The FAA grounded more than 300 Enstrom helicopters this week, requiring inspections for cracks such as one that might have caused a fatal crash last month in Colorado. The agency’s emergency Airworthiness Directive requires a magnetic particle inspection to detect cracks in the spindle of the main rotor for those with at least 5,000 hours […]
Two divers have discovered the wreckage of a Korean War-era Douglas A-1 Skyraider off the San Diego coastline, KSWB Fox 5 reported this week. Dennis Burns and Ruth Yu were exploring the shallow waters off Mission Beach when they found an airplane submerged about 60 feet deep. Its identification plate confirmed it was a Skyraider […]
More than half of TransAsia’s ATR pilots are grounded as the airline continues to test their proficiency. Ten of 49 pilots so far are grounded after failing the oral exams TransAsia ordered after the Feb. 4 crash of one of its ATR-72s in Taipei; another 19 are suspended until they take the test, Reuters reported […]
FlightPro hopes to have its Android mapping and planning system back online shortly after it failed to have its regular monthly update available for subscribers on Feb. 5. Shane Gordon, the company’s general counsel, told AVwebthe update failed because FlightPro is in the process of switching vendors in the support end of the business and […]
The former Korean Air executive who offloaded a flight attendant at JFK in December over a bag of nuts is appealing the one-year prison sentence handed down Thursday, the Korea Times reportedFriday.A district court judge in Seoul ruled that Cho Hyun-ah, the daughter of Korean Air Chairman Cho Yang-ho, was guilty of acts of violence […]
The main stage from SpaceX’s successful launch of a NASA spacecraft intentionally missed its attempt to land on a barge bobbing in rough seas off Florida by 30 feet Wednesday but everything else seemed to work right. “Rocket soft landed in the ocean within 10m of target & nicely vertical! High probability of good droneship […]
The European Space Agency had a successful test of its unmanned mini-spacecraft Wednesday, launching theIntermediate eXperimental Vehicle and recovering it after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The design of the IXV spaceplane, as the ESA calls it, will ultimately result in a reusable spacecraft. The big push now is to develop re-entry capability and data […]
As the industry falls further behind in equipping the general aviation fleet for the 2020 ADS-B mandate, Grand Rapids, Michigan-based L-3 Aviation Products officially launched its Lynx MultiLink Surveillance (MSS) line of ADS-B systems. The Lynx product line consists of several models, ranging from a basic Lynx NGT-1000 978 UAT ADS-B Out unit, to the […]
General aviation supplied 1.1 million jobs and contributed $219 billion to the U.S. economy in 2013, according to a study (PDF) conducted for eight major GA groups. The General Aviation Manufacturers Association released the study Wednesday at its annual news conference in Washington.The study, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, examined GA-related industries and their direct and indirect […]
GA manufacturing saw ups and downs in the past year with most of the positive numbers coming from piston airplanes, followed by business jets, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association said Wednesday in its annual review. Airplane shipments rose overall in 2014 from the prior year, although turboprops and the overall rotorcraft sector saw declines. Total […]
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