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Thirteen people aboard Bluebonnet Belle, a well-known Commemorative Air Force C-47, escaped after the aircraft crashed on takeoff at Burnet Airport near Austin, Texas, on Saturday. The aircraft was on a flight to AirVenture 2018 when it seemed to struggle to get airborne from a three-point attitude (C-47s normally take off tail high), banked right […]

With the engine overhaul and aftermarket parts business growing ever more competitive, Superior Air Parts announced this week that it’s extending the warranty on its Millennium cylinder line to 37 months. A longer warranty will also apply to other components Superior markets into the field overhaul segment. “We feel like we’ve made some significant strides […]

Big airplanes have been putting on increasingly dramatic performances at the Farnborough Airshow in recent years but it might be some time before anyone tops the loop performed by the civilian version of Lockheed Martin’s C-130 on Thursday. After doing progressively aggressive climbs and half inverted turns, Lockheed Martin Chief Pilot Wayne Roberts dipped the […]

The pilot of de Havilland Venom jet warbird was killed, two people on the ground were injured and about 50 calves had to be euthanized when the aircraft crashed into a calving barn on a dairy farm near Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on Friday. The aircraft, owned by the World Heritage Air Museum in Detroit, was one […]

This week, AVweb‘s weekly news roundup uncovered reports about a new Oshkosh panel, a head up display (HUD) from MyGoFlight, and some management changes at LightHawk. AeroInnovate will be holding a panel discussion at EAA AirVenture called “Funding Your Dream.” The topics covered will relate to understanding of what it takes to start and fund […]

Terrafugia Flying Car I’m temporarily in a city in NE Ohio where the potholes are SO prolific and SO deep that I have to drive my normal car at very slow speeds to keep it together and keep the wheels and tires intact. I can just imagine THIS contraption navigating such roadways. And we haven’t […]

Trevor Laue typically flies 1,000 feet above the ocean, mapping grids over the waves at 100 knots. Whenever one of the flight observers catches sight of the crew’s target—a right whale—Laue breaks out of the pattern and settles into a circle around the whale so scientists in the rear seat of the Cessna Skymaster can […]

Dynon is introducing the D3 Pocket Panel and DRX Portable Dual Band ADS-B Traffic and Weather Receiver at AirVenture this year. In addition to traffic data, the DRX ADS-B In receiver can provide NEXRAD Radar, METARS, TAFs and other weather information—along with WAAS GPS position—to connected mobile devices. According to the company, the DRX is […]

Boeing announced the formation of a new division at the Farnborough International Airshow on Tuesday. The goal of the division, called Boeing NeXt, will be to “advance next-generation airspace management and evolve the transportation ecosystem.” According to the company, technologies NeXt will be exploring include artificial intelligence, airspace management for autonomous flight and advanced propulsion. […]