As the FAA struggles to meet key NextGen goals, some House Republicans are pushing to privatize parts of the nation’s ATC system as a way to rein in costs and boost efficiency. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) said private enterprise can do a better job than the FAA of handling the […]
Earlier this month Pakistani military leaders released statements commending engineers for developing an “indigenous” drone that’s strikingly reminiscent of the popular Long-EZ homebuilt designed by Burt Rutan in the 1970s. Officials say the UAV, called the Burraq, fired a laser-guided missile during testing a few weeks ago, constituting a first for the Middle Eastern country. […]
The president of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) has responded directly to a claim by the Regional Airline Association (RAA) that a severe pilot shortage is brewing, saying there is no lack of qualified pilots in America — but there is a “pay shortage” at regionals that could lead to a pilot shortage in […]
Just Aircraft has introduced a stretched version of the light-sport SuperSTOL that adds an extra two feet to the taildragger’s aft section and an extra six inches up front. The changes allow the SuperSTOL Stretch XL to accommodate bigger engines, such as the UL Power 520 series and Lycoming O-320 engine putting out 160 hp. […]
Many questions still remain about Tuesday’s horrifying crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 into the French Alps, but the lead prosecutor handling the investigation said today new information suggests the A320’s copilot locked the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately initiated the fateful descent. Still unclear, however, is what specific information investigators have uncovered to […]
Are you intimidated by crosswinds? Do you want to learn more about how to master them without having to pay an instructor? While we always advocate learning with the safety of an instructor in the right seat, you now have an opportunity to get some free tips and gain a better understanding of crosswind landing […]
Imagine scrambling across the ceiling of your Airbus A330’s cockpit during a terrifying negative-G dive to reach your pilot seat and avert disaster in the nick of time. That’s just what happened after the captain of a UK military transport plane nearly caused a crash when his personal digital SLR camera became wedged between the […]
NASA has selected Tecnam’s P2006T, more commonly referred to as the Tecnam Twin, as the base platform for a new all-electric program named the Leading Edge Asynchronous Propeller Technology project, or LEAPTech for short. Within a few years, NASA hopes to fly a prototype of the airplane modified with a 31-foot wing equipped with 18 […]
Officials from Daher, maker of the TBM 900 single-engine turboprop, cut the ribbon on a new 32,000-square-foot U.S. headquarters in Pompano Beach, Florida, at an event that attracted more than 300 attendees and 30 customer airplanes. The new facility includes two hurricane-proof, temperature-controlled hangars, one of which is equipped with a three-ton overhead crane, that […]
It looks like Fifi, the only known B-29 to maintain airworthy status, will soon have some welcome company in the skies. After several decades, the efforts to bring the B-29 bomber named Doc from its dormancy in the Mojave Desert to back into the skies has taken one giant step in the right direction. Doc’s […]
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