Aviation News

After decades of operating as a naval base, the Brunswick Executive Airport recently opened to the public and this weekend it celebrated its civilian opening with the first annual Brunswick International Fly-In. “We had about 300 airplanes fly in for the event, from powered parachutes to a Falcon 900 and everything in between,” said Executive […]

After several attempts at flight and 12 crash landings, the founder of Cessna Aircraft Company, Clyde Cessna, completed his first successful flight in June 1911, one hundred years ago, according to company archives. The 31-year-old Cessna had added an engine and propeller to a copy of the Blériot XI fuselage and was teaching himself to […]

Russian flag carrier Aeroflot has taken delivery of its first Sukhoi SuperJet 100, a modern fly-by-wire regional jet intended to compete head to head against hot-selling models from Bombardier and Embraer in the 75- to 95-seat category. Featuring PowerJet SaM146 engines capable of producing 17,000 pounds of thrust and an integrated avionics system developed by […]

Eclipse Aerospace’s upgraded Avio Integrated Flight Management System (IFMS) has sold out through March 2012, the company announced this week. With Avio IFMS, the new company has come a long way from the Eclipse 500‘s original avionics system. Specifically designed for the Eclipse very light jet by avionics supplier Innovative Solutions & Support, Avio IFMS […]

Bombardier’s Global Vision flight deck has earned Transport Canada certification, marking the first such approval for the Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion-based avionics system. The milestone clears a path for Bombardier business jets equipped Global Vision components to obtain certificates of airworthiness, said Bombardier vice president Stéphane Leblanc. “To date, we have completed over 600 […]

Some of aviation’s biggest names are banding together and taking legal action in an attempt to preserve flying privacy and reverse the elimination of the Block Aircraft Registration Request (BARR) program, a move recently announced by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).** ** BARR currently allows aviators to block the public dissemination of their flight information, […]

The Airbus A320 that Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger famously ditched in the Hudson River is finally making the remainder of its journey to Charlotte, NC, 2 ½ years after the airplane originally took off for the destination. This time around the US Airways jetliner, which has been housed in a New Jersey warehouse since it […]

Following its successful pilot training reform symposium held in Atlanta on May 4 and 5, the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE) has issued a list of 30 training recommendations that it says can improve general aviation safety while also increasing the number of new student pilot starts. The proposals focus on ways to […]

A new study presented to the FAA last week is adding fuel to the debate over the proposed expansion of broadband communications by a company called LightSquared, a plan that has drawn extensive concern from the aviation community about potential interference with GPS reception. The study, conducted by the non-profit RTCA, confirmed what many critics […]

__A search for the word hypoxia in NTSB accident reports for the past decade turns up just 15 occurrences. Of these, five do not involve our usual understanding of hypoxia as incapacitation due to protracted exposure to high altitude without supplemental oxygen; the references are, instead, to carbon monoxide poisoning from a leaky muffler, elderly […]