Aviation News

AVweb’s search of aviation news this week found award announcements from the Aero Club of Northern California and the National Aviation Hall of Fame, a new mobile job-search app from AviationCV.com, and a milestone for Van’s Aircraft RV kits. Alan Eustace, who set the world record for the highest-altitude free fall jump in October 2014, […]

Houston was only an hour behind us, but the weather was turning out much worse than forecast. The ceilings were steadily lowering and the METAR updates said the few airports along our route were going from marginal to worse. A pop-up IFR clearance would have been great, but there was a little problem: the airplane […]

The FAA on Wednesday updated its 34-year-old Advisory Circular on personal model aircraft, issuing safety and airspace rules similar to the ones it has issued on consumer drones. The new version, which triples the length of the original 1981 AC(PDF) to three pages from one, limits model aircraft to 55 pounds unless certified by a […]

AVweb’s search of aviation news around the world found a fuel-price app for jet operators and flight departments, the annual big gathering of the Civil Air Patrol, Zenith Aircraft’s upcoming Open Hangar Day, and a final call for nominees for public benefit flying awards. JetFuelX, led by tech innovator and pilot Jason Talley, has announced […]

Kitplanes magazine editor Paul Dye is a former NASA flight director, but he’s also a passionate homebuilder, currently working on a Dream Tundra. At AirVenture 2015, he gave us his six top reasons for joining the homebuilt community. view on YouTube

Government agencies and law enforcement have been quietly testing ways to disable rogue unmanned aerial systems, Reuters reported this week. In efforts to address security concerns that come with commercially available unmanned aircraft, authorities are developing technology to track and disable them. According to Reuters, New York’s police department tested a system over the winter […]

AVweb’s search of aviation news found a new owner for Twin Commander Aircraft, new headquarters underway at Hillsboro Aviation, a mountain flying anniversary event, and new award recipients for the Ninety-Nines. H-D Advanced Manufacturing Company, which specializes in high-precision severe-duty components, has acquired Twin Commander Aircraft LLC parent company Firstmark Corporation. The acquisition was effective […]

In doing news reporting, if you hear certain things enough, you quite naturally begin to believe that accepted truths are, well, true. That’s certainly the case with the economics of airframe manufacturing. It’s accepted wisdom that one reason airplanes are so expensive—not the only reason, but one reason—is low volume. This is a basic tenet […]

Pilot reportsof unmanned aerial systems have topped 650 so far this year – well over the 238 reported for all of 2014, the FAA said this week. The agency said there was a big jump in sightings this summer, with 138 pilot reports in June and 137 in July. Meanwhile, there were just 52 reports […]

AVweb’s search of aviation news around the world found an air race win for the Meyers 200, NTSB training for public affairs professionals, a global ATC conference announced in the United Arab Emirates, and an upcoming aerospace career conference in New Mexico.GlobalParts.aero announcedit continues to be encouraged by the response from potential customers and the […]