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After hinting at the release of a new LSA design named Astore a few weeks ago, Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam officially unveiled its most recent offering this week at the Aero Friedrichshafen show in Germany. And, as promised, the new design has a low wing. The only commonalities between the Astore and Tecnam’s other low-wing LSA […]

As the impact of sequester-related controller furloughs begins to put a chokehold on air travel around the country, the FAA is implementing a special traffic management program to deal with a “wide range of delays” that the agency said is hitting New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Las Vegas today. Automatic federal spending cuts forced […]

Commercial flights of the Boeing 787 could resume as early as next week after Boeing on Monday began installing reinforced lithium ion batteries on five grounded 787s operated by launch customer All Nippon Airways. Teams of Boeing engineers are working at four airports in Japan, including Tokyo’s Haneda and Narita hubs, where the Dreamliners have […]

Facing criticism over a controversial rule that would again permit passengers to bring small knives on commercial flights, the Transportation Security Administration now says it’s reconsidering. The TSA said in a statement on Monday it will seek additional input from a federal advisory committee that includes aviation interests, passenger advocates and law enforcement experts before […]

Randall Fishman brought his ElectraFlyer ULS motorglider to EAA AirVenture last summer and made a follow-up visit to Sun ‘n Fun in Lakeland, Florida, earlier this month. In the time between, he has logged some 30 hours of flight time on the airplane, and many of the performance numbers have more real-world backdrop. For example, […]

Parlez-vous francais? A duo of American aviation college students will get the chance to brush up on their French with a five-week internship at the Daher-Socata facility in Tarbes, France. All travel and expenses are covered by the scholarship, which is co-sponsored by EAA. Kalena Glover, a senior at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, […]

The first production-conforming version of the much-anticipated Cirrus Jet is slated to roll out by the end of this year, with flight testing to begin in 2014. Since the first Cirrus Jet prototype was unveiled in 2008, the program has completed more than 600 flight hours. Cirrus is currently building the newest prototype — the […]

The NTSB recently released its final report on the Super Corsair crash that killed Bob Odegaard last year, and while the findings leave many questions surrounding the accident unanswered, they do provide additional details into the revered air show performer’s final flight. Odegaard was performing a practice run at Barnes County Airport in Valley City, […]

FedEx has donated a retired Boeing 727-200 to the Sun ‘n Fun campus, which is used by the Central Florida Aerospace Academy and its partner Polk State College. Polk State College’s Aerospace Program Director Eric Crump, who is also a regular contributor to Flying, said the airplane will be parked permanently and mounted on stilts […]

SpaceShipTwo took one step further last week in its mission to carry paying passengers into space, completing a “cold flow” test in anticipation of its upcoming first powered flight. During the cold flow test, oxidizer was pulsed through the propulsion system and out the back of the vehicle, marking the sky with an eye-catching oxidizer […]