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Two Norwegian pilots have developed a system to warn pilots if theyre on a collision course with obstacles like cell towers, wind turbines, radio masts or just about any other thing that sticks up in the air. The difference with this system is that its the obstacle itself that broadcasts the warning and theres no […]

Columbia Aircraft founder Lance Neibauer is suing his former company for severance and for payment for rights to manufacturing processes he invented when he owned the firm. The company, which makes the certified Columbia 350 and 400 high performance aircraft (and is not to be confused with Lancair, the kit-build company Neibauer also founded) was […]

If youre waffling on which very light jet suits you best, Embraer has 130,000 reasons for you to make up your mind by July 1. Thats when the price of its Phenom 100 four-passenger (six-place) jet will go from $2.85 million to $2.98 million (January 2005 dollars). That puts the actual outlay for the Brazilian […]

The FAA seems intent on closing the Palm Springs, Calif., terminal radar approach control (TRACON) in three weeks despite unusually strong public and political opposition. It intends to transfer the workload to the Southern California TRACON near San Diego on June 6. In recent weeks, local, state and federal politicians have asked the FAA to […]

Lockheed Martin is looking for a 10-percent increase in the fees it’s being paid to take over flight services. According to a report from the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General, the company, which was awarded a $1.8 billion contract to assume the function, says it’s owed another $177 million, mostly because the FAA […]

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) and the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) are calling on Brazils federal police to drop criminal charges against two American pilots, in part because of concerns about the effect of the prosecution on future crash investigations. Jan Paladino and Joe Lepore, who flew the Embraer 600 that collided with a […]

It now appears that at least three Brazilian air traffic controllers could be charged with involuntary manslaughter for their role in the collision between an Embraer Legacy 600 bizjet and a Gol Airlines Boeing 737, which killed all 154 aboard the Boeing last Sept. 29. Earlier reports from Brazil said a federal police investigation ignored […]

Brazilian police say the failure of two New York pilots to notice that the transponder aboard their Embraer Legacy 600 bizjet was not working amounts to the criminal offense of “placing a vessel or aircraft in jeopardy” and are, according to a Brazilian newspaper, recommending prosecution. Joe Lepore and Jan Paladino were delivering the Legacy […]

NASA and the FAA on Wednesday agreed to work together on an education project that aims to foster the development of students’ skills in science, technology, engineering and math. Their first undertaking is a NASA curriculum called “Smart Skies,” an online air traffic control simulator for grades 5 through 9. It introduces students to the […]

The FAA says that the current national airspace system won’t be able to handle the expected tripling of air traffic by 2025, and there’s generally no disagreement among stakeholders about the need for ATC modernization. But it is how we get there that is the big problem. In opening statements before a hearing Wednesday morning […]