News

Click above to see video of Pietsch’s routine at Abbotsford International Air Show in 2011. Veteran airshow performer Kent Pietsch is in a hospital in Alberta, Canada, after crashing his Interstate Cadet shortly after a performance Saturday in Wetaskiwin, a small city about 70 miles south of Edmonton. Pietsch is not thought to have suffered […]

Chamonix-Mont Blanc, home of Europe’s highest peak, saw the death of nine other adventurers in July, but it was the tenth who participated in a particular aerial activity that the town’s mayor has now banned. An avalanche killed nine climbers last month as concerns mounted that the mountain’s cliffs, and easy access, were attracting too […]

An FAA-funded study of reusable suborbital vehicles forecasts that total demand will translate into as much as $1.6 billion in revenue for operators and thousands of people flown over a decade. The study predicts commercial human spaceflight to represent the largest portion of demand. “About 8,000 high net worth individuals” around the world “are sufficiently […]

Weather and a miscommunication left pilots and controllers confused and caused three commuter jets to breach separation requirements at Reagan National Airport Tuesday. Preliminary reports indicate that one aircraft came within 500 vertical feet and 1.7 miles of a departing aircraft and 600 feet and 2.8 miles of another jet. None of the jets were […]

The Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE) arranged and presented at AirVenture a pilot proficiency project that created a new approach to training that may ultimately be coming to a forum near you. The project offers forums and simulator training sessions that specifically target key areas of flight safety. Examples include sessions on controlled […]

An all-volunteer fundraiser, “Spirit of Flight Day” for Colorado’s Erie Municipal Airport Spirit of Flight Center (an air museum), raised about $10,000 Saturday, before some of the money was allegedly stolen. The museum operates on an annual budget of $75,000 and maintains a collection of restored aircraft and artifacts covering decades of history. Supporters had […]

Angel Flight West is seeking volunteer pilots after a surge in activity this year left 10 percent of their missions unfilled due to lack of personnel. The nonprofit organization transports people in need of vital healthcare who can’t take a commercial flight or other transportation because of health, financial or geographic considerations. Pilots who participate […]

More than 100 United Airlines pilots showed up in front of the White House on Monday to protest their stalled labor talks with the airline. The pilots, wearing their uniforms, carried signs asking for help from President Obama and protesting United’s use of Aer Lingus pilots to fly a Washington-to-Madrid route. The airline is “addicted […]

EAA released its final numbers this week on attendance for AirVenture 2012, with a total of 508,000 visitors, about 33,000 fewer than last year. EAA President Rod Hightower said the total was “tremendous,” give the challenges of “intensely hot weather, storms, and struggles in the overall economy.” The total number of commercial exhibitors was 802, […]

It was perhaps inevitable that someone somewhere would find a way, and an apparently legal one at that, to track flights of aircraft on the Block Aircraft Registration Request (BARR) but at least one of the architects of the project feels a little bad about it. Dustin Hoffman (the researcher, not the actor), who developed […]