Aero-Linx!

Scouring the information super airways can sometimes be a tough, if educational, task for the Aero-News staff... but it also allows us to check out some truly neat and exciting sites, so it's not that bad a gig. On any given day, we may check dozens (and often hundreds) of different sources for story ideas, and facts confirmation. And, as is the nature of our business, much of this is done on the Internet.

The ANN gang decided we probably shouldn't keep some of the neat sites, info resources, and organizations we've discovered to ourselves... so we decided to bring you Aero-Linx. These are the sites that WE check out -- when we need added perspective, a new spin on a day's topic... or just want to escape into cyber-aero-space for awhile.

Look for some of our favorite sites, coming each day to ANN via Aero-Linx. Suggestions for future Aero-Linx segments are always welcome, as well.

Aero Linx: The ICON A5: A Great Airplane, With Deadly Appeal

George Perry CDR USN (Ret) put a lengthy post on LinkedIn in the wake of an accident involving a Icon A5 that fatally injured former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay. The author questions Icon's marketing of the airplane, saying "the company, its website, and its public persona implicitly encourages unsafe and unprofessional pilot behavior."

FMI: www.linkedin.com/pulse/icon-a5-great-airplane-deadly-appeal-george-perry-cdr-usn-ret-/