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AVwebs weekly survey of whats new in aviation uncovered an expansion of the long-running Citation Special Olympics Airlift, election of there new board members of the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators, a Fly First Year Free promotion for one Diamond DA40 XLT and the scheduling of a Heavy Bomber Weekend in Milwaukee just prior […]

Bombardier Aerospace announced that its Challenger 350 aircraft has been awarded Transport Canada Certification. Bombardier expects certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to be received shortly. According to Bombardier, the Challenger 350 will carry as many as eight passengers 3200 nm and cruise as fast as Mach 0.80 under optimal conditions. Power is provided […]

The U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday voted to provide $15.7 billion to the Federal Aviation Administration in fiscal year 2015, representing a slight increase from the current $15.6 billion funding level. AOPA is reporting that the bill prohibits the imposition of aviation user fees and also fees for digital navigational charts. The bill also directs […]

It’s not the first time this trick has been done … Kirby Chambliss, for one, did it in Mexico a few years ago … but pilot Skip Stewart is making the airplane-flies-under-jumping-motorcycle stunt part of his routine on the airshow circuit this summer, and this week his online videos went viral. Stewart, who last year […]

Airbus’s A350 XWB carried passengers for the first time earlier this month, taking two loads of Airbus employees and “cabin experts” from Toulouse back to Toulouse on shakedown flights. Those on the flights to nowhere were urged to press all the buttons and generally push and pull anything a regular airline passenger might encounter on […]

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta will update a congressional committee on the implementation of ADS-B requirements for general aviation at a hearing in Washington on Wednesday. Aircraft operating in certain types of airspace will be required to have ADS-B equipment on board by 2020 but so far only a fraction of the fleet has been equipped. […]

Aveillant, a British technology company, said recently its 3D holographic radar is now ready for the market. The technology “brings performance previously only found in high-end military systems to the civil aviation arena,” the company said. The system can survey 360 degrees of airspace for up to a 40-mile range, and because it doesn’t rotate […]

The FAA on Tuesday approved, for the first time, commercial operation of an unmanned aerial system over land. Previously, the agency had OK’d flights only over remote areas of the Arctic Ocean. The new approval will allow energy company BP and UAS manufacturer AeroVironment to fly a Puma AE for aerial surveys in Alaska’s Prudhoe […]

Any schoolteacher who wants to learn about using aviation in the classroom to promote interest in science, math and engineering, is welcome to sign up now for the annual Teachers’ Day event at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis. “Teachers’ Day is free and open to any teacher who’d like to attend,” said Debbie Phillips, executive […]

A team of scientists at the University of Illinois has developed materials that can immediately respond to damage and self-repair large cracks and holes. “We have demonstrated repair of a nonliving, synthetic materials system in a way that is reminiscent of repair-by-regrowth as seen in some living systems,” said chemist Jeffrey Moore. The technology comprises […]