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Violent storms in Chandler, Arizona, late Tuesday flipped over airplanes at the Chandler Municipal Airport, scattering them about the field and damaging an estimated 30 aircraft in all. Photos and video at KCHD showed GA airplanes, mostly light singles recognizable by their wings and tails, sitting askew or lying belly-up around the tiedown area. Chandler […]

Ettore Bugatti’s 100P racing plane has been called “the most beautiful design that never flew,” but that might be changing soon, as a team that’s been working for years on a replica has started taxi tests. Former Air Force pilot Scott Wilson and his team, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, got some momentum on the project […]

The Cessna Citation M2 now has been certified to operate to and from airports with elevations up to 14,000 feet, Textron announced on Tuesday at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The new capability means the jet now can operate from La Paz, Bolivia, and Quito, Ecuador. Textron also […]

With the FAA and the aviation community facing increasing pressure to find a way to keep UAS and airplanes separate, a group of four engineering students from the University of Rhode Island have proposed a solution. Their project, which took first place in an FAA design competition, proposes installing a solar-powered drone detection and tracking […]

The erratic work schedules of air traffic controllers often cause chronic fatigue, endangering the system’s safety, according to a 2011 NASA report that The Associated Press saysthe FAA “kept secret for years.” The FAA now has posted the report online (PDF), hours after the AP posted its story.Controllers participating in the study wore a wrist […]

A new design for a solar-powered hybrid hot-air balloon, by Cameron Balloons, made its first flight this weekend at a balloon rally in Bristol, England. The aircraft is the first fully certified balloon to use the hybrid solar concept. The balloon envelope is designed with a special black panel, which absorbs the heat from the […]

A lawnmower operator is dead after he was hit by a Ryan PT-22 while cutting the turf runway at Frazier Airpark, near Hollister, California, on Aug. 7. KSBW TVreports Douglas Ralph Jackson, 75, died instantly when the aircraft hit the large riding mower he was on after landing. The unidentified pilot of the Ryan told […]

Just Aircraft says water in the fuel caused the loss of their demonstrator SuperSTOL aircraft on Aug. 2. Company founder Troy Woodland was at the controls when the aircraft went down shortly after takeoff at the company’s home base of Walhalla, South Carolina. Although the aircraft was destroyed, Woodland and his unidentified passenger were uninjured. […]

Officials are crediting teamwork between air traffic controllers and the pilots of a Delta Air Lines A320 with a successful outcome after the severely hail-damaged aircraft made an emergency landing at Denver International Airport on Friday. The aircraft was on a flight from Boston to Salt Lake City when it went flew through an area […]

The number of fatal general aviation accidents in the U.S. increased slightly in 2014 to 253, from 222 the previous year, the NTSB said Thursday in its preliminary report of annual statistics. The fatality rate also climbed in 2014, with 1.4 accidents per 100,000 flight hours compared to 1.12 the previous year. Overall, the accident […]