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Virgin Galactic, the privately funded space company owned by Sir Richard Bransons Virgin Group and Abu Dhabis aabar Investments PJS, and Spaceport America announcedthat they have signed a joint agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration that helps clear the path for commercial flights of SpaceShipTwo. The agreement sets out the parameters for how routine space […]

George E. Bye, CEO and Founder of Bye Aerospace, Inc., will speak on the endurance capabilities and benefits of solar-electric powered aircraft as part of DaVinci Institute’s Speaker Series on Tuesday, June 10, at 6:30 p.m. at the DaVinci offices in Louisville, Colo. Bye is a long-time advocate for electric and solar-electric propulsion for general […]

A couple of United Airlines A320s departing Houston’s George Bush Airport came close enough together on May 9 that a controller in another facility called the mishap “gnarly.” The FAA is classifying the incident as a “near miss” (it only uses “near collision” if the aircraft come within 500 feet of one another). Whatever the […]

Vancouver, British Columbia – May 20, 2014 – 123west Software Inc. is pleased to announce the version 3.0 release of its popular aviation app, Naviator, for Android devices. Naviator 3.0 introduces two major features: 3D synthetic vision and obstacle/tower alerts. The 3D synthetic vision feature builds on Naviator’s existing 2D terrain warnings to present a […]

Angel Flight South Central (AFSC) announces today that it will be relocating its corporate headquarters to Ambassador Jet Center at Dallas Executive Airport. “With more than 1,000 volunteer pilots in Texas and the surrounding states – nearly 300 of them residents of the Dallas/Fort Worth area – Angel Flight South Central has been looking for […]

Confession is good for the soul but can be embarrassing. Here, now, the unscientific tabulation of readers’ responses to “Brainteasers” quiz 194‘s question, “How did you screw up your checkride?” Before pointing snarky fingers, I’ll confess that my Private pilot checkride performance 40 years ago was lame. I remember the examiner snarling, “I don’t want […]

We Americans like our stuff. We accumulate it madly and take it with us when we go places. We happily buy and jam our highways with SUVs, minivans and gigantic pickup trucks, each able to comfortably swallow several people and their stuff. Yet, when it comes to airplanes, it’s tough to fulfill the deep-seated desire […]

The acquisition of Beech Aircraft by Textron has brought Cessna and Beech back together for the first time since Clyde Cessna and Walter Beech were principals of Travel Air Company in the 1920s. In a position that didnt even exist six weeks ago, Textrons Senior Vice President of Piston Products, Joe Hepburn, briefed AVwebs Rick […]

Our weekly review of aviation activities noted on SocialFlightfound not just fly-in breakfasts, but a dinner, with seminar, and rides being given by EAA’s Ford Trimotor. The Sixth Annual Shamrock Fly-Inwill be held on Saturday, March 15 at Cannon Creek Airpark, Lake City, Fla. Running from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., food offerings include a […]

Pipistrels sleek Panthera retractable, announced two years ago, will soon have a six-cylinder Lycoming IO-540 rather than the IO-390 originally planned. The engine switch was forced because Lycoming wont be approving the IO-390 for mogas, according to Pipistrel. The IO-540 replacement, which Pipistrel says will improve short-field and high density altitude takeoff performance, will be […]