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The Piper Super Cub is essentially a J-3 Cub airframe equipped with a few space-age refinements like flaps and an electrical system, and powered by a 150 hp Lycoming — in some cases a 160 or 180 — in place of the original’s 40 hp Continental. Piper produced nearly 3,000 of them, many of which […]

Former members of AirShares Elite, the Cirrus fractional ownership provider that ceased operations on December 1, are coming forward to tell their stories about the company’s sudden demise — except, they say, at this point there’s not much to tell. Stunned share owners told Flying they received terse email messages in mid November informing them […]

Dassault rolled out the first new** Falcon 8X** at its headquarters in Bordeaux-Merignac in the South of France on Wednesday before an audience of customers, operators, suppliers and government officials. Launched in May at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, the Falcon 8X is a larger stable mate of the fly-by-wire […]

Embry-Riddle will begin offering free webinars in 2015 covering a variety of aviation topics, ranging from UAV flying to how to ace a job interview. Each 50-minute webinar will include a lecture by an Embry-Riddle professor followed by a Q&A session. The webinar series, the university says, will give prospective students and the public an […]

In an effort to reduce the ever-increasing cost of flight training, Sporty’s has started a new program that brings the cost for flight training rentals down to $99 per hour. The airplanes that rent at this cost at Sporty’s Academy are a Cessna Skycatcher and a refurbished airplane that Sporty’s has branded 172LITE. The concept […]

A sleek looking single-place airplane named CEA-311 Anequim, the Portuguese word for great white shark, recently took flight in Divinópolis, Brazil. The airplane looks a lot like a racer but it was designed specifically to break speed records. Anequim was designed and built by professor Paulo Iscold and a team of students at the Federal […]

AirShares Elite, the fractional ownership company that operated a fleet of Cirrus piston singles in several U.S. cities, has shut its doors after 15 years in business. The company has pulled the plug on its website, turned off its Facebook page, and did not answer the phone or return messages left at its main number. […]

A debate is percolating online about the risks of flying jets single-pilot after the crash of an Embraer Phenom 100 in Maryland earlier this month that killed six, including three people on the ground. Former Flying editor Richard Collins weighed in on his website, arguing that the FAA shouldn’t approve any jet for single-pilot operations […]

Researchers at NASA have started flight testing new software that the agency says could make the National Airspace System far more efficient and reduce noise associated with airplanes near major airports. The software has been named Airborne Spacing for Terminal Arrival Routes, or ASTAR for short. The purpose of the software is to develop more […]

A Russian military airplane, identified as an intelligence airplane, came close to a Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) commercial passenger jet traveling from Denmark to Sweden on Friday, CNN and several other news outlets have reported. While the incident occurred in international airspace, reports claim that the Swedish Air Force Chief, Maj. Gen. Micael Byden, said the […]