Organizers have released the jam-packed schedule for the upcoming Flying Aviation Expo, scheduled for this October 31-November 2 in Palm Springs, California, which is promising to offer something for every pilot. The show, co-hosted by Flying magazine and Lift Event Management, will feature dozens of panel discussions and educational sessions along with exhibits inside the […]
You’re probably aware that starting on August 1 all future airline pilots will have to complete a rigorous training program before being permitted to take the Airline Transport Pilot written test. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University says it’s the first training provider in the country to receive FAA approval for such a program, giving the school a […]
Accident investigators in Poland are reviewing the maintenance logbooks of a 1976 Piper Navajo in which 11 people were killed and one was seriously injured when the parachute jump plane crashed shortly after takeoff on Saturday. The pressurized PA-31P took off from an airfield in Czestochowa, Poland, with 11 jumpers and one pilot onboard. Weather […]
Aviation is still so young that a 100-year anniversary for any aviation entity is a rare thing indeed, but this year industry leader Honeywell is celebrating 100 years at making aviation better in every conceivable way. As those of you who have been around airplanes for a while (like me) know, today’s Honeywell is made […]
Two men have been arrested in New York after one of the drones they were flying allegedly came within 800 feet of a New York Police Department helicopter early Tuesday morning. The helicopter was flying at 2,000 feet near the George Washington Bridge at approximately 12:15 a.m. when one of the two drones piloted by […]
Wings of Hope pilot, T.J. Stewart, will never forget the day he made an unplanned stop during his regularly scheduled flying medical clinics serving 24 villages in rural Tanzania. Usually, this village was the day’s last stop, but he had changed course to give a woman who had just given birth at the hospital in […]
Precision navigation into Sydney, Australia, just got easier with the implementation of a version of Honeywell’s Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS). Honeywell and Airservices, a government entity in Australia, jointly developed what has been termed SmartPath, which allows for precision approaches and landings within one meter of the centerline at the Sydney Airport. SmartPath incorporates […]
A P-51 Mustang crashed shortly after takeoff from the Durango-La Plata County Airport in Colorado on July 4, killing the two pilots on board. The Mustang’s owner, John Earley, was reportedly receiving flight instruction from Michael Schlarb when the rare airplane went down just outside the airport perimeter fence. According to eyewitnesses, the 1944 P-51D […]
A Turkish F-16 landing at the Waddington Airshow in England sent spectators scurrying for cover as the fighter skimmed over the tops of heads during an extremely low approach. It was a repeat of a similar scene at RAF Waddington last summer, when a Eurofighter Typhoon flew within feet of the airport perimeter fence while […]
Several Boeing fuselages were thrown into the Clark Fork River in Montana when a train carrying a Boeing shipment from Wichita to Seattle derailed on Thursday. The components — which included six complete 737 fuselages, as well as parts for a 777 and 747 — were en route to Boeing’s Washington state headquarters for final […]
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