Latest Aerospace Headlines
All the headlines from our Aerospace Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Drone Pilot Who Challenged FAA Authority Settles
Jan 23 2015 // The drone pilot who challenged the U.S. government’s authority over unmanned aircraft agreed to pay a reduced fine of $1,100 to settle his case. Raphael Pirker, a Swiss citizen who flew a small unmanned plane without...
Smaje Appointed Willis GB Chief Broking Officer; Rooley for Aerospace
Jan 21 2015 // Willis Group Holdings, the global risk adviser, insurance and reinsurance broker, announced that it has promoted Philip Smaje to Chief Broking Officer for Willis GB, the operating segment that includes Willis’s UK...
Kansas Judge Tosses Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems Discrimination Lawsuit
Jan 9 2015 // The remaining age-discrimination claims against Boeing Co. and Spirit AeroSystems were tossed out by a federal judge in Kansas on Jan. 7, a major blow to a lawsuit that’s spanned nine years. When Boeing sold its...
Safety Board Upholds FAA Regulation of Drones
Nov 18 2014 // The U.S. government’s ability to regulate drones was upheld today by a federal safety board, which overturned a judge’s decision that aviation regulations don’t apply to small unmanned aircraft. The...
NOAA Says Don’t Expect a Sequel of Last Winter’s Polar Vortex
Nov 3 2014 // If you thought last winter was a horror show, with cold blasts from the polar vortex and a lack of California rain, here’s some good news: No sequel is expected this year, federal forecasters say. Mike Halpert of the...
2 Explosions Trigger Debate Over Future of Private Space Business
Nov 2 2014 // Fiery failures are no stranger to the space game. It’s what happens when you push the boundaries of what technology can do, where people can go. And it happened again to Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo. In the...
Commercial Rocket Explosion Draws Attention to Space Industry Risk, Oversight
Oct 30 2014 // A NASA advisory panel said earlier this year that inadequate funding jeopardized the safety of commercial space cargo shipments, such as the unmanned Orbital Sciences Corp. mission that exploded this week over Virginia. In...
AIG Offers Loss Control for Corporate Aerospace Customers
Oct 30 2014 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) has partnered with Wyvern Consulting, an aviation risk management and safety auditing firm, to launch AirGuard safety and loss control services designed to address safety and...
Judge Rules for Boeing in Wichita, Kansas, Whistleblower Lawsuit
Oct 10 2014 // Three former workers at the Boeing plant in Wichita, Kan., who filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the aircraft maker and one of its suppliers failed to show Boeing defrauded the U.S. government in a $1.6 billion...
Lawsuit Over Boeing Worker’s Death Blocked by Justices
Sep 23 2014 // Washington’s Supreme Court says in a split decision that Boeing can’t be sued over a worker’s death from asbestos exposure. Worker Gary Walston was exposed to asbestos throughout his long career at...
NOAA Hopes Drones Get Data from Hurricane Edouard
Sep 18 2014 // U.S. government scientists are launching winged drones into Hurricane Edouard, hoping to collect data that could help forecasters understand what makes some storms strengthen into monsters while others fade away. This...
UK’s Altitude Targets Aerospace Growth with Hollingworth Appointment
Sep 4 2014 // Altitude Risk Partners, the global aviation and space underwriting business, announced the appointment of former broker Charles Hollingworth as an underwriter. Hollingworth joined from Aon Risk Solutions where he was a...
FAA Ruling Grounds AirPooler’s Uber-Style Sharing in Air Travel
Aug 15 2014 // The trend in sharing services popularized by Uber Technologies Inc. and Airbnb Inc. will take longer to gain a foothold in the world of aviation, if at all. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration reviewed its rules and...
Nuisance Flooding Rising Problem for U.S. Cities: NOAA
Aug 7 2014 // Residents and officials in major U.S. cities know it doesn’t take a fierce storm or menacing hurricane to cause flooding as they increasingly have to deal with so-called “nuisance flooding” caused by...
FAA Drone Regulations Bar Hobbyists Near Airports, Crowds
Jun 24 2014 // To corral a surge in incidents of reckless, recreational drone use, the U.S. government barred flights of small unmanned aircraft near airports and crowds. People who want to fly drones as hobbyists should take lessons on...
NOAA: Near- Or Above-Normal Central Pacific Hurricane Season
Jun 2 2014 // Climate conditions point to a near-normal or above-normal hurricane season in the Central Pacific Basin this year with patterns possibly affected by an El Nino weather pattern, NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center...
NOAA: Near- Or Above-Normal Central Pacific Hurricane Season
May 22 2014 // Climate conditions point to a near-normal or above-normal hurricane season in the Central Pacific Basin this year with patterns possibly affected by an El Niño weather pattern, NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane...
NOAA Forecasts Near-or-Below Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season
May 22 2014 // In its 2014 Atlantic hurricane season outlook issued today, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting a near-normal or below-normal season. NOAA said the main driver of this year’s outlook is the...
Melting Antarctic Glacier to Raise Sea Levels: NASA
May 13 2014 // A rapidly melting glacial region of Antarctica has passed “the point of no return,” threatening to increase sea levels, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. “The collapse of...
Union Alleges Kansas Aerospace Firm Used Medical Records in Layoffs
Mar 28 2014 // The union representing engineers at Spirit AeroSystems Inc. accused the aerospace company of terminating hundreds of workers last year because they were too old and a burden on health insurance costs, claims that the...
