Aviation News

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 […]

The NTSB has released information that brings some light to the accident that likely induced a lot more adrenaline than race car driving does to 44-year-old professional driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr., the son of the legendary NASCAR Hall of Fame competitor Dale Earnhardt, Sr. Earnhardt and his family, who were taking a quick 20-minute hop […]

Women comprise less than ten percent of the total pilot population in the United States (according to statistics from Women in Aviation). In the military, the representation of female aviators is even lower, and women were prohibited from flying in combat until the early 1990s. As a result, it is a big deal when a […]

Stephen Dickson became the 18th FAA administrator on August 12, 2019, as sworn in by U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. The ceremony took place in the West Atrium of the U.S. Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C. “I am honored to join the outstanding team at the Federal Aviation Administration and look forward to ensuring […]

Val Miftakhov is a serial clean energy entrepreneur, and his latest enterprise, ZeroAvia, has come out of its hangar in Hollister, California, and into the public eye. A year and a half ago, Miftakhov founded ZeroAvia to develop a solution to fit a particular aviation market niche—10 to 20 seats and a 500-nm trip radius—that […]

No matter your perspective about the integration of drones into the national airspace system (NAS), Skyfront’s recent flight of its Perimeter 4 hybrid gas-electric drone beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) of the operator looks like nothing other than a complete success. Conducted over a rugged, four-mile stretch of mountainous terrain along the Trans-Alaska pipeline, the unmanned aerial vehicle […]

After graduation from the University of Alaska, Anchorage, student Robin Spaulding hopes to use her skills as a pilot to make a positive difference in the world. She’s already a dedicated member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) and Women in Aviation, and a pilot passionate about aviation safety. Spaulding survived a September […]