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Pipistrel announced that its Alpha Electro airplane has broken several electric flight records, including the longest all-electric flight. The flight was conducted by Adelaide, Australia-based flight training and aircraft sales company Eyre to There Aviation in partnership with sponsors AvPlan EFB, Aerometrex, West Coast Bitumen and Recreational Aviation Australia (RA-Aus). The airplane flew 730 nm, […]

Think about some of the performance numbers you use to operate your aircraft—climb or descent rates, airspeeds, and so on. In a jet, most of those numbers normally increase, significantly. In a Cessna 172, a descent rate of 3,100 fpm would be frightening to anyone on board, not to mention the nose down angle required […]

According to Reuters, Cathay Pacific Airways is currently working with Airbus on Project Connect, a plan to introduce “reduced crew” long-haul flights with a single pilot in the cockpit much of the time. Though Cathay has not given a final go-ahead to the single-pilot idea, the airline hopes to introduce it during high-altitude cruise on […]

“Any other traffic, please advise.” Probably few radio communications that pilots make incur such wrath as that request, which many pilots still make at the conclusion of an initial call to a unicom frequency when approaching a nontowered airport. And it was just one of the topics covered by a panel of experienced GA pilots, […]

Yingling Aviation is not only celebrating 75 years in business, but it’s also expanding its presence at Wichita’s Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (KICT). The company plans to add another 50,000 square feet of hangar and office space to the 200,000 square feet of facilities already comprising its maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) business and […]

Roughly 43,000 aircraft move through US airspace every day. Among them, those piloted under the broad segment of general aviation support $247 billion in economic impact each year, and 1.2 million jobs. By 2035, economic gain within a new genre of flight known as advanced air mobility (AAM) is expected to reach $115 billion per […]

Nine airports will now offer sustainable aviation fuel through a partnership between Signature Flight Support and Neste, producer of MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel, and the airport authorities. Newly added to the program are Signature’s operations at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas (KAUS), Houston-Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas (KHOU), and the Norman Y. Mineta […]

The National WASP WWII Museum in Sweetwater, Texas, said in a news release that more than 1,000 people showed up to Avenger Field on May 8 to celebrate the WASP Homecoming 2021 and the BT-13 & Warbird Fly-In. More than 200 children learned about the Fly Girls and the warbirds they flew in the fly-in’s […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has now published a final rule (232-page PDF) that outlines regulations for the use of an electronic Pilot Records Database (PRD) to facilitate the sharing of pilot records among air carriers and other operators in an electronic data system managed by the FAA. The final rule for the PRD requires […]

When Sim Shain was seven years old, his father had just become an emergency medical technician, volunteering for a local New York ambulance squad, Hatzolah EMS. “I used to watch him run out of our home and his business to go and save lives,” said Shain. “I said, ‘When I get older, I want to […]