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According to the FAA, 4.5 miles is the new five miles. USA Today reported last week the agency has adopted new reporting standards for air traffic separation errors that, among other things, give controllers a 10-percent margin for error in maintaining the once-sacrosanct five-mile spacing. The newspaper paraphrases Tony Ferrante, director of the FAA’s Air […]

A North Dakota air-taxi service that was heavily funded by state and local governments has defaulted on its aircraft lease payments, and its aircraft, a Cirrus SR22 and a Diamond DA42 Twin Star, have been repossessed by the bank holding the leases on the airplanes. The Fargo Forum reported last week that Point2Point Airways owes […]

The next president will have an “Oval Office In The Sky” aboard what is described as the most technologically advanced helicopter ever built. According to a news release, the AgustaWestland/Lockheed Martin VH-71 flew for the first time on July 3 and test pilots reported the aircraft performed well on the 40-minute flight at Italy-based AgustaWestlands […]

British adventurer David Hempleman-Adams set a record Friday after flying a helium balloon from Newfoundland and Labrador to the French countryside near Dijon. According to Canadian Press, he used the smallest helium balloon ever to make that kind of trip. He took off from St. Johns on Monday and spent four almost sleepless days crossing […]

Able Flight, a nonprofit group that works to offer flight training to people with disabilities, awarded its first scholarships last December, and last week the group graduated its first certified pilot. Only a few days after the one-year anniversary of the accident that left him paralyzed, scholarship winner Brad Jones, 22, earned his sport pilot […]

The pilot and a woman who lived near the airport died when a Cessna Citation 500 (N771HR) crashed into a house in Conway, Ark., on Saturday. A passenger on the twinjet and the woman’s husband survived the accident. The pilot was apparently trying to go around after landing too long down the runway, which may […]

Diamond Aircraft will introduce its latest creation, the DA50 Super Star, to the North American market at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., later this month. The airplane will debut at a press event on the show’s opening day, Monday, July 23. The single-engine Super Star is equipped with a Teledyne Continental TSIOF-550J engine, rated at […]

Embraer is within weeks of taking its Phenom 100 very light jet for its very first flight, the company said on Tuesday. The prototype is now in a ground-testing phase at company headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as engineering teams confirm the design quality of the aircraft and test its systems. “The Phenom 100 test […]

AERO-Friedrichshafen, the European aviation show that has become increasingly popular among the general aviation crowd in recent years, this week announced its schedule through 2013. In the past the show has run into conflicts with other events, especially Sun ‘n Fun in Florida, and the organizers hope to avoid that by planning ahead. The next […]

Sonex Aircraft says it will unveil a new proof-of-concept aircraft at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., later this month that’s propelled by a “revolutionary” environmentally friendly powerplant. Sonex and AeroConversions Products will reveal their E-Flight project at a press conference on Tuesday, July 24, at AeroShell Square, the center of the show at Oshkosh, the […]