Opinion

With a recent announcement of yet another new timetable for its controversial jet, Boeing has been all over the news these past few months, and not in ways any company would want.

The company’s partnership on the e-VTOL called Joby is interesting on several levels. Some of them are historic. Others reveal a couple of uncomfortable truths about urban air mobility.

What some pilots don’t get about this flight instrument that has just changed the fleet, with 13 other historic advances they also whiffed on, from autopilots to monoplanes.

Here’s why we just don’t know how many of our planes are ready for mandatory ADS-B equipage on January 1st. But here’s why the news might be better than we feared.

The maker of autonomous aircraft figured certificating clean-sheet, electric aircraft that fly themselves would be a quick process. Woopsie.

Also, news that some regulators are calling for MCAS not to be fixed, but to be trashed. How will this affect the ill-fated airliner’s return to the skies?

There are a number of causes for iconic GA plane maker shuttering its assembly line, and some of them we have never seen before.

A new wave of younger pilots is already here, and they see the world differently than pilots before them. So, fasten your seat belts. We could be in for a bumpy ride.

The revelation that we are within weeks of having certificated aircraft that can land themselves keeps everybody from seeing the big picture. So here it is.

This summer, Cirrus Aircraft announced that CEO Dale Klapmeier would be retiring from the leadership of the company he co-founded and that he has helped guide for 20 years. Cirrus is the world leader in the light personal transportation aircraft market, and for good reason. The SR22 is a beautiful, comfortable and utilitarian ride that […]