Rob Mark

There’s still time for aviation’s doers, dreamers and innovators to see their bright ideas become one of five finalists in this year’s EAA Founder’s Innovation Prize competition, although the June 15 deadline is fast approaching. The second annual competition, hosted by the Experimental Aircraft Association and Airbus, again welcomes ideas to counter loss-of-control accidents in […]

There’s no uglier phrase for a cockpit voice recorder to capture than “We should have gone around.” The first officer of a chartered Eastern Air Lines Boeing 737, stopped only by the engineered material arresting system on the end of LaGuardia Airport’s Runway 22, knew these were wasted words after the October 27, 2016 event. […]

An angle of attack indicator offers a visual indication of the amount of lift the wing is generating at a given airspeed or angle of bank. The AOA delivers critical information visually or through an aural tone to indicate the actual safety margin above an aerodynamic stall. AOAs are created around one of two systems, […]

Soaring is quite unlike any other kind of flying. Plunk yourself down in an open field on a warm, sunny day, as I did last fall, and watch a hawk, wings outstretched, wingtips moving only slightly to adjust the flight path as they trace seemingly endless patterns across the sky in search of a meal. […]

JetBlue Flight 915, an Airbus A321-200, departed New York JFK headed to San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon, but was forced to make an emergency landing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after a laptop charger caught fire. The Airbus was cruising westbound near Flint, Michigan, at FL 340 when the incident occurred. The fire was not immediately […]

Registration for the EAA’s annual Women Soar You Soar program closes in two weeks. The program offers high-school-aged girls an opportunity to explore aviation career options, make discoveries and find new inspirations during AirVenture that this year begins in Oshkosh on July 24. The Women Soar program runs from July 23-26. EAA is committed to […]

The University of Iowa’s Operator Performance Laboratory, an aircraft simulation and flight testing organization, wants to better understand the workload level a pilot can handle before they become truly overwhelmed. OPL director Tom Schnell noted that pilots today, both military and civilian, push a great many buttons in the cockpit, efforts that take their eyes […]

The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report of the May 15 crash of a Learjet 35A at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey looked at the strength of the surface winds during the final moments of the flight. At the time of the accident, winds were reported as 320 at 20 knots gusting to 30, a […]

Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation Calvin L. Scovel III’s recent report to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure about the FAA’s progress in modernizing the nation’s airspace might add fuel to the fire to those supporting the effort to separate the U.S. air traffic control system from the 60-year old agency. […]

A Cessna 172, N model, painted in a Snow White base color accented by Capri Blue and solid black stripes was delivered last week to Toledo-Ohio based Suburban Aviation in Southeast Michigan. Originally built more than 25 years ago, Suburban’s new airplane is the first upgraded version of an Ascend 172 remanufactured by Yingling Aviation […]