Aviation News

Google’s Sergey Brin isn’t the only billionaire taking up a lot of hangar space with an ambitious and massive aircraft construction project. For years, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has desired to make access to space more convenient and affordable, and from that the idea for Stratolaunch was born. On Wednesday, the world got its first […]

A 26-year-old man was arrested at Orlando International Airport on Tuesday night after a standoff with police in the rental car area. According to reports, Michael Wayne Pettigrew was carrying a “simulated gun” under his black jacket, and he asked a female Mears driver to call 911 “to bring the police,” and because he also […]

Owners of the recently certified Daher TBM 930 can now benefit from simulator training after Simcom achieved FAA approval for a high-fidelity flight training device (FTD) for the single-engine turboprop. While it is not a full level-D simulator, the Frasca FTD provides a highly realistic flight training environment and qualifies for insurance requirements. Daher provided […]

The University of Iowa’s Operator Performance Laboratory, an aircraft simulation and flight testing organization, wants to better understand the workload level a pilot can handle before they become truly overwhelmed. OPL director Tom Schnell noted that pilots today, both military and civilian, push a great many buttons in the cockpit, efforts that take their eyes […]

John Travolta is donating his iconic ex-Qantas Boeing 707 to an Australian aviation museum and hopes to be part of the crew to deliver the vintage airliner when it’s ready to make the journey from the United States. The Hollywood star acquired the 1964 jet when Australia’s national carrier retired it more than 30 years […]

AOPA’s Air Safety Institute has introduced a monthly podcast series named “There I Was…” The podcasts are aimed at educating pilots through discussions with a variety of pilots talking about unexpected scenarios and how they survived them. “There I Was…” is hosted by ASI’s executive director Richard McSpadden, a former commander/flight leader of the USAF […]

On Sunday afternoon, the “tiny and tempestuous” Bogoslof Volcano erupted for approximately 45 minutes, shooting ash as high as 35,000 feet into the air, according to reports. In response, the Alaska Volcano Observatory temporarily elevated the Aviation Color Code to red, the highest such alert. The code was eventually lowered to orange again, as ash […]

The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report of the May 15 crash of a Learjet 35A at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey looked at the strength of the surface winds during the final moments of the flight. At the time of the accident, winds were reported as 320 at 20 knots gusting to 30, a […]

TOMATO FLAMES? Are you kidding? I’m sitting with my friend and CFI Paul Sallach in the restaurant at the Inn at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California, nibbling on a turkey BLT while doing the ground portion of my flight review, what people used to call a biannual flight review. All is well thus far. […]

The White House budget released on Tuesday includes a plan to privatize the nation’s air traffic control system, a revelation that drew rebukes from two aviation industry associations. “With this budget, the president has made clear his administration’s plan to pursue a concept that has raised a host of concerns, not just among aviation stakeholders, […]