Aviation News

A handful of Wichita manufacturers are assessing the damage caused by severe storms that swept through the Great Plains region over the weekend. While no injuries have been attributed to the bad weather outbreak, Spirit AeroSystems, which builds fuselages for Boeing, sustained damage in multiple buildings after a tornado moved through its facilities on Saturday. […]

Burdened by an enormous debt load and continuing weakness in the business jet market, Hawker Beechcraft last Friday reported losses of $632.8 million in 2011, more than double what the company lost in 2010 and the latest sign that it is on a rapid path toward bankruptcy. Revenue at Hawker Beechcraft last year reached $2.44 […]

Jeppesen recently announced what the company calls “blended learning” — a complete training solution, offering students, instructors and flight schools flight training programs designed to work together to make the process of learning to fly more efficient. The solution combines courses that have been in existence for years with recently released offerings. Jeppesen offers its […]

The photograph is haunting, if you know when it was taken. Most of the upper part of the frame is filled with a bright yellow wing, banked fairly steeply to the right. The flap is down a notch; the aileron too is deflected slightly downward. The lower part of the picture contains a patch of […]

NASA’s Discovery shuttle took off from Kennedy Space Center aboard the back of a modified Boeing 747 on Tuesday for one final departure from Cape Canaveral as it heads for its resting place at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Close to 2,000 spectators coalesced near the runway to bid NASA’s oldest shuttle farewell […]

Air race lovers rejoiced after the Reno Air Racing Association (RARA) scheduled the annual National Championship Air Races this year in Reno, Nevada, Sept. 12-16. Tickets are already on sale, but time will tell what the event may look like. As a result of the accident investigation following the devastating crash of the Galloping Ghost […]

When Appareo, Sporty’s and ForeFlight launched Stratus, an all-new free-weather ADS-B receiver for the iPad at Sun ‘n Fun, we couldn’t wait to review it. As it turned out, we didn’t have long to wait. Yesterday, I flew Stratus with ForeFlight co-founder Tyson Weihs to evaluate the unit so we could answer the question we’ve […]

Seventy years after the Doolittle Raiders took off from the USS Hornet in B-25s for the first air strike of World War II on the Japanese mainland, the five remaining Doolittle Raiders are coming together to commemorate their historic mission and share their stories with the public. The reunion will take place April 17-20 at […]

A major restoration project is underway of one of the most famous B-17s, the Memphis Belle, at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. This Flying Fortress, which completed 25 missions over Europe before returning to the United States, was made famous by the […]

The ** crash of an F8F Bearcat** at Breckenridge, Texas, last week that claimed the life of well known air racer and airshow performer Howard Pardue came during an abortive aerobatic maneuver. According the NTSB’s preliminary report on the crash, Pardue was executing a low-level manuever that somehow went terribly wrong. A witness, a pilot […]