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Following close on the heels of a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling that, according to one insider, labeled as “illegal subsidies” certain government-supplied, financial launch aids for new Airbus designs, Airbus is again seeking government cash to bring its next-generation designs to market. To compete with stirrings in China (which expects to bring its new […]

Results on eBay suggest that someone has, for $35,101, purchased the chance to become a temporary test pilot for the Martin Aircraft Company, developer of the Martin Jetpack. Martin partnered with Total Experience, which sells adventure packages, to market the chance to become the first person outside the aircraft’s development program to fly the Jetpack. […]

A dozen complaints from residents led police to the pilot of a small plane witnessed, photographed and filmed flying low over their homes last Wednesday, but there’s more to it than that. The pilot, Tom Huey, of Concord, Calif., who’d flown his 1957 Beech Bonanza over the neighborhood prior to July 2008, resumed that habit […]

Swedish police arrested “several” suspects Sunday after thieves raided a cash storage unit for ATMs near Stockholm last Wednesday, making their approach to the facility and the first leg of their escape by stolen helicopter. Authorities suspect the group of bandits may include as many as ten participants. One of those arrested on Sunday is […]

Authorities on Camano Island in Washington state suspect a one-man crime spree that’s now spread to include the theft of two aircraft — one of which resulted in an alleged 9/11 joy ride — to be the product of an 18-year-old previously held at a minimum-security Renton juvenile facility from which he escaped. The Seattle […]

Months after events on Capitol Hill negatively associated big business with bizjets, a recent study has concluded that the vast majority of businesses that dominate “the list of companies strongest in corporate governance and responsibility” rely on business aviation. NEXA Capital Advisors LLC, a highly specialized transaction-focused advisory services company for the aerospace and transportation […]

National Air Traffic Controllers Association members have ratified work rules that will form part of a collective agreement set to be in force on Oct. 1. Binding arbitration earlier resolved pay and the FAA and NATCA negotiators had earlier agreed to the work rules and other provisions. Although there wasn’t much doubt about the outcome […]

The Iowa Children’s Museum, in Coralville, Iowa, this week opened a new exhibit to introduce kids ages 8 to 12 to the science of aviation. The 5,000-square-foot Take Flight! exhibit features flight simulators built into kid-sized airplane mockups, an air traffic control tower, a real hot-air balloon basket, pedal planes for younger children, an area […]

Regional airlines focus too much on the bottom line at the expense of safety, according to John Prater, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, who testified before the House Aviation Subcommittee on Wednesday during an examination of commuter airline safety. Among the worst of the airline practices are punitive policies that discourage pilots from […]

The FAA last week ended its suspension of amateur-built aircraft kit evaluations, which had been in effect since February 2008. The FAA had put the kit evaluations on hold while it worked on a revision of its interpretation of the “51-percent” regulations that govern amateur-built aircraft. In a new policy statement, the FAA outlines its […]