The FAA has Type-Certificated the Stemme Twin Voyager S12 powered glider, granting the ticket on August 16, 2017. The Stemme S12 had already been certified the previous summer to the requirements of the EASA. Now it has successfully passed the FAA validation process of the EASA type approval, and received the official type certificate G06CE. FAA certification opens up the American market for Stemme. Bell Helicopter reports ‘exceptional progress’ on the V-280 Valor prog
Congressman Sean Duffy Reportedly Object of Political Arm-Twisting
On a day where much of the ANN staff (and so many other of our friends and associates) are still warily eying the waters around them, awaiting the signal to bug out due to the ever-present possibility of flash flooding, one wonders how such tragedies could conceivably become a political football for politicians to toss around in order to get their way. And yet, reportedly, they are... and have been. As ANN and others reported several weeks ago, EAA President, Jack Pelton, intimated that a US Congressman had been confronted by ATC Privatization advocate Congressman Bill Shuster with a threat to withhold support for flood relief insurance issues if said Congressman did not suppo
“This GAO study is among several that break through the host of dubious allegations being made by the airlines and their supporters about the need for ATC privatization, which amounts to a wholesale giveaway of the nation’s ATC system to the airlines themselves.” Source: NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen.
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