Women in Aviation International (WAI), an organization dedicated to the encouragement and advancement of women in all aviation career fields and interests, just announced its 2017 inductees to the International Pioneer Hall of Fame. Inductees include the U.S. Navy’s first class of eight women aviators, who entered training in January 1973. Six women in that […]
The FAA issued its final version of an updated Part 23 that overhauls the airworthiness standards for general aviation airplanes weighing less than 19,000 pounds with 19 or fewer seats. The agency, as well as the industry, hopes the new rule reduces the time needed to economically move safety-enhancing technologies for small airplanes into the […]
The FAA plans to update aviation’s general flight rules section — Part 91.176 — with new performance-based guidelines aimed at improving flexibility for operators of aircraft equipped with an Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS). The rule, effective March 13, 2017, will allow aircraft on an IFR flight plan in most categories to fly a straight-in […]
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 […]
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