On the front page of its Sunday edition, the New York Times ran an attention-grabbing story about a secret Pentagon program established in 2007 to investigate UFO sightings. The key items of intrigue from the companion article posted on the Times‘ website on Saturday are videos showing an encounter in 2004 by two Navy F/A-18 […]
Mojave, California-based Scaled Composites has taken a major leap in the development of the massive Stratolaunch program. The world’s largest aircraft (by wingspan) took to the tarmac this weekend, blasted its six Pratt & Whitney PW4056 engines to life and completed the initial taxi tests. As the Stratolaunch rolled down the runway, the wings, which […]
On Sunday, an estimated 1,183 flights were canceled at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta following an 11-hour power outage that left tens of thousands of passengers stranded. But even after power was restored and operations resumed, holiday travel woes continued on Monday, as more than 400 additional flights were canceled. As of Tuesday morning, only […]
For this Throwback Thursday edition of Flight Chops, we’re going back to 2016 for a really cool example of how being an aviation YouTube celebrity leads to some pretty awesome adventures. Or, in this case, how two aviation YouTube celebrities received the opportunity to undergo U.S. Coast Guard training because they have some fans in […]
When it comes to creating works of art with flight paths, not every pilot is Vincent van Gogh. Some aviators’ radar drawings wouldn’t even make it on their parents’ refrigerators. Still, it’s the effort that we appreciate, and we’ll always be suckers for something creative and unique popping up on FlightRadar24’s live tracker. On Wednesday, […]
The FAA, as ordered by President Donald Trump, will begin charging hobbyist drone operators $5 each to register themselves with the federal government — just in time for Christmas. Congress submitted the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 bill, however, the subsection Restoration of Rules for Registration and Marking of Unmanned Aircraft is […]
At this year’s AirVenture festivities in Oshkosh, starry-eyed dreamers, wannabe astronauts and general aviation enthusiasts were given the opportunity to get up close and personal with Blue Origin’s actual New Shepard reusable rocket, as well as its one-of-a-kind crew capsule that boasts large windows that will eventually give commercial space passengers an incredible view of […]
Stop by the Pitt Meadows airport near Vancouver soon and you might catch a glimpse of what Pipistrel Aircraft hopes is the future of flight. The Slovenia aircraft builder’s Canadian distributor, Pipistrel Aircraft Canada Inc., recently delivered the first completely electric two-seat Alpha Electro to a customer near Vancouver. While the aircraft arrived in a […]
There’s nothing guaranteed to make steam pour from the ears of a GA pilot quite like a discussion about the price of fuel and services at some airports. But that’s just what the AOPA did earlier this year. They began asking questions about pricing and airport access and conferenced in the FAA. The result was […]
After a three-year delay that was made much worse this past fall by news of more technical problems with the Safran Silvercrest engines for the Falcon 5X, Dassault today said it is cancelling the jet’s development program and starting fresh with a new large-cabin airplane powered by Pratt & Whitney Canada engines. The new jet […]
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