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Construction, or perhaps it should be called destruction efforts, aimed at reducing the usable length of Santa Monica airport’s 4,973-foot runway to 3,500 feet begin next Monday, October 9. Phase One work shuts down the airport during the overnight hours of 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. until just before Christmas. No work will be performed […]

Minnesota-based BRS Aerospace announced this week the establishment of a nationwide network of qualified centers that will handle the installation of whole aircraft parachutes on Cessna 172 and 182 aircraft. “The network of factory-approved installation centers are all equipped and qualified to install the BRS Aerospace whole aircraft parachute recovery systems in 172s and 182s […]

Last week, aerobatic flight champ Rob Holland tied the record for the number of U.S. National Aerobatic Championships won. Holland won for the seventh consecutive year, the same number as the legendary Leo Loudenslager. The Championships were held at the Whitman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where Leo Loudenslager won the World Championship in 1980. […]

Already on the scene as part of around-the-clock emergency relief and aid efforts in Puerto Rico, the FAA is now investigating an incident that has Isla Grande Airport closed today. At approximately 11 a.m. local time, a Cessna 182D crashed, resulting in “serious injuries” to the pilot and co-pilot, who were the only people in […]

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“I can’t think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars,” Elon Musk told the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, on Thursday. The SpaceX CEO and lead designer was the keynote speaker and presented the latest on his push for “Making Life Multiplanetary,” of which the ultimate goal […]

With slightly more than two days left before the FAA’s funding authority was set to expire, Congress approved a six-month extension, a stopgap measure that keeps the agency afloat until March 31, 2018. One significant stumbling block to the short-term extension before today seems to have been language attached to the bill that would have […]

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo sent three of the Department of Environmental Conservation’s drones and two operators to Puerto Rico to assist the New York Power Authority in restoring the island’s grid and carrying out other emergency response missions. Training at the FAA’s UAS test site at Griffiss International Airport in Rome, 14 DEC pilots […]

Dubai officials say they want theirs to become the world’s smartest city. A project certain to help reach that goal is developing a fleet of autonomous vehicles to handle a quarter of all passenger transport by 2030. Ignoring critics who scoffed at the claim earlier this year that the German-designed Volocopter, recently renamed the autonomous […]

While Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico continue to recover and rebuild following three historic hurricanes, firefighters are taking on a massive wildfire in California’s Santa Ana Mountains. A “tragic wind shift,” as one official put it, has been responsible for the destruction of approximately 2,000 acres and has threatened almost as many homes. Ill-prepared residents […]