Month: February 2023

With demand for the Airbus A220 exceeding expectations, and other product lines seeing rapid growth, Airbus Canada is planning to hire an additional 800 employees across Canada, with the majority (700) in Quebec. The European […]

There was already a downward trend in the number of helicopter pilot licences in force in Canada before the COVID pandemic hit, and it has only gotten worse. The decade leading up to 2016 saw […]

While the North American public is clamouring for more information about not only the alleged Chinese spy balloon shot down by the U.S. military off that country’s Atlantic coast, but also about the three other […]

A Canadian Press story carried by numerous media outlets in Canada on Friday (Feb. 17) told the story of a young commercial pilot, Adam Sheard, who had to wait seven months since completing the requirements […]

In what it considers to be a humanitarian mission, the Department of National Defence has dispatched a CP-140 Aurora long-range patrol aircraft to the Caribbean nation of Haiti. Its mission, according to a press release […]

The two pilots escaped major injury after their 737 Fireliner crashed during firefighting activities in Fitzgerald River National Park in southwestern Australia last Monday (Feb. 6). They reportedly walked away from the wreck, which was […]

Less than a week after taking out one object flying over the U.S., albeit clearly identified as a balloon, the United States has once again shot down what they are referring to this time as […]

The untethered balloon rode the jet stream, which at times was slow, at other times much quicker, carrying the balloon over the countryside at 100 km/h or more. The authorities decided to wait until the […]

Fourteen aircraft from the RCAF and the USAF participated in an exercise that took place in the latter half of January of this year and stretched from Thule in Greenland’s high Arctic to the central […]

The 2023 edition of the Webster Memorial Trophy Competition will be hosted by the Waterloo Wellington Flight Centre at Waterloo’s airport (CYKF) from August 21 to 26, 2023. The annual competition uses a variety of […]

According to reports from Forbes magazine, ICAO, the United Nations body charged with standardizing international flight rules, is under pressure from some quarters to address the pilot shortage by allowing single-pilot cockpits in airliners. They […]