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A home-made helium balloon landed in a Colorado field, Thursday afternoon without a small boy in side … and that was a surprise. For the preceding two hours, 24-hour news networks followed news helicopter footage of a 20×5-foot mylar homebuilt helium balloon that flew for two hours over Colorado, Thursday, because they believed there was […]

Las Vegas visitors now can fly in a tethered helium balloon to enjoy a view 500 feet above the Strip. The new business, called Cloud Nine, launched last Thursday, and claims to operate the largest balloon of its kind in the world. The 70-foot-tall balloon can carry up to 30 passengers at a time, at […]

Aerion remains determined to be first to market with a supersonic business jet, company chairman Robert Bass said in a news release this week. Armed with an order book worth $4 billion, Bass has been shopping around for an OEM partner to take on the project. “I said at EBACE earlier this year that I […]

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 NTSB met on Wednesday to discuss the results of its investigation into the crash of a Cessna Citation 550 in June 2007 and laid the blame squarely in the lap of the […]

Click for a larger image of the stamps For manufacturers of GA aircraft that have been eagerly awaiting the opening-up of Asian markets, this weekend’s China International General Aviation Convention, in the northwestern city of Xi’an, is a good sign. More than 80,000 visitors from around the world are expected, according to China Daily. The […]

In the first post of a new blog on his Web site, filmmaker Michael Moore this week addressed the issue of pilot pay, and The New York Times also explored the topic in a lengthy Page One story on Wednesday. “I have a whole section in my new movie [Capitalism: A Love Story] about how […]

NBAA and NATA are joining forces to hold two conferences in the same venue that will appeal to the same audience and shave costs for all concerned. For years, NBAA has held its annual Schedulers and Dispatchers Conference during the winter, while NATA has booked space for its annual FBO Leadership Conference. This coming January, […]

China has taken the wraps off its design for what it calls its “big plane,” a twin-engine single-aisle airliner that will seat up to 190 people. A large-scale model of the C919 is on prominent display at the Beijing Expo airshow this week and seems as much a political statement as a business initiative. “To […]

Stratos Aircraft, of Bend, Ore., announced this week it has received the first deposit for a Stratos 714 Very Light Personal Jet. The company also said it will display its full-scale cabin mock-up at next week’s NBAA Annual Meeting & Convention in Orlando, Fla., for the first time at that event. “The need for speed, […]

Wichita, Kan., has been the hub of the U.S. aircraft manufacturing industry since the 1920s, when the companies that would become Hawker Beechcraft, Cessna, and Boeing all had their roots there. But the current downturn has hit the city hard, with about a quarter of the aviation workforce laid off. According to a story in […]