Aviation News

The USAF Thunderbirds will do a full airshow performance in September but only Canadians will get to see it. Ditto the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team, the F-22 Raptor demo team and C-17 demo team. The London (Ontario) Airshow is going ahead Sept. 12-13 as a drive-in event with room for 2500 vehicles. The […]

Airbus has flown a new A350-1000 without the help of pilots 500 times in a research project that involved equipping the huge airliner with a form of machine vision it calls “image recognition technology.” The system uses external cameras and processes the resulting images to make the myriad adjustments necessary in the various phases of […]

Some congressional heavyweights are leaning on the Department of Transportation to finalize a Pilots Records Database they say would provide “one level of safety” for airline passengers. The database was included as part of the contentious 2010 FAA reauthorization bill and mandatory reporting requirements by those employing pilots has yet to be formalized as a […]

The FAA issued an emergency AD affecting more than 2,000 second- and third-generation Boeing 737s that have been parked since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in March. The AD requires immediate inspection of the fifth stage bleed air check valve to check for corrosion. The corroded valves don’t close after the engine is throttled back […]

On Monday, July 27, 2020 Garmin officially announced it was the victim of a cyber attack that encrypted some of its systems during the previous business week. The data outage spread across nearly all of Garmin’s consumer markets, stopping the flow of data between Garmin devices and its cloud storage network. This included flyGarmin and […]

Oregon-based Epic Aircraft announced on Thursday that its E1000 single-engine turboprop has received its FAA production certificate. According to Epic, the production certificate (PC) approval process was significantly impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Three E1000s have been delivered since the model earned its FAA type certification in Nov. 2019. “Epic was poised several months […]

A Boeing 777-200F cargo aircraft operated by Ethiopian Airlines caught fire on Wednesday at China’s Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG). The cause of the fire is not yet known and an investigation is underway. No injuries have been reported. “Although proper investigation has been started by the country of occurrence and the country of registration […]

The Bahamas has officially closed its borders to international commercial flights and commercial vessels carrying passengers from the United States due to a recent increase in coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in both countries. Private flights and charters from the U.S. will still be permitted entry. The order, which went into effect on Wednesday, July 22, does […]

Rolls-Royce announced on Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with Bell Textron to provide the propulsion system for Bell’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor. In addition to the propulsion system, Rolls-Royce will also be supplying an advanced infrared suppressor system for the Valor. Along with the Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant, the V-280 was selected last March to […]

King Schools has introduced a new course designed to help pilots develop effective strategies and tactics for job interviews. The Airline Pilot Interview Prep Course includes approximately 50 minutes of video instruction broken down into five lessons. It is taught by airline pilot and instructor Joseph Muñoz. “As a classroom and sim instructor for the […]