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Concorde’s demise left the world bereft of supersonic passenger travel, but Japan’s space agency is working on a design that could fill that void. It was reported this week that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will test a model of a supersonic airplane next month over the Australian desert. JAXA is working under a […]

Four microphones attached to tripods in remote areas of the Grand Canyon National Park are working for 50 days this summer to record the natural sounds of the park, in an effort to establish a baseline for “natural quiet.” The microphones record 10 seconds of sound every two minutes. That database, combined with another 50 […]

SkyTaxi, a company aiming to implement NASA’s “Small Aircraft Transportation System” concept flying six-seat twin-engine Cessna 414s on-demand from small local airports, is expanding to serve 560 airports in the Northeast. Initial service areas are Ohio, Michigan and the high-traffic corridors through Pennsylvania linking New York and Washington, the company said last week. The Cessnas […]

NASA tested several small robotic aircraft called APV-3s, propeller-driven planes with 12-foot wingspans, at Moffett Field in California last month to demonstrate their ability to avoid other aircraft in a “flock” and to also swerve past obstacles in flight even without guidance from the ground. The UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) are equipped with thermal sensors […]

One of the stranger-looking aircraft we saw at Oshkosh last month, the one-of-a-kind Dornier Do-24ATT three-engine amphibian, will be landing on the Hudson River in downtown New York City on Saturday. The visit is part of a yearlong round-the-world journey for the airplane, which is owned by Seair, a Philippines airline. The aircraft will touch […]

A Boeing 737-200 operated by TANS, a Peruvian airline, made an emergency landing — in a marsh — on Tuesday night, during a fierce storm with strong winds, torrential rain and hail. The flight was only about a mile from its destination airport, in a remote jungle area 500 miles northeast of Lima. The aircraft, […]

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AVmail: August 22, 2005Reader mail this week about the price of avfuel, FAA rules on hangar rent, eminent domain and more.