UK's Court Refusal To Hear Cases Means Airlines Must Pay For Flight Delays

October 31, 2014 - The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has issued advice to passengers and called on airlines to comply with the law on compensation for disrupted flights, following the UK's Supreme Court decision to refuse  Read More

A Boeing Employee And Two Subcontractors Sentenced On Corruption Charges

October 31, 2014 - Former Boeing Procurement Officer, Deon Anderson was sentenced to 20 months in prison in connection with a bribery/kickback scheme involving Boeing military aircraft parts, as well as structuring currency Read More

Kansas, A Former ATC And Three Others Die In A King Air Plane Crash

October 31, 2014 - On Thursday a Beechcraft 200 King Air, N52SZ departing  runway 1R at Wichita Mid Continent Airport, Kansas for Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport, Arkansas crashed just after takeoff killing four people. At or  Read More

United Airlines Announces Highest Ever Quarterly Profit Of $1.1 Billion

October 27, 2014 - United Airlines (UAL) reported its third quarter profit for 2014, it is the companies highest-ever reported. The company reports its net income for this period was $1.1 billion an increase of 99 percent year-over-year. United's Read More

Britain's Lamb Beats Austria's Arch In Red Bull World Championship Air Race

October 26, 2014 - Nigel Lamb won the 2014 Red Bull Air Race World Championship today with a dramatic victory under pressure at the season finale in Spielberg, Austria, with a heart-stopping second place finish after Austria's Hannes Read More

Hundred's Of India's Airline Pilots Have Not Received Their Pilot Proficiency Checks

October 26, 2014 - India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is in the process of taking action against India's state owned Air India for failing to insure their pilots are current under the mandatory pilot  Read More

End Of An Era KLM To Retire The MD-11 Passenger Jet

October 26, 2014 - Many MD-11 fans had bought a ticket to be aboard KLM’s very last scheduled service with the MD-11, which is popular among many travelers and aircraft photographers. In recent months, many fans also booked tickets on routes where KLM  Read More

Air Line Pilots Association Elects New President And Officers

October 26, 2014 - The Board of Directors of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA) on Wednesday elected a new slate of national officers to lead the union for the next four years. The election took place during the union’s 45th regular biennial board meeting Read More

Monarch Airlines Is Sold To A Private Equity Investment Group

October 25, 2014 - On Friday, the British air carrier Monarch Airlines reported the company was sold to Greybull Capital LLP, a private equity investment group which has acquired 90% ownership interest in Monarch, with the remaining 10% to be contributed to the Read More

Google Executive Sets World Record For The Highest Altitude Free Fall Jump

October 25, 2014 - On Friday, Google executive, Alan Eustace, 57, sets world record for the highest altitude free fall jump. Eustace had separated from his balloon, at the earth's stratosphere, the second major layer of Earth's Read More

Pilot Remains And Aircraft Located After Disappearing Over Six Months Ago

October 24, 2014 - Theodore T. “Teddy” Weiss of Zephyrhills, Florida had departed from Marion County Airport in Dunnellon on April 5th in his single-engine, two seater, Sonex experimental aircraft (N229P) for Zephyrhills Municipal Read More

Boeing To Transform China's Used Cooking Oil 'Gutter Oil' Into Aviation Biofuel

October 23, 2014 - Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC)on Wednesday opened a demonstration facility that will turn waste cooking oil, commonly referred to as "gutter oil" in China, into sustainable aviation Read More

One Of The World's Largest Oil Companies CEO Dies In Plane Crash

October 21, 2014 - A French built Dassault Falcon 50 corporate jet (F-GLSA) departing from Moscow's Vnukovo Airport for Paris crashed on Monday killing all four onboard. One of the passengers onboard was the CEO of France’s oil and  Read More

Airbus Launches New VIP Widebody Cabin-Concept On The A330-200

October 20, 2014 - Airbus has launched a new VIP cabin concept, initially for the A330-200, offering a faster and more affordable way to the greater capacity, capability and comfort of a widebody for both private and Read More

Boeing Built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Successfully Completes 3rd Flight

October 17, 2014 – The Boeing built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) successfully de-orbited and landed today at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:24 a.m. PDT, concluding a 674-day experimental test mission for the U.S. Air Force Rapid Read More

NTSB To Takeover Investigation Of National Air Cargo Boeing 747 Crash In Bagram

October 16, 2014 - The NTSB will complete the investigation into the crash of a National Airlines (D.B.A. National Air Cargo) Boeing 747 (N949CA) at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. The cargo flight crashed on takeoff on its way Read More

Pete Mcleod Wins Red Bull Air Race In Las Vegas

October 13, 2014 - Pete McLeod of Canada was declared the winner of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship stop in Las Vegas on Sunday after heavy winds forced the cancellation of the flying in the first of three final rounds. McLeod won the first race of his career Read More

A Short Flight For A Jet, A Giant Leap For A Jet Engine

October 13, 2014 - Over the last several weeks, crews at GE Aviation’s flight test base in Victorville, CA, at the edge of the Mojave Desert, installed a next-generation jet engine with ceramic components and 3-D printed parts to the wing of a modified Read More

Ebola Scare Onboard US Airways Flight 845

October 10, 2014 - Not a good idea to shout out you have the Ebola virus as a joke on a commercial airline, on Wednesday a passenger onboard US Airways Flight 845 did just that. Flight 845 had departed Philadelphia International Airport (KPHL) for Punta Cana International  Read More

S-2T Pilot Killed In CalFire Air Tanker Crash Near Yosemite National Park

October 8, 2014 - On Tuesday afternoon a fire broke out near Yosemite National Park in Northern California at Dog Rock on the El Portal Road between the park boundary and Arch Rock Entrance Station. Around 2:45 PM Read More

Virgin Atlantic To Scrap Little Red

October 6, 2014 - Virgin Atlantic announced that it would end its daily flights between London Heathrow Airport and Manchester, Aberdeen and Edinburgh know as 'Little Red". Little Red passenger service has failed to produce the passenger revenue that the career had anticipated on. It was  Read More

Air Ambulance Crashes Killing Gunshot Patient, Crew Hospitalized

October 5, 2014 - On Saturday an Air Evac Lifeteam air ambulance based out off Duncan, Okla., was involved in a crash about 1:53 AM while on approach to United Regional Health Care in Wichita Falls, Texas. There were Read More

Ebola Virus Scare On United Airlines Flight 998

October 5, 2014 - On Saturday, a passenger onboard a United Airlines flight showed symptoms of having contacted Ebola after traveling in Liberia. The 35 year old man had been vomiting on the flight but did not display most of the other symptoms. Flight 998  Read More

California News Helicopter Pilot Sentenced

October 4, 2014 - John Michael Dial, 58, of Skaneateles, New York, was sentenced on Friday by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to two years in prison for aggravated identity theft. According to court documents, Dial used the names of actual persons to  Read More

Air Travel Is Low Risk For Ebola Transmission

October 3, 2014 - There has been an awful lot of news coverage of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) since learning that on Tuesday a passenger who arrived in the United States on a commercial flight from Liberia had been admitted into a Dallas hospital after Read More

USAA Requests FAA Approval To Test Unmanned Aircraft Systems

October 3, 2014 - United Services Automobile Association (USAA) has asked the Federal Aviation Administration for permission to research how unmanned aircraft systems could be used to help improve how quickly  Read More

Airbus Readies A350 XWB For First Customer Qatar Airways

October 3, 2014 - The first A350 XWB for Qatar Airways is progressing towards delivery before year end. The aircraft equipped with Rolls Royce Trent XWB engines rolled out of the Airbus factory in Toulouse fully painted, prominently bearing Qatar Airways’ livery. Following Read More

Sikorsky Unveils S-97 RAIDER Helicopter

October 3, 2014 - Sikorsky Aircraft on Thursday unveiled the first of two S-97 RAIDER™ helicopter prototypes, signaling the start of activities in the program’s test flight phase and a major step toward demonstrating the new and first armed reconnaissance rotorcraft featuring X2 Read More

Allegiant’s President and Chief Operating Officer, Andrew Levy Resigns

October 2, 2014 - On Tuesday, Allegiant Travel Company parent company of low-cost airline, Allegiant Air, announced the resignation of Andrew Levy President and Chief Operating Officer and will step down from the Allegiant board  Read More

Jacksonville International Airport Conducts An Alert 3 Exercise

October 2, 2014 - On Wednesday, the Jacksonville Aviation Authority conducted a triennial (every three years) emergency disaster preparedness exercise at Jacksonville International Airport (JAX), Florida. The   Read More

NASA’s Orion Spacecraft, Rocket Move Closer To First Flight

October 2, 2014 - United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket that will send NASA’s Orion spacecraft on its first flight test in December. The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket that will send NASA’s Orion spacecraft on its first flight test in December was Read More

Delta Celebrates 10th Anniversary Of 'Breast Cancer One' Survivor Flight

October 2, 2014 - Delta Air Lines' annual "Breast Cancer One" employee survivor flight took place Tuesday, kicking off the airline's month-long campaign to generate awareness and raise money for The Breast Cancer Research Read More

DHL To Begin Unmanned Aircraft Package Delivery On The Island Of Juist

October 1, 2014 -  DHL Parcel will soon launch a unique pilot project on the island of Juist located in Germany in which the company will provide shipments of supplies using unmanned aircraft (UAV). For the first time worldwide  Read More

Garmin Begins Shipping Its Angle Of Attack System For General Aviation Aircraft

October 1, 2014 - Garmin announced it has begun shipping its Angle of Attack (AOA) system. AOA has been approved by the FAA for installation in a wide variety of general aviation aircraft. The AOA system is comprised of the GI Read More

World's Largest Passenger Jet, The A380 Begins World's Longest Flight

October 1, 2014 - Qantas Airways begins flights between Dallas/Fort Worth Airport (DFW) to Sydney using the Airbus A380 "Superjumbo" jet making it the longest scheduled commercial flight in the world and served by the largest Read More

DWI And Your Pilots License FAR 61.15 And 61.16

October 1, 2014 - A Texas Man who held a commercial pilot certificate was indicted for flying an airplane without a valid airman certificate. Last Tuesday, Hal Tom, Jr. was indicted in U.S. District Court, Oxford, Mississippi, for knowingly and willfully operating  Read More