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All three people on board an Embraer Phenom jet and three people on the ground died when the aircraft crashed into a home in suburban Gaithersburg, Maryland, about 10:45 local time Monday morning. A woman and her two small children, who lived in the house, have been confirmed dead. The house was heavily damaged and […]

Visitors to the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Florida, coming up Jan. 14-17, will have a chance to kick the tires on some pre-owned aircraft as well as all the new models on display, show organizers have announced. The Expo has teamed up with Aviators Hot Line to promote a special area set aside […]

The FAA says it will improve contingency plans so it can better react to emergencies like the fire at Chicago Center in September. An internal review of the response after the sabotage and attempted suicide that shut down one of the country’s busiest ATC facilities says more airspace flexibility and a plan for staff deployment […]

Researchers at Caltech and the University of Arizona are working on a system that may someday allow aircraft designers to drastically reduce the size of the vertical stabilizer. That, they say, will reduce weight and drag and save a lot of fuel. The researchers installed small jets along the rudder and blew streams of air […]

Competition between airlines is nothing new but Canada’s largest carriers seem to be in a pitched battle to prove which is the nicest. Last Christmas, WestJetthrew down the good cheer gauntlet by treating two loads of passengers to their Christmas wishes, which were delivered on the baggage carousel. The resulting video got nearly 37 million […]

Now that the airliner seat reclining issue seems to have subsided, a Dallas company has come up with another gadget designed to keep us from getting too close to our fellow passengers. The Soarigami is a plastic divider that clips on armrests to allow passengers on each side a segregated sliver of personal forearm space. […]

NASA’s Orion unmanned spacecraft successfully launched, orbited the Earth and splashed downFriday morning on its first test flight, one day after the liftoff was scrubbed due to weather and mechanical problems.Orion, a prototype capsule for future manned space missions, made two laps around the Earth, rode its Delta IV rocket up to 3,600 miles, then […]

Operation Good Cheer, the annual delivery of donated toys by general aviation aircraft to foster children in Michigan, is short 30 airplanes and pilots of the 100 it needs to get toys to over 5000 children this Saturday, Dec. 6. Each foster child has a sponsor who has purchased, wrapped and delivered gifts to the […]

Mooney says it will certify and build its new M10 trainers at its Chino, California, facility initially, but may also build production capability at the company’s long-established Kerrville, Texas, factory. Mooney CEO Jerry Chen told AVweb this week that the company has already worked out the basics of its certification program with the FAA and […]

A union lawsuit filed this week against NetJets Inc. alleges the private charter company illegally accessed a pilots union message board and created an imposter Twitter account in efforts to undermine the NetJets Association of Shared Aircraft Pilots, which represents about 2,700 pilots who fly for the company. The action is the latest in heated […]