Eugenio Facci

ABOVE: Each Hangar Home at Enniskillen will also have access to Lough Erne (top left) via a private slipway Hangar Homes boss Peter Day recently signed an Option Agreement with the owner of the land adjacent to Enniskillen Airport in Northern Ireland to purchase the site for the proposed Enniskillen Aeropark, subject to obtaining planning […]

NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has now logged 34 successful flights, with one of the most recent remaining airborne for 18 seconds and reaching a maximum altitude of 16ft. The brief flight was the 1.8kg helicopter’s first with its latest software update, which is expected to enhance Ingenuity’s capabilities, including hazard avoidance during landing and the […]

ABOVE: Anthony Petteford and Sean Jacob with one of FTA Global’s TwinStar aircraft Brighton City Airport-based FTA Global (FTA) is preparing to make significant future capital investment in UK pilot training, with the first major step in the company’s plan being the announcement that respected aviation veteran Anthony Petteford has joined the company as Strategic […]

ABOVE: The US Marine Corps’ current generation AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters share 85% of their components During a recent ceremony at the Amarillo Assembly Center, Bell celebrated the delivery of the 189th AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter to the US Marine Corps. “The first production lot of US Marine Corps H-1s was ordered in […]

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has chosen the CC19 XCub to modernise its fleet. The design is based on the Piper Cub but has been adapted by its manufacturers, CubCrafters, for operations as a rugged utility aircraft for backcountry missions. CubCrafters already supplies its models to the US Department of Homeland Security, the US […]

Flight safety researchers at the University of Birmingham are looking for pilot volunteers aged 18 to 25, with five to 50 hours of SEP (Single Engine – Piston) flying experience to take part in simulator-based research. The experiments are designed to improve aircraft design and flight training. The research sessions will take place between February […]

Bristow Helicopters wants to see the current Temporary Danger Areas (TDAs) in the English Channel made permanent restricted airspace. The TDAs are to allow Bristow to operate drones Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVOL) for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, and the Home Office to monitor illegal migrant crossings in the Dover Strait. The UK […]

With interest in eVTOL aircraft at an all-time high and dozens of companies aiming to have aircraft in production by the end of the decade, NASA recently crash-tested a version of a generic eVTOL fuselage. The composite structure was winched about 30ft above a concrete floor and then released, impacting from a slanting trajectory in […]

ABOVE: the Where To Fly Guide is the comprehensive guide to schools and clubs in the UK and overseas We are preparing our yearly Where To Fly Guide, the definitive guide to flying schools and clubs in the UK and overseas. A basic entry in the listings section is completely free and will highlight what […]

ABOVE: The grounding affected part of the fleet of SR22 and SR22T aircraft operated by Cirrus [UPDATE 1] The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) to deal with incorrectly installed components of some Continental engines manufactured between 2021 and 2023. The move follows a mandatory Service Bulletin published previously by […]