Aviation News

The U.S. Department of Labor is hosting their fifth annual National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) November 11-17, 2019, with more than 700 events already registered to participate. A number of aviation and aerospace companies are planning events as a way to augment their current workforce and develop the next generation of technicians, engineers, managers and office […]

For decades, pilots holding a first or second class medical were automatically disqualified from flying commercially if they were diagnosed with diabetes. Diabetic pilots are subject to losing consciousness and suffering seizures if their illness is not properly treated. To the FAA, the risk of a pilot passing out at the controls was always too […]

With the ADS-B mandate being implemented in less than two months, aircraft owners and operators will have to have an ADS-B transponder installed in order to fly in most controlled airspace. A recently announced program will help aircraft operators keep their trips away from the public eye. At the National Business Aviation Association’s (NBAA) Business […]

Cary, North Carolina, last week became ground zero for the first successful commercial test of a drone delivery service when an M2 drone operated by UPS and its partner drone systems developer Matternet delivered a prescription from a CVS pharmacy to a nearby residence and another later to a customer at a retirement community. The […]

With the demise of the space shuttle program nearly 20 years ago, Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner spacecraft, being developed with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, was designed to fill the gap and to return human spaceflight launches to the International Space Station from American soil. The reusable Starliner will carry as many as seven […]

While many pilots know General Electric as a company with significant history—it was founded in 1892—they may not realize that GE’s Aviation division just celebrated 100 years in 2017. Its first product, in July 1919, was a supercharger for the then-popular Liberty engine. The division evolved to the point that by 1937, while it installed […]

An airborne human-factors experiment conducted by researchers from Oklahoma State University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University concluded in a recent published study that certificated pilots failed to see a common type of quadcopter during approach to a runway, and in most cases, could never detect motionless drones. In the testing, skilled pilots usually could see small […]

Sean D. Tucker flew his last performance in his bright orange Oracle Challenger III—a custom built 400-horsepower aerobatic biplane—last week. The airplane is now officially becoming a piece of aviation history. The Oracle Challenger III will be hung in the “We All Fly” exhibit, currently under construction at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum […]

CAL Fire, California’s emergency response air program, is currently battling the explosive Kincade Fire in Sonoma County, which has burned 76,138 acres and was only 15% contained at press time. While that fire has destroyed 189 structures and damaged 39 other buildings, figures could have been much higher if not for the work of CAL […]

Aviators understand that aircraft accidents seldom occur because of a single misstep in the human or technological chain. They usually occur when a flight crew is overwhelmed by multiple human or technological failures within a short time span. The Komite Nasional Keselamatan Transportasi of Indonesia, also known as the National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC), issued […]