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A 69-year-old man who had been giving rides at the Bloomsburg Fair in Pennsylvania was killed on Friday evening when he was struck by the helicopter’s rotor blade. The helicopter was being refueled around 7:30 p.m. when pilot Carl Enlow reportedly returned to speak with a replacement pilot. His hat blew off, and he was […]

If the George Zimmerman trial wasn’t enough to feed a media frenzy, a major airplane crash at one of the country’s busiest airports filled the remaining void. When I was contacted by a national TV network to validate a specific nuance of the 777 automation system, I actually considered that maybe this time the media […]

In March 2012 in southern Georgia, a hot-air balloon was sucked into a thunderstorm. Carried to 17,000 feet in an updraft, battered by 1-inch hail, its fabric envelope tore open and collapsed. Only four days later did searchers finally locate it in a forested area miles from the launch point. Large clumps of compacted hail […]

A Colorado sheriff’s officer recently ticketed a Blackhawk helicopter blocking one lane of a deserted road after the pilot landed in support of National Guard troops called in to rescue victims stranded by flooding. The Boulder Sheriff’s officer wrote the $150 ticket for the dubious offenses of “Parking in no parking zone” and “Parked facing […]

As Embraer is gearing up for the National Business Aviation Association’s annual convention in Las Vegas, which is coming up on October 22 through 24, the company has leaked a few tidbits of what showgoers can expect to see at the Embraer booth and at the static displays inside the convention center and at Henderson […]

If you’re headed to San Marcos, Texas, next month for the dollar-a-gallon gasoline, you might consider using some of the money you saved for a weekend-long pilot proficiency forum series and hour-long session in a Redbird motion simulator. The Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE) will be holding its first ever regional Pilot Proficiency […]

Here is your chance to get a good deal if you need some pilot supplies. Aircraft Spruce and Specialty Company is hosting its annual customer appreciation day on Saturday October 5 with booths from several major players. The open house will take place in three locations simultaneously: Corona, California; Peachtree City, Georgia; and Brantford, Ontario, […]

Just four years after picking up the fragments of the old Eclipse company, Eclipse Aerospace will have the first all-new model on display at the NBAA show in Las Vegas next month. The Eclipse 550 is based on the original 500 as modified by the new company’s “Total Eclipse” program. About 50 of the original […]

Faced with crippling losses of an estimated $995 million in the last quarter, Canadian-based BlackBerry has sold its Bombardier Global Express and shuttered its Waterloo, Ontario, flight department. The staff will be among 4,500 to be laid off, a cutback confirmed in a company statement issued last week. “In light of the company’s current business […]

They say very few aviation records are left to be broken, but here’s one that’s never been tried before, at least as far as we know. Wakeboarding world champion Bernhard Hinterberger recently became the first person ever to skim across the water while being towed by an airplane in flight. Hinterberger and his team accomplished […]