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(function(d, s, id) { if (d.getElementById(id)) return; var js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = ‘//cdn4.wibbitz.com/static.js’; d.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)[0].appendChild(js); }(document, ‘script’, ‘wibbitz-static-embed’)); Citing a need to recoup revenue and focus on business jet and commercial aircraft manufacturing, Montreal-based Bombardier has struck a deal to sell its amphibious water bomber manufacturing rights to Viking Air. The sale […]

The Flight Safety Foundation this week released a study investigating the application of space-based ADS-B networks that provide global coverage of near-real-time flight surveillance. In addition to identifying the safety benefits of ADS-B and challenges of implementation, the study assessed its role in addressing existing and future challenges in aviation. FSF determined that space-based ADS-B […]

Although Britain’s famed jet aerobatics team, the Red Arrows, will attend all three days of the Farnborough International Airshow next month, the Royal Air Force last week said the team will not perform its standard high-speed display. The RAF said the dynamic aerobatic display using the BAE Hawk T-1 is no longer appropriate due to […]

The FAA says the Terrafugia Transition can now be called a light sport aircraft despite the fact that its maximum weight is 370 pounds greater than the standard LSA 1,430-pound limit. Terrafugia petitioned the agency for the exemption to use the LSA label for a street-legal version of the aircraft back in 2014. Although the […]

Modernization is not always a good thing as residents near major airports around the country have found out. Recently, new flight paths that were implemented as part of the modernized NextGen system have caused a stir with residents in Maryland and other parts of the country as more efficient routes are being implemented. The complaints […]

(function(d, s, id) { if (d.getElementById(id)) return; var js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = ‘//cdn4.wibbitz.com/static.js’; d.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)[0].appendChild(js); }(document, ‘script’, ‘wibbitz-static-embed’)); Solar Impulse Si2 has completed the transatlantic 15th leg, the second most challenging of the all-solar-powered round-the-world flight, landing early this morning in Seville, Spain. Bertrand Piccard, the initiator of the ambitious project, completed […]

A few significant glimmers of hope for general aviation’s future appeared last week during the Aircraft Design and Testing session of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) panel on “Restoring the Foundation of Aviation.” Held June 16 in Washington, D.C., the panel hoped to add a few badly needed doses of reality to […]

Solar Impulse cofounder Bertrand Piccard took off early yesterday morning from New York following in the historic tracks of Charles Lindbergh over the Atlantic Ocean. If successful, Piccard’s transatlantic flight will go down in history as the first conducted without the use of any fuel. Piccard is at the controls of the all-solar-powered Si2. “Lindbergh’s […]

The FAA announced today it has finalized a set of rules for the routine commercial operation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) weighing less than 55 pounds, including a provision requiring the operator to obtain a “remote pilot certificate.” Under the new rule, drone pilots must be at least 16 years old and possess such a […]

Charles Bolden says now is the right time to take a serious look at a distributed electric aircraft that, if successful, will create advanced technologies to reduce fuel burn, emissions and aircraft noise. Bolden is administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA’s new X-57 project, nicknamed “Maxwell,” will be the agency’s first dedicated […]