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With the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) and its location in Wichita—known as the Air Capital—Wichita State University has built a legacy as a leading campus for aerospace-related studies. Now, the university plans more growth with the development of its Innovation Campus to act as an incubator for engineering research and career preparation. Industry […]

Hurricane Dorian gained strength on Friday and continued its trajectory towards Florida, as pilots, aircraft owners, and rescue organizations made preparations for the storm. The storm stalled over the Bahamas, causing epic destruction in its wake. The FAA sent out an alert on Thursday to general aviation pilots, urging them to monitor the weather using […]

The aviation community has lost another exceptional aviator in Col. Charles C. “Charlie” Bock, who had a distinguished career as a combat pilot and flight test pilot, participating in the testing of several historically significant airplanes. Born on November 24, 1925, Bock started down the aviation path through the Army Air Corps Aviation Cadet program […]

An update on August 24, 2019, to the TSA’s procedures for its Known Crewmember program would have required flight crew to be in uniform in order to use its expedited security screening. Now, the update is on hold after intervention from pilot and flight attendant unions. The change would have gone into effect on August […]

Thirty years ago, on July 19, 1989, Captain Al Haynes and the crew of a United DC-10 made the best of a stunningly bad situation and brought Flight 232, flying from Denver to Chicago, into a landing at the Sioux City International Airport in a manner that saved 184 lives. An uncontained failure of the […]

Remember the last time someone mentioned a bounced landing? Might not have been that long ago because we all bounce them in now and again. But somehow bouncing the landing in a Cessna 172 just doesn’t seem all that serious to most pilots, assuming of course the bounce didn’t begin by impacting the runway with […]

Zonta International is a global organization empowering women worldwide through service and advocacy. The organization recently awarded 30 women from 15 countries its prestigious Amelia Earhart Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year. Zonta awards these fellowships annually. Since 1938, Zonta has awarded 1,603 Amelia Earhart Fellowships totaling more than US$10.3 million, to 1,174 women from […]

While wildfires are far from a desired phenomenon, at times they produce a stunning spectacle. Rare clouds, named pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCB), were recently spotted in the eastern part of Washington state as a result of the Williams Flats fire, which was ignited by a thunderstorm on August 2, as reported by NASA’s Earth Observatory. NASA recorded […]

Aircraft Performance Group has a laser focus on the segment of the market it feels it knows best: the light to midsize jet that is operated by a single pilot or crew, or a small corporate flight department. To this end, it debuted last fall its iPreFlight Genesis app, optimized for the iPad, that gives […]

The International Society of Transport Aircraft Training (ISTAT) recently delivered a $15,000 grant to Women in Aviation International (WAI). The grant money came directly from ISTAT’s education programs branch to advance commercial aviation. WAI plans to use the fresh dollars to expand the distribution of its Aviation for Girls magazine into hard copy and digital […]