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The FAA says it’s done its part and now it’s up to the aviation industry to meet the 2020 deadline for mandatory ADS-B equipage. To that end the agency will hold a “call to action summit” to discuss how to bring tens of thousands of aircraft into compliance in a little more than six years. […]

AOPA says pretty much anything to do with aircraft storage and active maintenance and construction should be considered an “aeronautical use” and be permitted in hangars on federally funded airports. In comments to the FAA (PDF) on its proposed policy on the definition of aeronautical uses, AOPA says it wants the FAA’s policy to use […]

As part of the 100th anniversary celebration for its first-in-the-nation Aeronautical (now Aerospace) Engineering Department, the University of Michigan is staging a flyoverof a fleet of historic aircraft before Saturday’s football game at the Big House. Honoring an engineering school that turned out such notables as Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, founder of Lockheed’s famed Skunk Works, […]

The Canadian Transportation Safety Board yesterday released its findingon a 2013 multiple-fatality midair collision between a Cessna 150 and a motor glider with an analysis that said the 150 pilot was probably wearing a baseball cap that affected his ability to see the glider. While only one of several factors mentioned regarding visibility, including relative […]

An engine failure and a proliferation of cellphones resulted in the dramatic and well-covered return of a JetBlue flight to Long Beach Thursday morning. Flight 1416 was reportedly 25 minutes into the flight to Austin when alarms went off in the cockpit and smoke filled the cabin. The oxygen masks were deployed and there was […]

In response to what was becoming a stalemate over an airman who was trying to reenlist, the U.S. Air Force has directed its support offices to allow both enlisted members and officers to omit the words “So help me God” from oaths for enlistment and officer appointments if an airman chooses. The change became effective […]

In an ironic turn, nearly 80 years after Stalin derided the Pope of the Catholic Church by asking how many divisions he had, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, now owns one of the most advanced combat jets in the world. After giving workers at a Sukhoi Company plant icons he had […]

At an investor conference hosted by Morgan Stanley this week, Boeing’s CEO Ray Conner announced that Boeing is looking to increase 737 production to a whopping 52 a month as soon as 2018. Boeing is currently pushing 42 of its top-selling airliners out the door each month and had previously said that its production goal […]

Gulfstream is quietly making progress toward a supersonic business jet that might be able to fly above Mach 1 over the U.S. FAA regulations currently ban supersonic flight over land in the U.S. The company has earned three patents in the last few months toward that end and Business in Savannah says that’s a pretty […]

Within a few years, U.S. astronauts will be able to launch to the International Space Station from the U.S., instead of traveling to Russia as they’ve been doing since the end of the space-shuttle program in 2011, NASA said on Tuesday. NASA said it has chosen Boeing and SpaceX to develop crew-carrying spacecraft by 2017. […]