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I think many of us in the Northeast are looking for relativelyshort trips that can be flown in three hours or less — and TangierIsland neatly fits that description. US Sprint’s TV commercials in spring of ’95 gave tons of freepublicity to Tangier Island, an isolated fishing community inthe middle of Chesapeake Bay. The commercial […]

AVweb’scomments are in red. Why would a sane and profitable multi-national conglomeratelike Textron want to mess around with engines for little airplanes? Because as long as we return to the shareholder the profits theyexpect, we’ll be in the engine business. And we have been ableto do that. If it gets to the point that an […]

Will the piston engines of tomorrow incorporate new technologyof will they just be more of the same? Do piston aircraft engineseven have a future? To answer these questions, we’ve been touringthe country talking to as many engine experts as we could find.This is the second article in a periodic series on the currentstate and future […]

Will the piston engines of tomorrow incorporate new technologyof will they just be more of the same? Do piston aircraft engineseven have a future? To answer these questions, we’ve been touringthe country talking to as many engine experts as we could find.This is the second article in a periodic series on the currentstate and future […]

On October 25, 1995, a preliminary settlement agreement was reachedin the federal class-action lawsuit filed against Mobil Corporationby Malvern Gross and Paul Jimison. As previously reportedin AVweb, the plaintiffs claim that Mobil AV-1 syntheticoil may have caused substantial damage to a large number of big-boreTeledyne-Continental engines, and that all potentially affectedengines should be inspected and, […]

I. Threshold Level of AV-1 Use/Engine History Protocol Teledyne-Continental IO-520, TSIO-520, GTSIO-520, IO-550, TSIO-550, GTSIO-550, O-470, IO-470, TSIO-470, O-360, IO-360 and TSIO-360 piston aircraft engines in which Mobil’s AV-1 oil was used for inore than 150 hours, and were not completelv rebuilt or completely overhauled since discontinuance of AV-1 use, qualify to be inspected pursuant […]

GROSS, ET AL. v. MOBIL CORPORATION October 25,1995 PRESS RELEASE San Francisco, California – Plaintiffs and pilots Malvern J. Gross, Jr. and Paul Jimison succeeded today in obtaining preliminary approval of a settlement in Gross, et al. v. Mobil Corporation, et al., Civil Action No. C 95-1237 SC, pending in the United States District Court […]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTNORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA MALVERN J. GROSS, JR. and PAUL JIMISON, individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, PIaintiffs, v. MOBIL CORPORATION, a corporation; MOBIL OIL CORPORATION, a corporation; MOBIL INTERNATIONAL AVIATION AND MARINE SALES, INC., a corporation, Defendants. No. C 95-1237 SI NOTICE OF PROPOSED SETTLEMENT AND HEARING CLASS […]

The Mobil AV-1 Claim Form must be fully completed and returned to the address noted below in order to commenence processing your entitlement pursuant to the Inspection Protocol. To participate in the settlement, the Mobil AV-1 Claim Form must be returned no later than three months from the entry of order granting final approval to […]

Interview by Aviation Consumer, 27-Oct-95 FAA Participants: Also Present: Aviation Consumer: The first area that I’d like to explore with you is the situation where Bob Hoover has recently been granted a special issuance of his second class medical certificate. Pilots are certainly happy that he has a U.S. medical again that will permit him […]