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SpaceX came close to recovering a rocket booster on a barge Sunday but the rocket fell over after a good landing. “At least the pieces are bigger this time,” tweeted SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after the exhilarating if ultimately unsuccessful attempt. Although the rocket hit the bull’s-eye on the barge and seas appeared to be […]

AVweb’s search of aviation news around the world found a new name for the expanding Nashua Flight Simulator, a new international seller for Seeker aircraft, and 2016 award applications announced by GAMA and NATA. Nashua Flight Simulator has gone national – to National Flight Simulator (NFS). The corporate name change reflects client and revenue growth, […]

Sierra Nevada Corp., which has developed a reusable, runway-landing space vehicle, will join SpaceX and Orbital ATK in the next cycle of NASA missions to the International Space Station. NASA on Thursday announced it has picked the three companies to conduct the spaceflights between 2019 and 2024. Each will operate a minimum of six missions, […]

Boeing and Airbus reported upbeat year-end results recently, with both companies saying they delivered the most airliners ever in 2015 — a total of 762 for Boeing, and 635 for Airbus. “Global passenger traffic in most key regions is increasing,” said Randy Tinseth, a Boeing VP for marketing. “Our customers continue to perform well in […]

Veterans of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, now in their 80s and 90s, are widely honored in the aviation world, but now they are taking up a new fight for equality — seeking the right to be interred at Arlington National Cemetery. A bill introduced in Congress this week aims to secure that option for […]

I’ve been reading a book called Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free. Beyond its amusing title, it’s but an extended essay on the notion that the U.S. is the ideal place to breed and encourage cranks because the entire country was founded on imaginative ideas that challenged the […]

A signal-jamming system to deter unwanted drone flights was unveiled this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Developed by Airbus Defense and Space, the Smart Responsive Jamming Technology can disable signals between a drone and its operator or, in some cases, jam its navigation system. Since some drone flights in prohibited areas […]

The debates over user fees and ATC privatization are coming back to the forefront as Congress settles into its second session. The impetus this week came from a piece in Politico by U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, a Kansas Republican whose district covers Wichita. The proposals are brewing in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee as […]

AVweb’s search of news in aviation turned up a Published Pricing feature for OverhaulBids.com, an expansion for a Piper training school, Airforms’ latest product for Cessnas, and a new look for the Diamond DA40 Tundra version. OverhaulBids.com now offers Published Pricing for engine overhauls. Know the cost for Lycoming, Continental, and Pratt & Whitney overhauls. […]

Cessna Aircraft’s Citation CJ2+ is no longer in production, leaving other variations in the Citation series to fill the demand for business jets. The CJ2+, which had about 10 years in production, is an updated version of the 7-seat Citation CJ2, which initially went into service in 2000. Cessna has not delivered a CJ2+ since […]