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Elliott Aviation last month announced a partnership with Rosen Aviation to provide a combination Sound Management System (SMS) cabin-noise-cancelling system and in-flight entertainment system for King Air 200-, 300- and 350-series aircraft. Elliott’s SMS is a cabin-space noise-cancellation system that dampens noise levels throughout the cabin using strategically placed speakers to counter the undesirable noise […]

Adam’s A700 carbon composite twin-jet has completed a series of environmental tests that exposed the aircraft to extreme weather conditions — the results will be used to improve the aircraft’s design before it heads to hot and cold weather certification testing. Those tests, says the company, will be completed later this year. The extreme weather […]

By year-end, severely disabled passengers flying on Canadian airlines will no longer have to pay for extra seats needed to accommodate them. The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) ruled Thursday that Canadian carriers must offer a single fare under a “one-person, one-fare” policy that apparently can include a second person provided that second person is a […]

RAM Aircraft LP of Waco, Texas, has earned authorization as a designated alteration station (DAS) under DAS-700100-SW, placing RAM “amongst the elite group of American aviation companies who are known for aviation engineering and excellence,” according to RAM’s news release. The engine overhaul and general aviation support center located at Waco Regional Airport has 31 […]

The FAA last month granted operations approval for the software package SafeRoute, which works with the electronic flight bags being installed on UPS-operated 757, 767 and 747-400 aircraft. The company expects to have six aircraft flying with electronic flight bag/SafeRoute software by Jan. 21 and 55 by year-end. But the first operational flight is scheduled […]

Eight passengers and two crew members aboard Air Canada Flight 190 were injured Thursday morning when the Airbus 319 suffered a sudden loss of altitude and rolled sharply left and right. One passenger told Canadianpress.com “all of a sudden there were three big drops,” explaining that items (and people) that were not strapped down went […]

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association Thursday held a news conference and declared a staffing emergency, stating that controllers “do not have enough trained and experienced personnel on the ground to safely handle the volume of traffic” to work Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Southern California airspace. Faced with the statement that the situation is […]

On Dec. 28 the FAA released a proposed change to Advisory Circular150/5340-1J, Standard Airport Markings. The updated AC would require all 567 airports certificated under Part 139, not just the 75 large air carrier airports that are already affected, to install surface-painted holding position signs and enhanced taxiwaycenterlines. The AC would also apply to all […]

Millen Aviation Services of Kent, England, filed a lawsuit on Dec. 17, 2007, against Diamond Aircraft Industries in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, over their Thielert diesel-powered DA40s. “The claim for damages is based on our experience with our two DA40 1.7 TDIs, their extremely poor reliability, highmaintenance costs, waiting time for spare parts and, our firm […]

The Coalition for an Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights (CAPBOR) has compiled and made available on its Web site a spreadsheet that the group claims brings some clarity to the results of NASA’s controversial National Aviation Operational Monitoring Service (NAOMS) project. NASA collected surveys frommore than 30,000 pilots between 2001 and 2004, including 4,777 responses […]