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Uh oh, airline pilots. You’re probably in for tougher TSA checks after a JetBlue flight attendant allegedly tried to smuggle 68 pounds of cocaine through security at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday as she arrived to board a flight to New York. 31-year-old Marsha Reynolds was nabbed by TSA agents after being pulled aside […]

There is more conclusive evidence that the debris found on the coast of Mozambique earlier this month was likely from the missing Malaysian airliner MH370. During the past few days, the two items were analyzed by investigators from Australia and Malaysia who concluded that the debris is “highly likely” to have come from MH370, a […]

A new airship-like aircraft called Airlander 10, produced out of Great Britain by Hybrid Air Vehicles, is being readied for its first flight, which the company hopes to achieve this spring. The engines, fuel module, payload beam (added to carry external cargo), fins and what the company has termed the mission module — the cockpit […]

High-school science teacher Ross McCurdy is planning the first transcontinental flight using aviation biofuel in a certified light aircraft. McCurdy will launch from North Central Airport near Providence, Rhode Island, in a Cessna 182 around April 16 to fly 2,500 nautical miles to Santa Monica, California; he’ll depart from Santa Monica on Earth Day, April […]

Pilots of the FlyDubai Boeing 737 that crashed in Russia on Saturday after a second attempt to land in high winds were warned by controllers of wind shear moments before the jetliner descended rapidly and exploded in a fireball next to the runway. Both flight recorders have been recovered, and experts from the United Arab […]

The first Airbus jetliner produced in the United States has successfully completed its first test flight, launching a new era for the European conglomerate, which is proudly flaunting its “Made in the USA” milestone. The Airbus A321 took off from the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley in Mobile, Alabama, at 9:36 a.m. on Monday, performed its […]

As Piper prepares for the market introduction of the M600 single-engine turboprop, scheduled to receive its FAA certification stamp of approval in the third quarter, the Vero Beach, Florida, company is dropping the prices and adding features to its other M-class models to make them more attractive to buyers. The Pratt & Whitney PT6A-powered M500’s […]

A historic airplane has returned to the skies as Columbine II, a 1948 Lockheed C-121A Constellation that holds the claim to fame of being the very first airplane to be called Air Force One, took off yesterday from the Marana Regional Airport in Marana, Arizona, where it has been parked since 2003. After being available […]

Here’s yet another harrowing crosswind landing video of out Birmingham in the UK, but this one has a bit of a different ending. The video, posted on YouTube by flugsnug, is worth a watch because of the 1080p HD quality, which clearly shows the rudder and elevator deflections in minute detail as the Small Planet […]