Aviation News

A California man has set a world speed record for RC aircraft by using an aerodynamic oddity to push his glider to 548 MPH. Spencer Lisenby used a technique called dynamic soaring to whip his heavily reinforced composite glider to almost Mach levels over a mountaintop near Los Angeles on Jan. 19. The Santa Anna […]

A Boeing 787 captain from Livermore, California, is the latest winner of the AOPA Sweepstakes aircraft. Aaron Benedetti was presented with the Vans RV-10 at Livermore Municipal Airport by AOPA President Mark Baker. “This can’t be possible. The RV–10 is a phenomenal aircraft,” Benedetti said. “I’m speechless.” In addition to flying international routes for a […]

SpaceX set a new record for payloads on Sunday with the successful delivery of 143 small satellites to various orbits. The Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral at 7 a.m. on Sunday and within an hour it was shedding tiny satellites. On board were 133 spacecraft for missions varying from personal locator beacon detection to […]

The FAA has allowed a Massachusetts company to conduct the first truly autonomous beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone operation in the National Airspace System (NAS), opening the door to a wide range of commercial applications. American Robotics is now allowed to fly drones weighing up to 20 pounds in rural areas without a […]

An Oklahoma group has flown an almost precise duplicate of the Ryan NYP that carried Charles Lindbergh on his historic 1927 trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris and is setting its sights on a reenactment. The Spirit 2 has been under construction for 18 years in Bethany, Oklahoma, with almost every piece and component […]

Daher has delivered a Kodiak 100 to air services company Héli-Béarn, its first French customer for the single-engine utility turboprop. Héli-Béarn, which is located at Pau-Pyrénées Airport (PUF), plans to use the aircraft for skydiving operations. France-based Daher Group acquired Kodiak 100 manufacturer Quest Aircraft Company in October 2019. “The Kodiak’s introduction in France marks […]

Aerospace electric propulsion systems company magniX has announced that it is moving its global headquarters from Redmond to Everett, Washington. According to the company, it also plans to relocate all of its Australia and Redmond operations to Everett, which boasts a new 40,000-square-foot engineering, manufacturing and testing facility. magniX says consolidating operations has “resulted in […]

Airbus has announced that its production rates will remain lower for longer than originally anticipated in response to the current market environment. The company now plans to raise A320 family production rates from 40 per month to 43 a month in the third quarter of 2021 and 45 a month in the fourth quarter. Airbus […]

Investigators are looking into the possibility that an autothrottle problem contributed to the fatal crash of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 near Jakarta, Indonesia, on Jan. 9, 2021. While the data has not been made public, information from the Boeing 737-500’s flight data recorder allegedly indicates that the system was causing one engine to produce more […]

Helicopter Association International (HAI) announced on Wednesday that it has canceled its annual HAI HELI-EXPO due to exhibitor concern regarding the recent global spike in coronavirus (COVID-19) cases. The organization had planned to implement a number of COVID-19-related health and safety protocols for the show including social distancing, frequent cleaning, temperature checks, hand-sanitizer stations in […]