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Three Dead In Weekend Air Show Accidents (Corrected)

It was a tragic weekend for air shows as three fatal accidents occurred, killing a wingwalker and solo aerobatics performer in the U.S. and a member of the Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows at a show in England. On Sunday, wingwalker Todd Green was trying to perform his signature transfer from a wing to the […]

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Airliner Crashes During Disaster Exercise

A Canadian airliner crashed, killing 12 people of 15 people aboard, in the middle of a mock military and civil defense exercise that was simulating an airliner crash in the country’s high Arctic. The First Air Boeing 737-200 was not part of the exercise but was on a charter flight to Resolute Bay in the […]

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Trump Flaunts Custom 757 (Video)

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. Donald Trump is literally making a show (on YouTube) of the $100 million custom 757 that he purchased from Paul Allen in February. It’s significantly larger than the Boeing 727 he previously operated, […]

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New Icing Rules And Definitions For Carriers

Effective in 60 days, the FAA will require carriers operating aircraft of less than 60,000 pounds (MTOW) under Part 121 rules to change how they deal with icing and observe a clear definition of icing conditions. Operators will have to install ice-detection equipment or update flight manuals “to ensure timely activation of the airframe ice […]

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How The Dreamliner Is Costing Boeing

Rolls Royce-powered Boeing 787 Dreamliners flew their last certification flight Aug. 13, but the aircraft will be a drag on Boeing’s bottom line until the 1,000th jet is out the door, according to an Aug. 16 report. According to a report by the New York firm Bernstein Research, the jet’s initial popularity is actually partly […]

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A Spitfire Flying School Opens Near London

If you can scrounge up about $9,000 you can now buy a two-day course at London Oxford airport culminating in about one half-hour flying a Mark IX Vickers Supermarine Spitfire. The offer comes from the Boultbee Flight Academy and requirements include a private pilot’s license and good health. Students learn the Spitfire like a wartime […]

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Stolen Plane Crashes, Pilot Missing

A Piper PA32 crashed in a wooded area about 20 miles from Horace Williams Airport, in North Carolina, Tuesday at about 7 a.m. — the aircraft was stolen, the pilot was missing, and someone left a blood trail. According to local police, the pilot is believed to have escaped out the front window of the […]

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Sukhoi’s Stealthy T-50 (PAK FA) Goes Public

Sukhoi’s Stealthy T-50 (PAK FA) Goes PublicRussia chose the MAKS 2011 airshow near Moscow to this week publicly unveil what’s generally billed as its answer to the U.S. F-22 Raptor, the Sukhoi T-50. The stealthy air superiority fighter flew a six-minute demonstration after secret tests in January of last year. Russian news agencies claim the […]

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MIT Helps Update Aircraft Carrier Technology

Crew members aboard U.S. aircraft carriers still use a scale model with miniature airplanes to keep track of all the activity on the deck, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is developing a computerized system to simplify that process. Prof. Mary Cummings and her students in the Humans and Automation Lab have designed a “deck […]

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Hawker 800XPR Gets FAA OK

The FAA has granted supplemental type certification for the Hawker 800XPR, which replaces the XP’s original engines with more powerful new Honeywell TFE731-50R powerplants and adds winglets for another performance boost. The upgrade, available only at factory-owned service facilities, offers “significant performance and capability improvements,” the company said. The new engines improve fuel efficiency about […]

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