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Cirrus Aircraft today announced that its SR-series Engineering and Design Team has been recognized as the recipient of the prestigious 2013 Joseph T. Nall Safety Award, for pioneering a wide array of safety features designed for single-engine aircraft. The award is presented annually by the International Air & Transportation Safety Bar Association (IATSBA) to honor […]
EAA says it’s wondering why the FAA billed it $450,000 for air traffic services at last year’s AirVenture when the NFL won’t have to pay the extra costs associated with the Super Bowl. On Sunday, the FAA told AVwebthat it only bills for services if it has to move equipment and personnel to the venue. […]
A Gulfstream/Aero Commander 690C crashed and burned in a small field in Nashville, Tenn., just before 5 p.m. on Monday, about 10 miles south of John C. Tune Airport. All four on board — a couple with their daughter and granddaughter — died in the crash. According to the NTSB, the pilot was executing a […]
Center asked an aircraft flying IFR:“Say altitude.” … and the pilot came back with:“Altitude.” The controller at center did not miss a beat and came right back with:“Say ‘cancel IFR.’” …. to which the pilot of the aircraft said correct altitude and “sorry” — nothing more. Had to be some “got ya” laughs in aircraft […]
Sydney, Australia pilot Paul Reynolds was the only one around who could help the teen-aged passenger on a Piper Cherokee (previously incorrectly reported as a Cessna 150) whose pilot blacked out at the controls on January 25 over Forbes, New South Wales. AVweb’s Russ Niles spoke with Reynolds about the actions he took to help […]
The FAA has confirmed to AVweb that the NFL will not have to pay for the extra costs of providing air traffic services in the New York area that result from Sunday’s Super Bowl game in New Jersey.In an email to AVweb late Sunday, the agency also indicated that last year’s game in New Orleans […]
A Minnesota brewery’s airborne solution to the preventable yet apparently prevalent problem of running out of beer while ice fishing has been shot down by the FAA. Lakemaid Brewery’s clever use of a six-rotor drone to whisk the frosty brews to their icebound customers runs afoul of the agency’s current ban on the commercial use […]
Boeing showed it was on board with the hometown favorite Seattle Seahawks in Sunday’s Super Bowl game with a two-pronged assumption of the role of the team’s 12th member. The Seahawks have one of the game’s noisiest stadiums and the team calls its fans the “12th man” so Boeing ran with the theme when it […]
Last week I was on the telephone with Tim Roehl, one of the founders of General Aviation Modifications, Inc., the folks who created the tuned fuel injectors called GAMIjectors. We were talking about a number of things, including Lycomings fairly new IO-390 engine that puts out 210 HP and is getting attenion in the aviation […]
Aspen Avionics and FreeFlight Systems have announced partnerships with the $1.5 billion NextGen Equipage Funds financing program to help general aviation aircraft owners obtain inexpensive financing to meet the ADS-B and other mandated avionics retrofits. With over 150,000 aircraft affected, the NextGen Fund will provide financing at competitive rates backed by loan guarantees and will […]
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