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The Air Force has announced that one of its 29-foot-long X-37B unmanned space planes will launch on another classified mission in October and this time has left some faint hints of what the aircraft’s activities might involve. Previous missions of X-37B space planes ended in December 2010, after 255 days, and in June 2012, after […]

About one week after a reportedly suicidal pilot and his plane disappeared from central Florida, a piece of wing has been found floating off Florida’s northeast coast that may be associated with a different reportedly suicidal pilot. Investigators are seeking to determine if the four-foot wing section belongs to a Cessna 172 piloted by Gene […]

Beginning next week, AVweb will step up its coverage of general aviation with a new news feed called Friday Features. Each week, we’ll be offering in-depth reporting on products, services and companies that we’re sure will be of interest to our readers. Our focus will be primarily on stories related to aircraft upgrades, repair and […]

The FAA has delayed by a month plans to implement a controversial airspace amendment over Portland, Ore. and Vancouver, Wash. More details have also emerged about just how restrictive the so-called “Pearson Box” AVweb first reported earlier this week would be. According to OregonLive, the plan would have given priority to traffic from nearby Portland […]

An 84-year-old former Boeing manufacturing engineering instructor says he hopes to finish a 60-year-old project this year with a flight in a replica of one of the most unusual homebuilt aircraft designs ever conceived. Ed Kusmirek built a replica of a 1924 Dormoy Bathtub aircraft at his home in Renton, Wash. According to a story […]

The central Alberta, Canada, city of Edmonton has set an $80 million budget to expropriate every business and individual with a property or business interest at Edmonton City Centre Airport so it can close the busy (80,000 movements a year) facility within a year. The closure would make way for houses, condos and shopping centers. […]

Felix Baumgartner is set for an Oct. 8 attempt to freefall from an altitude of 120,000 feet near Roswell, N.M., breaking the sound barrier along the way, and a record that’s stood for more than half a century. The jump will be the culmination of the Red Bull Stratos project, which began in 2005. It […]

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. Skydivers from 21 countries flew a massive 100-person wingsuit diamond formation, near Perris, Calif., Monday, that will be submitted to Guinness as a world record, but not all participants escaped the effort without […]

Two different programs are trying out new flight procedures in the airspace above the Atlantic Ocean. The FAA has informed operators that a trial is underway that aims to establish lower aircraft separation minima within the Gander and Shanwick Oceanic Control Areas, in the North Atlantic airspace. The Reduced Longitudinal Separation Minimum Trial (PDF) will […]

If the European Union wants to regulate aviation emissions, operators of U.S. aircraft should not have to comply, the U.S. Senate said last week. The Senate passed a bill that prohibits U.S. operators from participating in the E.U. Emissions Trading Scheme. “We appreciate the forceful message this bill sends to the E.U. against the imposition […]