Aviation News

AVweb’s search of aviation news worldwide found shipments starting up for Garmin’s new ADS-B assembly, a new guidebook from Power Flow Systems, an aircraft app from Pilot John, and a Wi-Fi mod connecting Dynon’s SkyView with ForeFlight.Garmin has announced that initial orders of the GDL 84, the latest addition to Garmin’s comprehensive lineup of certified […]

Sonex Aircraft has shipped its first SubSonex JSX-2 personal jet kit, launching the initial set of deliveries from the microjet’s first production run as a quick-build kit. The SubSonex’s arrival to Redge Greenberg of Durango, Colorado, “marks the conclusion of an intense six-month effortto bring JSX-2 from prototype aircraft to a fully-developed quick-build kit product,” […]

The other night, I saw a video report-one of several, actually-about how some government agency was lit up because it’s beginning to look like 3-D printing will be capable of making parts for firearms. In passing, it mentioned that complex airplane parts would soon be producible by 3-D technology. Yeah, I thought, when pigs fly. […]

Maybe you haven’t used a 3-D printer to make your own cogs or dowels (yet), but Jim Bertel and Joel Smith of Stratasys Direct Manufacturing are putting additive manufacturing to work in mankind’s final frontier – outer space. Duration: 13:43 File Size: 12.5 MB download here

When I was reading over the draft small UAS regs and analysis that leaked out of the FAA over the weekend, I couldn’t help thinking … man, this feels like a breech birth assisted with a crowbar. For one thing, the timing caught the FAA off guard. Thanks to the wonders of the web, the […]

We test-fly DJI’s latest unmanned aerial vehicle, the Inspire. view on YouTube

Two divers have discovered the wreckage of a Korean War-era Douglas A-1 Skyraider off the San Diego coastline, KSWB Fox 5 reported this week. Dennis Burns and Ruth Yu were exploring the shallow waters off Mission Beach when they found an airplane submerged about 60 feet deep. Its identification plate confirmed it was a Skyraider […]

AVweb’s search of aviation news worldwide found an ADS-B solution and a UL Power distributor for experimental aircraft, an expanded e-FIRC from AOPA and the first field helicopter installation for new Garmin avionics.NavWorx, Inc. announced today its ADS600-EXP Universal Access Transceiver (UAT), an affordable ADS-B technology solution for Experimental/LSA aircraft owners. The NavWorx ADS600-EXP is […]

The European Space Agency had a successful test of its unmanned mini-spacecraft Wednesday, launching theIntermediate eXperimental Vehicle and recovering it after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The design of the IXV spaceplane, as the ESA calls it, will ultimately result in a reusable spacecraft. The big push now is to develop re-entry capability and data […]

AVweb’s search of aviation news worldwide found a new STC from Hartzell Propeller, Bearhawk Aircraft’s debuts in Africa and South America, Monarch Sky’s introduction of bitcoin and a new home for Air+Space Academy. Hartzell received a Supplemental Type Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration for the company’s new state-of-the-art lightweight Scimitar prop for all Cessna […]