Aviation News

The Navy Blue Angels and U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds are back. Their sequestration-driven hiatus from public performances is over, and the first performance will be a T-birds fly-over during the Tournament of Roses parade on New Year’s Day in Pasadena, California. The Blue Angels will perform 68 demonstrations in 34 locations in 2014; and the […]

A family of three was killed over the weekend in a Cessna 310 crash near Jacksonville, Florida. The preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report indicates that the crash occurred at 6:21 p.m. on Sunday while the twin was flying in night IMC on a missed approach out of the Jacksonville Executive Airport (KCRG). The airplane […]

London’s Daily Mail newspaper has reported that actor Brad Pitt, 49, has acquired a Supermarine Spitfire for £2 million ($3.3 million), and will learn to fly it at the Boultbee Flight Academy in Oxford, U.K. The paper offered no information on who the seller is, nor what model Spitfire Pitt has bought. The actor is […]

Textron, the parent company of Cessna, is moving fast on the development of its sexy straight-wing military twinjet, the Scorpion, which surprised the world with its emergence earlier this year. As evidenced by the following video, Scorpion test pilots have completed the first taxi tests and are getting close to taking the airplane to the […]

Scores of classic cars, boats and airplanes recently descended on Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, Florida, for the 19th annual Vintage Weekend, an event that celebrates immaculately preserved machines of past eras. The event drew countless rare conveyances in every category, making Ocean Reef an antique-lover’s paradise for the four-day long experience. Some of […]

American Airlines emerged from bankruptcy protection on Monday as it officially merged with US Airways to create the world’s biggest airline. Concluded after 10 turbulent months that included an antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Justice Department, the merger creates an airline even larger than the industry saw with the coming together of United and […]

As Russian investigators are working hard to piece together the cause behind last month’s tragic crash of a commercial 737 jet, which killed all 50 people on board, fingers are being pointed at the operations of the airline itself. Multiple reports by Russian news media including The Moscow Times claim that Rosaviatsia, Russia’s Federal Air […]

Aerobatic ace Sean Tucker and his son Eric have launched a program that gives kids the opportunity to learn to fly. Associated with Hartnell College in Salinas, California, NASA and Gannett Newspapers, the “Every Kid Can Fly” initiative is aimed at giving troubled kids a chance to turn their lives in the right direction — […]

In 1939, flamboyant California playboy George Whittell Jr. commissioned master boat builder John Hacker to create the Thunderbird, a huge luxury yacht that matched Whittell’s polished DC-2. Inspired by that design, Embraer Executive Jets has reversed the dynamic with its Skyacht One – a luxury version of the Lineage 1000E business jet that draws on […]

In what could be a more frequent sight in the era of government sequestration, on Sunday, November 24, EAA’s B-17 “Aluminum Overcast” performed a pre-game fly-over at Green Bay’s Lambeau Field before the NFL game between the hometown Packers and the Minnesota Vikings. Pilots Sean Elliott and George Daubner timed their approach to the closing […]