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Both The New York Times and Forbes this week published unusually upbeat stories about general aviation. Fractional-ownership and charter jet operators have seen a rise in business over the last year or so, according to the Times story, by Joe Sharkey. XOJet, a charter operator, for example, reported a 55 percent increase in flight hours […]

The NTSB on Tuesday posted online more than 900 pages of documents plus photographs related to its investigation of a fatal crash at last year’s National Championship Air Races in Reno. Among the documents is a careful examination of a video shot by a spectator at the event, which concludes that the Galloping Ghost, flown […]

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. A research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has designed an autonomous airplane that is able to follow an internal map through a parking garage and navigate successfully, avoiding obstacles, without the […]

Laurent Aboulin, of France, won the unlimited class in the World Gliding Championships in Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday. Dozens of teams competing in three classes flew prescribed courses with a minimum of three waypoints in closed loop over more than 200 miles over 13 days of competition. First place in the 18-meter wingspan (about 60 […]

It was National Aviation Day in the U.S. on Sunday, marking what would have been Orville Wright’s 141st birthday. The day passed unnoticed in most places although it’s been a nationally proclaimed special day since 1939, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt deemed the nation’s first pilot of a powered aircraft worthy of remembrance on his […]

Researchers who combed the sea bottom off a remote Pacific island for Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra say raw video shows “manmade objects,” but they are stopping short of saying the mystery of her disappearance has been solved. “It’s still very early days but we have man-made objects in a debris field in the place we’d […]

The Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatics performance team has flown the CT-114 Tutor since 1971 and now, according to documents obtained by Canada’s The Citizen, they are in the early stages of finding replacement aircraft. Amid tight budgeting guidelines and looming modernization costs across the whole of the Canadian Forces, authorities are prepared to spend $755 […]

Gliders competing in the 15-meter class at the World Gliding Championships collided Friday and one crashed, but there were no serious injuries. Competition officials said late Friday that Louis Bourderlique, of France, and Peter Hartmann, of Austria, came together about 30 miles from Uvalde, Texas, the base airport for this year’s competition. Bourderlique flew his […]

Honeywell’s IntuVue 3-D radar predicts what storms contain hail and lightening, identifies turbulence and allows pilots to determine the top and bottom of storm cells, giving up to 10 minutes advance warning for jets. Honeywell says the system is an upgrade that provides pilots with more tools to make safe flight-path decisions while en route. […]

LISA Airplanes’ amphibious AKOYA LSA turned heads at AirVenture Oshkosh 2012, may have prompted some head scratching with its $350,000 price tag, and may now add some head shaking as the company enters receivership “to protect its future.” Receivership is a type of corporate bankruptcy in which a court-appointed “receiver” is given the responsibility to […]