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FAA rules on commercial use of unmanned aircraft systems will be on the books within a year, officials told a congressional panel Wednesday. But it remains to be seen whether the pending regulations will meet the timeline and the needs of companies like Amazon, which wants to offer consumers 30-minute package deliveries with drones. According […]

Fans of Royal Air Force warbirds will be in for a treat at this year’s EAA AirVenture show when a rare de Havilland Mosquito flies to Oshkosh to take part in multiple warbird shows. The Canadian-built World War II-era fighter and bomber was restored by AVspecs of New Zealand and is now operated by the […]

AVweb’s search of aviation news around the world found ADS-B upgrades by an unmanned aerial systems company, new features for the FltPlan app, a new award founded by the National Aviation Hall of Fame, and a celebrity addition to AOPA’s charitable arm, the Hat in the Ring Society. Robotic Skies has completed the first field […]

The Carbon Cub is CubCrafters’ most popular seller, by far. Slap a pair of Aerocet floats on it and head for the nearest lake, and it’s easy to understand why. AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli did just that and prepared this video report. view on YouTube

If ever we need a king in this country and someone put me in charge, somewhere on my to-do list would be getting rid of FAR 91.119. OK, so I wouldn’t eliminate it, but I’d amend it so that people would just worry about it less. I’ve been in more discussions than I care to […]

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.” Mark Twain The month of May brought some good news to those who care about aviation, users of airports and the value of […]

AVweb’s search of aviation news worldwide found a preview of Dassault Aviation’s new Falcon jet, a revamping of Russian airline Transaero, and scholarship opportunities from The Helicopter Foundation International and Women in Aviation International. Dassault Aviation this week lifted the veil on the highly anticipated Falcon 5X, which establishes a new benchmark in the large-cabin, […]

Diamond Aircraft’s Austria headquarters is well along with a third-generation hybrid-drive electric aircraft design that it hopes will serve as a certification template for future electric aircraft. The new airplane is based on a DA40 composite airframe, but rather than a geared conventional prop driven by a diesel engine, the aircraft will have a single […]

Two of Ireland’s busiest airports, Cork and Shannon, will soon get remote control towers operated from a third airport in Dublinin what appears to be the first operational full-scale test of remote tower technology. The Swedish aerospace and industrial conglomerate Saab is providing the equipment and overseeing the test program. According to Saab, the remote […]

If it sometimes seems that the entire aerospace industry is given over to developing ways to plant cameras in the sky to spy on people and things, it’s probably because the entire aerospace industry is given over to developing ways to plant cameras in the sky to spy on people and things. Although the actual […]