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Epic Aircraft, the Bend, Ore., manufacturer of speedy turboprop kit aircraft called the LT, has been sold to a Russian company. In a news release, Epic describes its new owner, Engineering LLC, as “Russia’s premier maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider.” The Russian company intends to certify the LT but will keep making the kits, […]

Several of general aviation’s big advocacy groups have seen change at the top in recent years as long-term leaders move on, and now the National Air Transportation Association is saying goodbye to James Coyne, who has been president since 1994. In a letter to NATA members posted on Monday, Coyne said he will continue to […]

Gulfstream’s newest super-midsize jet, the G280, has received its provisional type certificate from the FAA, the company said on Friday. The jet is virtually ready to go, the company said, but an update to the avionics software must be completed before the full TC is issued and deliveries can begin. The jet will feature a […]

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 helicopter slammed into the ground in a cloud of dust while filming for Top Gear Korea in Arizona last week, and the crash was caught on video (right) by a local fan. […]

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. The University of Pennsylvania is having a lot of fun with its robotic quadrotor squadron these days and if you’re not one of the almost two million people who have seen this video […]

Days may be numbered for India’s largest budget airline but Kingfisher Airlines is soldiering on even though the Indian government has frozen its bank accounts and its pilots are becoming less interested in going to work since they haven’t been paid since November. The accounts freeze came last week after the airline failed to meet […]

Nobody asked Ted Seastrom what the aviation industry should do about the declining pilot population, but he’s telling them anyway. Seastrom, a 220-hour Cessna 172 pilot, has written an ebook (available at Amazon) entitled Learning to Fly an Airplane. But unlike the countless books that have been written on the topic, Seastrom said his aim […]

A bipartisan group of 195 members of the House of Representatives has signed what NBAA says is a “strongly worded” letter (PDF) opposing the $100-per-leg user fee for turbine-powered aircraft contained in President Obama’s 2013 budget proposal. The letter points out that Congress has consistently rejected user fee proposals in the past and likely hasn’t […]

School projects don’t usually have the term supersonic cruise missile in their synopses, but engineering students at the Busemann Advanced Concepts Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) are helping to design, build and commercialize a compact jet engine designed to power supersonic unmanned aerial systems. Cruise missiles are among the potential uses for […]