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FAA Opens Short Window For ATC Hiring

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 […]

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Flying Innovation Award Nominee: HondaJet

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 […]

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Falcon 5X Completes Successful First Flight

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 […]

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Is a Winged Volvo in Our Future?

The Terrafugia flying car, created a decade ago by a handful of MIT grads, just made another huge leap toward becoming an actual product thanks to its new owner. The South China News reported that Geely, the company that also owns Volvo, agreed to acquire Terrafugia. Reports indicate Geely was particularly interested in the Terrafugia’s […]

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EPS Diesel Engine Nears Certification

The general aviation market is expected to soon have a high-powered diesel engine option for high performance airplanes as EPS is closing in on FAA certification for its Graflight V-8 engine. The company expects to have both a type certificate and a production certificate in hand by the end of the year. As first deliveries […]

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FAA Issuing Refunds For Drone Registration Fee

A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit regarding the small UAS registration program left a lot of people wondering about one thing: Where’s that $5 I spent on the registration going? All in all, the FAA collected somewhere in the neighborhood of $4 million through more than […]

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Flying Alien Skies

In the long and hallowed history of flight, engineers are writing a new chapter. It’s a chapter that involves skies more distant than the stratosphere of our own world. Space flight designers today are beginning to explore the possibilities of flight in the atmospheres of other worlds. Up, Up and Away Forays have already begun. […]

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New Details Emerge in Amelia Earhart Disappearance

This morning, NBC’s Today show released information from a documentary that will be aired on Sunday night on the History Channel revealing new evidence regarding the mysterious disappearance of famed pilot Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan during their attempt to fly around the world in July 1937. During the past 80 years, the […]

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Senate Amendment Could Alter 1,500-hour Pilot Rule

Third-ranking Senate Republican John Thune of South Dakota added a proposal to the recently-introduced FAA reauthorization bill hoping to amend the 1,500-hour requirement for airline pilot hiring. The rule, enacted in July 2013, requires Part 121 airline new hires to qualify for an ATP certificate before starting work. Thune says he believes what he calls […]

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Flying Innovation Award Nominee: Piper M600

Major enhancements inside and out make Piper’s M600 the most advanced iteration of the PA-46 ever. Four key changes to the previous Meridian turboprop elevate the new M600 to a worthy contender for Flying’s 2017 Innovation Award. First, Piper designed an all-new wing that offers improvements in payload and speed and can hold more fuel. […]

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