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Chicago Center is expected to be back in full service Monday, a little more than two weeks after an arson fire put it out of commission. Since the Sept. 26 fire, which was allegedly set by a contractor’s employee who also tried to take his own life, staff and contractors have been scrambling to clean […]

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Three people who were on a rescue helicopter that went down in the remote mountains of Myanmar walked out of the forest 10 days after the crash. The Chiang Mai (Thailand) Mail is reporting the Thai pilot, identified as Capt. Chatwal Thanthong, suffered a spinal injury and is in the hospital but his Burmese copilot […]

Hard on the heels of breaking ground on its U.S. assembly facility, Embraer delivered the first Legacy 500, its new midsize executive jet. The Legacy 500 has six-foot, flat-floor cabin and boasts a cabin altitude at cruise of 6000 feet. Equipped with eight passenger seats, the seats can be converted into four beds. The jet […]

Canada’s Pete McLeod earned his first win in the Red Bull Air Race seriesSunday in Las Vegas but it wasn’t the way he wanted to win. McLeod was awarded the victory on the strength of his first-place qualifying time on Saturday after heavy winds cancelled the final rounds on Sunday.This shows that Qualifying is important […]

Today, Embraer began construction of a major addition to its Melbourne Airport, Florida campus-a 236,000-square-foot assembly complex for its Legacy 450 and 500 aircraft. It will consist of four new buildings: an assembly hangar, paint facility, completion center and delivery center. The new construction, expected to be completed in 2016, will more than double the […]

NASA has developed a new technology to help deliver information to pilots flying in remote areas of Alaska without access to navigation aids and communications. The project, called Traffic and Atmospheric Information for General Aviation (TAIGA), can provide a pilot with customized data sets that can be downloaded quickly via satellite and plugged into a […]

FK Lightplanes has begun the flight-test phase for its scale-replica carbon-fiber P-51 Mustang. The first-flight video, posted online last week, shows the airplane taking off and flying along the runway briefly before settling down again. Test pilot Thomas Kreimeier said the airplane was stable in flight and landing, and responded well to rudder inputs. CEO […]

Due to fears of the disease Ebola, five of the busiest international airports in the U.S. are enhancing screening measures for arriving passengers who began their travel in West African countries. According to a report in the Washington Post, the travelers will be given questionnaires and have their temperatures taken at John F. Kennedy International […]

A Cal Fire air tanker crashed in Yosemite National Park in California Tuesday afternoon, killing the unidentified pilot. The S-2T aircraft was fighting the Dog Rock Fire near Arch Rock and hit the wall of a canyon. The circumstances of the crash were not clear in early reports. The fire started about 2:45 p.m. and […]