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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 […]

The third and final phase of GoFly, a global competition for personal flying device designs, is now underway. Five Phase II winners, selected on the basis of their revisions to Phase I written reports and “demonstrated performance of progress,” were announced in March. Phase III will include a fly-off—scheduled for Feb. 29, 2020, and open […]

One way of learning new avionics is to sit in the airplane and punch buttons, but it’s easier to start with an online course which is why King Schools is offering new courses in partnership with Garmin. Adding to its extensive catalog of online training, King Schools announced at AirVenture that it’s offering training for […]

Just in time for its 90th anniversary, Lycoming has a new general manager in Shannon Massey, an inside-the-house elevation from Bell, a sister unit under the Textron umbrella. Massey, a chemical engineer, has been with Textron for more than 20 years during which she worked in materials science and operational manufacturing. AVweb met with Massey […]

When it got nearly impossible for Kevin Butler to face another day sweating it out in the kitchen, the 41-year-old cook knew it was past time for a change. The Los Angeles resident’s father was an aeronautical engineer so he grew up around airplanes and had always wanted to be a pilot so he squared […]

One of the longest in-development flying car projects, the Samson Switchblade, is still at it and as the company nears flight test, it was showing its new hybrid dash panel at  AirVenture this week. The panel combines data necessary for both flight and driving modes. The Switchblade first showed in mock-up in 2009 and has […]