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Who says the era of the Airbus A380’s use is waning when clever minds can still find unique uses for the aircraft, or at least creations that look an awful lot like an A380? A select group of gardeners in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates city that doubles as home base to Emirates Airlines, think […]

Lockheed Martin’s first LM-100J Super Hercules made its debut last week as employees walked the first model out of its production facility in Marietta, Georgia, marking a milestone in the aircraft’s production. The company has filed for an FAA civil type certificate, and this first LM-100J will undergo flight-testing as part of the process. Its […]

The Navy recently proved that rushing through aircraft maintenance work could result in expensive consequences. Imagine a mistake multiplied by 12, as the service did when six E-2C twin-turboprop Hawkeye early warning aircraft were put out of commission just a few days before they were expected to leave port. The Hawkeyes belong to Airborne Early […]

Helicopter safety statistics released this week by the FAA indicate that years’ worth of hard work by the agency and a number of industry groups to improve operational safety are paying off. The agency reported that the raw accident rate, as well as the fatal accident rate in helicopters, recorded a downturn for the third […]

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s 2016 Transportation Statistics Annual Report released last week presents a cornucopia of aviation industry data. The report’s introductory look at a hot topic, infrastructure, may surprise some readers. “The majority of airport runways (commercial service, reliever, and select general aviation) are in good condition; only 2 percent are considered poor.” […]

Bombardier is poised to receive a boost in funding for its C Series and Global 7000 jet programs. The Montreal-based jet maker announced this week it will receive roughly $282 million ($372.5 million in Canadian dollars) in interest-free loans over the next four years from the Canadian government. Bombardier, which saw production delays in its […]

In his first meeting with airline CEOs, President Donald Trump bemoaned the “regulatory morass” he says is responsible for stonewalling air traffic control modernization efforts and airport infrastructure improvements, but promised “big changes” in the way Washington deals with the air travel system in the United States. Noting that the country has spent trillions of […]

Honeywell is working on adding crowdsourced weather data to its Weather Information Service app. Honeywell says the new capability, called Connected Radar, will deliver the most complete view of weather along an aircraft’s route by aggregating weather data from radar systems onboard other aircraft in flight. Connected Radar could be particularly helpful to helicopter pilots […]

Most Americans could be forgiven for assuming commercial balloon pilots were held to the same medical standards as commercial airplane or helicopter pilots since all accept money for their work. Commercial balloon pilots, however, actually are held to only a minimal self-reporting of their fitness to fly, a fact that became apparent last summer after […]