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Two of Ireland’s busiest airports, Cork and Shannon, will soon get remote control towers operated from a third airport in Dublinin what appears to be the first operational full-scale test of remote tower technology. The Swedish aerospace and industrial conglomerate Saab is providing the equipment and overseeing the test program. According to Saab, the remote […]

The loss of an Airbus A400M and four crew on a test flight on May 9 was caused by incorrectly installed software, an Airbus official told a German newspaper last week. “The black boxes attest … that there are no structural defects, but we have a serious quality problem in the final assembly,” Marwan Lahoud, […]

The Solar Impulse crew has cut short their attempt to fly from China to Hawaii on solar power, with a safe landing in Nagoya, Japan, at almost midnight local time Monday. Options for navigating a weather front along the route deteriorated, and the crew decided to land and wait for another opportunity. Despite the delay, […]

A bipartisan group of U.S. representatives is asking FAA Administrator Michael Huerta for full disclosure relating to the alleged cheating by some candidates for air traffic controller positions. As AVweb reported last week, Fox Business News says it’s in possession of a voicemail from a senior FAA official offering select controller candidates the answers to […]

Evidence suggests the FBI operates a sizeable fleet of single-engine Cessnas that it doesn’t want the rest of us to know about and it’s not talking about the purpose of the aircraft. In an investigative report in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, the paper was able to identify a Cessna 182T that spent hours circling […]

Google has just confirmed that one of its prototype solar-powered Internet UAS crashed a month ago near Albuquerque. The aircraft, which looks like a giant glider, is designed to fly above the weather at 60,000 feet and send wireless Internet connectivity from the sky. The UAS was first built by Titan Aerospace (under CEO Vern […]

Solar Impulse 2 was in a solar-powered holding pattern over the western Pacific late Sunday as a weather front blocked its path to Hawaii. Officials tweeted that the aircraft will continue to hold its position while forecasters determine if the one-of-a-kind solar-powered airplane can complete its journey from Nanjing, China, to Hawaii, 4,412 nm away. […]

Authorities are looking for whoever pointed green lasers at five airliners Thursday night in the airspace near JFK Airport, the New York Post reported. The crews of two Delta airliners, an American Airlines jet and a Shuttle America flight reported laser light in the cockpits at 8,000 feet between 9:30 and 10 p.m. Thursday after […]

The catastrophic floods in Texas have not only scrubbed weekend GA events at airports in the state, they’ve changed the landscape from summer recreation to disaster relief. Redbird Skyport in San Marcos, Texas, said Saturday’s Bluebonnet Fly-Inhas been postponed until June 6, and it will now be a fundraiser for area flood victims.Proceeds from fuel […]

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) has added its voice to a growing chorus calling for an investigation into allegations that some prospective air traffic controller trainees were helped to cheat during the selection process by one or more FAA employees. A three-part series on Fox Business News broke the staggering accusations that a […]