Business & Military

Two Illinois congressmen have introduced legislation that would force the FAA to abandon a controversial new recruitment process to fill an anticipated 10,000 air traffic controller openings over the next 10 years. Republican Rep. Randy Hultgren and Democrat Dan Lipinski introduced the Safe Towers Act on Friday. The bill, if passed, will force the FAA […]

AOPA says pretty much anything to do with aircraft storage and active maintenance and construction should be considered an “aeronautical use” and be permitted in hangars on federally funded airports. In comments to the FAA (PDF) on its proposed policy on the definition of aeronautical uses, AOPA says it wants the FAA’s policy to use […]

It hasn’t been a quiet week in aviation news-our survey uncovered certification testing of the Falcon 7X at the world’s highest airport, SAFE Teacher Grant Awards, a big sale of Embraer E175 jets and a company that’s developing a way to surf behind an airplane. The long-range Falcon 7X will soon become the first business […]

Rapid transportation-that is, anything faster than a galloping horse-hasn’t been with us all that long. Steam locomotives weren’t in widespread use until well into the 19th century, cars came along 70 years later and the airplane a full century after the locomotive. But the timeline for speed evolution in airplanes was almost too rapid to […]

In response to what was becoming a stalemate over an airman who was trying to reenlist, the U.S. Air Force has directed its support offices to allow both enlisted members and officers to omit the words “So help me God” from oaths for enlistment and officer appointments if an airman chooses. The change became effective […]

In an ironic turn, nearly 80 years after Stalin derided the Pope of the Catholic Church by asking how many divisions he had, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, now owns one of the most advanced combat jets in the world. After giving workers at a Sukhoi Company plant icons he had […]

At an investor conference hosted by Morgan Stanley this week, Boeing’s CEO Ray Conner announced that Boeing is looking to increase 737 production to a whopping 52 a month as soon as 2018. Boeing is currently pushing 42 of its top-selling airliners out the door each month and had previously said that its production goal […]

Aerion is making a multi-million dollar bet that the world needs a supersonic business jet, and it’s developing one for delivery in 2021. AVweb’s editorial team shot this update on the project. view on YouTube

Gulfstream is quietly making progress toward a supersonic business jet that might be able to fly above Mach 1 over the U.S. FAA regulations currently ban supersonic flight over land in the U.S. The company has earned three patents in the last few months toward that end and Business in Savannah says that’s a pretty […]

Within a few years, U.S. astronauts will be able to launch to the International Space Station from the U.S., instead of traveling to Russia as they’ve been doing since the end of the space-shuttle program in 2011, NASA said on Tuesday. NASA said it has chosen Boeing and SpaceX to develop crew-carrying spacecraft by 2017. […]