FLYING Magazine on MSN

First fully outfitted G400 takes flight

Test aircraft flew from Dallas Love Field, while an experimental G400 test article set a new city pair speed record.
The Defense Post

France’s Initial Pilatus PC-7 MKX Trainer Completes Maiden Flight

Pilatus has completed initial flight of the first PC-7 MKX training aircraft for the French Air and Space Force as part of a ...
AeroTime

Game Aerospace’s GB2 firefighting aircraft completes first flight

Game Aerospace’s GB2 firefighting aircraft has completed its first flight in Arkansas. The single-engine airtanker is designed to carry 1,200 gallons of water or retardant.
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Newly-built fighter aircraft conducts maiden flight, mission verified performance of main systems

The maiden flight of the first Gripen E fighter aircraft produced in Brazil has ...
AeroTime

Up, up and away: Airbus A350F freighter takes to the skies in first-ever flight

Five years after first announcing the A350F concept to the world, Airbus’ new-generation large freighter has taken to the skies in Toulouse.
The Aviationist on MSN

F-22 controls collaborative combat aircraft in flight for the first time

An F-22A Raptor controlled for the first time a YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft during an airborne tactical-control ...
The Aviationist

Breaking: U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray Completes First Flight

The U.S. Navy’s first production representative MQ-25 Stingray has completed its first flight, marking a key step toward carrier-based unmanned aerial refueling. The U.S. Navy’s production ...
JEC Composites

Mitsubishi Aircraft announces maiden flight with first GTF engine produced in Japan

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation, an MHI Group company, announced that it has completed its maiden flight with the first Pratt & Whitney GTF PW1200G engine assembled in Japan. The flight was completed ...
The Aviationist

First Brazilian-Built Gripen E Makes Maiden Flight

The first of 15 Gripen Es to be built at Embraer’s facility in São Paulo, the aircraft is also the first Gripen produced outside Sweden. The first JAS 39 Gripen E – or F-39E, as designated by the ...
Ars Technica

First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

The first flight of the largest battery-electric aircraft to take to the skies lasted nearly half an hour while costing just $5 of electricity. That aviation feat comes at a time when jet fuel prices ...
New Atlas

First passenger flight for electric CTOL aircraft lands at JFK

After flying the first production ALIA CX300 electric aircraft last November, BETA Technologies has now zipped four passengers into the John F. Kennedy International Airport, marking a key development ...