Aviation News

While the cause of the carbon buildup in the engines that power the Eclipse 500 twinjet has yet to be discovered, a fix has been found, Eclipse Aerospace president of service Ken Ross told Flying. The jets have been restricted to 30,000 feet by the FAA because of six reported engine surges related to carbon […]

Lightspeed Aviation announced a new, next-generation version of its Zulu headset with several patent pending innovations. Lightspeed claims the Zulu’s new Microport Vent technology provides greater ANR consistency and an improvement in ANR by two to 12 decibels in the low frequency range, Lightcomfort design reduces the clamping force by 15 percent, and Dual Aperture […]

Cirrus chairman and co-founder Dale Klapmeier this week sought to put an end to talk of a possible counter bid to a buyout deal from a Chinese aviation company. “There is no counter offer,” Klapmeier said at Sun ‘n Fun on Wednesday when asked about the news that a group of private U.S. investors led […]

Fresh on the heels of its tour de force announcement at the Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) show in Reno last week of the GTN 750 and GTN 650 panel-mount touch-screen navigators, Garmin released details at the show of its G2000 flat-panel touch-controlled avionics suite. The package will be installed at the factory in new airplanes. […]

(March 2010) — The girlfriend of a student pilot, eager to see how his flying skills were coming along — he had recently soloed — arranged to accompany him and his instructor on a flight. They took off in a 172 on a beautiful June evening. She was sitting behind her boyfriend, who was in […]

A skeleton crew manned Diamond Aircraft’s exhibit at Sun ‘n Fun after the company on Monday announced the layoffs of 213 workers involved in the D-Jet program. The company has been awaiting word on a $35 million loan from the Canadian government that it says it needs to finish development of the D-Jet, a single […]

Tens of thousands of pilots who have already adopted the Apple iPad as their aviation helper of choice are happier today with the announcement by Baron Services that it will sell an XM weather receiver for the iPad (and other devices). The $199.99 receiver will be available soon. Pilots will need, it goes without saying, […]

A movement to close the Santa Monica airport in 2015 is now being fought by a new organization called Friends of Santa Monica Airport (FOSMO). Aiming to attract the general public to the airport, FOSMO organized an event at the Justice Aviation hangar last week featuring Tony Bill, director of the movie “Flyboys.” In addition […]

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. If you really can’t beat them, find a friend who can at least help you score a few body blows. That appears to be the belated strategy of Honeywell, which has enlisted Aspen Avionics of Albequerque, New Mexico, to complete the development and certification of the Bendix/King KSN […]

The Elektra One made its first flight last Saturday at Augsburg, Germany, piloted by renowned test pilot John Karkow and followed up with a second, 30-minute sortie on Wednesday. The small, composite airplane is powered by a 13.5 kW electric motor. Geiger Engineering, a German firm, supplied the motor, controller, battery management system and prop. […]