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In a continued attempt to tamp down high avionics costs, Avidyne this week announced a drop-in replacement competitor for Garmin’s popular GNS430. The new IFD440 is a descendent of a larger model Avidyne introduced last year, the IFD540, a drop-in box to replace Garmin’s GNS530. Both of Avidyne’s products use a combination of touchscreens and […]

A consortium of British companies is now flight testing a see-and-avoid system for drones that it believes will lead to a lot less cockpit manpower in the not-so-distant future. “It is doing all the things a human pilot would be doing,” BAE spokesman Lambert Dopping-Hepenstal told the Daily Telegraph. It would not appear to come […]

A total of 80 foreign students from an Irish flight school are stranded in Florida after a financial dispute between the Irish school and its American contractor ended their training last week. The students, some of whom paid Pilot Training College more than $100,000 for courses that are conducted by the Florida Institute of Technology […]

The Aircraft Kit Industry Association, AKIA, has formed around a primary objective of preserving the FAA’s 51-percent rule, improving experimental-amateur built aircraft safety, and promoting the kit aircraft industry. The group is led by President Dick VanGrunsven, the designer of the world’s most popular kit aircraft — the RV series — and Vice President John […]

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. Phase 1 flight testing of Terrafugia’s roadable aircraft production prototype was successfully completed last month, and the company is pushing forward toward LSA certification and approvals from the NHTSA. Terrafugia’s Transition aircraft will […]

The French Accident Investigation Bureau (BEA) Thursday released its final report on the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447, an Airbus 330 that went down off the coast of Brazil in 2009, killing all 228 aboard. Among the report’s conclusions are that neither of the two copilots flying the aircraft called for the “unreliable […]

The French news agency AFP reported Wednesday (one day ahead of the official final report’s release) that investigators have concluded that pilot error and technical malfunctions caused the crash of Air France Flight 447 in 2009, killing all 228 aboard. “A source close to the case” told AFP that speed sensors on the Airbus A330 […]

The Brazilian air force has offered to pay for damage to that country’s Supreme Court building and the U.S. Navy has offered an explanation to San Diego residents after two separate supersonic incidents since last Friday. Residents across at least 40 miles of coastal communities near San Diego experienced a two- to three-second rumble Friday […]

Five C-130s were back in the air fighting wildfires in several western states on Tuesday after being briefly grounded following a fatal crash over the weekend. Four crew members were killed and two were seriously injured on Sunday at about 6:30 p.m. local time when a C-130 from the North Carolina Air National Guard crashed […]