Sriwijaya Air Crash Probe Eyes Autothrottle Investigators are looking into the possibility that an autothrottle problem contributed to the fatal crash of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 […] Read this article
Going to the Moon Was Easy Compared To 100UL The National Academies report on reducing lead in avgas is a trip through time. Unfortunately, it seems to always end back where it started. Read this article
Aero Friedrichshafen Postponed Until Mid-July Citing continuing concerns about COVID-19, Aero announced today that it has rescheduled the expo from April 21 to July 14 […] Read this article
Sun ‘N Fun Plans For In-Person Expo Sun n’ Fun is going forward with its annual expo this year following the cancellation of the 2020 event due […] Read this article
How the RV-8 Came to Be Throughout the 1980s, tandem two-seat homebuilt designs were firmly in the mainstream. Burt Rutan’s VariEze and Long-EZ were popular, and […] Read this article
Airbus Updates 2021 Production Rates Airbus has announced that its production rates will remain lower for longer than originally anticipated in response to the current […] Read this article
HAI Cancels HELI-EXPO 2021 Helicopter Association International (HAI) announced on Wednesday that it has canceled its annual HAI HELI-EXPO due to exhibitor concern regarding […] Read this article
magniX Moves To Everett Aerospace electric propulsion systems company magniX has announced that it is moving its global headquarters from Redmond to Everett, Washington. […] Read this article
Picture of the Week, January 21, 2021 I shot this picture of Peter Donath flying his Globe Swift off the wing of my RV-8 on December 29, 2020. We were flying over the Catalina Channel off the coast of the the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California. I used a Nikon D800 with a 50mm lens and 1/100th shutter speed. Copyrighted photo by Skylor Piper. Read this article
