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The Aero show in Friedrichshafen, Germany next month promises to be a busy one for Diamond Aircraft. Company CEO Christian Dries told AVweb that two new airplanes will be shown there, both twins based on the Austro Jet-A-burning four-cylinder powerplant. The DA42 V1 is a much improved follow-up to the DA42NG, the first model that […]

Small private aircraft almost disappeared from Russia during the turmoil of the 1990s but,due to recent changes,they may now be making a very modest comeback in the world’s largest country. Russia’s borders contain nearly 6.6 million square miles, including thousands of villages not accessible by paved roads. That makes it a potentially active general aviation […]

Researchers at MIT and Stanford say they have advanced the idea of German engineer Adolf Busemann, who in the 1950s proposed that a biplane design could be more efficient and quiet in supersonic flight. Busemann’s calculations found that a biplane’s two wings could be positioned to cancel out shock waves, but there were problems with […]

Pilots in the UK are fighting back against proposed EU flight time limitation rules that they say would allow them to land an aircraft after having been “awake for 22 hours.” The UK pilot push has been organized online through the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) and aims to keep current UK rules in place. […]

Felix Baumgartner of Austria as part of the Red Bull Stratos project made one parachute jump from 71,580 feet over Roswell, N.M., falling at speeds that reached “nearly 365 miles per hour,” Red Bull announced, Thursday. The project says the actual mark of 364.4 mph set a new world freefall speed record. The jump lasted […]

A project at NASA Langley Research Center has created augmented reality glasses that can deliver critical information — beyond airspeed, altitude, and attitude data — to a pilot’s eye, at all times, Innovation Daily reported Monday. Different from a fixed panel or even heads-up display, the head-worn display tracks the pilot’s head movements. That feature […]

The fatal crash of an F-22 Raptor preceded a series of events that have left some confusion about the aircraft’s life-support systems and more, and have now culminated in a lawsuit filed by the lost pilot’s widow. Anna Haney’s lawsuit names Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Honeywell International and Pratt & Whitney, alleging that critical life-support systems […]

The Red Bull Stratos team, which is preparing to beat a 52-year-old free-fall record with a jump from a balloon at 120,000 feet, cancelled a test flight this week when the balloon failed to operate properly. The team had planned to send their capsule to 60,000 feet above Roswell, N.M., where Felix Baumgartner would jump […]

In its annual aviation forecast, released last week, the FAA said it expects the numbers of active general aviation aircraft to continue to decline slowly, but by 2025 the numbers should start to gradually increase. “Although the slow growth and expectations of a European recession has dampened the near-term prospects for general aviation, the long-term […]

This year’s Sun ‘n Fun International Fly-In and Expo will launch on Tuesday, March 27, less than two weeks away, turning the small airport in Lakeland, Fla., into one of the busiest fields in the world. The show is earlier than usual this year, as organizers try to avoid conflicts with other events, especially the […]