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Airbus hasn't seen a single airline order for its double-decker A380 superjumbo airliner this year, and that has the planemaker considering whether to continue to build the airplane. It’s reported that Airbus expects that it will break even on the A380 through 2017, but then the company will have to decide whether to re-engine the airplane or discontinue it entirely. Some things just leave you scratching your head. Such is the case with the recognition of USA Today by the National Press Foundation for their sensationalist articles on general aviat

The Aviation and Aerospace World Has Too Few Friends and Too Many Enemies

Aviation News/Analysis/Commentary By ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell I’ve been having a running conversation, the last few weeks, with a person many of you used to know – a person who is given much to the world of aviation -- and after a series of setbacks and disappointments… well, he’s given up on us. I don’t want to single him out. I understand his disappointment. But I know many like him, and the fact of the matter is that one of my fondest desires, personally, is that something that I might do some day will convince him that not all is lost -- and that aviation not only can be saved, but should be saved.

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Forty-six founding Civil Air Patrol members were present Wednesday to see the organization honored with the Congressional Gold Medal for the service they and more than 200,000 other CAP volunteers provided during World War II, when they helped protect U.S. shipping against German U-boat attacks, and carried out other vital wartime domestic missions. The European Aviation Safety Agency has certified the Piaggio Aerospace Avanti EVO after an extensive development and test program carried out under the supervisi

Aero Linx: Schweizer 1-26 Association The Association is formed for the purpose of stimulating interest in, and promoting the sport of soaring in the Schweizer 1-26 sailplane; to establish standards for competition in the 1-26; to establish categories for record flights made in the 1-26; to disseminate information relating to the 1-26 and flights made in the 1-26, and to give recognition to its membership for accomplishments related to soaring in the 1-26. The Association's goal is to foster the helpfulness, the camaraderie, and the opportunity for head-to-head competition that is found in One Design groups in sailing. It is an organization of people who share the common ideal that soaring should be fun, not frantic - peop

Roll A mechanism to provide lateral control of the aircraft through flexible wing tips; wires enabled the wing tips to arch so that the ends of the wings were four inches lower than the center (the concept was devised by the Wrights after observing the wing tips of a hawk in flight).

"Under normal circumstances, the aviation world doesn’t need to do much to look bad – we are an over-regulated, overtly misunderstood, somewhat complex undertaking – prone to bad press and errant reporting from those who cannot or will not check their facts… And let’s face it, there are far too many people out there, ready to capitalize on every misstep our industry makes, especially where the legal system is involved. But regardless of the prevalent aviation-bashing; the Aero-Verse deserves to be treated accurately, fairly, and with the appropriate expertise. Virtually none of this was rendered by Thomas Frank or by his wholly unimpressive editors at USA Today." Source

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