It's a major win for drone hobbyists, who say the FAA doesn’t have the power to make them register their model aircraft.

It’s 2017. Why are air carriers still failing people with disabilities?

The Trump administration is likely to expand a ban on laptops on commercial aircraft to include some European countries, but is reviewing how to ensure lithium batteries stored in luggage holds do not explode in midair, officials briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.

A retired NASA rocket fuel expert has set out to debunk the long-accepted conclusion that hydrogen caused the Hindenburg disaster.

United Airlines will offer up to $10,000 when a traveler voluntarily gives up a seat on an oversold flight, part of a policy overhaul following the passenger-yanking video seen around the world. The Chicago-based carrier is adopting 10 policy changes in response to the outcry over the April 9 incident, recorded by other passengers, during which aviation police pulled David Dao from his seat after he refused to exit the plane. Dao was one of four fliers selected to give up their seats to make room for airline employees.

Boss Oscar Munoz will no longer become company chairman after the passenger ejection incident.

Malaysia Airlines, which lost a wide-body jet with 239 people aboard three years ago in one of history’s most enduring aviation mysteries, has become the first airline to sign an agreement for space-based flight tracking of its aircraft. Malaysia Airlines Bhd. reached a deal with Aireon LLC, SITAONAIR and FlightAware LLC to enable it to monitor the flight paths of its aircraft anywhere in the world including over the polar regions and the most remote oceans, according to an emailed press release from Aireon.

Delta is giving airport employees permission to offer passengers up to almost $10,000 in compensation to give up their seats on overbooked flights. Delta's move comes as United Airlines struggles to recover from images of a passenger's forced removal from a sold-out flight. In an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press, Delta says gate agents can offer up to $2,000 in compensation, up from a previous maximum of $800, and supervisors can offer up to $9,950, up from $1,350.

It’s hard to find examples of worse decision-making and customer treatment than United Airlines having a passenger dragged from an overbooked plane. But United’s shabby treatment of Geoff Fearns, including a threat to place him in handcuffs, comes close. Fearns, 59, is president of TriPacific Capital Advisors, an Irvine investment firm that handles more than half a billion dollars in real estate holdings on behalf of public pension funds. He had to fly to Hawaii last week for a business conference.

The passengers of Turkish Airlines flight welcomed an unexpected little passenger when a baby girl was born mid-air on Sunday. The flight's crew helped in the delivery of the new-born. Some passengers in the airlines also helped the crew bring the child to life. Nafi Diaby, 28 weeks pregnant, went into labour on the flight soon after it took-off from Guinea's capital Conakry to Istanbul via Ouagadougou.

Imagine taking your next trip of a couple hundred miles. New York City to Boston, for example. Or Houston to Dallas. Tampa to Miami. The obvious choice now might be to drive. But what if you could show up at an airport at one of those cities, bypass security checkpoints, board a small hybrid-electric plane with luggage in hand, and be on the ground at your destination in about an hour — all for $25 each way? A company called Zunum Aero hopes to make that a reality, so that future travelers who normally take a car, bus or train for regional trips won’t think twice about flying.

Flying from San Francisco to Los Angeles can be a huge pain in the ass. You can expect to spend over $200 on your plane ticket, plus another five hours of traveling door-to-door thanks to traffic, security, and other headaches. This is the type of hassle-rich trip — short but overly expensive and overly complicated — that a new startup called Zunum Aero is aiming to reinvent.

The second man who walked on the moon took a first-of-a-kind flight in Florida over the weekend. On Sunday, Buzz Aldrin became the oldest person to fly with the U.S. Air Force demonstration team: The Nellis-Air-Force-Based Thunderbirds. For about 40 minutes, the 87-year-old helped to fly an F-16 Fighting Falcon at an air show.

After more than two years of landing its rockets after launch, SpaceX finally sent one of its used Falcon 9s back into space. The rocket took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this evening.

There’s one way to solve the problem of airport space. Make the runways circular. One man came up with the unusual idea a few years ago and has been working with a team at the Netherland Aerospace Centre to make his dream a reality. Henk Hesselink believes that by creating a 360° runway it will not only conserve space but it will be greener for the environment. And flight simulators are being used to test it.

Boom Supersonic has raised a new $33 million Series A round, which it says is enough to build and fly its first supersonic jet, the XB-1 demonstration.

One person is dead and three others are injured after two small Cessna 152 planes collided in mid-air in Saint-Bruno on Montreal's South Shore, according to Quebec Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux. The crash occurred above the Promenades Saint-Bruno shopping centre shortly before 1 p.m. Friday. Police said one of the planes landed in the shopping centre's parking lot, the other on the roof. Police said they do not yet know the cause of the crash, adding that weather conditions were clear.

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Aerospace giant Boeing has had a patent approved for a new system that allows for on-demand 3D printing of aircraft parts. The company and its clients could use the system to order replacement aircraft parts, which can be manufactured more quickly and at a lower cost using 3D printing technology. The new system involves storing designs for parts in a virtual library, which could be made available to clients.