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It was about 11 years ago that Alaska Airlines took the first online flight booking and now most of us arrange our aluminum tube travel that way. Booking private charters is naturally more complicated but CharterX says it’s achieved a software breakthrough called RealQuote that allows customers to book conveniently online with launch operators Segrave […]

Cirrus got a lot of attention last week when it unveiled its new Garmin “Perspective” panel at the EBACE show in Geneva, and now Avidyne wants to remind future Cirrus buyers that its Entegra panel, long the standard, is still an option. “Among other benefits,” the company said in a news release on Tuesday, “the […]

The Berlin Air Show, officially known as Internationale Luftfahrt-Ausstellung (ILA), opened on Tuesday with its biggest show ever, which should provide some reassurance to those who tend to worry about the future of aviation in an uncertain economy. More than 300 aircraft are on display, and over 1,100 exhibitors from 37 countries expect to welcome […]

French adventurer Michel Fournier watched his dreams of a record-setting skydive drift away on Tuesday as the helium balloon that was to carry him to the edge of space slipped its moorings and disappeared into the Canadian prairie sky. At a news conference Tuesday, Fournier speculated that static electricity caused the explosive charges that would […]

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A painstakingly precise hand-crafted duplicate of the original 1908 Wright Flyer is scheduled to make an appearance today (Monday) at the National Memorial Parade in Washington, D.C. Produced by Ken Hyde’s “Wright Experience,” the aircraft replicates the Flyer first flown at Fort Myer in September 1908. The original aircraft was seen by the Wrights as […]

A Kalitta Air Boeing 747 cargo jet carrying 76 tons of cargo Sunday crashed following an aborted takeoff at Brussels airport that split the fuselage and (according to some early reports) left four of the five crew members with minor injuries. The aircraft did not catch fire (and may have retained much of the fuel […]

Less than-ideal weather conditions forced postponement of Michel Fournier’s attempt at a record setting skydive over Saskatchewan, Canada Monday but he hoped to try again Tuesday. The 64-year-old Fournier was scheduled to enter his pressurized gondola at 4 a.m. Tuesday to be carried for more than two hours by his 650-foot balloon to 130,000 feet […]

“Crossing the Channel with a pedal-powered airship is both totally unnecessary and a very eloquent statement on human nature,” said Stephane Rousson, the 39-year-old man who plans to do it if only the winds (and his stamina) will cooperate. Rousson is hoping for a near-windless day to facilitate his attempt next month. His airship, Zeppy, […]

Virgin Atlantic and Boeing first flew a commercial airliner on biofuel earlier this year, followed by Continental Airline’s announcement that Continental would fly a demonstration flight in 2009, and now Airbus with Honeywell, International Aero Engines and JetBlue have announced an alternative fuel partnership. The new partnership will work to develop renewable energy technology that […]