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Boeing and FAA have found an additional software issue on the 737 MAX, separate from the MCAS problem, that will require additional time to fix, as Boeing disclosed in a securities filing on June 26. “The Federal Aviation Administration has asked The Boeing Company to address, through the software changes to the 737 MAX that […]

On Saturday, June 22, the Old Dominion chapter of the Ninety-Nines, Inc., and the Virginia Department of Aviation, sponsored the fourth in its series of Women Can Fly events at Shannon Airport in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The event carries on a legacy started six years ago intended to bring women—especially young women and girls—to the airport […]

This year’s Lindbergh Innovation Forum, a program of the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation, at AirVenture promises to deliver more inspiring and provocative presentations on concepts designed to shape the future of aviation. The sessions, in partnership with EAA, will take place on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019, from 9 am – 12 pm […]

Bombardier made a name for itself in the U.S. regional airline industry in the late 1990s when it began delivering the first CRJ-100 regional jets to Cincinnati-based Comair Airlines. The entry of regional jets to the U.S. airline marketplace spelled the death of most 19 and 30-seat regional turboprops. Times have certainly changed some 20 […]

A pair of Eurofighter Typhoons collided in midair over northeast Germany on Monday, killing one of the pilots, according to the German air force. German police said they found a body near a crash site after the jets collided during a military training exercise, which local media outlets reported was that of one of the […]

What the New York Daily News calls a “group of powerful New York lawmakers” wants to see “non-essential” helicopter flights over downtown Manhattan come to a grinding halt. The action comes just a week after an Augusta 109E owned by American Continental Properties crashed onto the roof of a skyscraper shortly after it took off […]

Local authorities on the island of Oahu said Saturday that two more victims were located at the site of last week’s King Air accident at Dillingham Airfield on the northwest corner of the island. The new victims raise the fatality count in the accident to 11. At an onsite media briefing Sunday, NTSB member Jennifer […]

In a move that leaves no question as to how it feels about the promise of electric propulsion, Rolls-Royce has entered into an agreement to acquire Siemens’ eAircraft business, the company announced during the Paris Air Show 2019. Siemens’ significant work in electric and hybrid-electric propulsion development began to take shape several years ago under […]

Boeing released its annual Boeing Market Outlook in concert with the Paris Air Show during the week of June 17. The report summarizes the current state of the global aviation market and projects anticipated growth 20 years into the future, broken down by region and aircraft size. The Boeing Market Outlook punctuated an event that […]

Stephen Pope, the Editor-in-Chief of Flying magazine and a longtime aviation journalist and pilot, has been announced as an inductee into the 2019 class of the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame. An “airport kid” who grew up around aviation in New Jersey, Pope began taking flying lessons at the age of 15 in a […]