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The Airport and Airway Trust Fund has missed out on between $1 billion and $2 billion in the past 10 years, according to estimates from a report released Monday. At the beginning of fiscal year 2006, Congress set the tax rates of both diesel fuel and jet fuel to $0.244 per gallon in order to […]

Lynx fans can rejoice, as three of its ADS-B systems are now compatible with ForeFlight Mobile. L-3’s Lynx NGT-9000, -2500 and -2000 series ADS-B systems can now connect wirelessly with the ForeFlight app, allowing users to overlay traffic, weather and GPS data on the app’s numerous charts and maps. The systems can connect via Wi-Fi, […]

High-speed takeoff aborts are an extremely serious, though seldom-practiced, maneuver, as are landings following unstable approaches, with both events tied to accidents and fatalities in a wide range of aircraft. The FAA believes its new Takeoff and Landing Performance Assessment (TALPA) initiative will help reduce the risk of runway overruns by delivering better runway condition […]

Nearly three-quarters of the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE) members who answered the organization’s survey at AirVenture 2016, voted in favor of allowing technically advanced aircraft (TAAs) to be substituted for the complex aircraft currently required to complete the practical portion of a commercial pilot or certified flight instructor check ride. Traditional complex […]

A quest to create the world’s only flightworthy Bugatti 100P replica ended in tragedy on Saturday when builder Scotty Wilson was killed in a crash of the airplane shortly after takeoff from Clinton Sherman Airport in Burns Flat, Oklahoma. Video of the takeoff showed the airplane struggling to gain altitude before it turned sharply left […]

Second quarter data released Friday by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) showed aircraft billing figures continuing their downward, across-the-board slide, a trend that began in 2014. Aircraft shipments in the first half of 2016 declined 4.5 percent to 970 units, while billings fell 11 percent from $10.4 billion to $9.3 billion. By comparison, the […]

The TriFan 600, the unusual looking VTOL tiltrotor designed with three rotating engines that was introduced about a year ago by Denver-based XTI, has recently taken a few major steps toward reality. This week, XTI announced it has selected Honeywell’s HTS900 engine to power its first manned prototype. The prototype will be two-thirds the size […]

A computer outage stranded tens of thousands of frustrated Delta passengers Monday as one of the world’s largest airlines was forced to cancel about 1,000 flights. And the airline is still reeling. Delta reportedly canceled another 250 flights this morning in addition to about 200 delays. “We are still operating in recovery mode,” Delta Air […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough will deliver a keynote address at the 2016 National Business Aviation Association Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (NBAA-BACE). The theme will be “Lessons in Leadership,” drawing examples from his most recent book, The Wright Brothers, a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. “As everyone knows, the Wright Brothers were visionaries, […]

While learning to fly can appear daunting at times, another challenge lying in wait for would-be aviators is learning to maintain a pilot logbook, a struggle that demands keeping a calculator and plenty of Wite-Out close by. Or at least it used to. Ready to become one of the solutions to the problem, Pilot Partner’s […]