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For Yves Rossy, flying with nothing but a rigid carbon-fiber wing with four jet engines strapped to his back must not have been exciting enough. For his latest stunt, the Swiss pilot also known as Jetman flew alongside the French Air Force’s precision aerobatic team — and he brought along a couple of friends. Rossy, […]

Textron Aviation’s Cessna Citation Latitude will make its show debut at the Middle East and North Africa Business Aviation Association conference in Dubai this week, alongside the Cessna Grand Caravan EX and the Beechcraft King Air 350i turboprops. Textron’s top-selling midsize business jet, the Citation Latitude has amassed more than 12,000 fleet hours in just […]

In an era when technology has evolved as the solution to just about every problem the aviation industry confronts, it’s refreshing to hear a story in which a pilot’s hunch, a gut feeling, played a role in the safe operation of an airplane full of people. The story is worth reading because, although it all […]

An FAA review of helicopter incidents and accidents over the past five years has identified several accidents in which loss of control (LOC) was encountered immediately after liftoff while light on the skids/gear, or from other issues caused by missed checklist items. With those operational issues in mind, the agency recently issued a safety alert […]

Last week, the four-seat Stratos 714 jet took to the skies for the first time from the company’s headquarters at the Roberts Field Airport in Redmond, Oregon. The plan for the flight, which lasted only 10 minutes, was to evaluate the general stability and systems operation of the single-engine jet. Test pilot Dave Morss was […]

President-elect Donald Trump this week named Elaine Chao as his choice to head the Department of Transportation. “Secretary Chao’s extensive record of strong leadership and her expertise are invaluable assets in our mission to rebuild our infrastructure in a fiscally responsible manner,” Trump said in a statement. Throughout his campaign, Trump proposed to spend $1 […]

The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) says that, according to FAA data, fatal accidents in experimental amateur-built aircraft declined 17 percent for the 12-month period ending September 2016, compared to figures from a year earlier. The FAA specifically listed 33 accidents in the most recent period versus 40 during the prior year and 51 for the […]

uAvionix recently earned approval from the U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) under the new Electronic Conspicuity (EC) program for two new portable, low-power ADS-B transceivers providing both ADS-B In and Out capabilities. EC is an umbrella term for a range of technologies that, in their most basic form, transmit the position of the host aircraft […]

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Trio Avionics, a California maker of autopilots for the Experimental-Amateur-Built (EAB) aircraft market, says it’s working with the FAA and its project partner to develop an STC that would bring its non-TSO’d Pro Pilot autopilot to the Cessna 172 and 182. Other certified production models would follow after receipt of the initial STC, says Paul […]