News

Air France pilots ended a two-week strike Sunday but did so without resolving its fight with the company. The SNPL, Air France’s main pilots union, simply gave up and flights are expected to resume in a couple of days. The pilots walked out to pressure the airline into covering pilots of its new budget carrier […]

The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s Lancaster bomber is back at its home base in Hamilton, Ontario (about 40 miles west of Toronto) after a triumphant and, at times, dramatic six-week tour of the U.K. The aircraft touched down at John C. Munro Airport just after noon on Sunday after a leisurely trip from Lincolnshire in […]

Capacity is steadily increasing at airports affected by the sabotage of critical communications equipment at Chicago Center on Friday. As of late Sunday (PDF), the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said 72 flights per hour were getting into O’Hare International Airport and departure delays of 15 minutes in the afternoon were expected to increase to […]

The pilot of Searey homebuilt that was in a mid-air collision with Cessna 172 during a Young Eagles event in western New York said his training kicked in after the two aircraft hit.”I just knew I had to keep flying the plane,” Kevin D’Angelo told a news conference. “As a pilot you train over and […]

Air traffic was slowly returning to normal late Friday after an early-morning arson fire at the FAA Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center (Chicago Center) facility in Aurora, Illinois, affected at least 1,950 flights. Chicago Center handles IFR traffic over some or all of the states of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. As of […]

Airbus celebrated the first flight of its new A320neo Thursday at its facility in Toulouse, France. Powered by a pair of Pratt & Whitney PurePower PW1100G-JM engines, the aircraft flew for 2.5 hours performing initial system checks and began the process of expanding the flight and performance envelope, reaching a maximum altitude of 26,500 feet. […]

As we reported Tuesday, the FAA has taken the first steps to allow commercial use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in what it referred to as the National Airspace System by granting limited exemptions from the Federal Aviation Regulations to six aerial photo and video production companies to use UAS below 400 feet AGL on […]

Brazilian aircraft giant Embraer and its U.S. partner, Sierra Nevada Corp., rolled out the first the A-29 Super Tucano for the U.S. Air Force in Jacksonville, Florida, on Thursday. (See the video here.) The aircraft is the first of 20 purchased by the Air Force for deployment in Afghanistan where they will serve as trainers […]

It might seem after more than 100 years, we’ve figured out the best ways to fly, but creative folks insist on continuing to try new technologies. One young inventor, Aaron Wypyszynski, of Meridianville, Alabama, is working on a “wingboard” that enthusiasts could ride, like a kind of waterski, in the wake of an airplane. “It […]

AOPA has brought back its “Homecoming” fly-in at its headquarters in Frederick, Maryland, and this week posted instructions to ensure that pilots are prepared for the local traffic and procedures for the Oct. 4 event. “Flying in doesn’t mean winging it,” AOPA said on its website. “Do your homework … to ensure you’re safe and […]