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Space Adventures took a step closer to making its space tourism a reality this week when its partner, Armadillo Aerospace, conducted a successful rocket flight test out of Spaceport America in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company tested proprietary launch technologies using a reusable sub-orbital rocket called STIG A. “The flight successfully demonstrated many of the […]

Cessna has launched a safety initiative to educate owners of 100- and 200-series single-engine piston aircraft about new supplemental aircraft inspection procedures that will soon be added to Cessna service manuals. The supplemental inspections will cover more than 145,000 Cessna single-engine airplanes produced between 1946 and 1986. The inspections will be incorporated into the service […]

A Eurocopter AS350 operated by Sundance Helicopters crashed during a tour over Hoover Dam near Las Vegas on Wednesday evening at around 5 p.m., killing the pilot and four passengers, according to the National Park Service. The helicopter went down in mountainous terrain about 4.5 miles west of Southern Nevada Water Authority in the Lake […]

Anybody can submit an online petition to the White House on any topic they choose — and that’s just what somebody has done in the wake of FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt’s abrupt departure from the agency this week, in an attempt to build public support for an intriguing potential replacement: Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, known better […]

Randy Babbitt resigned late Tuesday as FAA Administrator two days after he was arrested in Fairfax, Virginia, for alleged drunk driving. Fairfax police said that the administrator was driving on the wrong side of the road. It is the policy of Fairfax police to release the names of public officials they arrest and to not […]

Fairfax, Virginia, police arrested FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt this weekend for drunk driving. Babbitt was allegedly under the influence of alcohol and driving on the wrong side of Old Lee Highway in Fairfax when he was pulled over. Babbitt was alone in the automobile, according to reports. The city does not release blood alcohol levels […]

A regular training flight was flipped upside down, literally, when the blast from a nearby jet engine overturned a Cessna 172 and its two occupants in the Canadian city of Kelowna over the weekend. The Cessna 172 and jet were taxiing at a perpendicular angle when the Cessna passed behind the jet, catching a back […]

Citing the “fragile global economic situation,” Hawker Beechcraft has decided to slow development of the Hawker 200 light business jet, known originally as the Beechcraft Premier II, until market conditions rebound. “As you are aware, our industry is facing one of the most challenging markets in its history,” noted Hawker Beechcraft chairman and CEO Bill […]

Nearly eight years after Mayor Richard M. Daley ordered the demolition of the runway at Meigs Field near downtown Chicago, very little has been done to implement the plans set forth for the manmade Northerly Island. What had been a flourishing airport since the late 1940s was to be redeveloped into a lush park and […]

In the wake of the tragic Reno crash earlier this year and the immense media attention surrounding it, the NTSB will take a closer look at air race and air show safety next month during a public hearing on the topic. During the hearing, regulators, industry groups, aviation organizations and airport authorities will field questions […]