Aviation News

A group of NASA satellites was successfully launched this morning in a rocket deployed from the belly of a modified airliner. The Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket carrying the satellites, which NASA will use to study hurricanes from space, was deployed over the Atlantic at about 39,000 feet from its carrier aircraft, the L-1011 Stargazer. […]

Veteran airline captain and aviation analyst Les Abend’s writing has appeared in the pages of Flying for 15 years. On March 7, he’ll debut his first novel, an aviation thriller titled Paper Wings. Paper Wings chronicles the investigation of a mysterious in-flight emergency resulting in passenger fatalities and the forced diversion of Patriot Airlines Flight […]

The FAA has issued an interim cease-and-desist order to stop the city of Santa Monica from evicting American Flyers and Atlantic Aviation, the two major FBOs at the Santa Monica Airport. The order does not protect the businesses for the long term as it is only “intended to maintain the status quo at SMO until […]

The FAA has given the green light for the integration of the Garmin GTX 345 full ADS-B solution with Aspen’s EFD1000 primary flight display and multifunction display. The integration allows for traffic targets and subscription-free weather data to be streamed to the screens, providing the ability for the pilot to display the critical data right […]

While most UAS operators were overjoyed at last August’s release of Part 107 governing drone use, the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) says there is work yet to be done to safely integrate these aircraft into the National Airspace System. In a critical audit on UAS operations released earlier this month, the […]

A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey crashed in shallow water Monday night approximately 6 miles from the coast of Okinawa, Japan. All five crewmembers aboard, members of the Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, were rescued, although the extent of their injuries is not yet clear, according to the Pentagon. This is the […]

President-elect Donald Trump is at it again. He took to Twitter on Monday morning to criticize the cost of the Defense Department’s most expensive weapons program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Trump called the cost of the F-35 program “out of control,” driving jet builder Lockheed Martin’s stock price down 4 percent by midday and […]

This isn’t your father’s flying club. In fact, if you’re part of the typical pilot age demographic, it’s more likely a place where your son or daughter — or maybe even grandchild — would fit right in. Millennial Wings, an organization for aviation enthusiasts around ages 18 to 29 with chapters in Florida and Georgia, […]

There’s nothing a huge bureaucracy dislikes more than being embarrassed in front of the public, yet this past week the FAA had to stand ready to take a few knocks after a couple of air traffic controllers in the Boise control tower appear to have been asleep when aircraft called. A story from the Sacramento […]

Imaginactive has come up with an updated hypersonic jet concept designed to make our world a lot smaller. Named Paradoxal, the aircraft would fly at the edge of space, allowing it to cut trips from Los Angeles to Sydney down to 3 hours, Imaginactive said. Today, that trip takes commercial airlines more than 14 hours […]