Aviation News

From 2004:Thunderbirds Crash — Truth In Images — a collection of still and video images.DHL Airbus Hit By SAM Over Baghdad — images of the stricken aircraft as it lands. From 2005Standard Floats, Dry Runway Departure — video of a water-only equipped Beaver departing a land base with some creative piloting.

Space Adventures, which arranges space tourism trips for the wealthy, is looking for a broader market. The company has announced it intends to compete with Virgin Galactic for the suborbital space race using a Russian-designed spacecraft… A government consultant and former state and municipal official is joining AOPA as its vice president of regional affairs. […]

Authorities in California have confirmed that Cessna-owned 208B Caravan went down near Yucaipa, Calif. Tuesday, killing Cessna Regional Sales Manager Steve O’Neill and Rick Voorhis, president of Pacific Aircraft Sales, Inc., which is based in Reno, Nev. The plane went down in a mountainous region about 75 miles east of Los Angeles. Inmates at a […]

In evacuation tests this weekend, Airbus successfully evacuated 853 filled seats, two cockpit crew with the aid of 18 cabin crew (a total of 873 humans) from 8 of 16 exits, ATWonline reported today. Only one leg was broken in the process… British Airways to raise crew retirement age to 60 in an effort to […]

Aerobatic pilot Nick Nilmeyer, 23, died during a practice Monday near Greenfield, Calif., in his Extra 300-S. Nilmeyer was the youngest member of the first Stars of Tomorrow team in 2003 and graduated to team captain in 2005…Custom Chelton EFIS for Vans RV-10 released by Direct-To Avionics… New data will provide better warning of solar […]

Steve Fossett says he broke Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager’s record for the greatest distance flown taking and landing off in the same spot on Friday. Fossett landed GlobalFlyer back at Salina, Kan., after a 74-hour spin around the world that he says covered more than 25,000 miles and outdistanced the old record by about […]

The former host of a game show called Press Your Luck died Monday when the Bonanza he was flying on an Angel Flight mission in California went down in Santa Monica Bay. Peter Tomarken, 63, and his wife Kathleen were killed on their way to pick up a patient in San Diego who needed treatment […]

The FAA has proposed an Airworthiness Directive (AD) on Sandel ST3400 terrain awareness warning systems/radio magnetic indicator (TAWS/RMI) units. A combination software and input signal glitch caused a bearing error. New software is on the way… Sport Pilot TV has been picked up by Time Warner and will soon be available to 40 million viewers. […]

EAA’s B-17 Aluminum Overcast flew on Tuesday afternoon, the first flight after 19 months of work to repair damage from a landing accident in 2004… Gulfstream Aerospace will expand its manufacturing and service facilities in Savannah, Ga., investing $300 million over seven years and adding 1,100 jobs, the company said on Monday… The Highland Lakes […]

Don’t blame lax security on the theft of a Cessna 182 from Marana Airport in Arizona last week. To get the plane airborne and headed for Mexico, the thief had to defeat keypad access, a padlock on the hangar and the plane’s own locks… The FAA is looking at new routes over New Jersey to […]