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Ever thought about building your own kit plane? Finally settled on the right ADS-B equipment for your mission? We want to hear about it. From jets and LSAs to avionics and headsets, AVweb‘s pilot survey is seeking information on what kinds of aircraft you’ve been flying and the equipment you use in the air. “The […]

Poznan, Poland-based Jetson Aerohas completed initial flights of what it hopes will be a personal drone fast and nimble enough to make for entertaining racing. For now, though, the Jetson Speeder is less an aerial go-kart and more an eight-motor aircraft-aluminum H with a carbon-fiber seat in the middle. In the video below, the proof-of-concept […]

Boeing’s iconic airliner first flew 50 years ago this Feb. 9, and to carry the celebration into summer EAA will have “special programming taking place throughout the week” of EAA AirVenture 2019. While the 747 is no longer the largest airliner in the skies, for a generation of passengers it stands as a physically imposing […]

Low level wind shear has been the cause of many accidents, some of them catastrophic, but a British Airways 787 crew muscled out of a pretty nasty example during a storm in the U.K. on Friday. The wind on the nose goes away briefly when the big Boeing is in the flare. Note the full […]

A large field of contenders from the full range of aviation and aerospace endeavors have been nominated for the 2018 Collier Trophy, arguably the most prestigious award in the industry. A total of 11 nominees have been approved for consideration and include: Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (AGCAS), Bell V-280 Valor, Boeing T-X, Draken International […]

One crew member has been rescued and another is missing after a cargo plane ditched about 14 miles off the coast of Florida on Friday.The rescued first officer has been identified as Rolland Silva and he is recovering in a hospital in Florida. The missing captain is Robert Hopkins. The search was suspended on Saturday. […]

Aviation groups are lining up to support a bill that would keep the FAA funded during a government shutdown by temporarily shifting its source of money. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., and Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Rick Larsen, D-Wash., introduced the bill on Friday. If passed, the bill would allow money […]

Qantas Airlines has cancelled an order for eight Airbus A380 jets. The eight aircraft were part of a larger order for 20 A380s placed in 2006. According to Qantas, the airline is instead planning to upgrade the twelve A380s it is currently operating. Airbus said in early January that it will need to end production […]

AVweb‘s weekly news roundup found reports on a newly approved training program for Eclipse pilots, a name change for Simhawk and a new vice president at Cadence Aerospace. AEROCOR has announced that it has received FAA approval for its Eclipse 500/550 initial and recurrent training programs. The firm is also packaging the training programs with […]

Drone Hysteria V2.0 I thought the article was well written and informative, thank you. One sector of aviation that seems to be mostly overlooked when Discussing drones is the Helicopter Air Ambulance industry. As a Helicopter Air Ambulance pilot drones have become a big concern. Consider my daily scenario. We land/take off and fly between […]