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The Fight To Stay In Business WMU Consolidates Aviation Programs… Western Michigan University (WMU) — which has held contracts with British Airways, Aer Lingus, Emirates Airlines and European Pilot Selection and Training, and is one of the largest aviation colleges in the U.S. — is giving up on its foreign pilot training program. At WMU, […]

After hovering below the profit line in 2001, Bell Helicopter Textron has recovered to a small profit and is looking for big things from its biggest gamble ever — the V-22 Osprey. After some deadly failures earlier in the program, Bell CEO Peter Murphey is upbeat about the Osprey and other military programs. “I feel […]

FAA Defends Pilots? D.C. Stingers Target Them… The agency we occasionally love to hate told AVweb it’s looking out for GA interests as various security-inspired measures — including jeep-mounted anti-aircraft stinger missiles freshly redeployed this week around the capital — seemingly put the crosshairs on an already-targeted GA sector. FAA spokesman Greg Martin said the […]

OZ Flight Display I had the pleasure of flying the OZ simulator during a NASA technology demonstration. The simulator was programmed for an approach scenario for that event. The symbology OZ uses is a little unconventional, but required little explanation. I found the system extremely easy to use, and I was able to maintain a […]

FAA Approval Expected This Week… Almost half the crankshafts needed to fix engines caught in the Lycoming recall have been forged and have passed a rigorous quality-control process, a company spokesman told AVweb this week. Sue Bishop, manager of corporate communications for Lycoming’s parent company, Textron, said there now are 559 shiny new cranks waiting […]

TECHNICAL SNAGS WITH AVWEB? WE’RE WORKING ON FIXES A number of readers have contacted us noting problems reading the new AVflash and the AVweb Web site itself. For starters, some find the text too large … for others, it’s too small. Beginning this week, both the HTML version of AVflash and the site itself have […]

Capstone Gets A Positive Report In Alaska… …New Ideas Growing In Florida While Capstone relies on well-developed technologies such as GPS and datalinks, edgy new ideas for safer flying are growing under the Florida sun. At the University of West Florida in Pensacola, researchers at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition are testing new […]

Commander Files for Chapter 11 Protection Restructuring Planned… Commander Aircraft Company, a manufacturer of high-performance single-engine aircraft, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal court in Delaware last Friday. Wirt Walker, CEO of Commander’s parent company, Aviation General Inc. of Bethany, Okla., told AVweb on Tuesday that operations at the company “will be going […]

Lycoming Denies Insurance Threat Your Calls Are Welcome Lycoming is denying claims by a Texas law firm that owners of IO-540 engines affected by its crankshaft recall are risking future insurance coverage by accepting a compensation package. “We strongly disagree with this position and are certain that accepting our Customer Care Program with its general […]

The G550 Receives Its Provisional Type Certificate …   Gulfstream Aerospace recently announced that its flagship business jet, the Gulfstream G550, has received a Provisional Type Certificate from the FAA. The certification is subject to certain operational limitations that will be removed during the coming months, well in advance of the first Gulfstream G550 entering […]