Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
With gas prices going up and up, more amateur pilots and spectators are looking to share rides to next month's AirVenture show in Oshkosh. Link to the original post
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Cirrus Design is putting its very light jet program in motion. The company has been developing The-Jet, a single-engine, V-tail airplane, and now the first test version, V1, is being readied for taxi tests. Assuming all goes well, the next big step is the maiden flight. The airplane is now ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Numerous media reports, today, focus on a single sentence in the 67-page GAO analysis reached yesterday supporting its decision to sustain the Boeing tanker protest. "But for these errors," the GAO stated, "we believe Boeing would have had a substantial chance of being selected for award.".. Link to the original ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
PARIS (Thomson Financial): France and Brazil are expected to sign a 1.2 billion euro helicopter deal on Monday, Les Echos reported. Brazil is set to announce it will buy around 60 Cougar military transport helicopters. The extent of industrial cooperation as part of the deal is yet to be finalised, ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
CHICAGO: Boeing has agreed to pay a $3 million fine for exceeding value limits on the purchases of parts from foreign suppliers for its military products. Boeing (nyse: BA) spokesman Tim Neale says the Chicago-based company discovered the violations and reported them to the State Department... Link to the original ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The Defence Public Sector Undertaking, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has secured an order for supply of 7 Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopters to Ecuadorian Air Force. HAL has bagged this order amidst strong competition from M/s. Elbit, M/s. Eurocopter and M/s. Kazan... Link to the original post
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Sudan’s president has ordered a ban on all Antonov and Ilyushin passenger and cargo aircraft following the latest crash near Khartoum, state media says. President Omar al-Bashir also sacked the head of the country’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and ordered an investigation into recent crashes... Link to the original post
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
A mini spacecraft *Oduvanchik, designed specifically for space travel,
is expected to appear in Russia by 2012. Oduvanchik will be able to
take one pilot and four passengers or 600 kilos of cargo aboard and to
carry out orbital and suborbital flights. Full Story Link to the original post
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
With new personal jets popping up all the time, AVweb takes a look at what may very well be the next certified single-engine very light or personal jet to enter the market. Diamond's D-Jet is expected next year to earn its type certificate, and that's when the company hopes ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Sometimes shelling out a few extra bucks can be a good thing, and AVweb Editorial Director Paul Bertorelli thinks paying a little more for your airfares could save a lot of heartache in the long run. Passengers have figured out that airfares must rise, argues Paul in the latest ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
We're often amazed at the precision and care with which helicopter pilots carry out certain tasks, especially those who perform power-line maintenance. AVweb reader Adam Hunt reminded us of the many pilots who exercise tremendous skill and control as part of their work day, and we spent the rest ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
At least six people died in a mid-air collision between two medical helicopters in the US state of Arizona, a US aviation official has said. The incident happened close to a hospital in the city of Flagstaff... Link to the original post
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
At least seven people died and three were critically injured when two medical helicopters collided and crashed near a hospital in Flagstaff, Ariz. about 3:45 p.m. Sunday afternoon. Initial reports say a patient was among the dead. There were no casualties on the ground and, of course, authorities were not ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Overheard in IFR Magazine's "On the Air"I heard someone call Jacksonville Center "Jacksonville approach." When corrected, the pilot apologized.Controller:"I've been called worse."Pilot:"You must be married."No telling if the controller was or not ... .Frank LongTampa, Florida Link to the original post
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
>>> AVWEB FUEL FINDER CURRENT PRICE FOR 100LL: $5.54 (up 5¢ from last week)CURRENT PRICE FOR JET A: $5.91 (up 4¢ from last week)Fuel prices provided weekly by AirNav, based on prices from the past 2 weeks. Changes are relative to last week's prices. /TEXT_ONLY-->Hands down, our ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
India is to send thousands of troops, war ships and helicopters to Sri Lanka as part of security for next month's South Asian summit in Colombo, diplomatic sources said Sunday. Link to the original post
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Well, we still don't know its real name and we're not sure if it got out of the massive former Northwest Airlines A320 maintenance hangar on its own power but it sure looks like Cirrus's new family jet is ready to fly. Sporting a red-on-white paint scheme that gives it ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
With well over 100 submissions to this week's contest, we're serving up a miniature "Greatest Hits" version of our regular "Picture of the Week" contest. We've got all the popular themes this week from wing-walkers to lightning to balloons. And you're sure to find many other favorites ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Fuel prices toppped $7 a gallon in Detroit earlier this week, and the U.S. average for 100LL is currently sitting at $5.54/gallon according to our own Fuel Finder. This week, we want to know where (and if) you draw the line at paying for ever more expensive fuel. ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Eclipse E500 jet is now FAA-certified for flight into known icing...The Air Race Classic launched Tuesday from Bozeman, Montana...Linear Air has the first Eclipse 500 air taxi based in the NYC area...First flight: TL-Ultralight TL-3000 Sirius LSA...Radar services to pilots in the Reno area will be reduced, NATCA says...Public Benefit ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Pilots generally seek to avoid flying in clouds with "known icing," but "unknown icing" also lurks out there -- that is, our ability to predict and pinpoint which clouds harbor icing conditions is not precise. Now a team of engineers at Rowan University, in New Jersey, is working on a ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
A Skyship 600 will be tested by the U.S. Navy this summer off the coast of Florida to evaluate its performance as a surveillance aircraft. Working with the Coast Guard, the Navy will collect data about the utility and cost-effectiveness of airships in this role. The ship will carry a ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
The FAA brought together 325 experts last week to spend three days discussing the problem of fatigue in aviation operations, and the agency says the symposium produced agreement on two major points -- fatigue is a problem, and something should be done about it. No, we're not kidding -- that's ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
United Air Lines will reduce its fleet by 100 aircraft, putting 950 pilots out of work, the company said on Monday. "This process is one of the difficult but necessary steps we need to take to size our business appropriately to reflect the current market reality," the company said in ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
A software update to the Eclipse 500 jet will solve a problem that was the subject of a recent FAA emergency airworthiness directive, Eclipse Aviation said on Tuesday. Earlier this month, two pilots on approach to Midway Airport in Chicago experienced a throttle failure, resulting in maximum uncontrolled thrust from ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Can glamor and a "can-do" attitude create a practical, saleable and functional aircraft for under $140,000? Marc Cook, the editor of our sister publication Kitplanes, says he'll believe it when he sees the much-vaunted ICON fly. Link to the original post
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
A lifelong pilot who was inspired by a young Glenn Curtiss, watched Lindbergh take off from Long Island and held a current instrument rating until he was at least 96 years old, died peacefully in a Poughkeepsie, N.Y., hospital on Sunday. John Miller was 102. As he told AVweb in ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
As part of FAA's ongoing effort to harmonize its paperwork and procedures with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the form for filing a flight plan is about to change, but only for IFR flights that include RNAV arrival or departure routing. Pilots filing VFR, or filing IFR but without ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
A new owner and management team have taken over the WACO Classic Aircraft Corp., in Battle Creek, Mich., which manufactures the WACO YMF-5 Super 1930s-style radial-engine biplane. Peter Bowers, president of Centennial Aircraft Services, also based in Battle Creek, will now be president of WACO as well. WACO will continue ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Well, we still don't know its real name and we're not sure if it got out of the massive former Northwest Airlines A320 maintenance hangar on its own power but it sure looks like Cirrus's new family jet is ready to fly. Sporting a red-on-white paint scheme that gives it ...
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