FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford has announced a $16 billion Phase One plan to modernize U.S. air traffic control infrastructure - the most significant proposed overhaul in a generation.
TowerCalifornia Aeronautical University has partnered with Boeing to embed CBTA methodology into undergraduate flight training, shifting the professional pipeline from hours-based to competency-based assessment.
TowerClear air turbulence strikes without visual warning - here's the power-management technique and speed discipline that keeps your aircraft inside the envelope when the sky turns rough.
TowerFAA Administrator Bedford testified before Congress on ATC modernization delays while declining to commit to a legislated 3.8% controller raise - here's what pilots need to know.
TowerHoneywell Aerospace is pursuing supplier acquisitions to end the parts shortages and extended lead times that have grounded aircraft across the industry.
TowerSwarm Aero's new Gamera drone claims 9,000 nautical miles of range at a fraction of Global Hawk's cost - a shift that has direct implications for shared airspace.
TowerTecnam managing director Giovanni Pascale used AirVenture 2026 to outline a philosophy of integrated, modern personal aviation - here's what it means for pilots.
TowerThe first LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM has been fully stacked at Vandenberg Space Force Base, with a flight test planned for 2027 - the first new U.S. ICBM test in nearly 60 years.
TowerCAE's electric Piper Archer stalled at the design stage, exposing the battery physics gap between electric aviation promises and usable training aircraft.
TowerNewly declassified footage from the DUDE 44 rescue mission confirms C-295W involvement and raises questions about a deliberately blurred Little Bird helicopter over Iran.
TowerNATO scrambled fighters and fired a missile over Lithuania targeting a suspected drone incursion that post-incident analysis suggests may have been a flock of birds.
TowerSwarm Aero's Gamera UAS claims 9,000 nautical miles of range - nearly nine times the Reaper - positioning itself as a lower-cost successor to the Air Force's primary armed surveillance drone.
TowerAn F-117A Nighthawk is being donated to the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center, opening in October 2026 - the 16th example of the type placed on public display.
TowerSecretary of the Air Force Troy Meink officially named the FQ-42 Vengeance and FQ-44 Fury, marking a new era of autonomous combat aviation alongside crewed fighters.
TowerThe National Championship Air Races return to Roswell, New Mexico for year two with Sport and Unlimited classes joining five returning divisions for a full seven-class program.
TowerTextron Aviation and Merlin have unveiled an autonomous concept version of the Cessna SkyCourier that could fly military resupply missions without a pilot onboard.
TowerA Russian drone struck a train near the Ukrainian-Polish border reportedly carrying Boris Johnson, exposing precision drone capabilities that challenge civil aviation's core threat assumptions.
TowerAir Force Secretary Troy Meink confirmed the U.S. has weapons in orbit - here's what a contested space domain means for every pilot who depends on GPS.
TowerThe January 2024 door plug blowout on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 exposed systemic Boeing manufacturing failures and forced a reckoning with FAA oversight of commercial aircraft production.
TowerRadio Hangar explores Australia clears JASSM-ER, LRASM for Super Hornets.
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