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Via Slashdot: https://avbrief.com/autoland-saves-king-air-everyone-reported-safe/

https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2025/09/falkland-islands-aviation-before-the-argentine-invasion/

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/2025-07-26/piper-signs-biggest-ever-order-taps-deltahawk-diesel

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExHPFfykb_Y https://oldwww.pilatus-aircraft.com/en/fly/pc-12 EDIT: Sorry, posted this by accident in Military rather than over in Aviation & Space. Thanks!

Blue Spirit Rolls Out Its Prototype On June 10, Blue Spirit Aero rolled out its full-scale hydrogen-powered Dragonfly prototype and completed the world’s first H2 refueling of a light aircraft directly from an airport station in Le Mans, France, site of the famous 24-hour endurance car race...

Hi all, labeling secret farm barn projects correctly may be a hard job to be done. This here is one more sample to this. Nobody yet could name it. Can you? If so, please do so. Some hard stuff is still to come. Thank you, and best regards, RT

Is there information which proves whether or not the Payne Sky Kitten went beyond the drawing stage? Info on that elusive machine can be found at https://archive.org/details/sim_flying_1936-09_19_3/page/42/mode/2up?q=payne&view=theater

The Samara region of Russia is undoubtedly the home of seaplane aviation in Russia. Several companies have developed flying boats, floatplanes and amphibians in that area over the past thirty years, all of them being kind of spiritual descendants of Shavrov's 1930s designs. One designer in...

some GA weirdo projects from early 80s

From British Civil Aircraft since 1919, Mr. J. B. Fenton designed a two-seat light airplane of 1930/31,called Cheel,but never completed.

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdWings/comments/ll3dyh/blackburn_were_not_known_for_designing_pretty/ https://www.baesystems.com/en/heritage/blackburn-sidecar

Hi, here is homebuilt civil VTOL aircraft,based on Doak Model-16,and a four-seat tilt-rotor aircraft,based on Bel XV-15...

Hi, here is a Grumman/Gulfstream G.II Projects,the first had lift fan as V/STOL aircraft and the second had a supercritical wing. https://gulfbiz.jimdo.com/h-istory/lift-fan/

Good Day All - An ad and a clip from a Skyways magazine article on new designs about the Skylark Skycraft 246 lightplane. Aerofiles notes that there is no evidence that any were built. Enjoy the Day! Mark

Joaquin Silveira Abreu was a San Francisco engineer who designed in 1926 a unique safety biplane design in which the engine and lower fuselage could be dropped by the pilot in case of trouble to glide to safety. The following year he designed an airship using aircraft as propelling units, which...

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/u-s-transportation-secretary-anthony-foxx-announces-unmanned-airc

http://news.yahoo.com/why-faa-4-1b-nextgen-201500078.html

Following the sad passing of the author Manfred Griehl last November, I doubt his pending volume on Fieseler (Fieseler: Flugzeuge seit 1933 - Typenkompass) will ever see publication. This is a great shame as Gerhard Fieseler was a World War I fighter ace who was also a stunt, aerobatic and test...

I was so sure I'd shared a photo of what was then a mysterious aircraft, but couldn't trace the topic despite my efforts. Our friend Tophe probably could have identified right away, since he mentions it in his Forked Ghosts and Catamarans du Ciel works, but he no longer visits this forum...

Ever since 1911, Glenn H. Curtiss constantly dreamed of an airplane which would become a "family car of the air". His last efforts in this direction was a "flying wing" biplane with a pusher propeller, the configuration of which was very much like that of the Dunne D.8 of 1911. The similarity...