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July 15, 2022

Tamarack Aerospace Impresses at Highbrow Fly In

SMARTWINGS and Wing Nuts

Tamarack Aerospace—the Sandpoint, Idaho-based aviation-technology concern founded by aerospace engineer and entrepreneur Nick Guida—exhibited a King Air 350 kitted-out with the company’s SMARTWING technology at Tarkio, Missouri’s Wing Nuts Flying Circus fly-in. Notwithstanding its whimsical appellation the Wing Nuts Flying Circus fly-in draws an august crowd of aviation luminaries, governmental administrators, and high-powered legislators—principal among whom is U.S. Representative Sam Graves (pictured below), ranking member of the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee (T&I)) and host of the Wing Nut hootenanny.

Charter Outfit Boss Seeing Red on the Emerald Isle

A lack of landing slots deriving of staff shortages at Ireland’s Dublin Airport (DUB) compelled Le Bas International—an establish, well-regarded, California-based aircraft brokerage and charter concern—to divert five of its Boeing 737 jets to Farranfore Airport in Kerry (KIR)—a distance of 160-miles. The diversion inconvenienced more than one-thousand American passengers, who were subsequently obligated to arrange ground-transportation to their intended destinations.

Cassio-1 Demo-Flights Canceled Amidst Regulatory Fiasco

VoltAero-the French airframer founded by former Airbus chief technical officer Didier Esteyne-has called for increased coordination, standardization, and recognition among Europe’s airworthiness authorities. The call followed the forced postponement of planned demonstration flights of the company’s Cassio-1 electric-hybrid aircraft in the Netherlands.