Aviation News

You may have been fortunate enough to see Fifi, the only B-29 that is still in flying condition, circling the skies at an airshow in the past few years. During Fifi‘s last show of the year in Midland, Texas, about a month ago, the number two engine failed. The B-29 Squadron of the Commemorative Air […]

Three longtime Civil Air Patrol members were killed on Tuesday after their Piper Cherokee Six crashed in a residential neighborhood shortly after taking off from Hawkins Field Airport (HKS) in Jackson, Mississippi. The CAP Mississippi Wing members killed in the crash included Col. John E. Tilton Jr., former member of the Civil Air Patrol’s board […]

The NTSB has once again included general aviation safety in its annual list of “most wanted safety improvements,” and in doing so the board lamented the fact that GA continues to have the highest accident rate within civil aviation including a fatality rate that has jumped by 25 percent in recent years. The NTSB investigates […]

Amateur video shot over the weekend captured the dramatic overrun of a Cessna CJ3 trying to land on Runway 35R at Sao Paulo-Congonhas Airport in Brazil. As shown in the footage, the Citation bounced upon reaching the end of the runway before coming to a crashing halt on the perimeter wall that encircles the airport. […]

Piper celebrated its 75th anniversary over the weekend with a fly-in that drew Piper airplanes from every era to the company’s headquarters in Vero Beach, Florida. Several hundred people came out to the event to pay tribute to the storied manufacturer, enjoy a factory tour, visit with aviation vendors and take in the sights and […]

Around 67 million years ago, during the Cretaceous era, an F-16-size species of dinosaur called Quetzalcoatlus flew through the skies above what is now Texas. In a study presented on Nov. 7 to the Geological Society of America, scientists demonstrated how they believe the largest flying creature in history was able to take off and […]

If you’re looking for some fun couch flying, Rockwell Collins has recently launched HGS Flight — an app for the Apple iPad that allows you to play with the company’s head-up guidance system (HGS) features. “This app is meant for anyone, including current or future pilots, aircraft owners, passengers and any aviation enthusiast who wants […]

Thanks to an agreement with the FAA signed last week, the NTSB now has access to data collected as part of the Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing Program (ASIAS). A joint effort of the FAA, airlines and pilots’ unions, the program has been in place since 2007. Its goal is to collect data on […]

GE Aviation’s H85 turbine engine has been selected to power the new Primus 150 single-engine business turboprop, launched this week by CAIGA at Airshow China 2012 in Zhuhai. This would be the first application for the 850-shaft-horsepower H85 turboprop engine, a derivative of GE’s H80, which recently entered service on the Thrush 510G agplane. GE […]

Machinists at the Bombardier Learjet factory in Wichita voted on Saturday to accept a new labor contract, ending the longest strike in the plant’s history a little more than a month after it started. The new labor deal includes an improved healthcare package, a 4 percent wage increase spread across five years and lump-sum payouts […]