Aviation News

Hilton Software has introduced a nifty new aviation app feature that takes rubber banding to a whole new level. Named Traca, the feature allows the user to draw a flight path right on the screen. Rather than going from airport to airport or fix to fix, you can simply draw the intended track. The feature […]

Garmin has introduced a new aviator watch that has the potential to become the latest and greatest item for gadget hungry aviators. The D2 Bravo is a multifunction watch that blends the company’s expertise in aviation, sports and GPS services in a small but stylish package. Building upon the company’s D2 watch, which Garmin introduced […]

The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday began the formal process of regulating the emissions of U.S. aircraft, saying the airline industry is one of the biggest remaining contributors to global warming. The EPA issued what’s known as an “endangerment finding” under the Clean Air Act as a precursor to regulations to limit heat-trapping emissions from airplane […]

Almost 80 years after Amelia Earhart’s disappearance in 1937, we are getting what appears to be one final look at the famous aviator. The three-and-a-half minute film that was found is said to be shot by John Bresnik, the brother of Al Bresnik, Earhart’s personal photographer. It was discovered by John’s son and went unseen […]

One of the most historically significant airplanes in the world, That’s All, Brother — a C-47 that the led a mass formation during the D-Day invasion — was recently found in a boneyard in Wisconsin. Not knowing the significance of the airplane, a company in Wisconsin planned to convert it to a turboprop. But a […]

One of the strangest helicopters you have ever seen is going back into production. Following a 12-year hiatus, the Kaman K-MAX K-1200 heavy-lifter, first built in the 1990s, will again start emerging from the factory after the Connecticut-based manufacturer received an order for 10 helicopters from two operators. First type certified in 1994, the K-MAX […]

You may have been wondering what happened to the Liberty XL-2 — the two-seat carbon fiber airplane that became the first piston-powered model to be certified with a Fadec-equipped engine in 2004. After a few years of hibernation the type-design was picked up by Melbourne, Florida-based Discovery Aviation, which has just reopened the order book […]

Four students, one teacher and one chaperon from CHEF Homeschoolers of Cuba City, Wisconsin, are in Arlington, Washington, where they have started building a Glasair Sportsman. The students won the opportunity to experience Glasair’s Two Weeks to Taxi program through the GAMA/Build A Plane Aviation Design Challenge — a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) […]

With the weather turning nice in many parts of the country, the FAA and GA industry have partnered to launch the “Fly Safe” summer safety campaign, highlighting the dangers of aircraft loss of control and encouraging general aviation pilots to install and use angle-of-attack indicators. Loss of control, notes the FAA, is the number-one cause […]

Long time Reno Air Race pilot Thom Richard won the first round of the Air Race 1 World Cup this weekend, flying his Formula One airplane Hot Stuff around the course at the Monastir Habib Bourguba International Airport in Tunisia. Richard’s win didn’t come easy, however. Hot Stuff’s engine was overheating in the qualifying round, […]