Aviation News

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 […]

While the FAA has been lagging in its effort to implement safety rules governing drone operations, the DOT and FAA have now come together to create a registration process for unmanned aircraft systems. U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta announced yesterday that a new task force will develop recommendations for the […]

The Red Bull Air Race World Championship took place this weekend at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, concluding the 2015 season. Australian Matt Hall won the eighth and final race, but, despite major challenges, it was the runner up, Paul Bonhomme from Great Britain, who took home the accumulative win with 76 points for the […]

After an unfortunate mishap during its first flight, the Bugatti 100P replica race plane has returned to the skies. The plane sustained damage to both propellers after an off-runway excursion back in August during its first test flight. But with two new propellers from Rupert Wasey at Hercules Propellers, the 100P has achieved another milestone […]

This morning at the Flying Aviation Expo in Palm Springs, California, the Lightspeed Aviation Foundation announced the winners of the organization’s Pilot’s Choice Awards. Five aviation charities were awarded grants of anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000 to help them achieve their missions. The grand-prize winner for the second consecutive year was Pilots N Paws, an […]