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Millin said that local FAA officials tried to cancel the deployment of the temporary tower last year, citing budgetary concerns. A concerted protest by EAA, fly-in officials and the controllers themselves prompted the agency to relent. However, this year, after Millin sent his standard request for the service, he got a letter from Nancy B. […]

Organizers of a small but growing fly-in at Alleghan Airport, near Grand Rapids, Mich., say the FAA intends to charge them $3,200 to set up and staff a temporary tower for their event in late June. Andy Millin, one of the organizers of the West Michigan Fly-In, told AVweb this week that, barring a change […]

An Airbus A320 with 113 people on board, operated by the Armenian airline Armavia, went down yesterday at about 2 a.m. local time in stormy weather over the Black Sea. The jet was making a second approach to its destination airport, a resort town on the Russian coast, when it vanished from radar screens about […]

The NTSB also announced on Tuesday its probable-cause finding in the August 2004 crash of an Air Tahoma cargo airplane. The crash resulted from fuel starvation caused by the captain’s decision not to follow approved fuel crossfeed procedures, the board said. The accident airplane, a Convair 580, was operating as a DHL Express cargo flight […]

The probable cause of the fatal crash in Colorado in November 2004 involving NBC sports executive Dick Ebersol was the flight crew’s failure to ensure that the Canadair Ltd. CL-600-2A12’s wings were free of ice or snow contamination, the National Transportation Safety Board reported Tuesday. “This failure resulted in an attempted takeoff with upper-wing contamination […]

Meanwhile, the demand for jet fuel in China is expected to nearly double by 2010, China Watch reported last week. At a recent China-U.S. workshop on aviation fuel, experts said China’s jet-fuel consumption has increased at an average annual rate of about 15 percent since the 1990s. Chinese airlines are feeling the impact of rising […]

Every time the price of a barrel of oil goes up by a dollar, that translates into a $365 million hike in fuel costs for the 11 major airlines, CNN reported Monday. Added to years of bankruptcies and labor strife, the airlines are struggling to cope. One strategy is to find ways to fit more […]

While airlines can pass along their costs to customers, the private pilot has no place to turn but his (or her) own bank account. Luckily, many small aircraft actually get better “mileage” than some of the SUVs on the road. And the cash-crunched flyer has more and more options, as promoters of Light Sport Aircraft […]

An NTSB early report says most of the lifting surfaces on Scott Crossfield’s Cessna 210A were found about a mile away from the wreckage of the rest of the plane, suggesting the Category 6 thunderstorm the veteran test pilot had the misfortune of encountering on April 19 was just too much for the aircraft. Moments […]

Adam Aircraft is no stranger to the certification process and it continues to make progress with its six-seat, plus lavatory, A700. Test pilots took an A700 to 41,000 feet and accelerated briefly to 340 knots true last week. 41,000 is the jet’s planned maximum operating altitude. The company says the plane was still climbing at […]