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John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth and a legendary figure in aviation, politics and the American space flight program, died today in Columbus, Ohio. He was 95. Glenn was one of America’s first and most celebrated astronauts and had a long career that included two space flights, 24 years as a […]

Shares of Boeing dropped nearly $2 on Tuesday after Donald Trump tweeted that its contract for two Air Force One jets should be canceled due to “out of control” costs. Trump later told reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower, “I think Boeing is doing a little bit of a number. We want Boeing to […]

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo is back in the air and once again making progress toward commercial space travel. Richard Branson’s spaceflight company test flew the new and improved suborbital vehicle over the Mojave Desert on Saturday. It was the first free flight since a 2014 fatal accident in a similar spacecraft. The VSS Unity flew solo […]

The 11-day 75th Commemoration of the attack on Pearl Harbor culminated yesterday on the 75th anniversary of the tragic event that was the catalyst to U.S. involvement in World War II. In a surprise attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii, more than 2,400 military service members and civilians […]

David Melcher, president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), began Tuesday’s annual media luncheon by alluding to the continuing social media “saga” created throughout 2016 by President-elect Donald Trump. Melcher was referencing a tweet posted just a few hours before the lunch, in which Trump called the cost of the two new Air […]

Leonardo DaVinci intensely studied birds more than 500 years ago trying to understand how they flew. Today, even after more than 100 years of the manned flight, a group of Stanford University graduate students studying the science of flight discovered we might not know quite as much about how birds generate lift as we once […]

The North American P-51 named Tuskegee Airmen returned to the skies on December 1 after a gear-up incident earlier this year that caused major damage to the airframe. Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron cofounder Doug Rozendaal took the controls for the first flight. “There were no issues with the test flight, and the aircraft […]

For Yves Rossy, flying with nothing but a rigid carbon-fiber wing with four jet engines strapped to his back must not have been exciting enough. For his latest stunt, the Swiss pilot also known as Jetman flew alongside the French Air Force’s precision aerobatic team — and he brought along a couple of friends. Rossy, […]

Textron Aviation’s Cessna Citation Latitude will make its show debut at the Middle East and North Africa Business Aviation Association conference in Dubai this week, alongside the Cessna Grand Caravan EX and the Beechcraft King Air 350i turboprops. Textron’s top-selling midsize business jet, the Citation Latitude has amassed more than 12,000 fleet hours in just […]

In an era when technology has evolved as the solution to just about every problem the aviation industry confronts, it’s refreshing to hear a story in which a pilot’s hunch, a gut feeling, played a role in the safe operation of an airplane full of people. The story is worth reading because, although it all […]