On The Fly…

SJ30 jet completed high-speed dive testing to Mach .90…Delta wants $1 billion from pilots to avoid bankruptcy…Lightning cracked a cockpit window in a JAL 777…Boeing Wichita yesterday marked final work on 757 with a ceremony…Texas man who took a joy ride in stolen 172 got six years in prison…Boeing is on a search to hire thousands of engineers and technicians.

Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation announced Tuesday it has successfully completed high-speed dive testing to .90 Mach for its seven-seat SJ30 light biz jet. The manufacturer lost its chief test pilot, Carroll Beeler, last year when the SJ30-2 aircraft crashed during dive testing to .9 Mach...

Delta says it needs $1 billion in salary concessions from pilots to avoid bankruptcy...

Lightning hit a Japan Airlines 777 and cracked a cockpit window on Monday; the airplane made a safe unscheduled landing at Osaka Airport...

Local pilots say plans to restrict access to information about Melbourne (Fla.) Airport are not to enhance security but to deter critics...

Boeing Wichita yesterday marked its final work on the 757 with a ceremony...

Texas man who got drunk and took a joy ride in a stolen 172 got six years in prison...

Boeing is on a search to hire thousands of engineers and technicians.