Know Before You Fly,” the […]

Building your own airplane can be a daunting task and one of the trickiest parts is to properly assemble the avionics equipment and all the cables that go with it. Aircraft Spruce and Specialty Company has just started a program that makes this work much easier. The company’s harness assembly shop offers services ranging from […]

While Icon Aircraft recently conducted a series of flights where the company’s CEO, Kirk Hawkins, tested the water handling characteristics and maneuverability of the A5 amphibious LSA, the company has started establishing a flight training program for the two-seat airplane. As Icon finalizes the FAA approval process for the A5 in anticipation for the first […]

Flying reader Gene Lee recently captured these spectacular upside-down views while performing stall and spin recovery in a Van’s RV-7A. Check out the video and see the amazing way the world takes shape from a pilot’s seat in the heat of a spin. (Video Editor: Jim Smith) Want more? Head over to our “Flying Is” […]

Homebuilders say they are befuddled by the FAA’s upcoming ADS-B equipment mandate, specifically over the question of whether certified avionics options on the market now can be installed in Experimental Amateur-Built (E-AB) airplanes to satisfy the requirements of the Jan. 1, 2020, rule. The answer, apparently, is no. The Experimental Aircraft Association says it is […]

Perhaps you are the type of person who likes to go on road trips while traveling within the protective confines of a car. Or maybe you prefer to experience the trip with all of your senses, on a motorcycle, where you can feel the speed, touch the elements of nature, and hear and smell the […]

Dassault rolled out the first new** Falcon 8X** at its headquarters in Bordeaux-Merignac in the South of France on Wednesday before an audience of customers, operators, suppliers and government officials. Launched in May at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, the Falcon 8X is a larger stable mate of the fly-by-wire […]

A sleek looking single-place airplane named CEA-311 Anequim, the Portuguese word for great white shark, recently took flight in Divinópolis, Brazil. The airplane looks a lot like a racer but it was designed specifically to break speed records. Anequim was designed and built by professor Paulo Iscold and a team of students at the Federal […]

We’ve all seen spectacular air show performances with fighter jets or aerobatic piston airplanes flying in formation of various configurations. But it is not every day that you see five 590,000-plus-pound commercial passenger jets flying an Echelon or Diamond formation. Airbus recently released a video of just such a flight with five A350 XWB (extra […]

Researchers at NASA have started flight testing new software that the agency says could make the National Airspace System far more efficient and reduce noise associated with airplanes near major airports. The software has been named Airborne Spacing for Terminal Arrival Routes, or ASTAR for short. The purpose of the software is to develop more […]