The Wright “B” Flyer, a modern look-alike of the Wright Brothers’ first production airplane, has limited range and is tiring to fly. Despite this, it’s going to make the trip to AirVenture this year, but it won’t be doing it by air.

In this video, Executive Vice President for Hartzell Propeller, J.J. Frigge, introduces us to Hartzell’s line of composite propeller blades. The tried-and-true wood propellers have been a source of thrust since the Wright brothers, and within 10 years of the first powered flight metal blades were brought into use. Now, composite propeller blade technology can provide greater propeller blade performance and longer life. Hartzell uses two composite technologies to produce their propeller blades....

A prototype BD-22 has gone down in Port St. Lucie, FL, resulting in the fatal injury of the pilot, the only person on board the airplane. The pilot was identified as 67-year-old Joseph Loney of Port St. Lucie. One of the last of the 80 men to climb aboard 16 B-25 bombers and launch from an aircraft carrier in April 1942 to attack Tokyo has gone west. ANN has learned that Lt. Col. Robert Hite passed away Sunday Morning at a nursing home in Nashville, TN. It’s reported that Hite had been , strip, h2) ] from C:/inetpub/wwwroot/clients/aero-news.net/components/utils.cfc

The FAA Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award recognizes pilots who have demonstrated professionalism, skill and aviation expertise by maintaining safe operations for 50 or more years.

EASA on Tuesday issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Amendment (A-NPA) to modernize the way smaller airplanes are certified. The proposed rule, which GAMA says contains the most mature and complete draft of the airworthiness standards to date, is largely based on the work of the FAA’s Part 23 Aviation Rulemaking Committee.

The FAA has granted a Certificate of Waiver or Authorization (COA) for commercial, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) flights to Helinet Aviation. The COA provides Helinet with pre-approved authorization to shoot UAV aerials on broadcast and motion picture sets without the need to apply for permission in advance.

Lufthansa's investigation of Germanwings Flight 9525 has uncovered emails that were exchanged between Andreas Lubitz and Lufthansa in 2009 which included medical documents that Lubitz had submitted when he resumed his flight training. The documents indicate that Lubitz had a "previous episode of severe depression."

Delta Air Lines and Grupo Aeromexico have filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation seeking antitrust immunity for a new joint venture on flights between the United States and Mexico.

The FAA has proposed two civil penalties totaling $328,550 against Southwest Airlines for allegedly violating Federal Aviation Regulations.

Boeing and Air India celebrated the airline's milestone delivery of its 20th 787 Dreamliner from Boeing's final assembly facility in North Charleston, SC.

The Airbus Helicopters Foundation, in coordination with French Foreign Affairs Ministry Crisis Center, have joined forces to distribute medical supplies, food and other humanitarian aid to the communities affected by Tropical Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu, an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, some 1,7500 km (approx. 1,000 miles) east of Australia.

Another of the storied Tuskegee Airmen has Gone West. John Leahr, a native of Cincinnati, OH, passed away on Friday, March 27, at the age of 94.

A prototype BD-22 has gone down in Port St. Lucie, FL, resulting in the fatal injury of the pilot, the only person on board the airplane.

A teenage pilot was fatally injured Sunday when the Piper PA-28 he was flying went down in a field shortly after takeoff from the Orange County, VA airport (KOMH) southwest of Washington, D.C.

Duncan Aviation is geared up and prepared to perform the magnetic particle inspection required on the main rotor spindle of the Enstrom F-28A, F-28C, F-28F, 280, 280C, 280F and 280FX model helicopter.

Normally when there is a mid-air collision that involves one of the aircraft losing part of its prop, the outcome is much worse. But when such an incident occurred Sunday during an air show it Tuscaloosa, AL, both airplanes managed to land safely, and there were no injuries.

Tom Moyer has been named as Bell Helicopter's Regional Sales Manager in North America, responsible for marketing and sales activities in the Midwest region. The appointment is effective immediately.

Angel Flight West has announced the recipients of the 2015 Endeavor Awards presented each year to pilots who volunteer with the organization.

On 29 March 2015, at approximately 1240 a.m., Air Canada flight ACA 624, an Airbus A320, on a scheduled flight from Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Ontario, to Halifax, Nova Scotia, landed short of the runway and collided with terrain approximately 1100 feet from the threshold of Runway 05, eventually coming to rest about 1100 feet down the runway. There were 133 passengers and 5 crew members on board; all of whom exited the aircraft.

Hartzell Propeller will supply high performance two-blade swept aluminum props for Flight Design’s new alternative fuel C4 aircraft.

A pilot that had just departed from the Hawley, MN airport Tuesday was forced to make an off-airport landing when the engine on the 1979 Mooney M20K stopped shortly after takeoff.

The State of New York's General Assembly has passed  has passed a "significant" tax reform measure that will exempt general aviation aircraft from the state's sales and use tax.

<strong>"With surrounding states already offering similar exemptions for general aviation aircraft, New York was not competitive and the legislature recognized how enactment of this exemption will bring jobs and new business to the state."</strong> <strong>Source:</strong> Michael Giardino, president of the New York Aviation Management Association.

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