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A 72-year-old pilot was sentenced Tuesday after he pled guilty to felony drug charges and “maintaining a common nuisance” associated with landing an aircraft with 200 pounds of marijuana on board. Allen Richter had been tracked as he flew a 1962 Piper PA-24-250 Comanche from Arizona to Indiana, where he was apprehended on Nov. 5. […]

Three people were killed when a Cirrus crashed near the approach end of Melbourne International Airport’s Runway 9R at about 5:15 p.m., Wednesday, and transmissions between the tower and the flight appear to show some confusion. The tower controller was busy with multiple aircraft inbound to the parallel runways at the airport. Traffic included several […]

For the second time in less than 30 days, an errant driver managed to find a way onto either a taxiway or runway at Philadelphia International Airport and the latest episode, Thursday, may have resulted in a close call. A tower controller at PHL is being credited for spotting through fog a Jeep on the […]

The airborne laser program developed around a Boeing 747 and what was effectively a giant laser gun has been scrapped after 15 years and $5 billion. The program fitted a modified 747 jumbo jet with a mega-watt class chemical oxygen iodine laser fitted to a rotating nose turret and tracking system that could target and […]

Japan Wednesday said it may cancel orders for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 if costs or timelines increase, just days after the Pentagon said it was seeking ways to reduce the program’s projected $1 trillion cost. The Pentagon’s figure is an estimated lifetime cost, which includes maintenance and operation of 2,443 F-35 fighters over the next 50 […]

There has been a recent spike in reports of hypoxia-like symptoms by pilots of the F-22 Raptor — an oxygen delivery problem on a Raptor contributed to a fatal crash two years ago. Over the past six months nine pilots have reported hypoxia-like symptoms while flying the roughly $147 million (excluding development costs) per-copy jet. […]

The safety records of airplanes with glass panels are about the same as airplanes of the same model with analog cockpits, according to a new study by the Air Safety Institute, a division of the AOPA Foundation. However, “glass-panel aircraft may be more susceptible to accidents during takeoffs, landings, and go-arounds,” the study found. The […]

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 quiet world of competitive paper airplane flying got some unusual attention this weekend when Joe Ayoob, a former quarterback for the University of California at Berkeley, set a new world record for […]

Boeing delivered the first passenger version of it new generation 747 Tuesday, but it left the factory without the 467 seats most of its stablemates will carry. The first 747-I is going to an unnamed individual, but he or she won’t actually get to fly on it for a couple of years, long enough to […]

The Air Force Tuesday cancelled its contract for a Light Air Support aircraft with Sierra Nevada Industries and Embraer, will reopen competitive bidding, and has announced an investigation into the way the previous bid was handled. The Air Force raised eyebrows in December when it kicked Hawker Beechcraft’s AT6B out of the running for the […]