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Two Cessna 185 float planes collided over Vancouver Island on Friday, but both were able to land safely. Both aircraft were on patrol for Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans, but they were operating from different bases and communicating on different frequencies. According to Bill Yearwood, of Canada’s Transportation Safety Board, “One aircraft was exiting […]

Tomorrow, two pilots in Virginia plan to take off and land at 100 airports in their state within 24 hours, to raise $100,000 for Angel Flight East. The record flight will begin and end at Dulles Airport, with landings at all 67 public-use runways in Virginia and selected military and private fields on the circuit. […]

A new method for embedding antennas in the load-bearing structures of composite aircraft wings could lead to antennas as large as the surface area of a wing, which would be able to detect slow-moving ground targets beneath dense foliage. That task had previously been impossible with conventional antennas. The antenna could also simultaneously track air-to-air […]

The U.S. House tomorrow will hear testimony from GA industry folk who are hoping to secure access to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), which has been off-limits to non-scheduled operators since 9/11. The National Business Aviation Association‘s President Shelley Longmuir will be there, as will NATA President James K. Coyne. The hearing, which will […]

___________________NEWS FEATURES The DreamLaunch Tour: Greenville and AtlantaJamail Larkins is touring the United States as part of The DreamLaunch Tour, a “barnstorming” effort to get youngsters in middle schools and high schools thinking about careers in aviation. Jamail continues the tour in Greenville, S.C., and Atlanta, Ga. ____________WHAT’S NEW What’s New — Products and ServicesEach […]

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Our story in Monday’s issue about the reorganization of Boeing’s Air Traffic Management division used the term dissolved to describe the division’s move to become part of Boeing’s Phantom Works research arm. Boeing assures us the ATM has not been dissolved but, as our story also said, will continue to work on an advanced air […]

The Comanche helicopter program, which was shut down by the Army recently, is not the only military aviation program under scrutiny — the Air Force’s latest fighter jet, the F/A-22 Raptor, is also being given a hard look. The $71 billion program is behind schedule, and an Air Force official recently cited software malfunctions and […]

China’s growing space program took another new step this week when it was announced that female astronauts will be recruited for future space flights. China began to recruit woman pilots to its military forces in 1951, and hundreds of female pilots have joined the country’s civil aviation ranks and air force since then. China sent […]

NASA’s Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) recently established a new consortium based in Indiana, the sixth state or regional group to join the National Consortium for Aviation Mobility (NCAM). The NCAM has teamed with NASA and the FAA in an effort to make better use of underutilized rural and suburban airports. NASA’s SATS program is […]