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If you’re going to be strolling the grounds of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh and you’ve ever had the itch to fly a drone, or maybe just learn a little more about them, then you’re in luck. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is bringing back the popular Drone Cage Obstacle and Speed Course for those wanted to test their […]

When Sen. John Thune (R-SD) suggested an amendment to the Airline Safety Enhancement Act, he thought creating a better qualifier for new airline pilots rather than “checking the box” because that aviator had reached 1,500 hours of logged flying time was a good idea. Critics, however, want Thune’s proposal to die a quick death, all […]

The FAA has awarded experimental certificate renewal to the Bell 525 Relentless, allowing Bell Helicopter to resume the flight test program after last year’s crash. “Bell Helicopter has worked with the NTSB and FAA since the accident and we are confident in the resumption of flight test activity,” said Bell’s president and CEO Mitch Snyder. […]

Developed in secret over a six-year period, the CubCrafters XCub emerged on the scene last June as a fully certified product ready for delivery to buyer’s who sought the ideal backcountry machine. Though it’s a clone of the Piper Super Cub introduced to the market decades ago, the XCub is a thoroughly modern aircraft, featuring […]

That grainy black-and-white photo purportedly showing Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan alive on an atoll in the Marshall Islands with Earhart’s Lockheed Electra being towed by a Japanese ship? Nope, not even close. It took Internet sleuths little time to discover the very same photo in a Japanese travelogue published a full two years […]

Sticking to the schedule set since the first test flight in November, the Stratos 714 will make its official public debut at AirVenture 2017 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin later this month. “Fresh out of the upholstery and paint shops,” the single-engine jet will be on display all week (July 24-30) at Boeing Plaza, following a press […]

To the casual restaurant patron, The Proud Bird’s Facebook post from June 6, 2016, probably came as a shock. Lacking a description or any real context, the photo showed the longtime LAX-area restaurant gutted and partially demolished, with a yellow construction excavator in the foreground, seemingly eager to tear down the rest of this aviation-rich […]

It happens even less frequently than leap year, but yesterday the FAA announced the opening of a hiring window to begin recruiting 1,400 new air traffic controllers for tower, Tracon and enroute center positions all around the United States. The window officially opens today, July 7, and will remain open only until next Friday, July […]

In development for 30 years, the HondaJet is a revolutionary airplane that challenges many of the assumptions of bizjet production. Featuring a natural-laminar flow wing and fuselage and Honda’s unusual over-the-wing engine mounting configuration, it is most advanced VLJ ever produced. Priced at $4.9 million, the all-composite HondaJet can cruise at 422 ktas at FL […]

Dassault Aviation’s Falcon 5X made its first flight Wednesday, opening the door to a limited number of preliminary flight tests before the commencement of the full fledged flight test campaign, scheduled for next year. Four years of delays due to power plant issues were overcome using a preliminary version of the Safran Silvercrest engines. The […]