Aviation News

Remember the guy who got to 16,000 feet in a lawn chair with 400 helium balloons attached? Well, now Flight of the Lawnchair Man has been turned into a musical that, according to press notes, “reminds the world that dreams can come true if you believe in yourself.” (and place considerable faith in latex, aluminum […]

An Osprey V-22 en route to England’s Farnborough Airshow made a precautionary landing in Iceland after experiencing compressor stalls in an engine… Former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta has joined Hill & Knowlton, a global communications consultant firm, as vice president. Mineta will be based in Washington, D.C…. When a DC-9 and an Airbus collided on […]

Airbus CEO Gustav Humbert resigned on Sunday. The shakeup results from A380 delays and a stock dive… Forward Vision has reduced its price to just under $10K for GA users of its infrared night-vision system… Michael Fanfalone, 57, one of the founders of the Professional Airways Systems Specialists union, died June 27 in Baltimore… Comp […]

The Organization of Black Airline Pilots is sponsoring about 30 summer camps across the U.S. for teens interested in flying careers. Currently only about 1 percent of pilots are black… The University of North Dakota is proposing a sophisticated radar system in a future military test area that will allow general aviation and unmanned aerial […]

The pilot was killed Tuesday morning when a BD-5J microjet crashed near Ocean City, Md., while flying in military radar tests. Another BD-5J pilot died in a crash two weeks ago in Ottawa… The pilot of a helicopter that crashed in North Carolina in 2004, killing a sheriff on board, has been charged with involuntary […]

Pensions: Delta Air Lines has given formal notice that it intends to wind up its pilots’ pension program as part of its plan to emerge from bankruptcy. The pilots have swallowed the bitter pill without protest, acknowledging the unsustainable pension plan is threatening the airline as a whole… Alaska air traffic controllers say FAA Administrator […]

The NTSB says commercial pilots need training to detect snow and ice on the airframe and has asked the FAA to come up with an appropriate program. The recommendation grew out of the NTSB’s investigation of the Challenger crash that killed three people in Colorado in 2004, including the son of NBC Sports executive Dick […]

The Staggerwing Museum in Tullahoma, Tenn., broke ground last weekend for the next phase of its Bonanza-Baron Museum project… The NTSB is investigating an uncontained engine failure on an American Airlines 767 that happened June 2 at Los Angeles International Airport. The engine broke during a ground maintenance test run, and parts were scattered as […]

British authorities say flying a 747 on three engines over the polar icecap was the right thing to do and now they’re going to try to convince the FAA of that. As AVweb reported, the British Airways flight from LAX to London lost an engine after takeoff and kept going until running short of fuel […]

Cirrus owners raised $105,000 to support the Red Tail Project during their fourth annual migration to the factory in Duluth, Minn. The project aims to bring the story of the Tuskegee Airmen to school kids across the U.S…. Air traffic controllers in Opa Locka, Fla., must climb a ladder 33 feet to go to work […]