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New wing cracks on an Airbus A380 airframe and the continued possibility of full panel blackouts aboard some A320s put Airbus back in the spotlight this week. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Thursday announced that operators of A380 superjumbo aircraft must perform additional “repetitive detailed visual inspections” after a new area of the jet’s […]

Some pilots training as pilots for the French air force and navy will be passing through Cirrus SR20 and SR22 aircraft along the way following a new agreement, Cirrus announced Thursday. The agreement goes through Cassidian Aviation Training Services (CATS), which the French Air Force Flight School has selected for outsourced training. CATS will operate […]

A new product joining the ranks of ADS-B offerings may have particular appeal to individuals and operators who own multiple aircraft as well as renters who own none, because it’s portable. SkyVision Xtreme this week introduced its fully portable ADS-B In and Out system that delivers all ADS-B traffic (in 3-D presentation) and weather “to […]

IMC Club International Inc. will be opening additional chapters in the next few weeks at CP Aviation in Santa Paula, Calif., Aug. 25, RedBird Skyport in San Marcos, Texas, Sept. 13, and MotionAir Aviation in Midlothian, Texas, Sept. 14, for the inaugural meetings. Also, new chapters and meetings are planned for North Carolina, Nevada, Michigan, […]

Pipistrel Aircraft is back in business in the U.S. after the FAA re-examined its position on the manufacturing site of the speedy composite LSAs and ended an import ban on the aircraft. As we reported in Wednesday’s AVwebBiz, Pipistrel spokesman Michael Coates said the FAA imposed the ban after a staff member was unable to […]

A southern California company has gained new attention after posting video clips that show manned flight testing of its proof-of-concept VTOL vehicle, which it says could lead to “personal flight as intuitive as riding a bike.” The vertical takeoff and landing vehicle employs no artificial intelligence, or electronic flight control, or software of any kind. […]

The Entrepreneurial Challenge is a competition organized by Sikorsky Innovations to promote emerging revolutionary technology in the advancement of rotorcraft, and the application period ends this fall on Oct. 10. This year’s challenge comes in the form of five questions, all of which address increased efficiencies or new technology that leads to higher or more […]

The pressure is on for the FAA to allow drone operations in the National Airspace, and this week a major unmanned systems advocate complained that the agency is already behind schedule. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International wrote to the FAA that legislation (PDF) passed earlier this year set a deadline of Aug. 12 […]

At EAA AirVenture last month, the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators debuted a series of forums and simulator sessions it calls the Pilot Proficiency Project, and this week SAFE said it plans to expand the project to other venues. SAFE said based on its analysis of feedback from participants, the effort was a “resounding […]

Embraer, which only really got started in the business jet industry five years ago, says it wants up to 30 percent of the market and it’s most of the way there. “We don’t want to be greedy,” Ernie Edwards, head of Embraer’s executive jet business, told Reuters in an interview at LABACE last week. “Twenty […]