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The GDL-82 cuts a lot of the expense and install time out of the process and let’s owners keep an important instrument in the panel

Following the crash of an Amtrak train in Olympia, Washington, we’re already hearing cries for more automation to prevent such disasters. Will that happen in aviation, too? The tragic crash on Monday of an Amtrak train that left at least three people dead and dozens injured, was associated with excess speed, a lot of excess […]

For the largest airplane in the world, even a slow taxi is a complicated affair

On Monday, Bell Helicopter made the first flight of its V-280 Valor (remember that number), the newest and most advanced tiltrotor on the planet

New legislation reinstates sUAS registration requirement

With the rapid ascent of autonomous aircraft, somehow those old jokes about the need for fewer or no pilots at all, aren’t as funny as they used to be

There’s no mystery in the NTSB’s probable cause findings for this incident

Sometimes it’s all about who you celebrate with

The high-end bizjet was the victim of a failed engine program

How the success of Blue Origins might mean that a new space race is actually open. I forget who said that “all politics are local,” a sentiment I don’t entirely agree with, but I do think that space flight is inherently global and inescapably political. Maybe it shouldn’t be so much of the later. NASA, […]