Aviation News

In-flight connectivity provider Gogo successfully completed the initial phase of flight testing for its Gogo Biz 4G service ahead of the rollout of the faster air-to-ground network next year. During a four-hour flight-test sortie last week aboard the company’s Challenger 600 testbed, multiple 4G streaming video and streaming audio sessions were conducted simultaneously on a […]

Another historic airplane model has flown its final leg as the last flying Boeing 247 landed this week at King County International Airport/Boeing Field in Seattle, the same airport where it was built more than eight decades ago. The Boeing airplane will become a part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Flight. As […]

After years of battling the city of Santa Monica for a reasonable business environment at the Santa Monica Airport, several businesses have thrown in the towel and vacated the airport property. The biggest hit came on Tuesday as Justice Aviation, one of the biggest flight schools in southern California, settled with the city and will […]

NASA will begin developing a new series of X-planes with an emphasis on green aviation technology, the agency announced over the weekend. The New Aviation Horizons initiative, introduced in NASA’s 2017 budget, aims to accelerate the adoption of green technology in the aviation industry over the next 10 years by designing and flying the cutting-edge […]

The 2016 Red Bull Air Race continued this weekend in Spielberg, Austria, at the challenging Red Bull Ring racetrack, which presented additional challenges this year with snow, rain and high winds. With the margins of error of this fast-paced, twisting course being extremely narrow, mistakes are easily made. And they were. Last year’s Red Bull […]

At AERO Friedrichshafen, AVIC International subsidiary Continental Motors announced it is raising the TBR (time between replacement) of its CD-100 series engines to 2,100 hours, a significant milestone for aero diesel engine technology. According to Continental president Rhett Ross, this lifetime increase affects all CD-135 and CD-155 engines manufactured since December 1, 2015, incorporating revision […]

The Solar Impulse team has done it again. After being grounded since last August, the Si2 continued its round-the-world flight, completing the leg over the Pacific Ocean from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Mountain View, California. Flying met up with the team there and spoke with the Solar Impulse initiator and chairman Bertrand Piccard and cofounder and […]

Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, the Solar Impulse Si2 is flying without fuel. But thankfully, it’s no emergency. The all-solar-powered Si2 resumed its journey around the world this morning, taking off from Hawaii for a nearly three-day trip to Mountain View, California. This trip marks the ninth leg of the plane’s flight, which began last […]

The Senate overwhelmingly passed a long-term FAA reauthorization bill on Tuesday, sending the measure to the House, where similar legislation has stalled over a plan to privatize ATC. Lawmakers approved by a vote of 95-3 an amended measure that would fund the FAA through fiscal year 2017. The Senate bill includes a number of provisions […]

The FAA has approved a new bio-based jet fuel for aviation use, produced from ethanol derived from renewable feed stocks. Known as alcohol to jet synthetic paraffinic kerosene (ATJ-SPK), the new fuel was approved with support from technical standards organization ASTM International as an environmentally friendly alternative to petroleum-based jet fuel. This is the fifth […]