U.K. Moves To Stop Ex-RAF Pilots From Training Chinese The British government is considering making it illegal for retired RAF pilots to train the pilots of military adversaries after the RAF discovered as many as 30 ex-pilots had signed lucrative contracts to train Chinese pilots. The Times reported a[…] Read this article
NBAA-BACE 2022 Commentary The 2022 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) is underway in Orland, Florida. AVweb’s Kate O’Connor and Mark Phelps join Aviation Consumer magazine Editor-in-Chief Larry Anglisano at the show to talk about what’s happening in business aviation. Read this article
Is Accident Reporting Making Us All Crazy? If a thing happens, say, 1000 times a year or about three times a day, is it worth reporting as news? That’s the calculus on aviation accidents, which we report on semi-regularly here on AVweb. We’re not especially consistent about[…] Read this article
Video Shows Drone-On-Drone Battle A Ukrainian surveillance drone has apparently won the first drone-on-drone dogfight by essentially allowing a Russian quadcopter to bounce off it. The video, which was released by a Ukrainian poster on Telegram, has now gone viral and it’s unlikely to[…] Read this article
Podcast: NBAA-BACE 2022 Cirrus Vision Jet Program Update In this podcast recorded at the 2022 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE), Cirrus Aircraft senior vice president for sales and marketing Ben Kowalski talks with AVweb’s Kate O’Connor about how the Vision Jet program has developed since the[…] Read this article
FlightAware Adds Historical Flight Data Through its AeroAPI utility, FlightAware expanded the functionality of the query-based flight tracking to offer customers access to historical flight data dating back to Jan. 1, 2011. FlightAware users can already retrieve on-demand real-time flight status updates, flight tracks, future[…] Read this article
