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AOPA’s Air Safety Institute has produced a new video and a printed guide to help educate pilots and passengers about the skills they need to survive a forced landing in an aircraft. “The safest pilot is one who prepares for any eventuality,” said George Perry, senior vice president at ASI. “That includes preparing for an […]

The FAA has backed off on its controversial bid to force the early replacement of thousands of ECi cylinders but still wants the cylinders on thousands of engines replaced long before the end of their normal service life. In 2013, the FAA issued an airworthiness directivecalling for repetitive inspections and early (sometimes immediate) replacement of […]

Airbus has introduced a long-range (4,000-nm) version of its A321neo single-aisle airliner as it squares off against Boeing in the lucrative low end of the airliner market. The neo is Airbus’s next-generation version of the A320 series, which goes head to head with Boeing’s 737 MAX, which currently has a projected range of up to […]

While the FAA creeps toward releasing regulations for unmanned aerial systems, plenty of entrepreneurs and designers are moving ahead with new products. One new design, the X PlusOne, aims to combine the usual VTOL multi-rotor design with the ability to fly horizontally at high speeds. xCraft, a start-up company, is just wrapping up a successful […]

The NTSB released its annual Most Wanted List for safety improvements on Tuesday morning, and for general aviation the number-one issue is loss-of-control accidents. “The Most Wanted List is our roadmap for 2015,” said NTSB acting chairman Christopher Hart. “This list is grounded in the accident investigations by which NTSB learns safety lessons, and in […]

Indonesian divers have recovered the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage of AirAsia Flight QZ8501. The FDR was recovered Monday and the CVR was retrieved from underneath a wing, which had to be lifted from the seabed using airbags. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that officials were able to successfully […]

With a fresh injection of ideas and a little different focus, the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo gets underway Jan. 14 at Sebring Regional Airport in central Florida. It runs through Jan. 17. The show has been rebranded as the Affordable Aviation Expo and will be a clearinghouse of products and services for those looking to […]

Mooney has made its first delivery to a Chinese customer since coming under new Chinese ownership last year. CEO Jerry Chen said the M20TN was built at its U.S. factory in Kerrville, Texas, and then disassembled for placement in a shipping container. “After the airplane arrived in Zhengzhou in China we reassembled it and then […]

The FAA is deputizing police forces across the U.S. in the fight against illegal drone use. The agency has issued a 12-page guide to law-enforcement agencies enlisting their help in stemming the “considerable increase in the unauthorized use” of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS). Of course, the police don’t really have the authority to enforce […]

Indonesian government officials say divers have located the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from AirAsia Flight 8501 but they are trapped under wreckage and haven’t been retrieved. Searchers hoped to shift the wreckage enough to get at the recorders Monday. The recorders will likely have clues, if not outright answers, to the questions that […]