Business & Military

When Mark Vanhoenacker was growing up in Massachusetts, being an airline pilot seemed like an impossible dream — “like wanting to be an astronaut,” he says — but today he flies all over the world in the front seat of a British Airways 747. How he made that journey, and what the experience is like, […]

A move to reduce emissions from airliners burning jet fuel could roll out as early as Friday from the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a New York Times report this week. The EPA is set to announce the results of its study of the issue that began last fall. The agency is expected to conclude […]

Aircraft of the future could be more fuel-efficient, says NASA, thanks to new non-stick coatings they recently tested that shed insect residue. By staying cleaner and bug-free, the coated wings are more aerodynamic. NASA tested five coatings recently during a two-week project in Shreveport, Louisiana, flying the Boeing 757 ecoDemonstrator. “One of the five coating/surface […]

Nearly 200 members of the Air Line Pilots Association are volunteering in Washington, D.C., this week, to help lobby Congress to pass a new FAA funding bill that prioritizes safety. The ALPA campaign, called “This is Your Captain Speaking,” features print and digital ads, radio spots, videos and a social-media effort. The campaign will target […]

Diamond Aircraft’s Austria headquarters is well along with a third-generation hybrid-drive electric aircraft design that it hopes will serve as a certification template for future electric aircraft. The new airplane is based on a DA40 composite airframe, but rather than a geared conventional prop driven by a diesel engine, the aircraft will have a single […]

Two of Ireland’s busiest airports, Cork and Shannon, will soon get remote control towers operated from a third airport in Dublinin what appears to be the first operational full-scale test of remote tower technology. The Swedish aerospace and industrial conglomerate Saab is providing the equipment and overseeing the test program. According to Saab, the remote […]

A bipartisan group of U.S. representatives is asking FAA Administrator Michael Huerta for full disclosure relating to the alleged cheating by some candidates for air traffic controller positions. As AVweb reported last week, Fox Business News says it’s in possession of a voicemail from a senior FAA official offering select controller candidates the answers to […]

Evidence suggests the FBI operates a sizeable fleet of single-engine Cessnas that it doesn’t want the rest of us to know about and it’s not talking about the purpose of the aircraft. In an investigative report in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, the paper was able to identify a Cessna 182T that spent hours circling […]

If it sometimes seems that the entire aerospace industry is given over to developing ways to plant cameras in the sky to spy on people and things, it’s probably because the entire aerospace industry is given over to developing ways to plant cameras in the sky to spy on people and things. Although the actual […]

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) has added its voice to a growing chorus calling for an investigation into allegations that some prospective air traffic controller trainees were helped to cheat during the selection process by one or more FAA employees. A three-part series on Fox Business News broke the staggering accusations that a […]