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New services for pilots are now available online from Lockheed Martin Flight Services, the company said this week. Pilots can register online for access to the Automated Flight Service Station Pilot Web Portal and a new Adverse Condition Alerting Service. The pilot portal allows pilots to access the same briefing information and weather graphics available […]

The FAA needs to do a better job of making sure first responders to general aviation accidents are informed about explosive devices in aircraft, the NTSB said last week. In a safety recommendation letter (PDF), the safety board cited several incidents when a GA aircraft crashed and emergency workers were unaware that ejection seats or […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. Student pilot William Davis was on final approach to land at Northwest Regional Airport in Roanoke, Texas, on Saturday, when his Skyhawk collided with an SUV that was crossing the airport. Davis’s wife, […]

It’s not often that Hollywood releases a major film with an airline pilot as its main character, and since the pilot at the center of Flight has a major substance-abuse problem, the Air Line Pilots Association has issued a statement to reassure viewers. “Fiction on a movie screen doesn’t represent a profession in the real […]

In a cost-cutting move, the FAA will soon announce a program to cancel approaches at some airports after several years of intense activity to provide procedures to airports that had been inaccessible in instrument weather. Sources told AVweb last week that a formal announcement of the program will come from the FAA in a few […]

The NTSB is sending investigators to Atlanta to probe the cause of the Saturday crash of a police helicopter that killed two officers. Pilot Richard J. Halford, 48, and tactical officer Shawn A. Smiley, 40, were taking part in the search for a missing nine-year-old boy when, according to witness reports, the helicopter descended onto […]

Calling it a “historic milestone for the aviation and sustainable energy industries,” Canada’s National Research Council has conducted what it says is the world’s first civilian flight using 100 percent biofuel. Perhaps as a measure of confidence in the fuel, made from oilseeds grown in Saskatchewan, NRC Chief Pilot Tim Leslie conducted the Oct. 29 […]

The first revenue flight for a Boeing 787 Dreamliner touched down at O’Hare International Airport at 9:37 a.m. CST Sunday, about 10 minutes ahead of schedule but not a moment too soon for executives at United Airlines. “We’ve been waiting a long time for this,” said CEO Jeff Smisek. He would have waited longer had […]

A research coalition organized by NASA and including Army and academic researchers is embarking on a three-year project that aims to make inertial navigation systems “at least 1,000 times more sensitive than current gyroscopes.” The work will focus on new optical gyroscope technology, investigating how the use of optical dispersion (how different wavelengths travel through […]

A documentary, Space Dive, will air beginning this weekend (Nov. 4), detailing Felix Baumgartner’s journey to a successful world-record freefall jump with the corporate support of Red Bull and the mentoring of previous record-holder Col. Joe Kittinger. The one hour, thirty minute program pulls highlights from Baumgartner’s years of training and includes previously unreleased footage […]