Breitflyte
• Joe Breitfeller
Aviation A2Z
• Mahesh Darkunde
Last Updated: Saturday, July 26, 2025, 11:16 AM PDT
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Flying Magazine
• Jack Daleo
By Flying Magazine: Powered-lift aircraft developers now have a blueprint for certifying their novel—and often unique—designs.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
By FlightGlobal: Russian investigators believe the crew of a Yakovlev Superjet 100 thought the aircraft was experiencing an air-data system fault relating to airspeed, rather than a highly-improbable angle-of-attack discrepancy, before the jet fatally dived into a forest about 6min after take-off.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: The pilots of a Southwest Airlines flight from Burbank, California, to Las Vegas had to make the “most insane dive ever” on Friday morning in order to avoid a mid-air collision with another plane.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
By FlightGlobal: Work has started to adapt the Aviadvigatel PD-8 engine to the Beriev Be-200 amphibious firefighter, according to Russian state technology firm Rostec. United Aircraft manufactures the jet-powered amphibian at its Taganrog aviation plant near Rostov-on-Don.
Vertical Mag
By Vertical Mag: VIDEO: Introducing the MD Super D20B Helicopter: A New Chapter for the Iconic 500DMD Helicopters is breathing new life into the legendary MD 500D with the all-new Super D20B — the first in a series of performance upgrades for the company’s global legacy fleet.
Bloomberg
• Mary Schlangenstein
By Bloomberg: American Airlines Group Inc. finally has taken possession of its first long-range Airbus SE A321XLR aircraft, but the plane will remain in Europe because of a supply chain issue that’s caused a shortage of seats.
Flying Magazine
• Zach Vasile
By Flying Magazine: A group of 45 U.S. senators is urging Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to take a firmer stand against efforts to examine and test out proposals for having a single pilot operate commercial passenger flights.
Flying Magazine
• Caleb Revill
Reuters
• Marina Bobrova
Aviation Week
• Christine Boynton
