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Britain’s Nigel Lamb won the 2014 Red Bull Air Race series in a nail-biting final race in Spielberg, Austria, on Sunday. Lamb came second in the race behind France’s Nicolas Ivanoff (it was Lamb’s sixth second-place finish in eight races in 2014) and the nine points he earned for the finish vaulted him above front-runner […]

One of the most difficult distinctions to win in U.S. aviation is the FAA’s Wright Brothers Award so officials might want to check what’s in the water at Pecan Plantation Airpark in Granbury, Texas. The FAA will present 13 awards to members of EAA Chapter 983 on Nov. 8. To get the award, pilots must […]

Friday’s world-record high-altitude skydive by computer scientist Alan Eustace pioneered a new space suit and life support system and the data collected from the jump may inform the design of a six-person capsule now in the works. Eustace, a Google senior executive, established the new record by exiting a balloon at 135,890 feet over Roswell, […]

Following a nearly three-year secret development program, computer scientist Alan Eustace today shattered the world skydiving record with a jump from 135,890 feet, a supersonic free fall and a safe landing 70 miles from his departure point at Roswell, New Mexico. The previous record skydive was from 128,100 feet-it was set by Austrian daredevil Felix […]

In January 2012, Bell Canada applied to the FAA for an exemption from the FARs that would allow it to increase the gross weight of its Model 429 by 500 pounds to 7,500 pounds as had been approved in Canada and a number of other countries. The FAA denied the petition in August 2012. Bell […]

In an exclusive, Reuters is reportingthat Lockheed Martin and the Defense Department have inked a $4 billion deal for an eighth series delivery of 43 F-35 single-engine, all-weather, stealth fighters. According to the report, the hard-fought contract will lower the price of the jet by about 3 percent-and it includes aircraft to be built for […]

While the rest of the world, especially Israel and Australia, move rapidly forward with commercial deployment of unmanned aircraft systems, the FAA’s slow formulation of regulations endangers the U.S. ability to compete. That was one observation that came out of an hour-long panel discussion attended by several hundred people at NBAA in Orlando this week. […]

The eighth and final race of this year’s Red Bull Air Race series will be held Sunday at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. Nigel Lamb of Britain stands in first place with 53 points after seven races, ahead of Hannes Arch at 48 points, who will be competing in his home country. The […]

UFO reports by airliner crews are nothing new, but a British A320 crew raised eyebrows after saying they had a close encounter with a flying man who swooped past their aircraft without visible means of support on June 13. The UFO has been dubbed the “Superman of Macclesfield” and the UK Airprox Board, which investigates […]

Three people were reportedly killed Thursday afternoon at the Frederick, Maryland, airport when an airplane and a helicopter collided close to the runway. The airplane was a Cirrus SR22, according to WJZ-TV, and news photographs show firefighters with a deployed parachute from the aircraft. Two men aboard the Cirrus were taken to a Hagerstown, Maryland, […]