Aviation News

When we look down at the wheels of airplanes, we generally see something round. Imagine the surprise when the gate personnel at London Heathrow Airport identified one of the 22 wheels on an Airbus A380 was essentially a perfect square. The A380 had just landed at Heathrow, and the British Airways flight had arrived after […]

The Solar Impulse Si2 is in the air again, this time on the 11th leg of its round-the-world flight. Bertrand Piccard lifted off in the all-solar-powered airplane from the Phoenix-Goodyear Airport (KGYR) at almost exactly 3 a.m. PST this morning after a slight delay due to an issue with the satellite communications system. The airplane, […]

Congress has passed legislation that allows members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II, commonly known as WASP, a space in Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington. The cemetery is reserved for those who have served in the U.S. armed forces. The women served a critical role during the war flying WWII aircraft […]

In an aviation first, an unmanned aircraft successfully tested a cloud-seeding payload in Hawthorne, Nevada, on April 29. The Savant aircraft, coined the Sandoval Silver State Seeder, reached an altitude of 400 feet and flew for about 18 minutes at Hawthorne Industrial Airport under the state’s FAA UAS test site designation. The Desert Research Institute […]

Some passengers with window seats aboard a Delta flight got more view than they bargained for over the weekend, when a loose engine cowling came off midflight, prompting an emergency landing. Flight 762 from Atlanta to Chicago was over Tennessee on Sunday afternoon when the airliner hit turbulence and the engine light came on, reports […]

Here is your chance to take a closer look at the Falcon 9 first-stage landing on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean last week. This video shows the impressive touchdown of the first-stage section of the rocket from three different angles, highlighting the accuracy of the spacecraft. Falcon 9’s mission was to fly to space […]

Debby Rihn-Harvey, one of the most successful aerobatic competitors of all time, completed her career as captain of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 last week. With an airplane mostly filled with her friends and family, Rihn-Harvey flew her last leg, SWA Flight 3060, on Thursday from the Valley International Airport (KHRL) in Harlingen, Texas, to […]

First-quarter aircraft shipments figures released by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association point to an industry still being buffeted by economic headwinds nearly eight years after the Great Recession of 2008. All fixed-wing aircraft segments posted declines compared with last year’s first quarter numbers, as reported GA airplane billings dropped 9.5 percent by value to $4 […]

The Project Advisory Committee (PAC) for the Port of Portland has voted for a master plan that aims to significantly shrink the Portland-Troutdale Airport (KTTD), located 10 miles east of the city of Portland, Oregon. The plan calls for the 5,400-foot by 150-foot runway to be cut down to 4,500 by 75 feet in 2020. […]

The Purdue Research Park Aerospace District in West Lafayette, Indiana, announced a partnership that will make the university a sales, maintenance and training center for Italy’s Tecnam, a maker of general aviation piston airplanes. “There is a tremendous challenge of pilot scarcity in U.S. aviation. One of our most important endeavors is to train and […]