Business & Military

The Air Force is moving ahead with plans to triple the size of the Powder River MOAs over the northern Plains.In a statementissued Friday, the Air Force said the expansion would allow training flights for the B-1 Lancer and B-52 Stratofortress to operate closer to the bases at Ellsworth in South Dakota and Minot in […]

AOPA President Mark Baker has pointedly urged Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx for action on proposed third-class medical reform. In what AOPA describes as a “strongly-worded letter,” Baker says the delay in acting on the three-year-old proposal is “incomprehensible” to most of its members. “On behalf of our members and the aviation community we must ask, […]

Bombardier has “paused” development of its mostly composite Learjet 85 business jet saying the market is too soft both for that product and for light-to-midsize jets. The suspension will result in the layoff of a total of 1,000 workers at production facilities in Wichita and Queretaro, Mexico. About 620 of the layoffs will be in […]

AVweb’s search of news in aviation worldwide turned up a new safety product for cabin pressure in aircraft, a STOL kit from Just Aircraft, a new ADS-B suite for King Air 200s, and an aviation scholarship program at Nova Southeastern University. The AltAlert personal cabin pressure monitor has been created to provide a new level […]

Tecnam has invested in a major new assembly and support facility for its aircraft at the Sebring, Florida, airport. As part of our Sport Aviation Expo 2015 coverage, AVweb took a tour of the new facility. view on YouTube

While the FAA creeps toward releasing regulations for unmanned aerial systems, plenty of entrepreneurs and designers are moving ahead with new products. One new design, the X PlusOne, aims to combine the usual VTOL multi-rotor design with the ability to fly horizontally at high speeds. xCraft, a start-up company, is just wrapping up a successful […]

The FAA is deputizing police forces across the U.S. in the fight against illegal drone use. The agency has issued a 12-page guide to law-enforcement agencies enlisting their help in stemming the “considerable increase in the unauthorized use” of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS). Of course, the police don’t really have the authority to enforce […]

Although you don’t see it as much, the kind of nose art that reached its zenith during World War II is still with us. I recently saw a shot of some pretty risqu art on the nose of an A-10. It’s still out there. Another military tradition also popular during World War II was the […]

SpaceX successfully launched an unmanned supply mission to the International Space Station on Saturday morning, but an attempt to soft land and recover the booster to a barge at sea failed. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Tweeted Saturday, “Close, but no cigar. Bodes well for the future tho’. Ship itself is fine. Some of the support […]

AVweb’s search of the news in aviation turned up appointments at the National Air Transportation Association and ClipperJet Inc., a hiring initiative at Great Lakes Airlines, and business aviation student scholarships awarded by the National Aircraft Resale Association. NATA is pleased to announce the selection of Timothy R. Obitts as the association’s Senior Vice President […]