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Last week’s soaking rains in Florida have given way to sunshine and a forecast almost too-good-to-be-true — mid 80s, light winds, low humidity, scattered clouds, expected all week long for Lakeland during Sun ‘n Fun. A weekend shutdown of the I-4 snarled traffic for early arrivals, but the lanes are scheduled to re-open for Monday. […]

A Basler BT-67 turboprop DC-3 conversion is safely tucked in a warm hangar in Calgary, Alberta after spending a year shattered and broken on a glacier in Antarctica. Its owner, Kenn Borek Air, mounted a huge on-site repair effort for the modernized warbird, named Lidia, before flying it back to Calgary in January. The story […]

A joint venture by several air navigation services to provide space-based air traffic control of aircraft flying beyond radar range could conceivably make it a lot harder to lose flights like MH370. Nav Canada will be the majority shareholder and providers in Denmark, Ireland and Italy along with satellite company Iridium will own the rest […]

It’s been a while since we’ve heard reports of strange aircraft flying over the deserts of the Southwest but some photos posted by a couple of skywatchers earlier this month have tongues wagging in the defense world. The photos were snapped on a clear day over Amarillo, Texas, and show a generally triangular planform with […]

As if being the oldest pilot in the Red Bull Air Race series (he’s 57) isn’t enough adrenaline for him, Hungarian pilot Peter Besenyei is still looking for flying challenges and he found one in the Corinth Canal in Greece. Besenyei flew the length of the four-mile long canal, which is less than three times […]

In the wake of various reports of techie pilots using Google Glass while flying, two pilots at Adventia European College of Aeronautics in Spain went public with the use of Google Glass in the cockpit to demonstrate the potential benefits of using the devices while flying an aircraft. A Google developer partner called Droiders created […]

AOPA has launched an initiative to help pilots who have stepped away from flying return to the sky. “Get back in the left seat” is the motto of the Rusty Pilots initiative, a free nationwide program to reactivate lapsed pilots. The initiative draws on a notably successful local effort at Aviation Adventures flight school in […]

The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 shifted hundreds of miles northeast on Friday because of new radar data, and U.S. officials said the FBI had found nothing of interest in its much-awaited review of the pilot’s flight simulator and other computer files taken from his home. Australian authorities leading the multinational hunt moved their […]

The practical applications of multi-copter drones seem to expand every day (to the consternation of air regulators) but it’s doubtful anyone saw “drone dentistry” coming. Eight-year-old Adam Swan, of Dublin, Ireland had a tooth extracted by an unmanned aerial system and he was an enthusiastic participant. “It’s out, it’s out!” Adam yelled as the drone […]

The ever-fertile political minds on the Santa Monica City Council have dreamed up another way to all but close their airport after losing their latest court battle with the FAA. A report commissioned by the city says about half the 4,970-foot runway is not part of the 1948 Instrument of Transfer between the city and […]