Caption: While visually similar to the Macchi MC72 (the speed record holder), the Seablade would have fewer bracing struts ...

ABOVE: Colin Hales was standing for election but was expelled from the LAA two days before it took place The Light Aircraft ...

ABOVE: Archive image from the 2024 conference] The Royal Aeronautical Society’s annual Light Aircraft Design Conference will ...

FlyNow’s eCopter is a modular design that features coaxial main rotors As if there weren’t already enough eVTOL air taxis in an already overcrowded market, another contender has entered the lists.

Lawmakers in the US House and Senate have introduced companion bills to pave the way to allow aircraft to fly supersonic over land. The Supersonic Aviation Modernization (SAM) Act calls on the FAA to ...

The US Transportation Secretary Sean P Duffy announced during the 2025 AirVenture event at Oshkosh the new Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification (MOSAIC) rules. The new legislation is ...

Kawasaki Motors is the next Japanese company considering entering the general aviation market, perhaps inspired by the success of the HondaJet. Known for its high-performance motorcycles, Kawasaki is ...

ABOVE: The reopening of the airport could create over 5,000 direct jobs and 6,5000 indirect jobs; boosting the economy by £5.6 billion when fully operational Having sat empty since its closure in ...

A world ‘first’ and it’s very much a British one: at 11.35 on 2 November RAF pilot Group Captain Peter ‘Willy’ Hackett took to the air at Cotswold Airport (Kemble) in a Rotax-engined Comco Ikarus C42 ...

The C-54 Skymaster Society and Charitable Trust has announced that, ‘with a heavy heart and great sadness,’ work on restoring North Weald-based C54-D 56498 has come to a close; stating on social media ...

To commemorate the 85th anniversary of The Battle of Britain, two instructors from Airfirst, a flight school based at Blackbushe, are flying to eighty-five different airfields over the space of two ...

Pipistrel announced at Oshkosh that its Panthera model will receive EASA certification by 2024. The aircraft, equipped with Garmin 1000Nxi avionics, will be certified fully IFR and will be capable of ...