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NASA handed over a check for $1.35 million, the largest prize in NASA’s history, to Pipistrel-USA.com‘s team leader Jack Langelaan in a ceremony at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, on Monday, Oct. 3. The team’s four-seat Taurus G4 won the CAFE (Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency) Green Flight Challenge, a NASA Centennial Challenge […]

In the aftermath of recent crashes involving public aircraft, the NTSB is holding a two-day forum to address oversight issues that that it says could compromise safety during search-and-rescue, firefighting, law enforcement and other critical operations that frequently rely on public-use aircraft. A number of recent accidents have thrust this issue into the spotlight, such […]

The downcast economies of North America and Europe are continuing to weigh on the general aviation piston and turboprop markets, which now aren’t anticipated to bounce back to pre-recession production levels for several years or perhaps an entire decade, according to a new industry forecast released this week. The GA industry’s presumed savior – namely […]

(September 2011) It was the Friday before Christmas, and the pilot-owner of a Piper Saratoga was eager to get home for a party. At 2:30 in the afternoon he called Flight Service to brief a flight from College Park, Maryland, to Akron-Canton Airport (CAK) in Ohio, 240 nm distant. He said he hoped to take […]

A handful of green aircraft are battling it out in Santa Rosa, California, this week for the title of the most efficient small aircraft in the world, along with a prize purse from NASA of $1.65 million. The competition, known as NASA’s Green Flight Centennial Challenge, kicked off earlier this week, featuring a select few […]

Airguide Publications has partnered with Zaon Flight Systems to add a traffic alert feature as part of its recently released Flight Guide iEFB v4.1. By attaching Zaon’s PCAS XRX unit to the Flight Guide Fly-Wi GPS unit, you can get TCAS-like traffic alerts overlaid on the moving map display. The Zaon unit interrogates an area […]

General aviation and airline trade groups are banding together to fight the Obama Administration’s plan to raise fees on airline passengers and business aircraft operators as part of the White House’s sweeping reforms to cut the country’s ballooning debt. The Air Transport Association says security is a national-defense function and that their members already pay […]

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) and Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) will take their case to the U.S. Court of Appeals on Dec. 2 as the groups seek to overturn restrictions the Department of Transportation imposed on the Block Aircraft Registration Request (BARR) program. NBAA and the FAA in 1997 devised the BARR […]

Piper Aircraft will be recruiting in Wichita next week as the company looks to fill a variety of positions at Piper headquarters in Vero Beach, Florida. The recruitment effort comes after the company recently announced a surge in billings and deliveries during the first half of 2011. During those six months, Piper put more than […]

Federal officials say the public was never in danger in a Massachusetts man’s alleged plot to blow up the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol using remote-controlled model airplanes filled with explosives, but that the intent was very real. The explosives delivered to Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen of South Asian background, were always closely monitored […]