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Solar Impulse 2 set a distance record for solar-powered aircraft after flying almost 800 nautical miles from Oman to India on the first leg of its around-the-world journey. Si2 landed yesterday in Ahmedabad, India, with Solar Impulse project chairman and pilot Bertrand Piccard at the controls. It was the longest point-to-point distance ever flown by […]

Three French sports stars were among 10 people killed on Monday when two helicopters collided in northwest Argentina during filming for a reality TV show. The sports stars, all well-known in their home country, included Florence Arthaud, who in 1990 set a record for sailing across the Atlantic alone; champion swimmer Camille Muffat, who won […]

Harrison Ford is expected to remain in the hospital for at least another week after reportedly suffering a broken pelvis, broken ankle and gashes on his face following last Thursday’s forced landing of the Ryan PT-22 he was piloting onto a golf course near Santa Monica Airport in southern California. According to an ATC audio […]

Aircraft manufacturers and pilots alike are strengthening their call for a ban on large lithium battery shipments, according to a paper acquired by The Associated Press. The document mentions that recent FAA tests have illustrated the fire danger posed by bulk lithium battery shipments, which can at times include up to tens of thousands of […]

Honeywell is partnering with OneWeb, a startup satellite company founded by a group of former Google execs and backed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Qualcomm, to bring broadband Internet service to aircraft anywhere in the world — and maybe even the airplane you fly. Planned to make its commercial debut about four years from […]

Exactly one year after Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappeared with 239 people aboard, sparking worldwide speculation about what happened to the Boeing 777, Malaysian investigators have released their first comprehensive report on the flight. The 585-page report provides little new insight into the circumstances behind the disappearance but offers extensive details depicting the mass confusion and […]

Abingdon Co. officially unveiled its latest women’s watch, Katherine, last week at the Women in Aviation Conference in Dallas, Texas. The new watch has a patent-pending feature that is sure to delight women pilots and is likely to intrigue some male pilots, too. The company’s founder, Chelsea “Abingdon” Welch, said that with all the new […]

The second all-solar-powered version from the Swiss company Solar Impulse, Si2, took off early Monday morning from Abu Dhabi on its historic flight around the world. The team hopes that the Si2 will be able to circumnavigate the globe using nothing but solar power. André Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard, the cofounders of Solar Impulse who […]

Harrison Ford made a successful emergency landing this afternoon at the Penmar Golf Course just off the departure end of Santa Monica Airport’s Runway 21. Ford was flying his Ryan PT-22 and from the crash footage it appears that he did a terrific job of making the forced landing as safely as he could, targeting […]

With the Helicopter Association International’s annual conference underway this week in Orlando, Florida, Garmin took the opportunity to announce the addition of helicopter charts to its Garmin Pilot aviation app for iOS platforms. The app now includes helicopter route charts for the Gulf of Mexico and in eight U.S. metropolitan areas: Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort […]