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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 […]

Authorities in London are investigating a possible collision between an airliner and a drone last weekend. British Airways Flight BA727 was approaching Heathrow on Sunday afternoon when something the pilot believes to be a drone struck the front of the airplane. The Airbus A320 landed safely, with no significant damage to the airliner, but authorities […]

The night of April 14, an NCR corporate jet departed from the Meridian FBO at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport, marking the Corporate Angel Network’s 50,000th cancer patient flight since it was founded in 1981. Alongside NCR executives, 1-year-old cancer patient Baron Yerby and his parents, Caroline and Jonathan, flew home to Atlanta for free on […]

Cash prizes have been big motivators in aviation. The first flights across the Atlantic, the first man-powered flight, the first flight into space by a nongovernmental program — to name a few — were brought about, or at the very least hurried along, by the lure of a big payday. Not to say that honor […]

The following is excerpted from The Vanishing of Flight MH370 by Richard Quest, Berkley Publishing. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 — with 239 people aboard — departed from Kuala Lumpur during the late evening of March 7, 2014, bound for Beijing, China, and has never been seen since. Despite the largest aviation search in history, virtually […]