Rob Mark

A former Delta Air Lines pilot has stepped forward during the controversy that began last week over the nomination of Steve Dickson to the FAA’s top job. In a letter to the ranking Democrat on the Senate Commerce committee, Maria Cantwell (D-Wash), Politico reported former Delta Captain Karl Seuring called on lawmakers to wait for […]

Belite Aircraft, makers of the popular Chipper and Chipper 2 single-engine aircraft kits, said their facility on the northeast side of the air capital in Wichita was destroyed late Saturday night by fire. The blaze apparently began when “the dust collection system on our CNC router was working overtime making parts for kits,” according to […]

The final nomination vote of Steve Dickson, President Trump’s nominee to run the FAA, has been delayed while a Senate committee investigates the nominee’s role in a previously unreported whistleblower complaint filed by a Delta Air Lines Airbus 330 pilot while Dickson was still Delta Airline’s senior vice president of flight operations. Dickson’s Senate nomination […]

When pilots install the latest Garmin software update and use a compatible ADS-B In receiver, they can view new FIS-B weather products on the moving map display of the GTN 650/750. The new weather products include lightning, cloud tops, turbulence, icing (current and forecasted), graphical AIRMETs and center weather advisories (CWA). When these Garmin units […]

The Russian Ministry of Transport’s initial findings into the May 5 Sukhoi Superjet accident at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport said the crew received a windshear alert in the final minutes of the flight. Moments later, Aeroflot Flight 1492 landed hard on Runway 24 Left and bounced several times before bursting into flames. Forty-one people on board […]

An Atlanta-based startup, Hermeus Corporation says it’s building a hypersonic jet that will travel at four times the speed of sound. If Hermeus is successful, that could reduce TransAtlantic travel times between New York and Paris from 7 ½ hours to just 90 minutes. That’s about twice the speed of the supersonic Concorde. The new […]

New York City-based Wheels Up, a private member-based aircraft operator, today said it was adding Travel Management Company (TMC) to its portfolio. The acquisition is responding to the increasing demand from Wheels Up members for high-quality light jets that meet Wheels Up’s stringent safety and operational standards. TMC is the largest wholesale-focused light jet operator […]

Textron Aviation last week told audiences at the European Aviation Business Convention and Exhibition in Geneva that the prototype for Cessna’s Denali single-engine turboprop is nearing completion, as are the first two flight and ground test aircraft. The prototype and the first two production conforming aircraft will be used in the flight test program set […]

The FAA last week warned aircraft operators of potential problems if they had their McCauley constant speed propellers serviced by Sensenich Propeller Services, Inc., North Windham, Connecticut. The agency says the company was re-installing equipment without fully following the recommended methods, techniques, and practices prescribed in the current McCauley constant speed propellers maintenance manual. The […]

Two fatal accidents, both involving Cessna Citation jets, occurred within two days of each other last week. In the first accident on May 22nd, a Citation 550 SII crashed shortly after takeoff from Indianapolis Regional Airport (MQJ) killing the two people aboard. The second accident on May 24th involved a Citation 560 Encore being flown […]