Aviation News

Most highway landings are unplanned but there’s a lot of preparation going on for a military exercise in Michigan next month. The military is planning to set four A-10s and two C-146 (military Dornier 328s) down on a stretch of State Highway M-32 near the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center in northern Michigan on Aug. […]

The “jet pack” prankster in Los Angeles is apparently back flying and the FAA is asking pilots to be on the lookout. “A Boeing 747 pilot reported seeing an object that might have resembled a jet pack 15 miles east of LAX at 5,000 feet altitude around 6:12 p.m. Wednesday,” the Federal Aviation Administration reported […]

NASA and Boeing have postponed Friday’s planned launch of the Starliner crew capsule to the International Space Station to Aug. 3 after a mishap briefly upset the ISS on Thursday. An uncommanded firing of the thrusters on a Russian science research module tilted the entire orbiting structure about 45 degrees before automatic systems on the […]

The I Hart Flying Foundation (IHFF), supported by increased contributions from Phillips 66 Aviation, announced the foundation’s largest themed scholarship opportunity to date. The scholarship initiative, named “Fueling Flight Through Harts of Might,” launches Aug. 2. When this scholarship is awarded, IHFF will have awarded more than $100,000 in educational funding, training packages, pilot supplies and […]

The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Ray Aviation Scholarship fund has now awarded scholarships to 276 young aviators over the last three years, 133 of whom have now earned their pilot certificates. The scholarship fund, which provides $10,000 per award to young people ages 15-19 for flight training expenses, is supported by the Ray Foundation. To […]

At an AirVenture press event, Tecnam reported on two P2006T light twins it has sold to NASA as test beds for its X-57 multiple-motor-placement electric propulsion tests, as well as updating progress on its P-Volt electric aircraft project. Nick Borer, Advanced Concepts Group Lead at NASA’s Langley Research Center, said the agency was looking for […]

June M. Morris, a quiet but significant innovator and leader in the travel and airline industries, passed away on July 23 at her home in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was 90 years old. In the early 70s, Mrs. Morris started travel agency Morris Travel in a corner of her husband’s photo finishing shop. At […]

Aviation Safety Resources (ASR) is quietly building a family of related business units centered on making aircraft safer. With a focus on making aircraft recovery parachutes “lighter, and with lower-altitude opening capabilities,” CEO Larry Williams noted that ASR’s system has been selected for the Bye Aerospace eFlyer 2 two-place electric aircraft. And at a press […]

The Airbus A380 landed with a bang at AirVenture 2011, a fledgling company called Beyond Aviation said it had an electric Cessna 172 in the works as a test bed for a new electric trainer and the LSA industry was abuzz with predictions that changes to the rules would allow “basic IMC operation.” The world’s […]

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has pledged her support to prevent Ligado Networks from occupying radio spectrum that more than a dozen government departments say could jam delicate GPS and other space-based signals. As we reported, the FCC last April approved Ligado’s bid to use a narrow slice of spectrum adjacent to the space bands for […]