Icon Aircraft has made aviation history even before finishing the final design of its first airplane. The company hit a significant milestone in the development of its A5 amphibious light sport ...

Russian researchers have continued performance analysis of the proposed UZGA TVRS-44 Ladoga twin-turboprop, with assessment of unusual attitudes. The aircraft is being developed as a response to short ...

Accidents resulting from loss of control or spin have been around since the Wright brothers. In the civilian world, stalls have been and, are still, taught as a maneuver. The area is cleared. The ...

Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) manufacturer, ICON Aircraft, has announced two major design enhancements aimed at to simplifying aircraft complexity and increase safety in its A5 amphibious, two-seat, ...

Pilots sometimes need to operate at slow speeds—during tight turns and landings, for instance—and good low-speed handling is ...

Icon Aircraft successfully completed spin-resistance test flights of its A5 amphibious light-sport aircraft. The aircraft demonstrated compliance with FAA’s Part 23 spin-resistance standards. Icon ...

Talk about a time warp: To relive a scene from "Top Gun" -- more like "Upside-Down Gun" in my case -- three minutes aboard the USS Midway is way too long. But to explore real life aboard the mammoth ...

“Stalls and spins represent the largest single factor in fatal general aviation accidents.” Surprisingly, this quote wasn’t pulled from the latest FAA news release, but rather from a NASA Langley ...

RICHMOND, Va. – Two retired research pilots who logged more than 16,000 flight hours between them at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton are the latest aviators to be inducted into the Virginia ...