Aviation News

The NTSB is investigating the diversion of an American Airlines Boeing 757 to West Palm Beach, Fla., after smoke from a windshield heater filled the cockpit and the inner glass shattered on Friday. A similar incident (without the shattered glass) forced the diversion of another American 757 on Wednesday … The crash of an F-15D […]

The Aviation Weather Center in Kansas City, the nation’s primary source of weather information for flying, has named Robert Maxson, a veteran research pilot, as its new director … “Space weather” scientists in the U.K., who work to protect communication and navigation systems from solar and space threats, are devastated by budget cuts … VirginGalactic will have […]

Former Eclipse Aviation Communications Director Andrew Broom has taken a similar position at Hawker Beechcraft. Broom ran the PR department at Eclipse for five years and took the new job days after it was announced that European investor Roel Pieper was injecting $100 million into Eclipse in exchange for the right to build aircraft in […]

Rick Adam Adam Aircraft founder Rick Adam has co-founded a new composites design and fabrication company called AdamWorks. The company will design and build composite products for the aerospace, automotive, commercial and even home dcor sectors. Joining Adam are Joe Wilding and Kim Burquest, who will be the company president.

Five young men died after driving a BMW, apparently at high speed, down a runway at an exclusive Florida fly-in resort. The car hit an embankment, became airborne, hit a tree and split in two … Aviation advocates in Arizona say the industry brings $40 billion into the state economy every year … Airport delays expected in […]

Researchers in Japan have developed an origami paper airplane they say would survive a launch from the International Space Station and return safely to Earth… At least 30 aircraft are expected this weekend for the annual Ski Plane Fly-In at EAA AirVenture Museum’s Pioneer Airport in Oshkosh, Wis.

Initial reports indicated four people died as a result of a midair collision between a Cessna 172 and a Cessna 150 over Corona, Calif. on Sunday evening. Both pilots, a passenger in one of the aircraft and a person in a car struck by wreckage were killed, according to the first reports from the scene … […]

A Virgin Atlantic 747 will burn burn biofuel during a demo flight from London to Amsterdam next month … Deliveries of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner are now delayed until 2009. The original delivery date was this May … A Citation jet and a 152 had a close call last week at Palm Beach airport, the FAA says … The […]

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association is holding a news conference today to announce it is declaring a “staffing emergency” in New York, Chicago, Atlanta and Southern California. The union claims that more senior controllers are retiring than the FAA had projected and those remaining are unable to safely manage peak traffic at those locations […]

A 20-year-old man bolted through security at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Saturday and got as far as the cockpit of an Air Canada aircraft getting ready to leave one of the gates. He was subdued by the crew and remains in jail for questioning … Four people survived and six died in the crash […]