Aeromarine’s Electrolite Part 103-compliant ultralight combines electric propulsion and full fly-by-wire to provide a remote piloting capability intended to make flight instruction possible. Conceived by Chip Erwin, the Electrolite features a 25-HP electric motor, twin strut-mounted batteries and the capability of turning control of the aircraft over to an instructor on the ground. It’s based […]
Formerly the Deputy Director of the Office of Aviation Safety and the acting director, Dana Schulze has officially been named to the top post as Director, according to the NTSB. Part of the board since 2002, Schulze began her career with the NTSB as an Aircraft System Safety Engineer. Schulze “served as a group chairman […]
The 50th anniversary of the show they call AirVenture held in Oshkosh closed out last week and the EAA has released attendance figures: approximately 642,000, a claimed 6.8-percent bump from 2018. Residents of Oshkosh got in free opening day; more than 8700 of them attended. EAA CEO and Chairman Jack Pelton said, “What I’m most […]
The Department of Homeland Security is said to be preparing a “security alert” insisting that small-aircraft systems could be hacked easily. According to an Associated Press report, the DHS is concerned that physical access to aircraft could allow hackers to install hardware to spoof sensor readings that in turn could provide erroneous system or attitude […]
An experienced instructor and an eager teenaged student have been identified as those killed in a Friday collision between their glider and its towplane in western Canada. Allan Wood, 68, and Adam Leinweber died after their Schleicher ASK 21 collided with the Cessna 182 tow plane owned by the Cu Nim Soaring Club near Calgary, […]
The next generation of autoland systems may not require any ILS signals to guide them. Scientists at the Technical University of Munich have equipped a Diamond DA42 with a system called C2Land that allows the aircraft to visually acquire the runway and then calculate a glideslope to put it on the numbers. Because the computer […]
It was billed as a minor incident but new video has emerged that indicates the crew of a C-5 Galaxy that had a brake fire after taxiing to Boeing Square at AirVenture last Thursday didn’t view it that way. As the flames start licking at the rubber-and-hydraulic-fluid-rich environment of the gear bay, the crew can […]
It’s been an especially deadly year for floatplane operators so far as Canadian authorities investigate a Cessna Caravan crash that killed four of the nine occupants. The charter operated by Seair of Richmond, near Vancouver, was flying from Port Hardy on northern Vancouver Island to Calvert Island, off the central coast of British Columbia, when […]
Although it didn’t make for especially dramatic video, SpaceX made a big step toward its goal of visiting Mars with the first flight test of an early version of its Starhopper reusable spacecraft late Thursday. The odd-looking device, which even SpaceX CEO Elon Musk jokes looks like a water tower, hovered for about 20 seconds […]
Headset manufacturer Lightspeed announced the launch of its new video series, Aviation No Tie Downs, at AirVenture 2019. According to the company, Aviation No Tie Downs is designed to “educate, entertain, and inspire” both longtime and aspiring aviators. The first episode, “A Lifetime of Flying, Leading, and Serving with Major General Hank Canterbury,” is already […]
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