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The National Business Aviation Association slammed Barack Obama’s remarks about corporate jets in last week’s presidential debate with Mitt Romney, saying the president mischaracterized the role business aviation plays in creating jobs and improving the economy. In an open letter to Obama, NBAA head Ed Bolen said the remarks show that the president is out […]

Embraer last week offered its first public glimpse of the Legacy 500 at its factory in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, ahead of the midsize business jet’s first flight, anticipated to occur later this month. Embraer was nearly finished building the first of four flight test airplanes early this year when software problems with the […]

A short video released by Israel shows what is described as an unidentified unmanned drone being destroyed, apparently by a jet fighter. The incident occurred on Saturday, Oct. 6, and was captured on ground-based video. The drone was detected as it flew along the Mediterranean coast, and then Israeli defense forces tracked it as it […]

Thousands tuned in online Tuesday morning as Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner prepared to attempt what would be a record-breaking freefall jump from a lofty altitude of 120,000 feet. Strong winds aloft, however, delayed the attempt, in which Baumgartner seeks to become the first person ever to break the sound barrier while in freefall. To complete […]

You’re flying a twin-engine jet transport. The engines are at full power. The wings are rocking, but the heading is steady. The pitch attitude is 15 degrees nose up, but the VSI says that you are descending at 10,000 fpm. The flight director needles command a nose-up pitch. What should you do? It’s hard, isn’t […]

The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) has announced the recipients of this year’s Wesley L. McDonald Elder Statesman of Aviation Awards. This year’s recipients include Keith Ferris, Dick Koenig, Christopher Kraft, Henry Ogrodzinski and Dr. Irving Statler. The group will be honored at the NAA Fall Awards Banquet on Tuesday, November 13, at the Crystal Gateway […]

The FAA recently dedicated a new 118-foot-high control tower at Pennsylvania’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport (KAVP). Funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, it replaces the 60-year-old, 52-foot facility. The new construction also includes a base building housing a new Terminal Radar Approach Control (tracon) serving aircraft within 57 miles of the airport and up […]

AOPA today launched a new initiative called the Center to Advance the Pilot Community, a program we brought to light a few weeks ago. Despite its name, this is not a new physical center but rather a new branch at the organization’s headquarters in Frederick, Maryland, that aims to halt the decline in the pilot […]

The search for a missing De Havilland DH84 Dragon 2 ended on Wednesday when a rescue helicopter spotted the wreckage of the rare 1934 biplane in the Sunshine Coast hinterland of Australia. Neither the 68-year-old pilot, Desmond Porter, nor the five passengers aboard the vintage airplane survived the crash. The search mission was triggered on […]

A team of crash investigators has completed a compelling documentary that will air this Sunday on the Discovery Channel. As part of the show “Curiosity Plane Crash,” the team deliberately crashed a Boeing 727 with a half-million dollars worth of anthropomorphic crash dummies, g-force sensors and 38 video cameras on the Sonoran Desert (which spans […]