California-based Ampaire reports that it flew its electric hybrid aircraft this week for the first time and plans an aggressive test program toward commercialization in 2021. The hybrid drive is installed in a Cessna 337 airframe. The company flew the airplane from Camarillo, California, on Thursday, but has offered little detail on the flight parameters […]
The long-awaited first flight of Boeing’s 777X will be delayed further thanks to problems with the aircraft’s GE9X engines. A pair of the engines were installed on the airframe and started on May 29, but during the test, “an engine gave us a signal about its health. We had an anomaly in the compressor and […]
Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force. You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade toward which we have striven for these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, June 2, 1944 That Normandy as a hallowed place and D-Day as a seminal event live […]
As the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy continues, the AFP News Agency filed this short video of jumps from a pair of the C-47 aircraft flown in for the event. Later commemorative jumps included some 200 paratroopers.
As the weeklong commemoration of the Normandy D-Day landings continues, take a look at this great footage posted by Airshow U.K. It shows some of the D-Day C-47s preparing for their flight across the English Channel to Normandy.
Drone maker DJI says it will provide ADS-B In as a standard feature on all of its drones weighing a half-pound or more beginning in 2020. Sensitive to public fears about the risk small drones represent to commercial and private aircraft, DJI is trying to get ahead of the curve with de-confliction technology and a […]
The troubled Boeing 737 MAX’s return-to-service date remains unknown but two polls suggest the flying public has a mixed view of booking flights on the airplane. A UBS survey found as few as 3% of passengers say they’d pass on a MAX trip while a Barclay’s Bank survey said 44% of flyers would wait a […]
As part of AVweb’s coverage of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, we’re sweeping the web for informative videos about the event and the participating aircraft. This video by the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force tells the story of D-Day Doll.
It’s unpronounceable so don’t even try. Palimpsest means something reused or altered but still bears traces of an earlier form. Commonly applied to ancient manuscripts when Roman publishers were too stingy to buy new parchment and forced authors to write over Cicero’s remainders. Et mortuus est, et nos non petendam (he’s dead and won’t sue […]
It seems likely that Boeing or Airbus will continue to dominate large-airliner design, but not if KLM has anything to do with it. The Dutch national airline announced that it is helping fund the development of the Flying-V, a lifting-body-esque flying wing aircraft designed by Delft University of Technology student Justus Benad. Delft, also known […]
Get the latest stories & special offers delivered directly to your inbox
SUBSCRIBE
