Aviation News

Somalia’s Aden Adde International Airport was briefly closed on Tuesday because of an emergency landing. A Dornier 328JET chartered by the U.S.-based military contractor Bancroft was reportedly carrying western officials when it experienced landing gear failure upon approach to Mogadishu. As a result, the plane circled the airport to burn fuel, before making its successful […]

Soaring is quite unlike any other kind of flying. Plunk yourself down in an open field on a warm, sunny day, as I did last fall, and watch a hawk, wings outstretched, wingtips moving only slightly to adjust the flight path as they trace seemingly endless patterns across the sky in search of a meal. […]

JetBlue Flight 915, an Airbus A321-200, departed New York JFK headed to San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon, but was forced to make an emergency landing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after a laptop charger caught fire. The Airbus was cruising westbound near Flint, Michigan, at FL 340 when the incident occurred. The fire was not immediately […]

ForeFlight has added subscription plans to accommodate pilots of high-performance piston aircraft, turboprops and jets. The Performance Plus and Business Performance Plus subscription plans provide flight planning tools that quickly compute several route options with time, fuel, route and altitude data based on performance, payload and current weather conditions. Powered by ForeFlight’s AviationCloud technology, the […]

PAL-V, the Dutch company that plans to bring to market the world’s first production flying car, has christened its factory for the PAL-V Liberty in the Netherlands. The company hosted officials from the European Aviation Safety Agency, whose job it will be to certify the Liberty, which combines a three-wheel vehicle with a gyrocopter in […]

Registration for the EAA’s annual Women Soar You Soar program closes in two weeks. The program offers high-school-aged girls an opportunity to explore aviation career options, make discoveries and find new inspirations during AirVenture that this year begins in Oshkosh on July 24. The Women Soar program runs from July 23-26. EAA is committed to […]

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 […]