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Calling it a yacht may be a stretch, but French designer Stephane Rousson says it fits his aircraft, which is intended purely for pleasure and adventure flying. The system employs a small helium-filled blimp connected by a cable to a small hydrofoil in the water, creating a sort of airborne sailing craft that Rousson says […]

Bloomberg is reporting that Embraer is considering closing its factory in Harbin, China, because of slumping demand. Orders for business jets in China have essentially stopped thanks to a crackdown on corruption. The wealthy are lying low trying not to attract the attention of increasingly aggressive government investigators and buying a business jet has fallen […]

NASA said recently it will invest more than $2.3 million to support eight research projects that are working to develop quieter supersonic aircraft with fewer emissions. The support will go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California at Irvine, as well as several industry teams including Wyle Laboratories, Rockwell Collins and […]

Four students are at the Glasair factory in Arlington, Washington, this week helping to build a Sportsman, as their reward for winning the third GAMA/Build A Plane Design Challenge. The Chef Homeschoolers team from Cuba City, Wisconsin, won the trip in a nationwide competition that aims to develop their skills in science, math, engineering and […]

Airbus is working on a reusable launch vehicle that could boost a rocket into space, then fly back home like a drone and land on a runway. The winged and powered vehicle, called Adeline, has been in the works since 2010, Airbus said on Friday. Airbus allowed a contingent of reporters a look at the […]

The FAA kicked off a national general-aviation safety campaign on Saturday, encouraging GA pilots to install and use angle-of-attack indicators in their aircraft. Loss of control is the number-one cause of GA accidents. Angle-of-attack indicators can help to prevent some of these accidents, the FAA said, by making it easier for a pilot to recognize […]

The Commemorative Air Force has launched a Kickstarter campaign to prevent a historical artifact from being converted into a highly respected modern aircraft. The odd turn of events is playing out in the boneyard at Basler Aircraft in Oshkosh where a worn-out DC-3 was being prepared for a new life as a BT-67, the successful […]

Cessna has received FAA certification for its new Latitude business jet and it’s right on time. The Latitude was announced at NBAA in 2011 as an eight-passenger midsize with some design features of larger platforms, including a six-foot stand-up cabin and width of 77 inches. “From inception, we looked at every aspect of how we […]

Clint Eastwood will produce the Hollywood interpretation of the events that became known as the Miracle on the Hudson. Eastwood will direct the movie based on the ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in January of 2009. It will be produced by Eastwood and Tim Moore along with well-known Hollywood producers […]

The co-pilot of Germanwings 9525, found to have deliberately crashed the Airbus A320 into the Alps in March, had contacted dozens of doctors before that flight — possibly in efforts to get help for a mental or physical condition, according to an Associated Press report on Friday. Andreas Lubitz, who killed all 150 people aboard […]