Aviation News

As the future of the aviation and aerospace industries, young professionals–called “YoPros” by the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA)–will meet in Orlando, Florida, on February 26 and 27, 2020, for NBAA’s inaugural Emerging Leaders Conference (ELC). The two-day event has been “curated by young professionals for young professionals” and is designed to inspire and educate […]

Despite steady sales in the last part of 2019 and into 2020, total deliveries at Robinson Helicopter Company fell to 196 units for the year. This is a decline from 2018 and 2017 sales, which showed strong growth in 2017 and remained there for 2018. The breakdown of models included 19 R22s, 123 R44s, and […]

Investigators at the site of the January 26 crash of a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter—which claimed the lives of basketball legend Kobe Bryant, his young daughter and seven others—said the aircraft missed clearing the hill it struck near Calabasas, California, by some 30 feet. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Bill English made a point during a […]

Over the past few months, many aircraft owners have received unwelcome surprises in their mailboxes—virtual or otherwise—in the form of notices of increased premiums from their insurance providers. While the average rate of increase has hovered around 7 to 10 percent, owners of certain aircraft—and those pilots of a certain age—have seen two-fold or even […]

No one embraces the winter quite like those of us from northern climes—and those who live topside of the US-Canada border perhaps most of all. Rather than cursing the snow and short days, certain pilots revel instead in the transformation that snow makes, turning a lake or river into a runway, and eliciting engine performance […]

The Raytheon Company was recently selected to improve the usability and reduce operational costs for the FAA’s Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System, a critical element in the efforts to modernize the national airspace system. Raytheon’s STARS team, collaborating with the FAA’s NextGen modernization program, aims to achieve a historic first—a single national software and hardware […]

Do you have a truly engaging story to tell about how flying changed your life? If you also happen to be no older than 24, Sporty’s has the chance of a lifetime for you to share that story with the world through the recently announced the second annual Richard Collins Writing Prize for Young Pilots […]

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX inched one step closer to bringing astronauts to space this weekend as it completed a test of the in-flight launch escape capabilities of its Crew Dragon. The Crew Dragon test flight, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, atop SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, showed the spaceship’s “ability to separate from Falcon 9 and […]

Hundreds of business, political and thought leaders from around the world gathered this week in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss issues such as poverty, the environment, stakeholder capitalism and other topics critical to the survival of the world. Western business aviation leaders were also front and center in Davos rolling out two new carbon-reduction initiatives at […]

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a method to produce aerospace-grade composites without the enormous ovens and pressure vessels currently used in the process. The technique may help to speed up the manufacturing of airplanes and other large, high-performance composite structures, such as blades for wind turbines. The researchers detail their […]