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Dassault Aviation successfully completed the first flight of its new flagship model, the ultra-long-range Falcon 8X business jet, which the company recently rolled out of its Mérignac, France-based factory near Bordeaux. The 1 hour 45 minute flight took the trijet as high as FL 400 and to speeds as great as Mach 0.80. Test pilots […]

Taiwan’s TransAsia Airways has ordered its pilots to undergo additional training on engine failure emergencies in the aftermath of the fatal crash of one of the airline’s ATR 72-600 twin turboprops. Investigators say the flight data recorders from TransAsia Flight 235 indicate that the airplane lost power in the right engine just after takeoff from […]

In the age of the tablet, it’s just the sort of inflight emergency many pilots have contemplated dealing with. A pilot and his wife reportedly used their iPad to fly about 80 miles in their darkened cockpit and land safely, without landing gear, at Rapid City Regional Airport in South Dakota after a total electrical […]

Backcountry pilots can rejoice after an agreement was reached this week allowing general aviation airplanes on national forest lands. For more than a decade, the Recreational Aviation Foundation has been working with the United States Forest Service and policy makers in Washington, D.C., to preserve legal access to backcountry strips and to reopen airstrips that […]

Skydive instructor Forest Pullman and his tandem jumper had just made a clean exit from their jump plane at approximately 13,000 feet over Thailand when the unexpected happened: The plane turned and headed straight for them. The two escaped the near midair collision, but just barely. Check out the harrowing event in this video, captured […]

More than five decades after a DC-3 carrying a Chilean soccer team disappeared en route to Santiago a group of mountaineers has found a large portion of the wreckage. The top-division Green Cross soccer team had just completed a match in the southern Chilean city of Osorno in April 1961 when its members split up […]

As of next week, pilots taking the FAA knowledge exams for the private pilot certificate will no longer need to suffer through questions pertaining to outdated systems and procedures. A new question database, which is scheduled to become active on February 9, excludes questions that were deemed no longer pertinent. Questions regarding NDB, Radar Summary […]

Leesburg, Virginia, is about to become the first airport in the United States with a remotely operated control tower. This summer, the Leesburg Executive Airport (JYO) will begin a 90-day trial of a system that has been in operation in Sweden since last fall. The technology was developed by Swedish aerospace and defense giant Saab […]

Jeppesen announced today that it is adding new capabilities to its Mobile FliteDeck VFR app for the iPad. The upgrades are designed to help pilots with their route planning and decision making during the preflight and while in flight. The most prominent new feature of the Mobile FliteDeck VFR 2.0 version is the graphical weather […]

Quest Aircraft delivered 30 Kodiak turboprop singles last year, posting its strongest year since certifying the utility airplane in 2007. Last year also saw the Sandpoint, Idaho, start-up manufacturer achieve several milestones, including the certification of a new interior, new avionics, FAA approval for a TKS Tank installation in the Kodiak’s cargo pod, and an […]