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Pay your bribes in Thailand, or else. That’s the message being broadcast by an Australian who says he witnessed bribes being asked of his pilot by two Thai individuals. The next day, the Cessna 208 he was aboard was intercepted by two Singaporean F-16 fighters. Presently, the Cessna’s pilot (another Australian) is facing a potential […]

AOPA says a three-year aircraft “re-registration” requirement proposed by the FAA may replace the current one-time $5 registration fee with a $130 fee to be paid every three years as a hidden user fee. The FAA’s proposal is based on the goal of bringing the U.S. aircraft registry up-to-date and the “re-registration” requirement would replace […]

If a brass hex plug is loose on your Precision Airmotive fuel control, don’t fly your aircraft until the issue is resolved. Two incidents relating to RSA-10ED1 fuel-injection servos on Lycoming IO-540-K engines in Piper Saratoga/6X aircraft have led Precision Airmotive to call for immediate action. A brass hex plug has been found in two […]

For the first time, the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) has been awarded to a woman, Flight Lieutenant and helicopter pilot Michelle Goodman, 31, of the Royal Air Force. Flight Lieutenant Goodman earned the medal by last June flying her Merlin helicopter through heavy fire and mortar rounds into the center of Basra, Iraq, at night […]

Where Honda goes, Toyota may soon follow. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. has extended Toyota an invitation to fund a company that would design an advanced, fuel-efficient passenger jet. Toyota announced Wednesday it is considering the big leap into the aircraft industry, following a report in the Asahi Shimbun that Toyota has plans to invest $97 […]

Interested buyers must deposit $250,000 and a minimum bid of $10 million to win the assets of Chapter 7 bankruptcy victim Adam Aircraft. The company’s belongings will be on the auction block April 4, but bids are due one day earlier. Adam filed Chapter 7, the day after Valentine’s Day, laying off 800 employees and […]

Boeing is leaping to the defense of its biggest customer, issuing a statement saying it agreed with Southwest Airlines plan to continue flying 46 older 737s that hadnt been inspected for specific fatigue cracks. In Boeing’s opinion, the safety of the Southwest fleet was not compromised, Boeing said in a statement released late Thursday, a […]

And the winner is … a work in progress. The National Aeronautic Association held its annual awards luncheon Thursday and, while historically the winner of the Collier Trophy is a person or an airplane, this year it was largely a concept. Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) was the winner of the award generally recognized as the […]

The first flight of RoboSwift — a 3-ounce, 8-“feathered” propeller-driven micro-aircraft with morphing wings spanning (at their widest geometry) 20 inches and a standard tail — ended in a tree, according to ChinaView.cn. That might be fitting, but the YouTube video of another flight tells a different story. (Beware of the graphic language spoken in […]

James Polehinke, first officer, pilot flying and sole survivor of the August 2006 Comair CRJ-100 crash that killed the other 49 aboard at Lexington’s Blue Grass Airport, is “determined to fly again,” according to a report by The Associated Press. The accident took place after the crew of Flight 5191 was cleared for a 6 […]