Aviation News

The last time I had the chance to step aboard Honeywell’s Boeing 757 flying test bed it was to take to the skies over Arizona for trials of the HTF7000 turbofan engine that would power the Embraer Legacy 450 business jet. This time, as I climbed the air stairs on the executive tarmac at New […]

While the White House and Republicans in Congress continue to push for the handover of air traffic control to a private nonprofit entity, Democrats on the House Transportation Committee have introduced their own measure to reform the agency that would focus on stabilizing FAA funding for ATC modernization projects without resorting to “corporatization.” The Aviation […]

Infrastructure investments at U.S. general aviation airports may become a lot more flexible thanks to a bipartisan bill introduced by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.). S.1320, the Forward Looking Investment in General Aviation, Hangars, and Tarmacs (Flight) Act of 2017, among other things, moves to reform Non-Primary Entitlement (NPE) funding, cut […]

The U.S. Air Force’s 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona said yesterday that F-35 training flights will remain grounded until further notice due to five separate incidents highlighting “irregularities” in the pilots’ oxygen supplies. The grounding was initially planned to be only short-term when it was first announced last Friday. The […]

Lufthansa Airlines is the latest company to take advantage of Cirrus Aircraft‘s SR series for its training program. This week, Cirrus announced that Lufthansa Aviation Training purchased 25 SR20s for its facility in Goodyear, Arizona, where pilots have trained for decades in the favorable desert weather. In addition to Lufthansa’s pilots, airlines like Swiss Air, […]

The newest update to Pilot Partner, the electronic pilot logbook, supports the FAA’s 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class medical requirements with its FAA Medical Wizard questionnaire offering visual currency indicators, alerts, relevant checklists and document storage. New regulations for BasicMed medical qualification, meanwhile, require pilots to keep their Aeromedical Course Certification and Medical Exam Checklist […]

Harrison Ford had the people of Boston buzzing earlier this month, when he was spotted visiting popular locations like the Freedom Trail and Fanueil Hall. He was in town as a guest of the Aero Club of New England, which honored the actor and pilot with its annual Godfrey L. Cabot Award for his work […]

Following a recent trend of FPV races being held at air shows like U.S. Sport and Aviation Show in Sebring, Sun ‘n Fun and even a rumored race coming up at Oshkosh, Multi GP seems to have saved the best for last. Following a 5-month Regional Qualifying and Final Series, 150 of the fastest FPV […]

Tom Cruise loves to do his own stunts. Even when his face isn’t on camera, the 54-year-old actor prefers to be in on the action because he wants everything to be completely authentic. This has always been the staple of Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise, as the actor gradually increased the number of stunts he performed […]

Garmin International Inc. announced last week it received approval that gives thousands of general aviation pilots a chance to replace their old directional gyro system or horizontal situation indicator with the company’s G5 electronic flight instrument. When linked together with the appropriate VHF communications and standard or GPS navigation units, “the G5 can be considered […]