A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III landed at Indianapolis International airport in Indiana on May 22 loaded with a 78,000 pounds of infant formula from Switzerland, enough for half a million baby bottles, said the Air Force. The formula was transported from Zurich to Ramstein Air Base in Germany on trucks, then loaded […]
The AOPA Air Safety Institute (ASI) released a video today (May 24) exploring the May 20 fatal accident during the MayDay STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) event in Wayne, Nebraska. Competitor Tom Dafoe was killed when his Cessna 140 crashed on final approach during a STOL demonstration. As part of the institute’s Early Analysis series, […]
The Aircraft Electronics Association announced today (May 24) that overall sales for the first quarter of 2022 were up 4.8 percent over the fourth quarter of 2021, marking gains for the seventh consecutive quarter. With total sales of more than $634 million between New Year’s Day and the end of March, avionics revenues were also […]
Textron Aviation made two glass-clinking announcements today (May 24) at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland—and a third with more lunch-pail appeal. The U.S. manufacturer revealed that Luxaviation Group—one of the largest private aircraft operators in the world—will be the first European customer for the Cessna Citation M2 Gen2 light […]
The long-awaited release of Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” will finally arrive in theaters on Friday (May 27), and the aviation world is champing at the bit. As a sidebar teaser to the release, Cruise teamed up with Late Late Show host James Corden for a legitimately funny and very well-filmed 15-minute video that opens […]
Proving that ForeFlight is as accepted for business aviation applications as it is in the general aviation market, ForeFlight’s parent company Boeing announced at EBACE 2022 that it has inked deals with three major European operators who will toss their current flight planning systems and transition to ForeFlight’s Dispatch integrated flight planning and EFB solutions. […]
SPONSORED CONTENT — For Phoenix corporate charter start up MJets, staffing means more than finding pilots who have checked all the boxes. “Sure, we’ll hire captains who have gone through all the wickets,” says MJets founder Ernie Meeks. “But after that, we hire on personality. They’ll have the right pedigree, but can they adapt, anticipate, […]
The National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI), which was founded in 1967 with the mission “to raise and maintain the professional standing of flight instructors,” is celebrating its 55th anniversary. Alongside the milestone, the organization has aired the 55th episode of its monthly livestreamed MentorLIVE broadcast, noting that the program has now logged over 140,000 […]
Bombardier has unveiled the latest addition to its Global business jet family with the official introduction of the Global 8000 on Monday. Offering a range of 8,000 NM and a top speed of Mach 0.94, the company is touting the aircraft as the “fastest and longest-range purpose-built business jet” in the world. Bombardier further noted […]
The 64-year-old pilot who collapsed at the controls of a Cessna Caravan before an untrained passenger took the controls a couple of weeks ago is recovering from the life-threatening condition that felled him. At a news conference last week, reporters were told Kenneth Allen, of Lake Wales, Florida, suffered an aortic dissection, a stroke-like event […]
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