Aviation News

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association has published the shipment report for the first quarter of 2015 and the numbers are not looking good. The shipments included 678 airplanes and rotorcraft for a total value of $5.3 billion. That may not sound bad, but the numbers represent declines in total billings of 12.6 percent for airplanes […]

Airbus is signaling its strong commitment to its flagship military transport plane after the crash of a new A400M in Spain on Sunday that killed four and injured two on a test flight. The brand new four-engine turboprop had just departed on its first shakedown flight after rolling out of the Airbus factory in Seville. […]

Engineers at General Electric have created a tiny jet engine using 3-D printing techniques that they say could rewrite the rules for how components inside commercial turbine engines are produced. The mini jet engine project was completed at GE Aviation’s Additive Development Center outside Cincinnati. The lab focuses on developing additive manufacturing techniques that can […]

Italian light airplane maker Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam is exploring a new two-seat jet design named the P JET. The sleek initial design has a side-by-side seating arrangement, tip tanks, and a twin tail. The airplane would be powered by a single jet engine mounted inside a pod on top of the fuselage — a configuration […]

The AeroMobil 3.0 prototype developed in Slovakia crashed on a test flight on Friday. The pilot and inventor of the flying car, Štefan Klein, suffered minor injuries as a result of the crash and was able to exit the cabin by his own strength, according to the _Prague Post. _ The vehicle reportedly entered a […]

Swiss airplane maker Pilatus has achieved a significant milestone in its PC-24 Super Versatile Jet program, taking the twinjet to the skies for its first flight on Monday morning at the Buochs Airport in Stans, Switzerland. During the flight, second in command Reto Aeschlimann reported: “Everything looks great so far! Beautiful handling — the PC-24 […]

Three men riding in a boat during a fishing competition in Argentina came within just a few feet of the landing gear of an airplane flying overhead during a startling stunt caught on video by one of the boaters. Though it’s hard to see in the shaky video, the aerobatic airplane is a Rans S-9, […]

In an effort to make drone operators more aware of where they can and cannot take their flying machines, the FAA is in the process of releasing an iOS app called B4UFLY. The app will tell its users whether there are any restrictions or requirements pertaining to UAS flights in the area of intended flight. […]

NASA engineers successfully tested the Greased Lightning GL-10, a battery-powered, 10-rotor remotely piloted aircraft that can take off and land like a helicopter and then transition to conventional flight in mid air. The craft was a little unsteady as it whirred to life and lifted off the ground, but it managed to rise into a […]

If you can’t make it to Washington, D.C., for tomorrow’s Arsenal of Democracy warbird mega flyover, you can still catch all the action live through an exclusive webcast. The day’s events will be broadcast on USVets.TV starting at 10:30 a.m. ET and continuing until well after the flight of more than 50 World War II […]