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All News

July 30, 2022

Report Raises Concerns Over FAA and Southwest Airlines

The Art of Bureaucratic War

A federal watchdog report has raised serious concerns about the relationship between the FAA and Southwest Airlines (SWA). The report alleges Southwest and the FAA have been engaged in an ongoing private war of stonewalling and power-leveraging. Federal investigators who authored the report cite shortcomings on both the airline’s and the agency’s parts in safeguarding public safety, and call attention to widespread operational and regulatory irregularities.

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USAF Grounds F-35s Over Ejection Seat Concerns

What Goes Up…

An extraordinary stand-down order from the United States Air Force’s Air Combat Command promises to reignite debate over the reliability and efficacy of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II—known colloquially as the Joint Strike Fighter. The grounding was occasioned by the discovery of problems in the ejection seats of numerous U.S. Naval aircraft. U.S. Navy and Marine Corps officials have not yet grounded their F-35s.

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FAA Certified S-LSA Savage Norden STOL Airplane On Display

Booth 298, EAA AirVenture 2022

SportairUSA, the Arkansas-based FAA certified Repair Station and aircraft and components distributor, has announced that the American version of Zlin’s new Savage Norden STOL aircraft has received FAA certification in the category of Special Light Sport Aircraft. SportairUSA—the North American distributor and service center for Savage and other sport aircraft—will display a specimen of the newly-certified airplane at EAA’s AirVenture 2022. Interested parties will find the aircraft at Booth 298.

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L3Harris Flight Academy Joins Piper’s Brand Ambassador Program

All the Cool Kids are Doing It

Piper Aircraft, the Florida-based manufacturer of legacy general aviation aircraft, has announced the addition of the L3Harris Flight Academy, the pilot-training institution with operations in the U.K., U.S. and Thailand, to its Brand Ambassador program. The L3Harris Flight Academy is Piper Aircraft’s first non-degree seeking ambassador partner school, and the first flight school in the southeastern United States to join the program.

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King Schools Offer Discounted Access to High Schools

It’s Good to Be King

To assert that John and Martha King have helped more pilots prepare for and pass their FAA written tests than any other two people on this wide, weird Earth is neither apocryphal nor sycophantic; it’s simply true. As a young CFI in the early 1990s, I savagely plagiarized a great many of the Kings’ instructional constructs—and my students passed their written tests and checkrides. The advent of the digital-age served only to broaden John and Martha’s didactic purview. Today, the King Brand is a full-blown pilot-training icon.

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National Association of Flight Instructors Summit Announced

More or Less …

To advance the flight instructing profession and promote professionalism in aviation education and training, The National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) will host an October 2022 summit dubbed Flight Instruction Excellence. The event—the exact date and location of which have yet to be announced—will host current and prospective certified flight instructors, aviation leaders, industry advocates, government representatives, and media.

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22-Year Astronaut Veteran to Retire

Captain, Commander, & Col. Shane Kimbrough Ends Service with NASA

NASA has announced the retirement of 22-year space program veteran Shane Kimbrough, announcing his end of service with the agency at the end of the month. The retired Army colonel has spent a total of 388 days in space, enough time to net him 5th place among all NASA astronauts for time spent above. His tenure as an astronaut allowed him to fly on all 3 of the spacefaring mainstays of the industry, the Soyuz, SpaceX Crew Dragon, and the Space Shuttle itself before its retirement from service. Throughout his career he was able to complete 9 spacewalks across his trio of missions.

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New HondaJet Service Centers to Open

HondaJet Service Network Grows to 21 Facilities

Honda Aircraft Company, the Greensboro, North Carolina-based aerospace subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. has announced the addition of four new full-service Authorized Service Centers (ASCs) to its HondaJet service network. The new facilities—two of which will be located in the U.S.—further strengthen Honda’s customer support infrastructure, and better serve the growing HondaJet fleet—now comprising more than 219 aircraft which have logged a combined total of over 120,000 flight-hours.

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Airborne 07.22.22: ANN IS AT OSH22!, PMA450C Audio Panel, eArcher!

Also: Trig TX56 & TX57, Avmax & Universal Hydrogen, 737 MAX Sales, G650 Steep Approach

Oshkosh is but a few days away! ANN staff is ALREADY on site in Oshkosh, Wisconsin prepping for our most expansive coverage yet. We are hosting the largest (and best) crew of writers, videographers and aero-experts we’ve EVER brought to the wilds of Oshkosh. DO NOT MIss our dozens of daily news stories at www.aero-news.net, our DAILY Airborne episodes at  www.airbornetv.net<

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Airborne 07.22.22: ANN IS AT OSH22!, PMA450C Audio Panel, eArcher!

Also: Trig TX56 & TX57, Avmax & Universal Hydrogen, 737 MAX Sales, G650 Steep Approach

Oshkosh is but a few days away! ANN staff is ALREADY on site in Oshkosh, Wisconsin prepping for our most expansive coverage yet. We are hosting the largest (and best) crew of writers, videographers and aero-experts we’ve EVER brought to the wilds of Oshkosh. DO NOT MIss our dozens of daily news stories at www.aero-news.net, our DAILY Airborne episodes at  www.airbornetv.net<

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NTSB Prelim: Piper PA-24-250

The Airplane Had Made Several Takeoff And Landings Prior To The Accident

On July 2, 2022, at 1135 central daylight time, a Piper PA-24-250, N5235P, was involved in an accident near St. Jacob, Illinois. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The airline transport pilot received serious injuries and a private pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated by the private pilot under Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. A witness stated that he saw the airplane had made several takeoff and landings prior to the accident.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (07.30.22)

Aero Linx: Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA) The Space Medicine Branch was founded in 1951 as the first constituent organization of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA). In 2006, the organization changed the name to the Space Medicine Association (SMA) since being an organization under the Aerospace Medical Association was no longer a sensitive issue. The association was founded for the express purpose of advancing the science and art of space medicine and the biological sciences, with special emphasis on the problems facing humans in the space environment.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (07.30.22): Back-Taxi

Back-Taxi A term used by air traffic controllers to taxi an aircraft on the runway opposite to the traffic flow. The aircraft may be instructed to back-taxi to the beginning of the runway or at some point before reaching the runway end for the purpose of departure or to exit the runway.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (07.30.22)

“The safety culture at Southwest Airlines consists of using ‘diversion, distraction, and power’ to get what the company wants.” Source: From a report that substantiates a February 2020 document in which the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General criticized the airline.

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