Aviation News

At Redbird’s annual migration on Tuesday, Pete Bunce, president of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, gave an update on the FAA’s efforts to modernize the agency’s airplane certification paradigm. The idea is to make it easier for manufacturers to certify airplanes as appropriate to the airplane’s complexity instead of, in Bunce’s words, certifying them to […]

Aviation writer and former Flying editor Richard Bach, who was injured in the crash of his SeaRey amphibian in Washington in late August, continues his recovery in a Washington hospital from injuries sustained in the crash. His son, James Marcus Bach, reports on his Twitter feed that his father still has trouble speaking, though there […]

Apple’s App Store has just released Bendix/King’s new aviation navigator app, myWingMan. The app is very intuitive and has some interesting features that pilots will likely love. The app allows for up to one, two or three split screens to be displayed at one time, and by tapping one of the split-screens with two fingertips, […]

This week, Flying became the first publication to experience first hand the effect Tamarack Aerospace Group’s active winglets, which we reported on earlier this month, and control quadrant replacement have on the Cirrus during a flight out of Van Nuys, California, with Tamarack’s president Nick Guida. We were graced with a rare day in Southern […]

Jeppesen and partner Gael Ltd. of the UK have created an upgraded Apple iOS app for airlines that is designed to automatically track and report crew fatigue. Thanks to the collaboration, Jeppesen’s latest version of its CrewAlert fatigue risk management app is now able to submit crew fatigue reports directly into Gael’s Q-Pulse safety management […]

Former U.S. Senator George McGovern, the South Dakota native son and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, died on Sunday at the age of 90 following a long illness. In the wake of the anti-Vietnam war movement, McGovern made a name for himself as a staunch anti-war candidate. Despite strong national sentiment against the war, McGovern lost […]

As we reported in a Flying eNews flash yesterday, the EAA Board announced Monday that president and CEO Rod Hightower resigned effective immediately and that former Cessna president and CEO Jack Pelton had assumed the title of chairman of the board of EAA to lead the transition of the organization to new leadership. In its […]

The EAA Board has announced that president and CEO Rod Hightower has resigned effective immediately. In apparently related news, former Cessna president and CEO Jack Pelton has been named chairman of the EAA board of directors. EAA said that issues with Hightower’s family relocating from St. Louis to Oshkosh were behind the change. Pelton delivered […]

The aviation world is mourning the passing of FlightSafety founder and industry luminary Albert Lee Ueltschi, who died yesterday at the age of 95. For many years the personal pilot of Pan Am founder Juan Trippe, Ueltschi is best remembered as the father of modern business aviation training for his pioneering work creating FlightSafety International […]

Monte Mitchell, the former longtime president of the Aircraft Electronics Association and a legendary figure in the avionics industry, died on Oct. 16 in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. He was 83. Mitchell served as AEA president from 1977 to 1996 during a 40-year career in the avionics industry. After serving in the Korean War, Mitchell joined […]