UPDATE: SpaceShip2 Lost During Test Flight - Engine Issue?

This one is too close to home for truly objective comments.  Odds are excellent that I would list one or both pilots as a friend.  But at a news conference that just ended, Stu Witt, an administrator at the Mojave Spaceport, said that he witnessed the flight, that a new fuel was being used, and that the anomaly wasn't an event, but the lack of an event, which may point toward an abnormal light of the new engine.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-virgin-galactics-spaceship-anomaly-testing-20141031-story.html

LeapX Engine Flies in Preparation for use on COMAC C919

It's not clear from the article what aircraft the engine was flown on, but it would appear that the CFM engine has at least gotten airborne.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=245594

COMAC's ARJ21 Nearing Certification

The story at the link below is very short, but it has a few good numbers on test progress to date.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/analysis-the-arj21-progress-report-404547/

Cessna Citation Latitude Approaches Certification

The article at the link below is mainly marketing, but it does give a bit of status on the test program.  Looks like either the engines (PW306s?) are delivering better performance than expected, or the airframe is more slippery.

http://cessna.txtav.com/en/company-info/newsroom-and-events/cessna-citation-latitude-flight-test-demonstrates-increased-performance

Airbus A350 XWB Formation

Yes... Strutting and Chest Pounding is part of the flight test process. This was late last month.

(Photo: Courtesy Airbus)



http://www.airbus.com/galleries/photo-gallery/dg/idp/40928-airbus-a350xwb-formation-flight-01/?backURL=galleries/photo-gallery/