Aviation News

Yet another exciting Red Bull Air Race took place over the weekend, this time in Kazan, Russia. The Russian race course treated the Americans right. After the Final 4 runs had been completed, both Michael Goulian and Kirby Chambliss stood on the podium, taking second and third place respectively. At the top of the podium […]

These days, it’s rare to find a pilot who is not flying with an iPad or other electronic device. Hardly anyone is using paper charts anymore. Electronic flight bags have made life so much easier as there is no more need to swap out outdated instrument charts or worry about grabbing an old sectional. But […]

Stratolaunch announced the development of a new family of launch vehicles.

Musicians Post Malone and Andrew Watt are safe after their Gulfstream IV private jet was on Tuesday forced to make an emergency landing at New York’s Stewart International Airport (SWF). The two celebrities had departed Teterboro Airport approximately mid-morning in New Jersey headed for the United Kingdom, when both of the Gulfstream’s nose wheel tires […]

Jennifer Homendy was sworn in Monday as the newest member of the National Transportation Safety Board, finally returning the team to its standard five-member complement. The board operated with four members between April 2014 and December 2017, a number that dropped to three members since January 2018 until the arrival of its new Vice Chairman […]

Details have emerged of a lawsuit filed in Montana on June 19 by Garmin International Inc. and Garmin USA Inc. against uAvionix in which the Olathe, Kansas avionics giant claims the upstart Bigfork, Montana-based micro-miniaturization experts used a Garmin patent without permission when they created some uAvionix retail product offerings. Specifically, Garmin alleges the uAvionix […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association chose National Aviation Day to announce its 2019 Aviation Design Challenge. GAMA’s been hosting this competition every year since 2013 to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in American high schools using an aviation curriculum, and a virtual “fly-off.” GAMA’s President and CEO Pete Bunce said, “This will […]

The Perlan glider team is continuing its mission to reach greater heights. The team is currently in South America attempting to catch the mountain waves of the Patagonia mountain range in the southwestern corner of Argentina. A Grob Egrett turboprop towed Perlan 2 on its 48th flight to just over 44,000 feet before releasing it […]

The NTSB is just beginning it investigation into a June 27 near-fatal collision between a vehicle and an Envoy Airlines Embraer 145 regional jet at the Springfield-Branson National Airport in Springfield Missouri. The incident, caught on video by local airport cameras, shows an airport operations vehicle crossing Runway 14 about two seconds before the regional […]

Over the past few years, we’ve come to respect the logistical power of drones to, for example, conduct surveillance in places and weather conditions airplanes and pilots cannot. Drones can remain on station longer than a human could tolerate, so they should have a bright future completing jobs we’ve yet to create. But like any […]