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Boeing this week unveiled its latest UAV, the hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye, which the company says will stay aloft at 65,000 feet for up to four days. “The capabilities inherent in Phantom Eye’s design will offer game-changing opportunities for our military, civil and commercial customers,” said Darryl Davis, president of Boeing Phantom Works, at the introductory […]

There’s been a change at the top of Flying magazine but the new editor-in-chief is a familiar name to longtime AVweb readers. Michael Maya Charles has replaced Mac McLellan at Flying. Maya Charles wrote more than 100 As the Beacon Turns columns for AVweb before he left us in 2006 to devote more time to […]

More than 170 Cessna Citations from all over the U.S. will land at Lincoln, Neb., on Saturday to deliver 2,000 competitors to the Special Olympics U.S. National Games. This is the sixth time Cessna has organized the gigantic Citation Special Olympics Airlift and this year’s effort is chaired by Citation owner Harrison Ford. The airlift […]

One of the fastest-growing business jet destinations wasn’t much more than a smoking hole a few years ago, but Baghdad is back. According to Business Week, Lufthansa will start scheduled service next week and Royal Jet, which operates 11 corporate aircraft, is reporting brisk business carrying oil executives and other business leaders to the calmer […]

The captain of a Continental 737 that ran off a Denver runway in December 2008 as winds gusted up to 45 knots probably could have kept it on the runway if he had applied enough rudder at the right time, the NTSB said in its final report on the accident on Tuesday. However, the board […]

With just three events left in its 2010 air-race series, Red Bull now has cancelled two of them, leaving the August race in Germany as the final event for this year. The cancellation of the race in Budapest, Hungary, was announced this week, while a race set for Portugal also was cancelled just a week […]

Pilots train for years to earn themselves a seat in a jet cockpit, but concerns about air quality and faulty cockpit window heaters suggest it may not be the healthiest work environment. The FAA plans to issue an airworthiness directive this week that will require operators to either inspect or replace some windows in the […]

Changes are expected soon that would make China much more open to general aviation, according to China Daily. “There will be progress in opening up the low-altitude airspace in the later half of this year, and many local governments have expressed interest in investment,” said Wang Xia, vice president of the General Aviation School at […]

Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner will stretch its reputedly long legs next week in a coming out party near London. The company has confirmed one of five test articles of the largely composite airliner will be on display at the Farnborough Air Show, which, is the big tick mark on the commercial aviation calendar for this year. […]

It’s still out there, but it can be awfully hard to find. There are two reasons: one is that the price difference between mogas and avgas has narrowed substantially since the heyday of mogas for airplanes during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Then there’s ethanol, which the vast majority of autogas contains these days, […]