USA-2 Team With 4 Canines To Assist Initial Medical Stabilization

The Los Angeles County Fire Department’s international search and rescue team, USA-2 (Urban Search and Rescue) was slated to depart for Jamaica on a charter flight with 34 team members, 4 canine assistants, and 42,000 lbs of support equipment. There, they will assist with search, rescue, and recovery as well as initial medical care and stabilization for people who they locate trapped under rubble or collapsed structures.

Beta’s Alia CTOL Makes History Flying From Vermont

Beta Technologies announced that its Alia CTOL aircraft has made the first-ever landing of an all-electric aircraft at the Boeing Field-King County International Airport (KBFI) in Seattle, Washington.

Musk Claims the Tech Could Be Unveiled Within a Couple of Months

Elon Musk is once again promising the impossible…this time, in the form of a Tesla that flies. Speaking on The Joe Rogan Experience, Musk said the company is “getting close” to demonstrating a prototype of what he dubbed “crazy, crazy technology.”

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Even with parts of the federal government on pause, Yosemite National Park isn’t letting BASE jumpers off easy. Park officials announced that three people were recently convicted for illegal parachute jumps off Yosemite’s formations amid a legal push to lift the 40-year ban against them. BASE jumping has been prohibited in all national parks since the 1980s. One of the more intriguing features of the 2025 Affordable Flying Expo, scheduled for November 6-8 at the Sun n Fun Aerospace Expo campus is a Friday event we call the MOSAIC Town Hall. Scheduled for Friday, November 7th at 1800ET, the MOSAIC Town Hall will be presented in the nearby Prop 75 building and webcast LIVE via www.airborne-live.net and for the attending audience. Textron Aviation Defense announced production plans for the UJTS, or Undergraduate Jet Training System program. That

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Anduril Industries’ YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft was flown for the first time on October 31, 2025, as announced by the U.S. Air Force, who also confirmed that a decision about production of the CAA is still expected during FY2026 despite the ongoing government shutdown. The Air Force sent out a press release announcing the first flight but there were not many details about what the YFQ-44A actually did, how long it flew, or where it ended. Merlin, developer of autonomous flight technology for the defense sector, announced it has gained the Stage of Involvement 2 with the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand, an important step in the DO-178 certification audit cycle that enables regulators to have progressive visibility into the company’s software development program. The FAA finally has a decent excuse to put its drone

Converts A350-1000 Passenger Jet Order To Cargo Carrier

Korean Air announced it converted seven orders for Airbus A350 passenger jets to become the latest customer for the A350F freight hauler, the world’s only all-new cargo aircraft.

Diverted To Tampa, At Least 15 Taken To Hospitals

A JetBlue Airways flight enroute from Cancun, Mexico, to New Jersey was forced to divert to Tampa after an apparent flight control issue and a sudden loss of altitude that caused some injuries.

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OK... this is an insane record... and one that is likely to stand for a while as we’re not sure there are many who would choose to challenge it. A next-gen CubCrafters Carbon Cub UL has climbed to a verified altitude of 37,609 feet above sea level over the California coast just a few days ago — setting what CubCrafters claims to be an unofficial new world altitude record for Cub-type aircraft (and let’s face it, it’s not likely that most Cub-types have seen anywhere near HALF that altitude. The Affordable Flying Expo is building up a healthy head of steam as additional exhibitors join the mix and the list of aircraft on display grows by the day. Recently, we received confirmation of the Deltahawk RV14 test vehicle, and added both Tecnam and JMB Aircraft added 5, possibly as many as 7 additional aircraft to the growing static display lin

Expands Global Footprint With State-Of-The-Art Tech In Region

AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc., dba EagleNXT, a provider of advanced drone and aerial imaging solutions, announced they have selected Makville Business Consultants of Cairo, Egypt, to be an authorized distributor for EagleNXT senseFly drones.

Adds To City’s History Of Advanced Aerospace Manufacturing

Joby Aviation, Santa Cruz, California-based developer of electric air taxis for commercial passenger service, announced it has added the manufacturing of propeller blades at its Dayton, Ohio, facility. With this step, Joby expands its in-house manufacturing of a critical component and adds to the activities already underway in Dayton, paving the way for at-scale aircraft production ahead of commercial launch.