Aviation News

Budget airline Ryanair is cutting its growth expectations for next year by half on the news that the 737 MAX may not return to service in 2019. At the same time, MAX aircraft due to be delivered as part of Ryanair’s 135-unit order appear to have been rebranded as Boeing 737-8200s. Ryanair was due to […]

CubCrafters has launched, perhaps literally, a new firewall-forward package for its XCub with 215 HP and a new three-blade composite propeller from Hartzell. Prices have not been announced. Previously maxed-out with the CC363i, the new options move up to a 390-cubic-inch “CC393i” engine based on the venerable angle-valve Lycoming IO-360. According to CubCrafters, the new engine […]

Europe’s equivalent to our Global Positioning System, Galileo, has been inoperable since late last week. The European GNSS Agency (GSA) said that said that Galileo was suffering from a full system outage due to a “technical incident related to its ground infrastructure.” The search-and-rescue portion of Galileo remains functional. A statement released by the GSA said that […]

The Carolinas Aviation Museum, home to the salvaged USAir Flight 1549 Airbus A320 that landed in the Hudson River, closed this weekend for at least two years while it finds a new location. It has been leasing space at the Charlotte airport that’s being taken over by Honeywell.  According to museum president Stephen Saucier, this […]

Franky Zapata’s jet-powered hoverboard has progressed from the shaky-looking platform that wobbled over water only in its first flight to serious consideration for use by the French military. The former jet-skiing champion dressed up as a futuristic soldier, complete with rifle, for a dynamic performance in front of dignitaries that included a smiling and clapping […]

There appears to be widespread agreement that the Boeing 737 MAX won’t return to service until at least the early part of 2020 as regulators and the company struggle to come up with solutions to a variety of problems that have been flagged in the process to make the aircraft airworthy. United and American Airlines […]

Some pilots and operators will have another series of preflight checks to conduct when the ADS-B mandate kicks in on Jan. 1. The FAA says in a new policy statement it will be up to pilots and operators to make sure the gear will actually work along their predicted flight path. As part of the […]

The bane of search and rescue personnel is the unintentional ELT activation but officials in Portland had to admit they were intrigued with the result of a three-day search for a bogus signal earlier this year. They found their quarry in the rafters of a brew pub after the ELT in a 50-year-old Canadian-registered Cessna […]

The first airplane some new Air Force pilots will fly might be a Pipistrel Alpha trainer. The first cohort of 20 potential pilots, all of them either about to become USAF officers or freshly commissioned, completed a course that led to 17 them soloing the light sport aircraft. The new program, called the Aviation-Character-Education (ACE) […]

A multinational team of pilots, astronauts and aviation professionals completed their mission to set a new record for the fastest circumnavigation of the Earth via both poles on Thursday. Called One More Orbit, the mission was led by Action Aviation Chairman Capt. Hamish Harding of the U.K., astronaut and International Space Station (ISS) commander Col. […]