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Boeing Has High Hopes… Boeing, like many, has not had its best year, but that isn’t keeping the company’s execs from keeping an optimistic eye for the future. Chairman and CEO Philip Condit says long-term trends are a lot rosier for the Chicago-based aerospace giant despite coming through a period that included the loss of […]

GA’s Year-Round Holiday Cheer — Complete With Angels… Part of the holiday season is geared toward helping those in need and many aviation charities step up — every day — to do just that. One such group is the Air Care Alliance, a nationwide league of humanitarian flying organizations whose volunteer pilots are dedicated to […]

Who Can, Who Can’t, And Who Will Anyway… …Of Pilots And Bureaucrats… …AOPA’s Tightrope Walk AOPA spokesman Warren Morningstar said numerous court precedents give sole authority over aviation security to the FAA and his group is afraid that local regulations like those in San Mateo will crop up elsewhere, creating a patchwork of rules and […]

WAAS Hardware Arrives… The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), the FAAs oft-delayed augmentation system for GPS, might not quite be ready for prime time yet, but UPS Aviation Technology (UPSAT) announced last week that it has certified the worlds first WAAS receiver. Although this development represents a technical milestone, it doesnt necessarily mean UPSAT is […]

New Washington TRACON Opens For Business… The FAA opened a new state-of-the-art terminal radar approach facility last Saturday in Warrenton, Va., to serve the Baltimore-Washington area airspace. Called the Potomac Consolidated TRACON (Terminal Radar Approach Control), the FAA says the technologically advanced facility will consolidate five existing TRACONs and enable the airspace to be redesigned […]

While Eclipse is trying to redefine the personal jet market, Diamond Aircraft looks like it’s well on the way to creating a whole new class of light twin. The company created quite a buzz in the industry when it published some seemingly outlandish performance numbers for its DA42 — how could any airplane carry four […]

As the emerging market for personal jets waits for Eclipse Aviation’s next move, the company told its prospective customers late last week the Eclipse 500 will be some 775 pounds heavier with whatever new engines are selected to power it. Moreover, to accommodate the presumably heavier power plants, Eclipse has begun the inevitable shuffling and […]

While viewing areas near some airports may be off-limits, parking next to terminal areas seems to be on the comeback. Monday, AVweb reported on the closing of a popular viewing area at Fort Lauderdale’s International Airport (scroll down for “Airport Observation Park Closed.”) Officials said that this was an appropriate step in response to the […]

The FAA and its air traffic controllers’ union may not always see eye to eye, but they came together on a couple of points this week: the new STARS system in Philadelphia is working great and claims to the contrary by a watchdog group are misstated. The controversial Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) went […]