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Like most of you, I think of avgas in a very one-dimensional way, regarding our old true blue 100LL as the only aviation gasoline, at least until a 100LL alternative hits the pumps in a few years. But it turns out that’s not really true. There’s another approved aviation fuel for sale today, Swift Fuels’ […]

With a little more than a year to go before all of the satellites are in orbit, testing has begun on the ADS-B system

Pascale was an aircraft designer, entrepreneur, and life-long aviation enthusiast

Enhancements and improved features make Garmin’s G500H better

The CES of aircraft featured few new products but lots of interesting questions about aviation’s digital future. The 60th edition of the Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) trade show in New Orleans got underway on Monday, and the first day of the show was an eye opener, but not for the usual reasons. Usually at this […]

What he “discovered” and suggested might shock you!but then again! United States Senator Chuck Schumer (D, NY) is worried about airplane accidents, specifically accidents involving small airplanes in New York. In a press release and open letter to the NTSB and FAA, Schumer made the “demand” that the agencies investigate a spate of aircraft accidents […]

Hundreds of free NASA-developed software programs are now available to the public

The supersonic QueSST could fill the niche left empty by the retirement of the Concorde

The agency’s blindsiding GA on its Santa Monica capitulation was more than the alphabets could take.  A couple of weeks ago when the FAA made the surprise announcement—“surprise” as in Pearl Harbor and not Happy Birthday, by the way—we weighed in that the move was something we’d never seen the agency do before. Our suggestion, […]

2017 marks another successful year for WAI