Aviation News

The National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) will have a new chair as of year-end. After eight years at the helm, during which NAFI membership has doubled, Bob Meder is passing the baton to Karen Kalishek of De Pere, Wisconsin. Kalishek heads up KAL Consulting and Training as an independent, full-time flight instructor. She holds […]

With all the buzz over unleaded avgas, Swift Fuels wanted to remind the crowd at EAA AirVenture that has been marketing its 94UL product for six years. In 2015, the FAA certified UL94 unleaded avgas for two-thirds of the aircraft in the general aviation fleet. Certain high-performance engines are not eligible to use 94UL, but […]

While electric airplanes seem to be making gains recently, AirVenture 2009—yes—12 years ago, was actually the first year of the electric airplane. If we were to believe our eyes then, great things were coming soon. Except they weren’t. That was the year the Chinese company Yuneec International showed up with what looked like a well […]

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 […]