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NASA will partner with the Houston Airport System (HAS) to develop one of 10 spaceports being permitted by the FAA near its home base at the Johnson Space Center. Cape Canaveral notwithstanding, NASA will partner with HAS to develop Ellington Airport into a spaceport. Spaceports, in the current definition, are airports where suborbital space flights […]

AVweb’s search of aviation news around the world turned up a major expansion for Yingling Aviation,ONE Aviation’s new Chinese distributor,and two announcements from the education front – a new aerospace event in Nevada, and K-12 grants awarded to two teachers.Yingling Aviation has announced a significant expansion to its propeller maintenance, repair and overhaul operations with […]

Watching the progress of this week’s Question of the Week, I was reminded that my attitude toward women in the workplace was pretty much crystalized all at once at 5:30 a.m. on February 10th,1969. Standing in the induction line at Fort Holabird, it occurred to me that if women were eligible for the then draft, […]

A team headed by NASA engineer Mark Moore plans to fly a modified Tecnam P2006T driven by an array of small propellers powered by electric batteries. Moore explains to AVweb’s Mary Grady how this project could completely upend the design rules for GA aircraft of the future. Duration: 5:34 File Size: 6.4 MB download here

A runaway military blimp thatfloated through part of Pennsylvania Wednesday, dragging a cable and cutting power to thousands of residents, has been secured. It’s not yet clear how the blimp escaped from its tether atAberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, butas many as 20,000 people were reported to be without electricity, according to CNN’s reporton the […]

The Air Force will pay $1 billion each for the first 21 of its new long-range stealth bombers under a deal announced Tuesday. The Air Force awarded the $55-billion-dollar overall contract to Northrop Grumman, which built the B-2 and is said to be planning a similar-looking aircraft as its replacement. For the first 21 airplanes, […]

As a Washington, D.C., court weighs the legality of posting flight sharing offers online, an Arizona Republican has introduced a bill that would compel the FAA to accept services like Flytenow. Flytenow, which hosted a website that allowed pilots to post their planned flights so prospective passengers could come along and pay a share of […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association announced this week that it has created a new “associate membership” category for manufacturers of electric and hybrid propulsion aircraft. The association said it hopes to “better enable the worldwide development, growth, and airworthiness certification of electric and hybrid propulsion technology to benefit the future of general aviation.” GAMA noted […]

The latest version of Lockheed Martin’s Viper jet, the F-16V, completed its first flight last week, the company said in a news release. The aircraft features a new radar system by Northrop Grumman that Lockheed says “will deliver a quantum leap in capability.” The cockpit also has a new center pedestal display and an upgraded […]

People who sell things for a living—airplanes, cars, construction equipment, you name it—know that there’s a fine art to convincing a would-be buyer that a used thing is almost always a better value than a new thing. (Car dealers get this because they typically make more margin on used cars than on new.) Airplane buyers, […]