Worries about Congress separating ATC from the rest of the FAA aren’t the only concern for much of the aviation industry. Following the near shutdown of most of the nation’s contract control towers during sequestration in 2013, 11 alphabet group executives yesterday said they want confirmation that financial support for the program covering 253 towers […]
When Ford Motor Co. chairman Bill Ford was asked at SXSW if we’d be seeing his company’s logo on a flying car anytime soon, his answer was simple: “No.” Flying car fever is gripping America’s tech-hungry population lately, as Dutch developer PAL-V announced in February that its Liberty, a three-wheel gyrocopter, is for sale and […]
President Donald Trump’s proposed budget trims billions of dollars from several high-profile programs and agencies, and big chunks of money from many more that most Americans have never heard of. One of the lesser-known domestic line items due for elimination is the $175 million Essential Air Services program that provides federal subsidies for commercial air […]
The world lost another aviation pioneer this week as Luigi “Gino” Pascale, the founder, president and chief preliminary design officer of Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam, died at the age of 93. Pascale started designing model airplanes in the 1930s with his brother Giovanni. The brothers built their first real airplane in 1948 — the P48 Astore […]
Embraer says it is forming “innovation teams” in Silicon Valley and in Boston to explore business collaborations with tech startups, investors, academia and corporations, as it looks to develop its next generation of airliners, business jets and perhaps new types of aircraft that we can only guess at. As part of the push to boost […]
As the Aircraft Electronics Association officially opened the doors to its annual convention today, avionics makers were mulling the results of an industry report showing that sales dipped by 6.4 percent to $2.26 billion last year. According to AEA’s latest Avionics Market Report, sales were down from the $2.42 billion reported in 2015 and $2.53 […]
Avidyne announced at the Aircraft Electronics Association’s annual conference, held this week in New Orleans, that it has accomplished several useful upgrades for its legacy FMS products, launched in the much anticipated Release 10.2, and received TSO approval for the IFD550 FMS/GPS/nav/com. “Our new flagship IFD550 includes an integrated ARS [attitude reference system], which delivers […]
The FAA has cleared the B-29 named Doc, which has been fully restored by an organization called Doc’s Friends in Wichita, Kansas, to start touring the country after it completed phase one of its flight test operations. The agency issued a special airworthiness certificate to Doc, allowing the historic airplane to fly without distance restrictions. […]
A bipartisan crusade to get airline passengers a little more legroom continued last week with the reintroduction of the Seat Egress in Air Travel (SEAT) Act in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. The act was first introduced in 2016 as an amendment to the FAA Reauthorization bill; however, Congress failed to pass it. […]
As the countdown continues to the Dec. 31, 2019, deadline for ADS-B Out installation, the pace of updates is expected to increase significantly and the agency is concerned about shops rushing to complete the required work. The FAA, in a safety alert for operators (No. 17002), recently warned of adhering to proper testing procedures for […]
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