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Even before fly by wire becomes the standard, companies have been exploring the next steps to remove hydraulics from the aircraft control equation. In mid-October, Gulfstream successfully demonstrated primary aircraft flight-surface control using “fly-by-wireless” technology. And, last week, Bombardier announced it had executed a first test flight with an all-electric Meggitt braking system, called EBrake. […]

The first European Aerial Firefighting Conference was held Oct. 21 and 22 in Athens, Greece, and it collected operators and suppliers from 22 nations running in association with the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. Primarily formed to address technologies and techniques to improve the efficacy and safety of aerial firefighting, the conference has […]

Nuclear-powered aircraft will be carrying millions of passengers around the world before the end of this century, according to Ian Poll, head of technology for a U.K. government-funded project to reduce the environmental impact of air travel. Poll, a professor of aerospace engineering at Cranfield university (Bedfordshire, U.K.), offers that experiments performed by both the […]

One part of the complex mystery of Steve Fossett’s disappearance 14 months ago may have been solved with the discovery of bones, a pair of shoes and his driver’s license. “We talked to the family and advised them that we possibly, most likely, found the remains of J. Stephen Fossett,” Madera County Sheriff John Anderson […]

Recently made famous in general aviation through the Cirrus’ Perspective avionics package (AVweb video), a similar little blue button has been introduced on the Sting S3 LSA’s instrument panel and it aims to provide pilots with similar results — wings-level, fixed-heading and fixed-altitude flight — at the touch of a button. The Sting S3 light […]

As winter approaches, days get shorter … well, not shorter; they’re still 24 hours each, but they do get darker. To master nighttime’s dark side, shed light on the following questions. Take the quiz. More Brainteasers

In Monday’s edition of AVwebFlash, we incorrectly stated the proposed selling price of the Falx Air VTOL personal aircraft as $1.5 million. The creators actually hope to have a base price of $250,000. We also called the aircraft a tiltrotor. It’s more accurately described as a tiltwing.

Since early summer we’ve heard rumblings that Garmin would soon debut a new portable navigator and the company said today it will roll out the GPSMap 695 and 696 at AOPA Expo next week in San Jose, California. These new products end Garmin’s longish product intro drought with a pair of large-screen navigators that have […]

Click for (slightly) larger images FAA records are full of reports of various pieces of ground equipment coming in contact with aircraft on ramps and taxiways all over the country but an incident at O’Hare International Airport a couple of weeks back was out of the ordinary. As the accompanying photos show, a Skywest Regional […]

AAI Acquisitions says it still plans to certify the A700 very light jet but the “unprecedented” global economic situation has forced the company to sit tight for now. In a statement, the company said it will come up with a new schedule for certification after things have settled down. “Flight test and other development activity […]