United Airlines resumed Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights Monday after the advanced plane was globally grounded four months ago due to overheated battery incidents.

The good people at Wimp.com have found yet another cool flying-related video.  The footage is of motorized paragliders (pardón: paramotors) racing in the French Alps.  It’s neat, but I”m surprised by a few things: 1) a video like this is produced by someone other than RedBull.  2) RedBull isn’t involved.  3) RedBull didn’t do it.  The [...]

EU seeks $12 bn yearly sanctions against US over Boeing (via AFP) Brussels on Thursday sought WTO approval for trade sanctions against Washington worth $12 billion a year, the latest twist of a long-running EU-US row over subsidies to aviation giants Airbus and Boeing. A statement by the EU’s executive said it was requesting the [...]

Village-Run Aviation Firm’s Ambition (via NewsLook) One of China’s wealthiest villages – located in the country’s booming east Jiangsu province – has set up its own Chinese aviation company.

Boeing Celebrates Delivery of LAN Airlines’ first 787 Dreamliner (via PR Newswire) EVERETT, Wash., Aug. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Boeing (NYSE: BA) and LAN Airlines, one of Latin America’s leading passenger and cargo carriers, celebrated the delivery of the first 787 Dreamliner to LAN making it the first airline in the Americas to receive the new [...]

Boeing Aims to Turn Cooking Oil Waste into Aviation Biofuel in China (via Clean Technica)   Boeing, one of the world’s largest aviation companies, is teaming up with the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) in a bid to increase aviation biofuels in the emerging market country. According to a recent article from Waste Management [...]

(Ed. Note) What is ADS-B?: ADS-B makes flying significantly safer for the aviation community. When using this system both pilots and controllers will see the same radar picture. With past systems such as the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) aircraft could only see other aircraft equipped with the same technology. With ADS-B, information [...]

AviationWeek is reporting that the latest trial of the X-51 hypersonic experimental aircraft has failed again.  This news has been confirmed by a number of sources.  Apparently one of the fins stabilizing the craft failed to function correctly, and the vehicle was lost over the Pacific.  The sad thing is that they were never able to even [...]

Airbus A320 to Be Equipped With Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Increased Efficiency (via The Green Optimistic) Though the hydrogen fuel cells used nowadays are not powerful enough that commercial aircraft engines can be replaced by them, it doesn’t mean that they are not effective enough to make air travel more efficient. Airbus flight tests have [...]