by B.N. Sullivan The pilots at North American Airlines (NAA) have chosen the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) to be their collective bargaining representative. The U.S. National Mediation Board (NMB) recently announced that ALPA received an...

by B.N. Sullivan The pilot of a Cessna 208 Caravan escaped injury yesterday when he made a forced landing in a field outside Rome, NY, following an engine failure. The aircraft, operating as Wiggins Airways flight WIG 8409 on behalf of FedEx, was on...

by B.N. Sullivan The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a new rule that prohibits takeoffs with “polished frost” — frost buffed to make it smooth — on the wings, stabilizers and control surfaces of several classes of...

by B.N. Sullivan An MD-11 freighter operated by Avient Aviation crashed and burned at Shanghai's Pudong International Airport this morning, November 28, 2009. At the time of the accident, the aircraft (registration Z-BAV) was departing Shanghai for...

by B.N. Sullivan It was an exciting day in Savannah: The new Gulfstream G650 completed its first flight. The the ultra-large-cabin, ultra-long-range Gulfstream G650, the newest and fastest business jet produced by Gulfstream Aerospace, took off from...