Aviation News

The Stratos 714 VLJ has been more than ten years in the making, originating with a conversation between CEO Michael Lemaire and Chief Technology Officer Carsten Sundin. On Monday, their team proudly displayed the fruit of their labor at EAA AirVenture, as the 714 kicked off the morning’s activities at Boeing Plaza. With fresh paint […]

Yakima, Washington-based CubCrafters has pulled off what many would have thought would be an impossibility. The company has achieved certification for Garmin’s G3X glass panel, an EFIS designed for the experimental and LSA market, for installation in the Part 23-certified XCub, which was introduced last year with a basic avionics package. The G3X has been […]

Last week after Garmin announced its first retrofit autopilots, the GFC 500 and GFC 600, the aviation community cheered — and then wondered if more products from other manufacturers would quickly follow. Boy did they ever. This week at AirVenture, the autopilot party continues as sub-$20,000 systems from Genesys Aerosystems (formerly S-TEC), BendixKing, TruTrak and […]

Every pilot’s heard the tale, that the quality of their skills as an aviator hangs on just one aspect of every flight: the landing. Whether that’s true or not, judging an arrival as a good or nearly perfect in a small airplane has always been subjective, until now. CloudAhoy, the flight debriefing people, said last […]

Niv Stubenski, a 21-year-old Tel Aviv native, has been arrested after footage, appearing to show a drone’s perspective of planes on approach from roughly 300 feet away, was posted on YouTube and shared to Facebook. Stubenski was interrogated and then sent to house arrest for five days according to reports from Israel National News. The […]

Thousands of legacy airplanes flying today are several decades old but still maintained in terrific working condition. A growing number of owners have updated or are updating their panels with new glass. But so far there have not been a lot of choices for those who have their minds set on installing an autopilot. Garmin […]

In taking responsibility for the July 2015 midair collision between a U.S. Air Force F-16 and a Cessna 150 near Charleston SC (CHS), a government report said the FAA’s air traffic controllers were responsible for actions and omissions that led to the accident. Citing the see and avoid concept, the report said the pilots of […]

One year ago this week, the B-29 Superfortress endearingly known as Doc took flight for the first time in 60 years. Doc has since been cleared to fly around the country for a triumphant tour to show off the amazing restoration job completed by Doc’s Friends, and next week the glorious B-29 will attend its […]

While ADS-B now brings subscription free weather to any iPad with the purchase of a small portable box, there are big benefits to having SiriusXM’s SXAR1 – a portable satellite weather receiver that picks up SiriusXM weather data. In addition to the Metars, TAFs, winds aloft and composite radar images that ADS-B provides, the SXAR1 […]

Shane McMahon, the son of WWE chairman Vince McMahon and Linda McMahon, the administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, was the lone passenger on a chartered helicopter flight that made an emergency water landing approximately a half-mile off Gilgo Beach in New York on Wednesday. The professional wrestling executive and occasional performer was flying […]