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Cessna Announces University Partners for 2017 Top Hawk Program

Cessna Aircraft today announced its selections for the 2017 Top Hawk program, a partnership that provides each chosen university with a new Skyhawk 172 to use in flight training, recruiting efforts and promotional activities. This year’s Top Hawk university partners are Eastern Kentucky, Ohio State, Auburn, Southern Illinois Carbondale and Louisiana Tech. “These universities are […]

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Honeywell Develops Mind Control for Airplanes

Santosh Mathan, an engineer with Honeywell Aerospace, has developed what seems to delve into the realm of total science fiction — a system that allows a person to fly an airplane using only his or her thoughts. Wired‘s Jack Stewart had an opportunity to try the system in a King Air C90 and was visibly […]

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Amid Uproar, ‘Trump TFR’ Over New York City Shrinks

Almost from the moment it was clear that Donald Trump would be the 45th president of the United States, the FAA, in cooperation with the Secret Service, put into place a temporary flight restriction around Trump Tower, where the president-elect will live before moving into the White House in January. The trouble was the TFR, […]

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GAO Releases Timely Report on ATC Corporatization

In the wake of the recent Republican sweep of government in the United States, a change in the White House is expected to refocus energy on the topics that have been plaguing air traffic control in the nation for decades, such as an inconsistent funding stream and the snail’s pace of many capital improvement projects. […]

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Alaska Airlines Completes Commercial Flight Fueled by Wood Waste

Alaska Airlines this week flew a cross-country flight on a newly developed biofuel made from discarded tree limbs and wood scraps from forest projects in the Pacific Northwest. The company said Monday’s flight using the 20 percent biofuel blend emitted 70 percent less carbon dioxide than conventional petroleum jet fuel. The flight took a Boeing […]

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Garmin’s All-in-One ADS-B Transponder Approved for Helicopters

The FAA this week granted a supplemental type certificate (STC) for installation of Garmin’s GTX 345 ADS-B In/Out and the GTX 335 ADS-B Out transponders on more than 60 models of helicopter. The approval is expected to provide a simplified path to ADS-B certification for aircraft on the Part 27 approved model list (AML). Both […]

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Boom Supersonic Passenger Aircraft Emerges

There has been a lot of talk of supersonic airplanes of late, with Aerion developing a Mach 1.5 bizjet and NASA working on new technologies to make supersonic flight quieter. Now a new supersonic commercial passenger jet named Boom is emerging. The Denver-based team is targeting a top speed of Mach 2.2, Mach 0.2 faster […]

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NTSB Will Release ‘Most Wanted’ List Every Two Years

The NTSB this week released its 2017-18 “Most Wanted” list of transportation safety improvements, with general aviation issues chief among them. The Board also announced it will begin issuing the list every two years instead of annually, stating “the change allows more time for the transportation industry, safety advocates, regulatory agencies and individuals to effect […]

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FAA Releases Navigation Strategy for the National Airspace System

In recently released details for its Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) strategy for the airspace above the U.S., the FAA has provided insights into the how it will make necessary system changes, in addition to why. PBN defines the accuracy, availability and integrity of the satellite signals used to create the nation’s future navigation system by eliminating […]

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Video: Stunning Footage of B-29 Doc

Doc’s Friends continues to conduct flight tests to satisfy the FAA’s flight requirements to be able to bring the airplane on tour. The organization’s media relations and communications liaison Josh Wells said the airplane has flown more than 10 hours since it first took the skies in July after decades of restorative work. Wells said […]

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