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Drone proliferation doesn’t always mean worrying about collisions between UAVs, people and manned aircraft. Sometimes drone research has its own special silver lining. Like setting endurance records. Falls Church, Virginia-based Vanilla Aircraft’s VA001 set a world endurance record – nearly 56 continuous hours – on November 30, 2016. The record focused on combustion-powered unmanned aerial […]

It was a chaotic scene at Hollywood-Fort Lauderdale International Airport in Florida today after a gunman shot and killed five people in the baggage area and wounded at least eight others. Police said the gunmen, who had a military ID identifying him as Esteban Santiago, was apprehended on the scene in Terminal 2. A short […]

As the FAA prepares to publish its final rule ushering in long-awaited third-class medical reform, AOPA is reporting that the agency has approved an online aeromedical course developed by the AOPA Air Safety Institute and confirmed it meets requirements Congress outlined last summer. The Air Safety Institute will offer the course free to pilots, who […]

More than three decades after Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 impacted Mount Illimani in Bolivia, killing all 29 passengers on board, its flight data recorder has been found and turned over to the National Transportation Safety Board for investigation. NTSB investigator Bill English met mountain climbers Dan Futrell and Isaac Stoner at Norwood Memorial Airport […]

Update: High winds and rain at Vandenberg Air Force Base caused SpaceX to cancel Monday’s mission, according to Iridium. The launch is now scheduled for January 14 at 9:54 a.m. PST. After completing its investigation into the explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket in September, it appears SpaceX is ready to resume launches. The private […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved uAvionix Corp.’s Ping200S ADS-B-capable Mode S transponder. The tiny 50-gram unit, measuring just 59 by 57 by 17 mm, is ideal for drones, high-altitude balloons and nonpowered gliders, the manufacturer says. The Ping 200S also combines low-power drain with a powerful transmitter delivering the same safety and situational […]

Pilots operating aircraft into known icing conditions must always guard against an encounter with super-cooled large water droplets (SLD), blotches of water that exist in a liquid state until they strike something solid, such as an airframe, and turn to ice. SLDs were virtually unknown until they were blamed for the 1994 crash of an […]

Garmin just announced G1000 NXi, a faster, modernized successor avionics suite to the G1000 integrated flight deck that made its debut in 2004. The avionics maker’s receipt of an FAA supplemental type certificate (STC) clears the way to begin installing NXi systems in the King Air 200 next month, with approval for the King Air […]

Recovery teams are continuing the hunt for debris from a Cessna Citation CJ4 that went missing last Thursday night over Lake Erie, shortly after takeoff from Cleveland’s Burke Lakefront Airport (BKL). Only a single piece of luggage that washed ashore on Sunday afternoon has been positively linked to the lost aircraft. The Coast Guard, using […]

Cirrus today officially introduced the new generation of SR-series piston singles — known as G6 — that add a long list of capabilities and features to the 2017 model year airplanes, including the new Perspective+ avionics system that is based on Garmin’s just-launched G1000 NXi platform. Flying recently had the chance to experience the 2017 […]