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When the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators announced last month it would hold its first pilot-seminar weekend in Texas at the end of October, Redbird Skyport’s $1 avgas was promoted as an extra incentive to attend — but that was before Redbird decided to end the promotion early. But Redbird has announced the offer […]

Aeromobil, a Slovakian company that has been working on a flying-car design since the 1990s, recently flew its aircraft for the first time. The company says it aims for the design to be a “real ‘roadable aircraft’” that combines the performance of a sports car with the qualities of a light aircraft. The airplane that […]

Opus Aircraft, based in Rockingham County, N.C., will be sold at auction on Nov. 15, the Iron Horse Auction Co. has announced. Opus, which launched at Shiloh Airport in 2004, produces the ARC Super 2 light sport aircraft, an all-aluminum design based on a British airplane first produced in the 1980s. The auctioneer said it […]

Red Bull has released point-of-view video from Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting freefall on the anniversary of the well-covered event. The three-perspective video, accompanied by altitude, speed and biometrics display, displays what Baumgartner saw and heard as he streaked from the edge of space to the New Mexico desert in a little more than nine minutes. At […]

Robert B. Barnes, the founder and CEO of the International Association of Flight Training Professionals (IATPF), died Sept. 29 following a stroke. Barnes created the organization to provide a touchstone for those involved in training to share best practices in the evolving vocation of teaching people to fly.”I considered Bob Barnes to be one of […]

Four advocacy groups sent a letter to government leaders in Washington on Tuesday, asking for certain FAA programs to be reopened immediately to prevent “critical economic, operational and safety issues” for general aviation. The letter, signed by the leaders of AOPA, EAA, NATA, and Helicopter Association International, said the absence of FAA inspectors is affecting […]

The FAA has partially granted an exemption that EAA sought to allow Young Eagles pilots to be reimbursed for fuel costs, but EAA says the requirements the FAA would impose are too onerous. “Meeting [the exemption’s requirements] would literally be impossible for EAA,” said Sean Elliot, EAA’s vice president of advocacy and safety. To comply […]

While pilots and aviation enthusiasts in the U.S. haveannual conclaves like AirVenture and Sun N Fun to sustain their passions, Chinas emerging aviation industry has no equivalent.But that may be changing with Thursdays launch of the China International General Aviation Convention (CIGAC), sponsored by the district of Shaanxi in the central Chinese city of Xian. […]

The president of the company that will provide the funding to resume production of three models of Mooney aircraft says he can’t release details of the transaction at the moment. AVweb reached Cheng Yuan (Jerry Chen), president of Soaring America Corporation, at his other business, a hobby and RC aircraft dealer in Alhambra, Calif. “I […]

OpenAirplane, a service that aims to make it easier for pilots to rent airplanes when away from home, has been growing since its launch this summer, co-founder Rod Rakic told AVweb in an interview at AOPA Summit on Saturday. The system now has 80 aircraft available in 22 cities, and more than 4,100 pilots have […]