Aviation News

NASA says a new quiet supersonic passenger jet it has been designing alongside Lockheed Martin would create a soft “thump” heard on the ground rather than the bone-rattling sonic boom that led to the original U.S. prohibition on supersonic flight over land back in the early 1970s. NASA cleared a “significant milestone” last Friday with […]

Closely following the National Transportation Safety Board’s March release of an investigative report into deficiencies in the pilot weather reporting system, the Board yesterday published a three-page safety alert – SA 064 – designed to remind aviators of the identified weaknesses in the current Pirep system while encouraging them to help create better reports because […]

The departure of China Southern Flight 380 was delayed on Tuesday after an 80-year-old woman wanted a little reassurance that her flight would be safe. While reports of her accuracy vary, the woman allegedly threw nine coins at the engine of the Airbus A320 twin-jet and that led to airline personnel evacuating the entire plane […]

A new workhorse 10-seat single-engine turboprop is on the verge of hitting the market after India’s Mahindra Aerospace announced U.S. and Australian certification of the Airvan 10. With a price of around $1.7 million, the utility turboprop is well suited in parts of the world where avgas is hard or impossible to come by. It […]

Diamond Aircraft has delivered the first DA62 diesel twin with the new Garmin G1000 NXi avionics system to a U.S. customer. LifeStyle Aviation, a Diamond dealer on the East Coast, announced the delivery to North Carolina businessman Mike Case, who said he decided to move up from older general aviation airplanes he’s owned to the […]

Amazon has made the next leap toward a future reality in which drones drop recently-ordered goodies off in your yard, filing a patent for a “multi-level fulfillment center for unmanned aerial vehicles” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent filing emerged on June 22. “A multi-level (ML) fulfillment center is designed to accommodate […]

EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is just a few weeks away, with day and night airshows, special aviation-related events and vendors from far and wide. One of the largest hangar displays at the Wittman Regional Airport is Corona, California-based Aircraft Spruce and Specialty Company. While the company brings a sizable stock of supplies to the […]

While there’s been uptick in news about supersonic aircraft this year, FAR Part 91.817 is seldom mentioned. That regulation prohibits operation of a civil aircraft over the Continental United States or at a U.S. airport when the aircraft is capable of true airspeeds greater than Mach 1, the speed of sound. The regulation also represents […]

A pair of Douglas DC-3s operated by Catalina Flying Boats Air Freight Service have been a part of the Long Beach Airport landscape for nearly 30 years. Recently, the rumble of the twin radial engines that powered the venerable World War II-era transports, lovingly known as Gooney Birds, took off from LGB for the last […]

For the third time in two months, an aircraft powered by a Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engine was involved in a serious incident. The latest occurred on Sunday as an AirAsia X flight from Perth, Australia, to Kuala Lumpur was forced to turn back after a “technical issue” caused the Airbus A330-300 to shake “like a […]