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Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive A viral video has people questioning if they can believe what they see: a Sukhoi Su-24 buzzing a car (and its dash-cam) as both drive down a civilian Russian road in opposite directions and different, but not too different, altitudes. The drama begins about 20 seconds in. Don’t see a […]

Russian airline UTair has pulled its ATR 72-200s from service after a weekend crash that killed 31 people and injured 12. The airline said the move was an attempt to reassure passengers. The aircraft will be replaced with ATR 72-500s, newer versions of the same aircraft. Despite the grounding, the airline insists there was nothing […]

Against a backdrop of struggling airlines and a controversial regulatory environment, India’s major commercial and business aviation show opens in Hyderabad March 14. The theme of this year’s India Aviation 2012 is “India: the Emerging Aviation Hub,” and while the airline side has certainly seen meteoric growth in the last decade, the battle for passengers […]

SuperJet International will be among the prominent presenters as the National Business Aviation Association convention gets under way next week in Las Vegas. The company will be promoting a business version of the SuperJet regional airliner it is building as a joint venture between Russia’s Sukhoi and Italy’s Alenia. The SuperJet business variant was announced […]

Russia unveiled its answer to the F-22 this week (while the F-22 is grounded for safety issues), and the Chinese are busily testing a similar platform. Are they flashes in the pan, or is the U.S. falling off the cutting edge of military design? Is the U.S. losing its air superiority? (click to answer) Last […]

We’re back with more photos from the 2011 Paris Air Show in Le Bourget. Grab your backpack and bottled water and join us for a quick tour of what caught our eye today. This image gallery requires JavaScript. The weather proved better today than yesterday, providing attendees with better viewing conditions at Le Bourget. In […]

Speculation is rampant in commercial jet circles that Boeing is ready to build a clean-sheet replacement for its bread-and-butter 737. “Everything’s on the table,” Liz Verdier, Boeing’s spokeswoman for New Product Development, told Seattle’s KING 5 News. While much of the focus on Boeing has been on its prestige lines, like the 787 Dreamliner and […]

The “first” civilian-operated, privately owned Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker in the world, according to the people who are trying to sell it, is fresh off its restoration, flew Dec. 10 at Rockford, Ill., and is now for sale. Pride Aircraft says the jet departed Runway 25 into a 15-knot headwind, after a 1,100-foot ground roll at […]

In many ways, the Pitts Special is responsible for the current state of amateur and professional aerobatics. First flown in 1944 (or 1945-sources vary) as a single-seat homebuilt with only a 55-HP engine, the type has developed into todays highly refined and FAA-certified, two-seat, 300-HP aerial hot rod used for advanced training and-at least in […]

Liberty Aerospace announced a new dealer for the Southeastern U.S. — Liberty Southeast, in Greensboro, N.C…. Mooney Airplane Co. named Air Touring Ltd. as its exclusive sales representative for the United Kingdom and Ireland…. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 – an all-new Russian regional jet – successfully completed its first flight in Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Monday… A […]