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For years, any talk of a pilot shortage always included the caveat that the warning didn’t apply to the major airlines. Southwest Airlines is taking no chances. The nation’s largest domestic passenger carrier recently announced a career program called Destination 225° to create pathways for qualified pilots to become future Southwest first officers. The airline […]

Miss Montana, a restored Douglas C-47A/DC-3C that was used in aerial firefighting after World War II, returned to Helena, Montana, on Monday, August 5, 2019, to commemorate a mission in which 12 of 15 smokejumpers, plus one person on the ground, lost their lives fighting the Mann Gulch Fire following their drop from the airplane. […]

Icon Aircraft said Friday it is implementing a revised business plan for the unique LSA seaplane that includes a 40 percent cut to the company’s current workforce. Icon president and COO Thomas Wieners said, “Icon is currently structured for higher volume production, but after producing more than 100 aircraft, we now have a very good […]

Bringing together the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force in 2018 with the 75th anniversary of its first missions in 1944, the Silver Spitfire launched on August 5, 2019, on its round-the-world journey from Goodwood Aerodrome in southern England. The Silver Spitfire, MJ271, was one of the original aircraft built in 1943 in Castle […]

Seven people at a scenic overlook in California’s Death Valley National Park suffered injuries after a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet crashed on Wednesday, officials said. Aviation enthusiasts routinely come to see military fighters flying low through what has unofficially been dubbed Star Wars Canyon. Debris was scattered across the canyon as a dark billow […]

If you’ve ever been involved in a panel upgrade and looked behind the scenes—or maybe you’ve performed some of the work yourself as a technician or homebuilder—you understand that there are connectors that allow data to flow between the avionics and instruments in the cockpit, whether they’re ARINC 429 or CAN bus cables. These create […]

After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June in the wake of an emergency airworthiness directive issued by the FAA and EASA this past spring, Tamarack Aerospace Group says it is again installing its Atlas active winglets on Cessna Citations. The move follows a decision by safety regulators in the U.S. and Europe to again […]

When the Wright Brothers designed the original Flyer, a critical element to their success laid in the refinement of the flight controls they used—wing warping—to guide the craft through the air. The aerospace industry has evolved the way we physically control flight ever since. And much evolution has taken place under the guidance of DARPA, […]

Joan Kerwin was eager to fly airplanes when she graduated in 1950 from Joliet Township High School southwest of Chicago. The closest she could come in the early 50s was a job as a flight attendant – they called them stewardesses back then – with United Airlines. Kerwin left her job sooner than planned however […]

Record amounts of rain fell in the Oshkosh area just prior to the official start of this year’s AirVenture, leaving campers scurrying for mud-less places to pitch tents and park RVs. By Sunday however, the sun shone brightly, almost as a sign of the week of mild temperatures to follow. In fact, no more than […]