Aviation News

More than 7,000 attendees of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas stopped by Bell Helicopter’s exhibit to get a sneak peek at “the future of urban air transportation.” Among the guests lined up for the Air Taxi virtual reality ride were Silicon Valley guru Guy Kawasaki and Avengers actor Anthony Mackie, though they […]

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity last week completed its seventh flight over the Mojave Desert, the first since last summer. The flight was designed to validate work completed during recent months of downtime, including transonic flight performance, stability and control to ensure the vehicle is ready for the higher loads and forces of powered test flight. […]

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada’s final report of the March 2016 crash of a U.S-registered MU2 at Îles-de-la-Madeleine Airport (CYGR), Quebec, points to a pilot who let the aircraft get way ahead of him. Plagued by a high workload and unable to manage the aircraft’s energy state, the approach became unstable and the pilot […]

An unidentified 26-year-old Mississippi man is the subject of a continuing search effort near Elko, Nevada, after his twin-engine Piper disappeared last Thursday. The Elko County Sheriff’s Office said the commercial pilot was flying from California to Salt Lake City when his plane went missing, and Sgt. Nick Czegledi suggested that weather problems may be […]

It was one of those “Is that even real?” moments on Monday when photos surfaced showing a Boeing 737 dangling from a cliff above the Black Sea in Ankara, Turkey. Yes, the photos of the Pegasus Airlines passenger jet are real, and they show just how close the 737-800 came to ending up in the […]

With HP recently recalling 50,000 laptop computers over worries their lithium ion batteries could ignite, fires that might erupt in flight are certain to remain front page news this year. The FAA recently published InFO 17021 to clarify the use of potentially mislabeled fire containment kits and bags, as well as the procedures to deal […]

Although GoPro founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman is taking a pay cut down to $1, it won’t be enough to save GoPro’s Karma drone or any of the employees tied to its production. After reducing its global workforce from 1,254 employees to fewer than 1,000 as of September 30, 2017, GoPro has announced that it […]

The Government of Malaysia announced on Wednesday that Ocean Infinity’s proposal to resume the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been accepted. Recovery efforts were paused last January after an estimated $200 million had been spent by the governments of Malaysia, Australia and China with few results. Under the “No cure, no fee” deal, […]

Gogo Business Aviation introduced Gogo Avance L3, a new inflight connectivity system tailored to the need of passengers and flight departments flying smaller business aircraft and offering “the most affordable pricing options” in business aviation. Gogo says its technology platform lets users customize their inflight experience based on their needs, and can be installed on […]

Piper Aircraft‘s M350 pressurized single-engine piston aircraft, as well as the turboprop powered M500, can now take advantage of Garmin’s updated G1000 NXi avionics suite. The Vero Beach aircraft builder plans to offer NXi as an STC retrofit on the G1000 equipped Matrix, now called the M350 and the Meridian, the current M500. The G1000 […]