Aircraft

The first conforming HondaJet made a strong impression during its public debut at Oshkosh this week thanks to a flight demonstration that showed off the jet’s performance capabilities via high- and low-speed passes. The event comes one month after the airplane made its maiden flight and follows on the heels of the GE Honda HF120 […]

The Cirrus Jet continues to progress in flight testing after the first production conforming airplane made its maiden flight in March, the company announced this week at AirVenture 2014. While the airplane, dubbed “C-Zero,” makes it way through Part 23 testing, the company is finishing up production of the next two production conforming airplanes, which […]

We proudly present Flying Magazine’s Top 100 Warbirds, our list of the best, most influential, fastest, most powerful, most effective and most revered fighting airplanes of all time. As with any top list, there’s sure to be some disagreement with the birds we’ve chosen to fill these 100 slots, and that will likely be more […]

S-Tec introduced a version of its HeliSAS helicopter stability augmentation system and autopilot for the Robinson R44 series, bringing big-helicopter capability to the piston rotorcraft market for the first time. The system’s two-axis autopilot provides heading and nav hold as well as vertical speed and altitude hold modes. HeliSAS provides attitude stabilization and force feel […]

Look out Icon A5. A new light sport amphibian from a Minnesota startup company is transforming the idea of what an airplane can be with some impressive value-added features, like a foldout flat floor that turns the LSA into a bass boat and hardware allowing a hammock to be slung across the tail. The two-seat […]

Two years after Cessna announced its intent to develop a diesel-powered Skylane 182, Textron Aviation announced today at the opening day of AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, a similar modification program to the most produced airplane in the world — the Cessna 172 Skyhawk. Besides being powered by jet-A fuel, which is generally more plentiful and […]

If you, like many pilots around the country, own a Cessna 172 Skyhawk with a run-out engine, you may soon have a new option when you reach TBO. Superior Air Parts has partnered with Christiansen Aviation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on a supplemental type certificate program for the new 180-horsepower Vantage Engine to be installed in […]

A 17-year-old’s round-the-world record flight attempt has ended in tragedy. The Beechcraft Bonanza Haris Suleman and his father, Babar, were using in their attempt to circumnavigate the world in 30 days crashed today not far from Pago Pago, the capitol of American Samoa. While Haris’ body has been found, search teams are still looking for […]

Until the FAA has finalized its integration of UAVs into the national airspace system, an order that was mandated to be complete by 2015 but is likely to be delayed, the controversy over the use of drones continues. In the most recent debacle, a U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has […]

Hartzell Propeller Inc announced that the introduction of its five-blade prop designed for Daher-Socata’s TBM series of single-engine turboprops has been very successful, with an average of five customers trading out their propellers each month — a number that exceeds Hartzell’s expectations. But the performance improvements provided by the prop, which comes standard on the […]