Icon Aircraft announced Tuesday (Dec. 26) it has received FAA type certification in the primary category for its light sport A5 amphibious aircraft. The ruling means Icon may now leverage reciprocal agreements with other nations’ aviation authorities to open international markets, including Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. Icon CEO Jerry Meyer said, “We are […]
The same runways that launched the atomic bomb raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki could be refurbished to—in part—help defend Japan. According to a report in Stars and Stripes published today (Dec. 27), the United States Air Force (USAF) plans to return the North Airfield on Tinian Island to service, according to the commander of Pacific […]
More than 400 homeowners in Superior, Colorado’s Rock Creek housing development have sued Jefferson County over what they claim are violations of airspace, lead emissions and devaluation of their properties associated with operations at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (KBJC, aka Jeffco Airport). The development is less than a mile northeast of the airport. Still widely […]
Around noon on Wednesday, Dec. 20, the pilot of a Piper Arrow told air traffic controllers he saw an object, “approximately 30 feet tall,” passing in the opposite direction apparently under power, headed westwardly. The Arrow was on a 150-nautical-mile return flight from Allegheny County Airport (KAGC) near Pittsburgh on an east-southeast heading to its […]
The Eurasian Times is reporting that China has developed “shape shifting” technology that allows its cruise missiles to switch between being stealthy and appearing to radar as the size of an airliner. The publication says Chinese researchers have created an inexpensive retractable umbrella-like device that radically changes the radar signature of the missiles at will. […]
The Space Force’s X-37B “space plane” is expected to launch back into orbit from the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday. It will join a similar spacecraft launched by China last week and the pair will become “two of the most watched objects on orbit while they’re on orbit,” according to Gen. Chance Saltzman, who heads […]
A Florida grandmother said Spirit Airlines offered her gas money after her six-year-old grandson Casper ended up on the wrong flight. The little boy, on his first plane trip, was supposed to head from Philadelphia to Fort Myers but ended up in Orlando, and she had to drive the 160 miles to retrieve him. The […]
Authorities in St. Vincent and the Grenadines appear to be treating the disappearance of an older Gulfstream bizjet as staged. The 1981 G-III, which is registered to a Cheyenne, Wyoming company, took off from Canouan Airport in the Grenadines on the afternoon of Dec. 22 for what was described as a two-hour sightseeing flight. A […]
A little-known 2016 study by Princeton University researchers is getting attention again for a different take on why airline passengers are so grumpy these days. The study, titled “Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predicts Air Rage,” confirms what every economy-class passenger headed to a middle seat on a crammed airliner is thinking as he […]
All five people aboard suffered only minor injuries in the crash of one of the last Grumman Goose amphibs in commercial service last week. The historic aircraft, operated in daily service off Canada’s west coast by Wilderness Seaplanes, went down shortly after takeoff from Bella Bella, B.C., on Dec. 18. “The aircraft appears to have […]
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