Business & Military

Martin Jetpack, the New Zealand-based company that aims to bring a commercial jetpack to the market, raised $27 million Tuesday in its initial public offering, bringing the total value of the company to about $100 million, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. First deliveries of the devices, aimed at the first-responder market, are scheduled for […]

Did you happen to catch the Super Bowl commercial that had a 20-years-younger Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric discussing “the little a with a circle around it” then asking their off-camera producer to explain what this thing, the internet, was? The spot was funny because anyone who sees it now will marvel that just two […]

The FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the use of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) is now on the Federal Register, which means comments are now open. Comments on the long and complex rule are being accepted until April 24. The rule was posted to the Federal Register late Friday and is officially published as […]

The oldest airport in Lithuania celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. To mark the milestone, S. Darius and S. Girenas Airfield produced a video sharing what pilots around the world have in common — from watching airplanes fly overhead as a child to that first solo. The 17-minute video, “Stories of Aviation,” was produced with […]

A Canadian pilot begged an Ohio court to give him more jail time rather than take away his beloved Cessna 172 but the presiding judge turned the aircraft over to the federal government and set 26-year-old Ryan Brandt, of North Bay, Ontario, free. Brandt had earlier pleaded guilty to trying to smuggle a Canadian woman […]

AVweb’s search of aviation news worldwide found shipments starting up for Garmin’s new ADS-B assembly, a new guidebook from Power Flow Systems, an aircraft app from Pilot John, and a Wi-Fi mod connecting Dynon’s SkyView with ForeFlight.Garmin has announced that initial orders of the GDL 84, the latest addition to Garmin’s comprehensive lineup of certified […]

Sonex Aircraft has shipped its first SubSonex JSX-2 personal jet kit, launching the initial set of deliveries from the microjet’s first production run as a quick-build kit. The SubSonex’s arrival to Redge Greenberg of Durango, Colorado, “marks the conclusion of an intense six-month effortto bring JSX-2 from prototype aircraft to a fully-developed quick-build kit product,” […]

The other night, I saw a video report-one of several, actually-about how some government agency was lit up because it’s beginning to look like 3-D printing will be capable of making parts for firearms. In passing, it mentioned that complex airplane parts would soon be producible by 3-D technology. Yeah, I thought, when pigs fly. […]

Maybe you haven’t used a 3-D printer to make your own cogs or dowels (yet), but Jim Bertel and Joel Smith of Stratasys Direct Manufacturing are putting additive manufacturing to work in mankind’s final frontier – outer space. Duration: 13:43 File Size: 12.5 MB download here

While most general aviation advocacy groups had positive reviews overall this week for the FAA’s proposed new rules for commercial operations of unmanned aerial systems, reaction has been mixed on other fronts. One of the biggest disappointments was handed to Amazon, whose plans to develop autonomous delivery drones would be grounded by the proposed rules. […]