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This is a story that ANN has been reporting on for years and we’re pleased to see some positive progress. Discovery has been ordered by a federal magistrate in a lawsuit against Horry County SC, Horry County Department of Airports (HCDA), and the FAA, in which Skydive Myrtle Beach owner Aaron Holly charges that the government and agencies have conspired against him to deprive him of his constitutional rights. In his lawsuit, Holly alleges that the entities conspired to deprive him of his constitut

Flight Testing Nearly Complete On First Airplane…

Epic Aircraft is working towards FAA certification of a new turboprop business airplane, the E1000, which the company says will be "the fastest, highest performing, most affordable and comfortable, six-place single-engine turboprop in the world. Mike Schrader, Director of Sales and Marketing for Epic Aircraft, told Aero-News at NBAA-BACE in Las Vegas that the company is in the process of finishing up final structural testing on the airplane, and flight testing is nearly complete on the first aircraft. Flight testing will soon begin on a conforming airplane, he said...

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ANN’s senior editorial staff was stunned to read a recent article by the AOPA Air Safety Institute’s Executive Director, Richard McSpadden, in which the ASI Boss not only seemed to offer a probable cause long before the NTSB report is due (and even before the NTSB Prelim was published) but seemed intent on appointing itself an apologist for all things Icon. This piece lauded Icon and their errant CEO, Kirk Hawkins, despite the fact that the company has proven itself incompetent on a number of l

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“Once everything was completed, we learned a lot from this experience. And finding out that our customers were just as happy was great news. Knowing that an airline that will be flying the A350-1000 valued this work gave us all a boost.” Source: Michael Lanson, an Airbus simulator test engineer, discussing the three-day simulator campaign with Cathay Pacific involved a month of pre-preparation, followed by a similar amount of time afterwards analysing the results. As Airbus prepares for the service entry of its latest A350 XWB jetliner version – the A350-1000 – a new approach that for the first time puts customers’ pilots into ground-based flight simulators during the test campaign has proven so valuable