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EAA AirVenture is coming up in just a few weeks, and there will plenty of programs for pilots-in-training, current pilots and future pilots. Teachers who might inspire kids to take an interest in aviation can find their own inspiration at the sixth annual Teacher’s Day, set for July 21. Test pilot Dick Rutan will be […]

Aircraft Spruce will hold its annual Canadian Customer Appreciation at its Brantford, Ontario, location this coming Saturday, June 27, at 150 Aviation Ave. at the Brantford Municipal Airport from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be displays and personnel on site from major Spruce suppliers like Champion Aerospace, Concorde, Dynon, Full Lotus, Gill, ICOM, […]

Aspen Avionics announced this week that it has acquired Accord Technology, a U.S.-based company that supplies certified GPS receivers for the aviation market, mostly for use in mandate-compliant ADS-B equipment. Accord has been an assembly and distribution arm for Accord India, which develops and manufactures GPS receivers for a broad range of markets. Aspen’s John […]

The Hoverbike design created by Malloy Aeronautics, a small U.K.-based company, will be developed with backing from the U.S. Department of Defense, Malloy announced last week at the Paris Air Show. Malloy has teamed up with Survice Engineering, a defense firm based in Maryland, to work toward developing a design that can be used as […]

Pilot Romain Jantot said it was “a standard flight … until …” a confused black-and-white cat crawled out of the wing of his ultralight, to peek into the cockpit. The cat is the mascot at his airport, Jantot said, and apparently had been doing some exploring. “I still don’t know if it got in after […]

The pilot of a Cessna 185 on floats escaped injury after his aircraft collided with a Cessna 172 near the northern Alberta city of Fort McMurray on Sunday but his flight home will be one to remember. Both occupants of the 172, a training airplane from a Fort McMurray flight school, died in the resulting […]

Two RX1E light sport aircraft, the first electric-powered airplanes to be manufactured in China, were handed off to a customer in a ceremony in Shenyang, China, last week. “The RX1E indicates a milestone in our general aviation,” said Yang Feng, president of Shenyang Aerospace University, where the design was developed. “We will dedicate ourselves to […]

The FAA last week published a notice of proposed rulemaking that would increase to 20 hours the simulator time allowed for the instrument rating, following an earlier attempt using a straight-to-final rule process that was derailed when two commenters objected to the change. The new proposal states that the FAA aims to “relieve burdens on […]

Through the last 100 years or so, pilots have been dreaming up ways to impress with their flying skills and Red Bull Air Race pilot Paul Bonhomme has added a new definition of hangar flying. Last week Bonhomme and his friend Steve Jones flew in formation through a hangar in Wales at about 185 mph. […]

Reports out of Hollywood say Tom Hanks has been picked to play Capt. Chesley Sullenberger in the movie adaptation of the Miracle on the Hudson pilot’s autobiography. Variety reported late last week that Hanks is in final negotiations to play the lead in a movie that will be directed by Clint Eastwood. Hanks has a […]