Aviation News

Authorities are looking for vandals who did $1 million in damage to airport lighting at Brookley Field Industrial Complex in downtown Mobile, Ala., last month. Flights have not been disrupted… Administrative workers at the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) have gone on strike after rejecting a contract offer from union brass. The union says it […]

An instructor and his student were hurt on a tandem skydiving jump in Cottonwood, Ariz., on Sunday afternoon when the main chute failed to deploy, and the reserve chute didn’t open completely before the pair hit the ground… A helicopter pilot flying for a Florida sheriff’s department was temporarily blinded when a green laser was […]

A Vietnam War-era aircraft carrier, the USS Oriskany, will be sunk in the Gulf of Mexico off Pensacola as an artificial reef. Before the sinking, more than 400 veterans who served on the ship are expected at a reception being held, in part, to remember 32 airmen killed and two still listed as missing from […]

A memorial service for test pilot Scott Crossfield will be held at Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 15… LoPresti will announce at Oshkosh where it will build a factory to produce the Fury, a company spokesman told AVweb yesterday… If you’re flying to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh this summer, the NOTAM is now available… The […]

Teledyne Continental Motors is giving away a free engine to someone who registers for its Aviator Services plan. Registrants qualify to win either a Continental or Lycoming certified IO-360 engine or one of four experimental engine models… Eight of 16 surviving members of the Doolittle Raiders gathered at Wright Patterson Air Force Base last week […]

Online video showing Air Force One being spray-painted with graffiti was a hoax… Tongue-technology interface could enable pilots to “see” in the dark without goggles; now in the works at DARPA… Two F-16s followed a United Airlines A320 into Denver on Saturday after a passenger said he had a bomb. Passengers subdued the man after […]

Charlie Victor Romeo, a play whose dialogue is derived from the transcripts of cockpit voice recorders on six crashed airliners, will play Boston and Washington, D.C., in May and June. Have a look at AVweb‘s review… A power failure that hit the southern California TRACON didn’t affect flights because the center’s backup power system kicked […]

The NTSB was unable to determine a reason for a March 2004 helicopter crash into the Gulf of Mexico, but said that a terrain warning system would likely have prevented the accident… Boeing to lay off 900 workers in Wichita, Kan…. Rob Penrod, formerly with Bell Helicopter, has joined Adam Aircraft as vice president of […]

CLICK ANY IMAGE FOR A LARGER VERSION Diamond offers the most complete line of modern general aviation aircraft. Clockwise: D-JET, DA40-FP, DA20, DA40-180, DA42. After a series of high speed taxi and rotation tests, Diamonds D-JET S/N 001, lifted off at 17:08 on Tuesday April 18th, 2006. The test was conducted from the London International […]

A two-foot chunk of ice fell through the roof of a college gymnasium in Loma Linda, Calif. College officials bagged the “opaque” ice and the FAA is trying to find out if it came from a passing airliner. More airborne ice fell in a park in Oakland… Transcripts from one of two public hearings on […]