Aviation News

NASA wrapped up its first-ever planetary defense technology demonstration on Monday evening, crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid with the goal of altering its orbit. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) targeted the asteroid Dimorphos, which measures 530 feet (160 meters) in diameter and orbits a larger asteroid named Didymos. The 1,260-pound (570-kilogram) spacecraft hit […]

Boeing announced on Tuesday that it has delivered its 100th contracted 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF). The aircraft, which was converted at Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services Co. Ltd. (BSAS), went to AerCap Cargo who will lease it to Brazil-based GOL Linhas Aéreas. AerCap was the launch customer for Boeing’s 737-800BCF program in 2016 and currently […]

Eviation’s all-electric Alice aircraft successfully completed its first flight on Tuesday at Washington’s Grant County International Airport (MWH). The Alice “technology demonstrator” flew for eight minutes, reaching an altitude of 3,500 feet. The company reported that the flight, which tested propulsion system and fly-by-wire system functions, went according to plan. “We have successfully electrified the […]

NASA has waved off its third attempt at launching the Artemis I uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion spacecraft. Scheduled for Sept. 27, the launch was postponed due to weather conditions related to the approach of Hurricane Ian, which is currently forecast to make landfall in Florida on Thursday. […]

Gulfstream announced on Monday that it has delivered its 500th G650-family business jet since the G650 received its FAA type certificate in 2012. The aircraft was handed over to an undisclosed customer at the company’s completions facility in Appleton, Wisconsin. The G650 family, which includes the G650 and longer-range G650ER, is powered by Rolls-Royce BR725 […]

The FAA has released its initial design guidelines for vertiports aimed at supporting advanced air mobility (AAM) aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities. The design standards are intended to “serve as the initial step to provide key information for airport owners, operators and infrastructure developers to begin development of facilities that will support […]

With 25 years in the business, and more than 9,200 pieces of used avionics in inventory, not much surprises Scott DeHart of Bennett Avionics. As the avionics industry rolls out the latest marvel, he knows at some point he’ll have the hot, new stuff, albeit used, on his South Windsor, Connecticut, store shelf. For this […]

American Airlines flight crews are reporting several incidents in which someone appears to have hacked into aircraft PA systems and now passenger video of one incident has come to light. “The weirdest flight ever. These sounds started over the intercom before takeoff and continued throughout the flight,” passenger Emerson Collins posted on Twitter. “They couldn’t […]

It may be some time before Phil Washington, President Joe Biden’s pick as FAA Administrator, heads for confirmation by the Senate thanks to his involvement in a criminal corruption investigation in Los Angeles County. An LA county supervisor’s home was searched under warrant last week and on the list of items being sought was correspondence […]

A B-2 bomber damaged in a runway excursion about a year ago at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri was ferried to Palmdale, California, where it was built, showing the scars of its gear collapse. Photographer Tom Jordan caught the plane landing showing the obviously temporary repair. The half-billion-dollar aircraft was stitched up with speed […]