Bye Aerospace has relocated its headquarters to a larger facility at the Centennial Airport, located in the Denver, Colorado, suburb Englewood. The new facility will house the engineering and operations departments for the eFlyer family of airplanes (renamed from Sun Flyer), and will make space for recently added employees. The company has more than doubled […]
Whelen Engineering’s purchase of LoPresti Aviation has led to the creation of a powerhouse in aviation lighting as Whelen and LoPresti products are now joined under a new entity called Whelen Aviation Technologies. Whelen completed its acquisition of LoPresti last month and has now begun the work of integrating the two well-known brand names under […]
About 15 days each year, air traffic controllers working inside London Heathrow’s 286-foot control tower experience essentially IFR conditions when low clouds surround the tower cab, often while ground visibility is just fine. ATC delays occur during these conditions because controllers cannot verify whether arrivals and departures have cleared the runway. The U.K.’s ATC provider, […]
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the FAA was immediately grounding all Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 aircraft in the U.S. until further notice. The decision from the White House followed mounting pressure for action after many countries around the world grounded their Boeings following last Sunday’s crash of a Max 8 in […]
More than two dozen airlines around the world have grounded their fleets of Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliners after the second deadly crash of the type in less than five months. A number of countries have also banned the airplane from operating in their airspace as crash investigators work to determine what may have caused […]
The annual Women in Aviation International Conference is getting ready to land in Long Beach, California, running from March 14 through 16. The career event promises to be particularly special this year as it will celebrate its 30th anniversary. The conference hall will open on Thursday at 1 p.m. with a long list of exhibitors […]
Today, the B-29 Doc Hangar and Education Center opened its door to the public at the Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas (ICT), showcasing the historic Superfortress, one of only two that are maintained in flying condition. The Center will be open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturdays from […]
Delta Airlines retired senior vice president of flight operations, Steve Dickson is expected to soon be nominated for the permanent position of FAA administrator to replace the agency’s deputy administrator Daniel Elwell who has been running the FAA as acting administrator. Dickson retired last fall from Delta after a 27-year run at the airline where […]
A tire that can morph into an aircraft propeller? Goodyear thinks it’s the perfect solution for autonomous flying cars of the future that would ride on the thin, airless tires, which could then pivot like a tiltrotor to provide propulsion as the wheel’s spokes double as fan blades. The Goodyear Aero concept introduced this week […]
The NTSB said the muddy marshland of Trinity Bay, about 40 miles south of Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), where Atlas Air 3591 crashed on February 23 made recovering the voice and data recorders from the airplane a challenge. The Boeing 767, carrying cargo for both Amazon and the U.S. Postal service, was approaching […]
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