Aviation News

Continental Aerospace last week announced a new partnership with Diamond Aircraft that will equip the single-engine DA50 with a 300 hp, Jet-A fueled CD-300 engine. The CD-300, specifically designed for high performance, luxury piston powered aircraft and certified in December 2017, is the third platform in Continental’s Jet-A fueled piston engine lineup. The engine produces […]

There is a growing population of backcountry flying enthusiasts breathing life into the taildragger/short takeoff and landing (STOL) world with the popularity of one-offs like the turbopowered extreme STOL Draco. To satisfy the need for pilots to play and show the proficiency on challenging short fields, a new STOL competition is emerging outside Minneapolis. The […]

Chinese EHang Air Mobility Group has taken major steps toward making autonomous transportation a reality. The company recently conducted a public flight of its EHang 216 Autonomous Aerial Vehicle (AAV) at the Generali Arena in Vienna as part of the 4GAMECHANGERS Festival, which took place April 9 through 11. While the electric VTOL is not […]

OSM Aviation, a provider of aircrew for the international airline industry, has placed an order for 60 all-electric eFlyer 2 aircraft from Bye Aerospace to be used for training at the OSM Aviation Academy flight training centers. The eFlyer2 offers zero emission and significantly lower noise pollution compared with conventional aircraft, along with enhanced speed […]

The largest composite aircraft in the world, the Stratolaunch, successfully completed its first flight from the Mojave Air & Spaceport in 2019.

Japanese Air Self Defense Force investigators say they have found a small section of wing of a Lockheed Martin F-35 that crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of northern Japan on Wednesday. Now the daunting task of recovering the secretive jet and its pilot from the sea floor begins as searchers ponder whether […]

The people at Boeing probably expected more bad news and today they got some when Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a New York-based law firm filed a class action suit in the Northern District of Illinois against Boeing. The suit was filed on behalf of people who purchased, “securities of Boeing, Inc. (“Boeing” or the “Company”) (NYSE: […]

The final member of an impressive breed of airmen passed away this week in San Antonio, Texas, at the age of 103. Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Dick Cole was the last surviving member of the famous Doolittle Raiders, the first U.S. forces to bring World War II to Japan following the devastating attack […]

Searching for just the right way to remember mom or dad this year? How about a trip to Japan, or China, or even Uzbekistan or maybe even a few more exotic places around the globe? National Geographic Expeditions in conjunction with the Wall Street Journal has organized a 24-day trip of a lifetime that launches […]

Game Composites has achieved several firsts in the recent past, snagging the first standard airworthiness certificates for the first two serial numbers of the GB1 GameBird. With four airplanes now built and serial number 10 already in the starting blocks, the company has hired French pilot Francois Le Vot to head up training for the […]