Recent Updates

Walmart is now seeking to take part in drone-driven package delivery, joining other high-profile companies such as Google and Amazon. The big-box retail giant this week applied to the FAA for a commercial waiver for drone test flights. It has already begun indoor testing with unmanned aircraft, which does not require FAA approval, and is […]

U.K. budget carrier easyJet has pledged to double the percentage of prospective female pilot candidates from the current 6 percent to 12 percent over the next two years. In her inaugural address to the British Air Transport Association last week, Carolyn McCall said the airline will actively recruit female pilots. “We will highlight the opportunities […]

As aviation groups lament the slow implementation of NextGen, a nationwide effort has emerged to turn back the clock. Protests were held in eight major cities Saturday as part of “No-Fly Day,” an apparently well-organized effort to get the FAA to revise the routing that the new satellite approaches and departures mandate. The revisions have […]

Redbird Flight Simulations has partnered with Tempus Training Solutions to operate the Redbird Proflight Academy at its Skyport FBO in San Marcos, Texas. Tempus will continue training pilots there under FAA Part 61 and 141. The move allows Redbird to devote more of its resources to research and development, while continuing to use the training […]

AVweb’s search of aviation news around the world found a first flight for a customer-built Sonex jet, a new home for the Seaplane Pilots Association, upcoming inductees to EAA’s Halls of Fame, and a partnership between two Canadian aviation organizations. Sonex Aircraft extends its congratulations to Redge Greenberg of Durango, Colorado, who made the first […]

Quicksilver Aircraft, which has sold more than 15,000 ultralight aircraft around the world, will close its California factory and is working to reorganize the business, according to a report at ByDanJohnson.com. After a couple of years of increasing sales, the company saw a dip in 2015. “Tremendous efforts were placed in order to reduce costs […]

Ken Hyde, whose painstaking reproductions of early Wright aircraft are known for their historical accuracy and attention to detail, has put seven of his custom-built aircraft on the market, representing a variety of models that originally flew from 1902 to 1911. “I hope to keep them together,” he told AVweb this week, but will sell […]

Every year, the Lightspeed Aviation Foundation chooses five aviation charities to support based on the results of online voting, providing grants of $2,000 to $10,000. This year’s top vote winners were Pilots N Paws, the Ninety-Nines, and Civil Air Patrol. Grants also went to NTM (New Tribes Mission) Aviation, to help them buy a new […]

About six months ago we brought you a long-distance video of a “hoverboard” being flown over a remote Canadian lake and there were plenty of skeptics. Last week, inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru invited Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC, along for a flight demo that should mute, if not silence, those skeptics. Duru appeared to be […]

The legal profession is keeping an eye on a case in Pennsylvania that might limit litigation in aviation product liability cases. The Third Circuit Court is expected to issue a ruling in the case of Sikkelee v. Precision Airmotive, in which the wife of the pilot who died in a plane crash alleges that fuel […]