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The CAFE Foundation held its annual symposium last week in Santa Rosa, Calif., bringing together a diverse group of researchers and visionaries from the aviation world to discuss their current work in fields such as lithium batteries, autonomous systems, noise reduction, and solar electric technologies. Among the long list of presenters, Prof. Qichao Hu of […]

As a result of the bankruptcy of Evergreen International Airlines, its McMinnville, Ore., six-building, on-airport campus is up for sale (PDF). The buildings on sale do not include those on the across-the-street campus that contains the Evergreen Museum and the gigantic Hughes Hercules flying boat. According to brokers Ted Nicholson and Katrin Gist, the six […]

The Breezy aircraft has been around for 50 years now, and EAA is marking the anniversary of this long-lasting homebuilt with a number of special activities at AirVenture in Oshkosh this July. The organization is inviting all Breezy owners and operators to bring their aircraft to the show, where they will gather in a special […]

A Grand Canyon site containing wreckage from a 1956 plane crash has been officially designated a National Historic Landmark, the National Park Service announced last week. A TWA Super Constellation L-1049 and a United Airlines DC-7 collided in uncongested airspace at 21,000 feet above the canyon, the Park Service said, killing all 128 people aboard […]

The NTSB is focusing on why a Piper Lance that hit a wind turbine blade in South Dakota on Sunday was flying lower than 300 feet AGL. Four young cattlemen returning home from a sale in Texas were killed when the aircraft hit the blade and crashed at the South Dakota Wind Energy Center, which […]

Video has emerged of the “aborted takeoff” of a King Air B200 that almost wiped out the chief executive office of an Indian state in late March. Jagannath Pahadia, governor of Haryana, a state in northern India, was among nine or 10 (reports differ) passengers and crew aboard the twin when it took off from […]

As the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 continues, the International Civil Aviation Organization said it will convene a special meeting next month to discuss global tracking of airline flights. Government officials and industry experts from around the world will meet May 12-13 in Montreal to explore the specific aircraft and satellite-based capabilities needed […]

An alternative means of compliance is in the works that might help ease the impact of an FAA airworthiness directive (PDF) affecting about 6,000 general aviation aircraft with cylinders from Superior Air Parts, AOPA said this week. “Superior is working to develop and submit an alternative means of compliance that, if it can be successfully […]

AOPA held the first in its series of new regional fly-inson Sunday, at theSan Marcos Airport, midway between Austin and San Antonio, Texas.Thunderstorms and IFR weather in the region reduced the number of arrivals, AOPA said — they had expected about 700 aircraft to fly in, but only about half that number arrived. Many of […]

Dreadnought, a heavily modified Hawker Sea Fury race plane and a Cessna 210 were flying together when they touched over San Francisco Bay on Sunday. NTSB spokesman Howard Plagens told local media the accident happened in a “passing maneuver” and that the unidentified Sea Fury pilot felt a “thump” and saw the other aircraft fall […]