Aviation News

NASA has decided it’s time to get to the bottom of the well-publicized reports of unusual aerial occurrences in the past few years and beyond. It’s formed a 16-member team of government officials, industry reps, academics and—at least one man who has actually been an extraterrestrial—got to work Oct. 24 to try to determine what, […]

The matriarch of the Air Force’s strategic nuclear fleet is getting some work done, and the result is smoother skin and curvier limbs. Air and Space Forces Magazine released an image of a 3-D rendering of what the next iteration of the 70-plus-year-old B-52 will likely look like and it’s definitely a softer image. “The […]

The FAA is threatening more 5G-related flight disruptions if federal communications officials don’t throttle the signals of smaller cellphone carriers around airports. In a letter obtained by Reuters sent last Friday, FAA Acting Administrator Billy Nolen told the National Telecommunications and Information Administration that 5G remains an interference threat for some radar altimeters and unless […]

Australian authorities have arrested a former Marine Corps pilot and owner of an aviation consultancy in China and are holding him under special bail conditions at the request of the U.S. government. The Australian Broadcasting Company is reporting that Daniel Edmund Duggan was taken into custody by Australian Federal Police last Friday just as reports […]

Michigan-based jet engine manufacturer Williams International has donated $500,000 to the AOPA Foundation’s “You Can Fly” program, which supports aviation STEM initiatives “to help ensure a healthy future for aviation and aerospace,” according to AOPA. Williams International CEO Gregg Williams said, “We have always been a leader in advancing education through a combination of apprenticeships, […]

Asked during the company’s NBAA-BACE press conference about efforts in France to add regulations and taxes to business aviation operations, Dassault Aviation President Eric Trappier was candid in his assessment of the movement, saying it was based more on politics than environmental science. With Dassault Groupe (including its vaunted electronics business division Dassault Systemes as […]

Airbus Helicopters reported it has recorded orders for more than 35 new single- and twin-engine Airbus air medical helicopters over the past 12 months. Romain Trapp, president of Airbus Helicopters, said, “We recognize that helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) providers rely on their helicopters to save lives, and we remain dedicated to providing them with state-of-the-art […]

“It’s really fun doing cross-countries,” said Emily Summey, a sophomore majoring in aviation management at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). “But having a purpose and a mission is really exciting and really rewarding.” Summey was speaking to local reporters before launching in a Piper Warrior from FIT’s Buehler Center for Aviation Training and Research at Melbourne […]

When non-pilot passenger Darren Harrison took the controls of a Cessna 208 Caravan from its disabled pilot last May and landed safely, the air traffic controller who helped talk him down was praised as a hero. Earlier his month at the National Business Aviation Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) in Orlando, Florida, the trade […]

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced on Monday that it has identified a possible safety issue with the flight controls of a De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Turbine Otter that crashed into Mutiny Bay, Washington, last month. According to investigators, the horizontal stabilizer actuator was “found separated where the clamp nut threads into the barrel […]