Aviation News

This isn’t your father’s flying club. In fact, if you’re part of the typical pilot age demographic, it’s more likely a place where your son or daughter — or maybe even grandchild — would fit right in. Millennial Wings, an organization for aviation enthusiasts around ages 18 to 29 with chapters in Florida and Georgia, […]

There’s nothing a huge bureaucracy dislikes more than being embarrassed in front of the public, yet this past week the FAA had to stand ready to take a few knocks after a couple of air traffic controllers in the Boise control tower appear to have been asleep when aircraft called. A story from the Sacramento […]

Imaginactive has come up with an updated hypersonic jet concept designed to make our world a lot smaller. Named Paradoxal, the aircraft would fly at the edge of space, allowing it to cut trips from Los Angeles to Sydney down to 3 hours, Imaginactive said. Today, that trip takes commercial airlines more than 14 hours […]

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 […]