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Garmin’s Emergency Autoland system successfully landed a Beechcraft King Air 200 in Colorado on December 20, 2025, after the pilot became incapacitated, marking the first confirmed real-world use of the technology outside of testing or demonstrations.  The aircraft, registered N479BR, was flying from Aspen-Pitkin County Airport to Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield when the system activated roughly 20 minutes into the flight. According to Garmin, Emergency Autoland assumed full control of the aircraft and executed a safe landing on Runway 30. Everyone on board was reported safe.  Flight tracking data shows the King Air departed Aspen at 1:43 p.m. local time and landed at Rocky Mountain…

The Joint Interagency Task Force 401, established by the Pentagon as the military’s lead counter-drone organization, plans to share data with the Golden Dome missile defense project to defend against threats from larger drones, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Matt Ross, director of JIATF 401, said at a media roundtable Friday. “Our integrated counter-UAS posture across the homeland has to be tied into the Golden Dome and we’re going to make sure that it is,” Ross told reporters. Data sharing between JIATF 401 and the Golden Dome effort will focus on drones classified as belonging to Group 3, Ross explained. Drones…

The dynamic Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner has become one of the key long-haul building blocks in Qantas’ fleet, which bridges the gap between the airline’s largest twin-engine aircraft and thinner international markets that still demand nonstop service. In 2025, the 787-9 appears on routes that push stage length, time-zone shifts, and overall crew planning, with ultra-long-haul sectors linking Australia to Europe, deep transpacific missions to North America, and a handful of shorter positioning and regional routes that keep the aircraft flowing through the airline’s network. A thorough analysis of scheduling data provided to Simple Flying by Cirium Aviation Analytics offers a…

Leonardo announced that it has successfully completed the first flight of its Next Generation Civil Tiltrotor – Technology Demonstrator (NGCTR-TD), a project that it is conducting together with the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking program of the European Union.  This maiden flight took place on December 19, 2025, at Leonardo’s facility in Cascina Costa di Samarate, near Milan Malpensa International Airport (MXP), Italy.  Launched in 2015, the Next Generation Civil Tiltrotor (NGCTR) program aims to develop a tiltrotor aircraft which combines the vertical takeoff and landing capabilities of a helicopter with the horizontal flight performance of a fixed-wing aircraft.   The technology demonstrator targets a cruise speed of 280 knots (520 km/h) and a range of approximately 1,000 nautical miles…

Ultrahigh Frequency (UHF) The frequency band between 300 and 3,000 MHz. The bank of radio frequencies used for military air/ground voice communications. In some instances this may go as low as 225 MHz and still be referred to as UHF.

During The 7 Second Descent, There Was Another TAWS Alert At Which Time The Engine Remained At Full Power On October 24, 2025 at 2115 mountain daylight time, a Cirrus SR22T, N740TS, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Lincoln, Montana. The pilot sustained fatal injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 personal flight. The pilot’s brother, who was also a partial owner of the airplane, stated they spoke with one another on the telephone a few hours before the pilot departed. He stated that on the day…

From 2009 (YouTube Edition): Educational Organization Aims to Inspire by Sharing Tuskegee Story Founding leader Don Hinz summarized the Red Tail Project’s mission in simple, yet eloquent words: “Inspire youth and tell the story of the Tuskegee Airmen all across America.” Since its inception, the non-profit organization has dedicated itself to sharing the extraordinary legacy of the first African Americans to be trained as WWII military pilots; these brave servicemen served their country honorably, despite the tremendous prejudice and adversity they faced during that time in our nation’s history.

“This feels like an important step since space travel for people with disabilities is still in its very early days… I’m so thankful and hope it inspires a change in mindset across the space industry, creating more opportunities for people like me. I might be the first—but have no intention of being the last.” Source: A post from Michaela “Michi” Benthaus’s social media, as Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket has successfully logged its 37th mission and 16th human spaceflight. Among the six-person crew was Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, who officially became the first wheelchair user to reach space and fulfilled yet…

Also: New Katanas, Kern County FD Training, IndiGo’s Botched Roster, MGen. Leavitt Named ERAU Dean The Australian Transportation Safety Bureau (ATSB) has wrapped up its investigation into a recent skydiving incident, revealing that one of the jumpers was left hanging 15,000’ AGL from the aircraft’s horizontal stabilizer due to an inadvertent deployment of his reserve parachute. He was able to cut himself free and pull his primary chute. Cooper Aircraft Corporation has expanded support for Rotax installations with a new mount for naturally aspirated engines. The new mounts cover the Highwing, Legacy, B Model, Onex, Sonex, Waiex, and Xenos. The…

The last decade or so has seen the Boeing 787 Dreamliner family of widebody twinjets become a driving force in modernizing long-haul aviation. Its success, along with that of the Airbus A350, has seen twin-engine aircraft dominate intercontinental travel, signalling the end of the road for four-engine giants like the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 at most operators. However, it isn’t only used for long-haul odysseys between continents. Indeed, current scheduling data made available by Cirium, an aviation analytics company, shows that Qatar Airways has penciled in almost 600 flights with the Boeing 787 this month that are less than…