Dave Rathbun, Engineer Behind Cirrus Aircraft Designs, Killed in Crash of SR22
Dave Rathbun, a longtime Cirrus Aircraft engineer who played a critical part in the design of the company’s piston …
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King Air Crashes After Takeoff from Little Rock: All Five Aboard Die
A Beechcraft King Air 200 crashed shortly after takeoff from Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, killing …
Commentary: Chinese Spy Balloon Hysteria… or Not?
By the time you read this, it’s very likely that another spy balloon or spy cylinder or UFO or …
Continental Details Engines Woes, and It’s Not Just Cirrus Planes
Continental Aerospace Technologies has shared details behind a story that Plane & Pilot broke last week. The Mobile, Alabama-engine …
75 Feet from a Collision at Austin Between Fedex 767 and Southwest 737
Two planes nearly collided this past Saturday at Austin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS), and quick thinking by the pilot of …
Final 747 Leaves Seattle Skies in Regal Fashion
As we reported earlier, Boeing delivered its final 747 jumbo jet amidst much pomp and circumstance, and rightly so. The …
Boeing Delivering Final 747 Today
Boeing will make the final 747 delivery today, the end of a 50-plus-year span of building the revolutionary …
An All-Electric Zenith CH-750 Takes to the Air
A UK non-profit is developing an all-electric version of the popular Zenith CH-750 for use as medical …
First Solo Disaster: Piper PA-28 Loses Wings In Flight
First solo flights for student pilots are typically a nerve-wracking affair. For one ill-fated student, that first flight …
That Close Call at JFK? It‘s Worse Than We Knew.
The near-miss on the runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City last week got a …
