Aviation News

An Icon A5 amphibian landed in the water near the Los Angeles area beach community Hermosa Beach on Monday, causing a major commotion in the area. Emergency crews were dispatched as the airplane was thought to have crashed in the water. But instead, two people emerged and climbed up on top of the wing of […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded an enormous contract to Northrop Grumman to replace its aging fleet of bombers. The contract covers the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) and early production for a new Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B), and could be worth as much as $77 billion in 2010 dollars. The Air Force’s current […]

The Canadian government has agreed to bail out Bombardier after the company posted a bigger than expected $4.9 billion loss in the third quarter due to writedowns to its CSeries and Learjet 85 aircraft programs. The Quebec government will take a 49 percent stake in the CSeries program while the Learjet 85 program has now […]

An Army surveillance blimp broke free from its ground mooring in Maryland on Wednesday, drifting for miles over central Pennsylvania as F-16s and Air National Guard helicopters tracked it. The runaway blimp finally landed by itself 160 miles away in Montour County, Pennsylvania, after reaching a maximum altitude of about 16,000 feet and floating for […]

It’s been decades since the B-29 named Doc, currently in restoration by Doc’s Friends in Wichita, Kansas, was brought back to life from the boneyard in the Mojave Desert. And with all the work and funding required to get the structure, systems and engines restored there may have been doubt as to whether the quest […]

In an initiative to increase its proportion of female pilots, easyJet, the low-cost UK airline, hopes to double its number of female entrant pilots in the next two years. Currently, 6 percent of easyJet’s new pilot intakes and 5 percent of the airline’s total 2,500 pilots are female — consistent with the small percentage of […]

Quicksilver Aircraft, which recently launched the LSA qualified Sport 2SE, is shutting down its production facility in Temecula, California. Quicksilver’s president Will Escutia told Flying sales have dropped 25 percent in the past year from a level he described as already being at a “breaking point.” The company has produced more than 15,000 ultralights and […]

A video is circulating the Web showing an Airbus A380 closely flying under a helicopter. The gigantic double-decker aircraft, capable of holding 853 people, appears to be flying within less than a few hundred feet of the helicopter. The Telegraph reports that the maneuver was performed as part of a promotional film for Emirates Airlines […]

An F/A-18C fighter jet based at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar outside San Diego crashed in a farm field near the Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, yesterday. The airplane was part of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232 and was on its way back to California from a mission in Bahrain, MCAS Miramar reported. The […]

Redge Greenberg, a pilot from Durango, Colorado, is one of the few people in the world ever to have built his own jet in his garage after completing the first customer-assembled SubSonex, serial number JSX0003. “I flew the SubSonex this morning, for about 35 minutes…all went well,” Redge wrote to inform kit manufacturer Sonex Aircraft […]