Aviation News

A Schweizer SGS 2-33A sailplane came up a bit short of the intended runway on Sunday. The unidentified teenage pilot, a member of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets and an experienced glider pilot with a private pilot’s license, landed on the roof of a convenience store a half mile short of his intended runway at […]

The competition in the Unlimited Class at the National Championship Air Races taking place in Reno, Nevada, this week is off to an exciting start. On Tuesday, during the second day of qualifications for the Unlimited Class, part of the canopy on Strega, the airplane that won the class during the past few years at […]

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has filed a federal freedom of information request and is marshalling support in Congress as part of a broad effort to stop federal agents from detaining and searching general aviation airplanes flown by pilots who have done nothing wrong. AOPA has sent a letter to the U.S. Customs and […]

Recently departed AOPA president and CEO Craig Fuller is joining flight simulation/training company Redbird Flight Simulations’ board of directors, Redbird founder and chairman of the board Jerry Gregoire announced. Fuller’s addition to the board, Gregoire told Flying, would give Redbird the capability to give new focus and energy to expand its offerings from simulation and […]

The National Transportation Safety Board is holding a safety forum in Washington that is scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow. Expert panelists have been invited to discuss advances in safety culture research and ways to improve aviation safety culture. The forum panels, which are being streamed live online here, […]

A Cessna T-50 Bobcat, also known as the Bamboo Bomber, that went missing more than a week ago, on Labor Day, has been found in a cornfield in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. The wreckage was so badly burned that the investigators could not ascertain how many people were aboard the vintage twin-engine taildragger, but it is […]

A teenager was killed last week when a remote-controlled aircraft he was flying struck him in the head, officials say. Roman Pirozek, 19, was flying his RC helicopter, worth about $2,000, in Calvert Vaux Park in Brooklyn, New York, on Thursday afternoon when the accident occurred. Some witnesses say he was performing “aggressive” maneuvers with […]

The 50th anniversary National Championship Air Races officially kick off tomorrow at the Reno/Stead Airport outside Reno, Nevada. And there is much to get excited about at this year’s event. The most recent champion, Steve Hinton Jr., is no longer flying Strega, the airplane that he has won the Unlimited race category in during the […]

A student and instructor flying a Jabiru J170 LSA near Brisbane, Australia, got a rude surprise when the engine of the training airplane quit in flight. ABC News reported the flight was the first for student Josh Matica, who quickly surrendered the controls to his instructor, Doug Field. With only about 1,000 feet between the […]

In its second rocket-powered flight to date, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo flexed its muscle, going both faster and farther than it has ever before. After being carried to 46,000 feet by WhiteKnightTwo, SpaceShipTwo lit its rocket motor, which shot the spaceship to an altitude of 69,000 feet. The spaceship reached a speed of Mach 1.43 during […]