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NAV CANADA Hikes Service Charges…FONT> Canadian pilots will find themselves shelling out a few more bucks every time they fly, thanks to a hike in air-navigation service charges. On Monday, NAV CANADA announced the decision to proceed with a planned 6.9-percent increase following a mandatory 60-day consultation period. The company says the charges will be […]

Jobless Rate Rises… Wichitas aviation community has taken a beating since the economic downturn crippled the aerospace industry. Not surprisingly, the Kansas economy has felt the direct effects of this massive slowdown. While several aircraft manufacturers have laid off thousands of workers in the Wichita area, The Wichita Eagle reports Cessnas large-scale cuts are blamed […]

AVwebs Oshkosh coverage will officially begin on Monday, July 28th. If you cant make it to AirVenture this year, well be featuring streaming video coverage that will be almost as good as being there. In association with AirsideTV, AVweb will webcast a series of free streaming video reports from the show, beginning Wednesday, July 30th. […]

Meigs’ Fate Sealed… As many suspected all along, there was nothing that could be done to save Meigs Field, once it had been rendered unusable by heavy equipment sent in by Mayor Richard Daley last March. That didn’t stop Friends of Meigs (FOM), the alphabet groups, Harrison Ford and even a few politicians from trying, […]

More Costs, More Red Tape… European GA is facing massive cost increases, more red tape and what some say is an unnecessarily daunting training regimen for many technicians as the European Community’s new umbrella safety organization flexes its newborn muscles. But their airplanes will be clean. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which is taking […]

P&W’s 6.5-Mach, 150-Pound Scramjet Success… That’s right, 6.5 Mach from a 150-pound engine. Try that with your 300-plus-pound Lycoming … then again, don’t. Airplanes of the future could be powered with engines derived from the hypersonic scramjet that recently completed a series of successful ground tests at 6.5 Mach. “The engine performed exceptionally well,” program […]

Bombardier Lifts the Covers… Canadian conglomerate Bombardier — maker of the popular Rotax line of aircraft engines — released details this week on its plans to take on Continental and Lycoming with a new generation of high-output piston engines. As we reported in our May 15 NewsWire, Bombardiers new designs will be six-cylinder, 120-degree V […]

NTSB: No Flight Plan For ADIZ Crash Plane… The NTSB this week released its preliminary report about the crash of a Cessna 172 that ran out of fuel while awaiting clearance into the Washington, D.C., ADIZ on June 29. According to the report, the pilot told the NTSB he filed two flight plans, for his […]

Foreign Inspections Suspect… Is the latest Inspector General report slamming the FAA a harbinger of things to come in the soon-to-be-created Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) category? On Thursday the Transportation Department’s Inspector General criticized lack of oversight by the FAA on some maintenance facilities. It singled out the difficulties the FAA has with making sure […]

New Companies, New Products… EAA AirVenture is just around the corner and because many companies gear their product development and PR campaigns to the week at Oshkosh, particularly this year in the centennial of flight, you will soon be awash in new products to drool over and/or lust for. AVweb is already aware of some […]