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The Pietenpol Aircraft Company has been selling plans to its Air Camper design since 1929, and now builders can also buy kits. The two-seat Air Camper was designed to be built from spruce and plywood, “an affordable airplane that could be built by the common man with materials that could be purchased in a hardware […]

Flight Design has partnered with AeroJones, a Taiwanese company working in China, to build its airplanes in Xiamen, a coastal city, for the Asian market. AeroJones has successfully completed a “full manufacturing evaluation,” Flight Design said in a news release this week. Flight Design CEO Matthias Betsch, Director Christian Wenger and Flight Design USA President […]

Amid signs that avionics shops are busier than they have been in nearly a decade, the 58thAircraft Electronics Association convention opens this week in Dallas with a sold-out hall and record pre-registrations. “Since the beginning of 2015, it seems like general aviation, especially the electronics industry, has really been picking up some steam,” says Paula […]

Living in the Age of Airplanes, a National Geographic documentary, will open in big-screen theaters across the country this weekend. The film, narrated by Harrison Ford, aims to celebrate “how the airplane has enriched our lives,” director Brian Terwilliger told AVweb. Set in 95 locations spanning 18 countries and all 7 continents, the film has […]

A glider pilot suffered only minor injuries after high winds reportedly tore the wings off his aircraft and he parachuted to safety on the roof of a parkade in Reno, Nevada, on Sunday. The unidentified pilot launched from soaring mecca Minden, about 40 miles south of Reno, on Sunday afternoon and was on his way […]

While lightning strikes on airliners aren’t that rare, videos of them don’t come up that often. University of Washington student Owen Craft was therefore understandably excited when he got footage of two airliners being hit while on approach to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport last week. “I was stunned for a second because I couldn’t believe what […]

Air Canada has sent $5,000 checks to all 133 passengers aboard an A320 that crashed at Halifax last week and the airline is saying it’s a gesture to make amends, not a ploy to blunt legal action. The letter calls the crash an “unfortunate experience” that “inconvenienced” the passengers but it’s not loaded with intrigue, […]

SpaceX is planning its next launch to resupply the International Space Station at 4:33 p.m. EDT on April 13, NASA announced this week. The space station mission for the Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Dragon spacecraft, will be the sixth for SpaceX. The mission will launch from Cape Canaveral and if it starts on schedule, […]

The NTSB continues its probe into the Delta MD-88 that veered off a runway at LaGuardia Airport on March 5, issuing a third report Thursday. Investigators saidthey will examine the snow-clearing procedures at LaGuardia as well as snow-clearing operations on the day of the accident.In its new report, the NTSB found that Runway 13, where […]

Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot found to have crashed a Germanwings A320 into the French Alps on March 24, not only set the Airbus’ autopilot to descend into the ground, but changed the settings several times to increase the aircraft’s speed, French investigators stated Friday in a BBC report. The findings came after the retrieval of […]