The weather has been beyond gorgeous at this year's Sun-N-Fun
Fly-In -- clear, cool and relatively dry (for Springtime in central
Florida). So where is everybody? The airshow performers at Lakeland
have done well. There've been no serious accidents reported. Yet
some vendors report only getting a third of their normal crowds
this year.
The FAA has given Wichita, KS, 30 days to describe how it will
remedy what the federal agency calls "unjust economic
discrimination" in its subsidies to AirTran. FAA officials
say millions of dollars in federal grant money to Mid-Continent
Airport are on the line.
REAL TIME UPDATE: 1215 EDT -- After arriving
Saturday night to dock with the International Space Station, the
members of both ISS Expeditions 10 and 11 are going through the
process of handing over the keys and preparing for the arrival of
the space shuttle Discovery.
Cessna says its jet manufacturing business is so good the
company needs to hire another 500 sheet metal workers -- the second
time since October that the company has decided to add to the
workforce.
This tight formation is a real display of first-class airmanship
-- not only are there four dissimilar types here, they are from
four different eras, and fought in several different wars for the
USA. It takes skill and planning to maneuver in a tight diamond
with machines that have such widely varying performance. In fact,
the formation was so cool, we decided one picture just wasn't
enough to do it justice.
One thing for sure: FAA certainly has done one thing by issuing
sport pilot and light sport aircraft. They certainly have spawned a
billion questions and complicated technical situations.
Paperless Cockpit introduces its first all-in-one Electronic
Flight Bag capable of displaying the complete approach chart
without wasting valuable flight deck space.
In the first installment of this interview, Cessna President
Jack Pelton opened up to us about his flying roots, his love for
general and grassroots aviation, and his current recreational
aviation activities.
There was an Eclipse out in the sun today. The Eclipse being the
jet of the same name -- the first one in the test program to
venture out of Albuquerque -- and the sun was, of course, in
Florida, where Eclipse introduced the jet, still in flight test, to
the public.
If you ask a lot of people which type did the most to win the
Second World War, some of them would certainly name the mighty B-29
that nuked the Banzai clean out of the Japanese Empire.
Patrick Farrell asked himself, "If I don't do it, who's going to
do it?" He had just heard that a good friend of his had crashed
into trees just short of the runway while on a night approach.
Listen closely. That sound you hear is the other shoe dropping
after TSA Director David Stone (Admiral, USN, Retired) was forced
to resign more than a week ago.
Daniel Webster will welcome back friend of the College and
former member of the NTSB, John Goglia, as keynote speaker for the
College’s 36th Commencement on Saturday, May 14, 2005.
In an exclusive interview with ANN, Zenith's Customer Service
Representative, Roger Dubbert, he reported that the CH 701 is
preferable over the competition because it is an all-metal airplane
capable of take-off and landings in less than 100 feet, and which
can be built in less than 500 hours.
As a continued airworthiness requirement, battery capacity
checking just got easier. Thanks to Gill’s new TCT-1000
Battery Capacity Analyzer, checking capacity of aircraft batteries
just got easier.
During a recent visit to Raytheon Aircraft Company, the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) presented their Aviation Maintenance
Technician (AMT) Phase V Diamond Award.
Dr. Mark Morrision is happy with his new leather Oregon Aero
High-G Safety Seats. It's been a few years since Richard
VanGrunsven announced that his new RV-10 Project would use Oregon
Aero seats for the front two occupants.
"I can't go ANYWHERE without someone
asking me, 'Why aren't you building the 210?'"
Source: Cessna's Jack Pelton, in an exclusive
interview with ANN, during the Lakeland Fly-In.