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October 25, 2022

Boeing and Airbus Compete to Equip New Saudi Airline

Hot in the Desert

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund—referred to in economic circles as PIF—is in contemporaneous talks with Boeing and Airbus regarding orders for upward of eighty jets that will serve as the core fleet for a new Saudi national airline. Comprising both single-aisle and wide-body aircraft models, the acquisition’s requirements suggest the inchoate airline will serve both domestic Saudi and international destinations.

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Delta Settles with Maligned Pilot

The High Cost of High Handing

Atlanta-based Delta Airlines has reached an out-of-court settlement with company pilot Karlene Petitt, who sued the air-carrier, claiming she’d faced retaliation after raising safety concerns about the airline’s flight-operations and pilot-scheduling orthodoxies. The terms of the settlement remain undisclosed, but plaintiff’s attorneys have intimated Petitt’s award is “consistent with” a 2020 arbiter's ruling which put forth she deserved $500,000.

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Classic Aero-TV: PS Engineering Double Threat--Ultimate GA Audio Panel Innovator

From 2016 (YouTube Version): Audio Panels Engineered for Pilots with Features that Make Sense…

At EAA AirVenture 2016, PS Engineering Inc. was talking about, and showing, their PMA450A and PMA8000G audio panels for aircraft. While audio panels started off as simply a box that allowed switching between a couple of radios, we are now a long way from that starting point. About the only thing these audio panels don’t do is start your morning coffee, and we’ll have to see if that shows up next year.

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Airborne 10.17.22: DHC-2 Beaver Stamp, PALS SkyHope 1000th, 'Aircraft Midnight'

Also: EAA UL Hall Of Fame, Crew 4 Returns, Zenith Builder's Workshop, Gogo 5G Ambassador

Viking Air Limited's facilities in Sidney, British Columbia, was the site of an unveiling of a new Canada Post stamp celebrating the DHC-2 Beaver's contribution to Canadian aviation. The DHC-2 Beaver is one of five achievements featured in Canada Post's new "Canadians in Flight" series. Canada Post explained that the Beaver is considered the best bush plane ever built and was named one of Canada's top 10 engineering achievements of the 20th century. PALS SkyHope reports that founder and President Joe Howley has hit the 1,000-flight milestone with the organization, marking

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Airborne 10.17.22: DHC-2 Beaver Stamp, PALS SkyHope 1000th, 'Aircraft Midnight'

Also: EAA UL Hall Of Fame, Crew 4 Returns, Zenith Builder's Workshop, Gogo 5G Ambassador

Viking Air Limited's facilities in Sidney, British Columbia, was the site of an unveiling of a new Canada Post stamp celebrating the DHC-2 Beaver's contribution to Canadian aviation. The DHC-2 Beaver is one of five achievements featured in Canada Post's new "Canadians in Flight" series. Canada Post explained that the Beaver is considered the best bush plane ever built and was named one of Canada's top 10 engineering achievements of the 20th century. PALS SkyHope reports that founder and President Joe Howley has hit the 1,000-flight milestone with the organization, marking

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Classic Aero-TV: Expert Analysis By The Kings-Airman Cert Standards 2016

From 2016 (YouTube Version): Aeronautical Decision-Making and Risk Management Now Flow Into Aviation Training…

While at EAA AirVenture 2016, ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, heard a lot of talk about the new FAA Airman Certification Standards (ACS). He decided to go to a world-renowned and respected source on such issues, and met up with John and Martha King, the Co-Owners of King Schools. John King starts off by saying that it’s not unusual for people who have done something the same way for many years to be negative towards change. However, he continues, the purpose of the new system is to create a pilot who is risk a

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (10.25.22)

Aero Linx: Taylorcraft Foundation The Taylorcraft Foundation is exclusively organized for charitable, educational & scientific activities and will preserve the history and technical information of the Taylorcraft airplanes. This Foundation is a chartered State of Ohio Corporation and has been granted IRS 501(c)(3) status as a non-profit, tax exempt, organization. The Taylorcraft Foundation maintains archives, provides information and research assistance when possible to aircraft owners, and works to preserve Taylorcraft history.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (10.25.22): Photo Reconnaissance

Photo Reconnaissance Military activity that requires locating individual photo targets and navigating to the targets at a preplanned angle and altitude. The activity normally requires a lateral route width of 16 NM and altitude range of 1,500 feet to 10,000 feet AGL.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (10.25.22)

"We're achieving substantial cost savings from Artemis III through Artemis VIII by extensive structure and system reuse and incorporating advanced digital design and manufacturing processes. The Artemis II vehicle will reuse select avionics from the Artemis I crew module, and that reuse will continue to dramatically increase to where the Artemis III pressure vessel capsule will be entirely refurbished for the Artemis VI mission." Source: Tonya Ladwig, Orion vice president and program manager at Lockheed Martin Space, after the comapany received an award for additional spacecraft despite the program's cost overruns and failure to meet schedules.

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