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The FAA said last week that it has decided not to proceed with a proposal that would have designated bird-strike information in the FAA’s National Wildlife Aircraft Hazard Database as “protected from public disclosure.” The agency said it made the proposal in March “to encourage persons to provide the information to the FAA,” citing concerns […]

When it comes to dealing with Washington, general aviation needs all the help it can get, and some support appeared recently when two congressmen formed a General Aviation Caucus. Representatives Vernon J. Ehlers, R-Mich., and Allen Boyd, D-Fla., joined together as co-chairs to help inform other members of Congress and the administration about the value […]

U.S. President Barack Obama is said to be furious over the Air Forces decision to fly one of the presidential Boeing 747s over Manhattan on a Monday morning with an F-16 in trail. That would appear to be the lone saving grace from a photo mission that sent New York into a state of panic […]

The front that’s hammered the central part of the continent for the past couple of days took a particularly vicious toll on an airport in Ottawa, Canada. On the same night that members of Rockliffe Flying Club were celebrating their annual black-tie Wings Dinner on Saturday night, a destructive weather system ripped through the flight […]

Michael Dudley of the NASA Ames Research Center provided a presentation of electric aircraft power system requirements. He said NASA is actively investigating electric propulsion as a viable option for some aerial applications but it has a long way to go before it can match the energy storage efficiency of fossil fuels. The internal combustion […]

There was an undercurrent of consensus at the symposium that successful electric airplanes will be similar to sailplanes, at least in the short term. Indeed, there are successful self-launching sailplanes that use electricity, although small internal combustion engines are much more common in the self launchers. A live motor, propeller, and controller demonstration was provided […]

Individuals, companies, schools and virtually anyone else are invited to apply to take part in the CAFE Foundation’s Aviation Green Prize Challenge. The grand prize is $1.63 million. The so-called “100 mpg race” will take place in northern California in July of 2011, giving participants the time they need to devise a flying machine that […]

Avidyne has been busy promoting Release 9 of its Entegra flat panel in advance of FAA certification and held a detailed press briefing Tuesday at Sun ‘n Fun. About 10 minutes after the news conference ended, the FAA called company officials to tell them the certification had been approved for both the integrated flight deck […]

Embraer has so far delivered 12 Phenom 100 business jets in the U.S. and both customer acceptance and service records are good according to Clint Clouatre, the company’s senior marketing manager for executive jets. Embraer is displaying a customer-delivered aircraft at this year’s Sun ‘n Fun. In a video interview with AVweb, Clouatre said the […]

A 20-year-old Jamaican, described by authorities as a “mentally challenged youngster” was nabbed by police early Monday after he took six members of the flight crew of a CanJet Boeing 737 hostage late Sunday in Montego Bay and demanded to be flown to Cuba. None of the hostages were hurt when police stormed the aircraft […]