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January 12, 2005

California Storms Swamp Corona Airport

Field Underwater, Many Planes Lost

The airport in Corona, CA, is shut down -- hell, it's underwater -- as torrential downpours continue to flood the area.

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NASA Details Earthquake Effects On Earth

Shake Rattle And Roll -- And Reshape And Shift And Change The Planet's Rotation

NASA scientists using data from the Indonesian earthquake calculated it affected Earth's rotation, decreased the length of day, slightly changed the planet's shape, and shifted the North Pole by centimeters. The earthquake that created the huge tsunami also changed the Earth's rotation.

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Pilots To The Rescue

MAF Airborne Relief On The Scene In Indonesia

MAF is on site in Medan on the island of Sumatra responding to the overwhelming disaster. Hardest hit by the earthquake and tsunami, most of the northern province of Aceh has been leveled. Most bridges and roads have been obliterated; communications are wiped out in the affected area.

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Tanis Vows To Continue After Loss Of President

Still Stunned With Grief, Employees Say Goodbye To Gary Schmidt

From Tanis Aircraft: Tanis Aircraft in Glenwood, MN is saddened to report the death of its owner and President, Gary E. Schmidt in an aircraft accident near the Glenwood Airport on December 9, 2004.

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Air Safety Foundation CFI Refresher Offers Security Awareness Training

TSA Orders Training For All CFIs By January 18

All flight instructors must complete TSA-mandated security awareness training by next Tuesday, January 18. To help CFIs comply, the AOPA Air Safety Foundation is adding the training at no additional cost to each of its Flight Instructor Refresher Courses nationwide, starting this weekend.

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Medical Helo Down In Potomac

Two Lost, One Survives

Authorities in and around the nation's capital continued searching Tuesday for the body of a crewmember lost when a medical helicopter went down in the Potomac River, near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. The aircraft, crashed late Monday night after a witness said the EC-135 was flying unusually low and may have hit something just before going down.

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ANN Welcomes COOL New Sponsor: FlightSim Developers

FlightSim Developers, more popularly known within the simulation community as FSD, may be the premier producer of high quality add-on aircraft for the latest version of Microsoft's Flight Simulator. All aircraft are faithfully modeled to be accurate to the real-world counterpart, with months of research going into each project.

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Two Lost In Louisiana CAP Mishap

C182 Wreckage Found After Eleven-Hour Search

Two people were lost late Monday night when the Civil Air Patrol Cessna 182 they were flying in went down in Louisiana, along the Ouachita-Morehouse County Line.

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NATA Endorses TSA Risk Management Concept For Cargo

NPRM Endorses Creation Of "All-Cargo" Security Program

NATA says it supports a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) proposal to address cargo security using a risk-based approach.

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Don't Fiddle After Take-Off

The Right Thing At The Right Time

by Gary Wiblin I popped down to our local flying club primarily to have a beer, but also in the hope of gathering some fodder for this column. I didn't have long to wait.

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AOPA Fights Effort To Close Pine Mountain's Airport In Georgia

Says Developers Would Be Destroying "Valuable Community Asset"

Developers in Georgia want to close Pine Mountain's Callaway Gardens-Harris County Airport (PIM) to build a five-story hotel addition to the existing Callaway Gardens resort. But AOPA has told county commissioners that they would be in legal trouble with the federal government and would be destroying a valuable community asset if they cave in to the request.

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A Library Of Air Force Secrets

Researchers Unlock Index To 550,000 Secret Documents

How many secrets does the US Air Force have? OK, let's steer away from current, operational secrets like missile targeting data, or the cost of the coffee maker on the C-17. How many old, possibly out-of-date, possibly declassifiable secrets? According the researchers at The Memory Hole, more than half a million.

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UAL Wants To Ditch All Employee Pensions

Bankrupt Carrier Says It Has To Axe Pensions To Keep Flying

United Airlines and its unionized workers came to terms on yet another round of pay and benefit concessions, staving off at the last minute a federal court trial scheduled for this week. But UAL Corp., United's parent, says it'll still have to axe all employee pension funds if the airline is to survive.

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The UK's Paveway IV Penetration Trial Finished

Raytheon Says Bunker-Busting Tests Went Perfectly

Raytheon Systems Paveway IV Precision Guided Bomb (PGB), which is being acquired by the UK Ministry of Defence, has successfully passed another project milestone. As part of a risk reduction program, a representative weapon has been subjected to a trial to determine the penetration and survivability of the warhead.

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Cirrus Expands International Footprint

Opens New Sales Center in Russia

Cirrus Design Corporation has appointed a new sales center in Russia. Officially named Cirrus Russia, the new sales center is based in Moscow and is charged with the primary responsibility of bolstering Cirrus' sales activity in Russia and The Ukraine. Directing that activity will be aviation veteran Alexey Khimichev.

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Lockheed Martin Team Selected To Compete For AWIPS

Contract valued As High As $330 Million Over 10 Years

Lockheed Martin says its team was selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) to compete in the next phase of the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS). The AWIPS contract award is expected in July 2005 and will be worth an estimated $330 million over a 10-year period.

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New Planetoid May Be Hitchiker From Passing Star

May Have Been Captured In "Close" Encounter

Recently, astronomers reported the surprising discovery of a very large diameter Kuiper Belt planetoid -- (90377) Sedna -- on a distant, 12,500-year-long, eccentric orbit centered approximately 500 astronomical units from the Sun. Sedna's estimated diameter is about 1,600 km, two-thirds that of Pluto. Initial studies of Sedna's origin have speculated that it might have been ejected from the giant planets region of our solar system far inside the orbit of Pluto, or perhaps was captured from a passing star's Kuiper Belt.

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Upgraded: Clark Gordon

Appointed EMS SATCOM Account Manager, Commercial Sales, Eastern USA

EMS Technologies says it's appointed Clark Gordon as Account Manager, Commercial Sales, Eastern USA, for EMS's SATCOM division. The appointment is effective immediately.

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Aero-News Quote Of The Day (01.12.05)

"We still believe we need to terminate all our (pension) plans." Source: United Airlines Chief Financial Officer Jake Brace said in the hallway of the US Bankruptcy Court in Chicago, IL, Monday. He was quoted in the Denver Post. Over the weekend, United came to terms with some of its unions over the issue of terminating pension plans. But on Friday, the bankruptcy judge turned down a pension-pulling deal between United and its pilots.

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California TFR: Until Further Notice

NOTAM:  5/0263  Issued:  01/11/2005 17:50  Effective:  Immediately - Until Further Notice  State:  CA  Facility:  ZLA - LOS ANGELES (ARTCC)PALMDALE, CA.  Type:  HAZARDS  Description:  VENTURA CA. 

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Virginia TFR: Until Further Notice

NOTAM:  5/0255  Issued:  01/11/2005 17:00  Effective:  01/12/2005 14:35 - 01/12/2005 17:05  State:  VA  Facility:  ZDC - WASHINGTON (ARTCC),DC.  Type:  VIP  Description:  FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA, JANUARY 12 2005 LOCAL. 

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AD: Bombardier-Rotax

AD NUMBER: 2005-01-14 MANUFACTURER: Bombardier-Rotax SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2005-01-14 SUMMARY: The FAA is superseding an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for Bombardier-Rotax GmbHType 912 F, 912 S, and 914 F series reciprocating engines. That AD currently requires venting of the lubrication system and inspection of the valve train on all engines. That AD also requires venting of the lubrication system of all engines on which the lubrication system has been opened, and any engine on which the propeller has been rotated one full turn in the wrong direction.

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