Aviation News

In aviation circles, the story of former Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Elaine Harmon’s remains being moved to Arlington National Cemetery last September was a big deal. It meant America’s memorial resting place for veterans was finally open to everyone who served, including the more than 20,000 women who flew as WASPs during World War […]

Lightspeed has introduced a new leather bag into its Adventure Flight Bag Collection, of which each bag is named for aviation authors. The DeLaurentis bag is named after aviation adventurer and author Robert DeLaurentis who recently released a book called Zen Pilot: Flight of Passion and the Journey Within. It is the smallest in the […]

The National Transportation Safety Board took a giant leap forward last week in effort to remind pilots of the limits to the see and avoid concept, the primary method of avoiding midair collisions. The Board released a series of animations created from the pilot’s view in the cockpit from three of the four aircraft involved […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]