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Paul Allen’s enormous aircraft project has taken a big step toward success. With six Pratt & Whitney engines of the same kind used on a Boeing 747 strapped to its massive fuselage, the engine tests for Vulcan Aerospace’s Stratolaunch is a critical step in the development process. This week, the engines were run for the […]

To many, Sebastian Thrun is known as the “Godfather of Self-Driving Cars,” but he thinks that is a little overstated. “That’s an exaggeration, there are so many people who deserve credit,” Thrun said at the beginning of his on-stage interview at last year’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference. Godfather or not, he also announced that his online […]

An FAA aviation rulemaking advisory committee thinks it could be time to update the experience required that decides when a certified flight instructor is eligible to train another pilot for the CFI rating. Currently, FAR Part 61.195 (h)(2)(iii) says only an instructor who has held the certificate for more than 24 months and has logged […]

On Saturday, September 23, organizations and pilots around the world will celebrate Girls in Aviation Day to promote “the passion, exploration, learning, and excitement of aviation and aerospace.” The timing is obviously perfect, as Miss Vermont Erica Connor stole the spotlight at Miss America by flying her own airplane to Atlantic City, and Shaesta Waiz […]

Most airplane shows want to offer people a chance to see aviation up close, especially the aircraft themselves. A secondary, though often unspoken goal, is to convince some of those visitors to seriously consider buying an airplane. At the recent Midwest LSA Expo in Mt. Vernon, IL, airport manager Chris Collins said the idea right […]

The theme for the 67th annual International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Germany, is “Future Now.” As such, there is a wide variety of concept automobiles on display this week, from the celebrated Mercedes-AMG Project ONE hypercar to the eyebrow-raising and oddly-named Thunder Power SUV. And in a class of its own is AeroMobil‘s flying car. […]

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As Hurricane Irma approached Florida, college campuses all over the state began shutting down in preparation for what was predicted to be the most powerful storm ever to strike the U.S. mainland. Embry-Riddle’s campus shut down on Tuesday, September 5, to offer students and faculty plenty of time to make their escape. But what to […]

It was a tense couple of months for Piper, but all 39 M600 single-engine turboprops that had been voluntarily grounded by the manufacturer in July have now returned to service after successfully passing wing-spar inspections, according to a report by Flight Global. The FAA issued an airworthiness directive last month after Piper discovered cracking in […]

Cara Mund made history on Monday, September 11, in Atlantic City, where she was the first woman representing North Dakota to ever be crowned Miss America. But she wasn’t necessarily the biggest star of this year’s scholarship pageant. Instead, a 22-year-old woman hailing from a small town 1,700 miles away from Mund’s hometown dominated the […]