Rolls-Royce knocked its arch-rival, GE Aircraft Engines of the US, off top spot in the large civil aero-engine market for the first time last year. In terms of value, the UK engineer secured 40 per cent of the $13bn (£6.99bn) market last year for commercial engines powering aircraft bigger than...

In 2004 Russian airlines have purchased 15 used foreign-made aircraft, namely Boeing, and only 4 new Russian-made ones. These figures were disclosed on Thursday, Feb. 10, by the representative of the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency and reported by RIA Novosti.... Read more...

More than 220 global aviation firms from 31countries are set to showcase their products in India’s hi-tech capital at Aero India, billed as the largest air show in South Asia, an official said on Tuesday. ... Read more...

General Electric Co.'s aircraft engine overhaul unit at Dallas Love Field is slated to close at the end of the year, eliminating 170 jobs, because carriers need less repair work.... Read more...

Russia and the United States are set to sign an agreement to tighten control over portable anti-aircraft missiles at a summit in Slovakia later this month, a senior Russian military official said on Tuesday. ... Read more...

FlightGear has announced plans to demonstrate their free and open source flight simulator project at the Southern California Linux Expo. The FlightGear team will use their open-source flight simulator to drive a full scale 747-400 simulator cockpit. The FlightGear demonstration will take place...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are one step closer to someday matching — and possibly surpassing — their human-piloted counterparts, thanks to the completion of a project successfully tested by Georgia Tech and sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Air...

As she had done nearly 50 times, Angelica Calad-Gomez took her seat behind the pilot and copilot as they prepared for takeoff from a New Jersey airport last week. ''All I remember is going straight through the fence and knowing we were going to crash into that building,'' the Coconut Creek...

Some college students worship million-dollar athletes. Others idolize rap singers. For aspiring flight instructor Seth Short, the stars get no bigger than a 60-year-old Chicago investment banker whose latest around-the-world adventure will soon thrust this central Kansas city of 48,000 into the...

Big boys might like big toys, but they have nothing on Carla Riner. A pilot with the 167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard, Riner, 36, is helping the unit switch from C-130 transports to a C-5As. ... Read more...

Compared to many aeronautical curiosities that have taken wing at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at California’s Edwards Air Force Base over the years, the latest military test stunts did not appear very remarkable. Last April, a low-slung aircraft, about the size of a sport utility vehicle...

Lousy weather in your part of the country? That's no reason to wait until summer to do some camping. This Des Moines Register article describes "airplane camping," which means getting your lightweight camping gear together, getting a cheap airline ticket to the town closest to your...

The pilot of the corporate jet that plowed across a highway into a warehouse in Teterboro, N.J., told a lawyer he believes "something malfunctioned on the plane." Hostess Angelica Calad walked away from the crash at Teterboro Airport with just scratches.... Read more...

The U.S. government estimates that about 31,000 Americans die each year as a result of suicide. Methods of suicide vary widely. But in the February issue of Flying mgazine, contributing editor Peter Garrison writes about the relatively rare phenomenon of suicide by airplane, based on incident...

The Navajo Nation is proceeding with a proposed $34 million investment in an aircraft company that two state agencies have deemed risky. The proposal "still represents an excellent opportunity," said George Hardeen, spokesman for Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. ... Read more...

The commuter airplane involved in the Teterboro accident has a history of crashes. The Challenger 600 series is built by Canadair and by corporate jet standards is a big plane with a wingspan of between 61 and 65 feet. Depending on the seat configuration, it can carry up to 22 people. ...

A woman who had a friend call in a bomb threat to the Philadelphia airport to avoid missing her flight to London was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison. ... Read more...

Boeing Co. is testing demand for a new 747 wide-body aircraft and expects to decide whether to build it by the middle of the year, the planemaker's chief executive said on a conference call on Wednesday. "I think they've got a great airplane," Harry Stonecipher told reporters on the call....

Joseph Massaro, stuck in traffic on Route 46, panicked as he watched the plane slam into a warehouse. Would it blow up? Would the inferno reach his home four blocks away, where his children were waiting for their school bus? ... Read more... Source: Planenews Aviation News Portal Planenews...

A few years ago at an air show in Lancaster, Ohio, Dan Schiffer noticed a man standing on the grass next to his shiny yellow WWII-era combat training plane. ... Read more...