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ADS-B data recorded by FlightRadar24 suggests the final 30 seconds of Metrojet Flight 9268 before the data stream stopped involved a series of violent dives and climbs reaching up to 8,000 feet per minute. In the last minute before the data ended, the aircraft was climbing normally at about 400 feet per minute before it […]

Faulty design and manufacturing of engine components were among likely causes of the Orbital Sciences rocket explosion a year ago, according to a report (PDF) this week from a NASA-appointed review team. The unmanned Antares rocket, carrying cargo to the International Space Station, exploded at a commercial launch site in Virginia on Oct. 28, 2014. […]

Flight Safety International and the City of Wichita have reached an agreement on disposition of the former Flight Safety facility, which was heavily damaged when a King Air crashed into the building. As we reported last year, four people, including three Flight Safety employees in the building, were killed when the aircraft crashed. Since then, […]

NASA will partner with the Houston Airport System (HAS) to develop one of 10 spaceports being permitted by the FAA near its home base at the Johnson Space Center. Cape Canaveral notwithstanding, NASA will partner with HAS to develop Ellington Airport into a spaceport. Spaceports, in the current definition, are airports where suborbital space flights […]

Twenty-one people were sent to hospitals Thursday when a Dynamic Airways Boeing 767 caught fire while taxiing for departure atFort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. One man suffered serious injuries during the evacuation of 101 passengers via emergency slides, WTVJ in Miami reported. Meanwhile, the airport closed the field, and one runway reopened around 3 p.m. Witnesses […]

A group of NASA engineers and private-sector partners working in California is moving forward with creating an X-Plane demonstrator they hope will prove the efficiency of using an array of small electric-powered propellers for general aviation aircraft. “This is a really important demonstrator for us,” NASA’s Mark Moore, the leader of the research team, told […]

A runaway military blimp thatfloated through part of Pennsylvania Wednesday, dragging a cable and cutting power to thousands of residents, has been secured. It’s not yet clear how the blimp escaped from its tether atAberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, butas many as 20,000 people were reported to be without electricity, according to CNN’s reporton the […]

The nonprofit group working to get the B-29 “Doc” flying again has met — and exceeded — their Kickstarter goal of $137,500, and say they now have the funds they need to complete the flight-test program. “Words cannot express the excitement and gratitude felt by our team right now,” Doc’s Friends wrote on their Facebook […]

The Air Force will pay $1 billion each for the first 21 of its new long-range stealth bombers under a deal announced Tuesday. The Air Force awarded the $55-billion-dollar overall contract to Northrop Grumman, which built the B-2 and is said to be planning a similar-looking aircraft as its replacement. For the first 21 airplanes, […]

As a Washington, D.C., court weighs the legality of posting flight sharing offers online, an Arizona Republican has introduced a bill that would compel the FAA to accept services like Flytenow. Flytenow, which hosted a website that allowed pilots to post their planned flights so prospective passengers could come along and pay a share of […]