Thomas Horne

Hybrid piston/electric production firm Ampaire and aftermarket winglet producer Tamarack Aerospace Group have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop aerodynamic upgrades for the Ampaire family of hybrid electric aircraft.

Tecnam’s P2012 Traveller was introduced a year ago at the National Business Aviation Association’s Business Aviation and Convention in Las Vegas. Now the company has announced a bigger stablemate—one designed with STOL operations in mind.

Most of us know all too well that unpredicted weather can throw us curveballs, especially those of us who are instrument-rated pilots. Anticipating a flight free of adverse weather, it’s reasonable to fly under VFR in hopes of lowering your workload and flying a more direct route or at a (VFR) altit…

MyGoFlight CEO Charlie Schneider, a pilot and software engineer, died following the December 16 crash of a Cirrus SR22 on approach to McGhee-Tyson Airport in Knoxville, Tennessee.

First came Textron’s Cessna Citation CJ4 Gen2, with its enhanced cabin features. Now, the company’s Citation M2 and XLS will join the Gen2 groundswell.

Joby Aviation has completed its business combination with special purpose acquisition company Reinvent Technology Partners and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. As of August 13, Joby shares opened at $11.31 per share.

How the trim wheel works

Bye Aerospace announced progress on all of its electric aircraft—the two-seat eFlyer 2, four-seat eFlyer 4, and eight-seat eFlyer 800.

Textron Aviation has signed a purchase agreement for up to 150 Cessna Grand Caravans with Surf Air Mobility, a Los Angeles electric aviation firm that plans to develop a hybrid electric Grand Caravan powered by its proprietary powertrain technology.

To the aviation community, inspired barrister, pilot, and entrepreneur F. Lee Bailey was best known for his role in helping famed aerobatic pilot R.A. “Bob” Hoover fight the FAA’s emergency revocation of his medical certificate, and for developing the Bailey Bullet and Hoover Hornet.

The new Beechcraft King Air 260 debuted December 2 and includes the addition of the Innovative SoIutions and Support ThrustSense Autothrottle.

Embraer Executive Jets’ entry-level single-pilot twinjet, the Phenom 100EV, has received several upgrades to its Garmin G3000 Prodigy Touch avionics suite.

We all know how to locate fronts on a surface analysis chart and know that fronts cause a lot of weather headaches. But what causes fronts?

What did we do to get weather information before smartphones? Calling Flight Service or going online were the most popular—or only—options. But now we carry the weather with us on our iPhones, Androids, or tablets, giving us on-the-go accessibility to a wide range of aviation weather information. There must be hundreds of aviation weather apps out there, and if you’re like me, you have more than one of them running on your smartphone.

Nonprecision instrument approaches—those without vertical guidance—serve hundreds of airports that don’t meet the stricter obstacle and terrain clearance standards of precision approaches.

Pilatus celebrates new completion center - AOPA Pilot

Want to stir the pot when talking about instrument flying? Just bring up nondirectional beacon (NDB) approaches. These procedures have earned a level of antipathy that no other instrument procedure can ever hope to equal. Why? Most found the NDB approaches difficult to fly, and imprecise. Now, to nearly everyone’s gratitude, most NDB approaches have been decommissioned—and replaced by much more accurate, simpler RNAV GPS-based procedures. As if in recognition of all this, under the latest test s…

“Ditching! Ditching! Ditching!” go the warnings, and water enters the cabin.

Camarillo conclave - AOPA Pilot