Aviation News

Anna and Carl Dietrich, the cofounders of Terrafugia, have left the firm as the flying car developer’s new Chinese parent company makes several changes including the closure of a California research facility. The husband and wife team, along with three other Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates, founded Terrafugia in 2006. Carl Dietrich was most recently […]

The National Aeronautic Association announced that the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto GCAS) Team is the recipient of the 2018 Robert J. Collier Trophy for “successfully completing a rapid design, integration and flight test of critical, lifesaving technology for the worldwide [Lockheed Martin] F-35 fleet.” The Collier Trophy is awarded annually “for the greatest […]

Ethiopia Airlines provided details of a preliminary report that the airline says determined that the pilots of a doomed Boeing 737 Max 8 that crashed last month, killing all 157 people on board, followed Boeing procedures outlined after a similar crash in Indonesia five months earlier, but even the new training did not allow the […]

Stallion 51, a flight training facility in Kissimmee, Florida that specializes in warbird training, celebrated a very special milestone yesterday for its founder and chief pilot Lee Lauderback at Sun ‘n Fun in Lakeland, Florida. The stellar pilot reached the 10,000-hour mark in the P-51 Mustang, having flown a total of more than 22,000 hours […]

Piper aircraft is having a terrific week at Sun ‘n Fun in Lakeland, Florida. After yesterday’s announcement about the development of a pair of two-seat trainers, the Piper Pilot 100 and 100i, the company also won a huge order from L3 Commercial Aviation – a flight training operation with facilities around the world. The school […]

Eight years of work culminated yesterday with the announcement that Aireon’s new space-based air traffic surveillance system became operational and immediately entered trials over the North Atlantic. Aireon’s ADS-B receivers are installed onboard all 66 of the newly launched Iridium satellite constellation now in low-earth orbit providing real-time air traffic surveillance and tracking to 100 […]

Piper Aircraft announced two new value-priced additions to its trainer-class of aircraft on the opening day of Sun N’ Fun at Lakeland Florida. The company showed off its proof of concept Piper Pilot 100 and Pilot 100i. The basic 100 includes Garmin G3X Touch Certified avionics and a standard two pilot configuration while the instrument […]

Sun n’ Fun opened under cloudy skies and light rain on Tuesday as aviation enthusiasts began streaming into the show grounds at Lakeland Linder Airport in Lakeland, Florida. In its 45th year, the weeklong event has cemented its place behind EAA AirVenture Oshkosh as the second-biggest airshow of the year. Highlights of this year’s Sun […]

Aviation app maker ForeFlight has launched a new app to help passengers stay more aware during a flight without having to bother the pilot. ForeFlight Passenger is a free companion app to the company’s well-established aviation app, ForeFlight Mobile, and it allows non-pilots to follow along during the flight to get an idea of where […]

Boeing executives met on Wednesday in Renton, Washington, with more than 200 pilots, airline representatives and regulators to offer an update on planned software upgrades for the embattled 737 Max fleet as the company tried to win support for the software fix and defended the process under which the airplanes were certified. The 737 Max […]