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Airbus often celebrates milestones with media events and the recent EASA certification of its A350 XWB airliner resulted in a pretty impressive formation act. Airbus launched its five flight test A350s and flew a formation routine that resulted in a neat video. The big airliners were shot in a variety of relatively intricate maneuvers, sometimes […]

Satellite communications company Inmarsat has written a “clear language” analysis in the Royal Institute of Navigation’s peer-reviewed journal on the high-tech detective work that went into establishing the current search area for Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370. The Boeing 777 disappeared in early March on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and as new information […]

A VTOL aircraft designed to pick up and carry a standard 20-foot cargo container — like the ones carried by trucks and ships — is in the works at a start-up company in the UK. Thorsten Reinhardt, founder and managing director of 4X4 Aviation, based at London Ashford Airport, flew a small scale model of […]

President Obama will issue an executive order regarding drones and privacy issues “any day now,” according to a report in The Hill on Monday.Michael Drobac, the organizer of the Small UAV Coalition, which launched last week, said the executive order would aim to satisfy privacy advocates by requiring federal drone operators to make public the […]

It’s been in the works for many years — AVweb shot video of it in flying at EAA AirVenture in 2008 — but now the makers of the Martin Jetpack say they’re ready to sell shares in their company, in an initial public offering, to raise cash for production, sometime before the end of this […]

The family of airshow pilot Eddy Andreini has launched a second lawsuit against the Air Force over Andreini’s death at the Thunder Over Solano Air Show at Travis Air Force Base in California last May. The family is alleging the Air Force is stonewalling Freedom of Information Act requests for the base fire department records […]

Steve Lagergren did a little impromptu formation work on Sunday and was surprised to find out it was his own Beech Debonair that pulled up beside the RV-7 he built and flies out Litchfield, Minnesota. Lagergren is the 2014 AOPA Sweepstakes winner and found out through his headset from AOPA President Mark Baker. With help […]

More than 260 passengers and crew were quarantined on a United Airlines Boeing 777 at Liberty International Airport Saturday after a passenger traveling from Liberia threw up during a flight from Brussels. He and his daughter were taken off the plane by HAZMAT-suited officials from the Center for Disease Control to be tested for Ebola, […]

For those who thought Amazon.com was not serious about its plans to deliver packages with Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), its petition to the FAA for an exemption to test them outdoors near Seattle, Washington, has been pending since July 9. With the FAA’s recent approval of some petitions for exemption for UAS in the movie […]

The latest version of the flying car from AeroMobil, “3.0,” referred to as the Flying Roadster, will be displayed to the public for the first time at the Pioneers Festival in Vienna, Austria, on Oct. 29. Developed in Slovakia, the sleek two-place prototype evolved from the AeroMobil 2.5, which has flown. Powered by a Rotax […]