Business & Military

Fourteen GA groups told the FAA on Friday the agency must straighten out issues with the ADS-B Out compliance rules if aircraft owners are to meet the 2020 deadline for the new equipment requirements. In a letter to FAA Administrator Michael Huerta (PDF), they highlighted concerns including compliance for experimental aircraft, which don’t have type […]

Advocates of third-class medical reform hope their campaign will forge ahead with help from new leadership announced this week in the Congressional GA caucuses. Sens. John Boozman, R-Ark., and Joe Manchin, D-W.V., will co-chair the Senate caucus. In the House, Reps. Sam Graves, R-Mo., and Marc Veasey, D-Texas, will serve as co-chairs. Boozman and Graves […]

Avgas prices have dropped enough to garner attention, prompting aircraft owners to ask FBOs if they’ll keep going down like prices at their local car-gas stations. Hoping for $2 avgas is unrealistic, but FBOs around the country told AVweb their posted prices have ticked down in recent months. While they aren’t seeing noticeably higher traffic […]

AVweb’s search of aviation news worldwide turned up Africa’s first Boeing 787 full flight simulator, a business startup program tied to EAA’s AirVenture, a new research project on improving aircraft aerodynamics, and a business expansion for Jetcraft.Ethiopian Airlines, the largest and most profitable airline in Africa, continued its pursuit of aviation technology leadership with the […]

Diamond Aircraft’s single-engine turbine prototype made its maiden flight this week in Austria. The DA50-JP7, first announced in 2013, is designed for seven passengers and touts higher fuel efficiency with a Ukrainian-built 465-horsepower, AI-450S engine. Diamond CEO Christian Dries flew as test pilot, accompanied by Ingmar Mayerbuch, head of flight testing.Diamond plans to make two […]

Terrafugia’s requestto the FAA for an exemption from the LSA rules to allow extra weight and a higher stall speed in its Transition roadable aircraft has won support from the industry.In comments posted to the FAA docket, GAMA and EAA both said the request should be approved. “We believe it is in the public interest […]

Boeing and Embraer will work together to develop a sustainable aviation biofuel and establish the industry in Brazil, the two companies announced last week. At the Boeing-Embraer Joint Research Center in the So Jos dos Campos Technology Park, the companies will coordinate research with Brazilian universities and other institutions. Both companies will contribute toward funding […]

Well, I think we can safely kiss good-bye any hope of meaningful changes to the third class medical requirements for private pilots. I base that theory on the nasty note AOPA President Mark Baker sent to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx last week on the topic. (PDF) But what I can’t figure out is which is […]

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says his company will try again next month to recover a booster rocket used to launch a space payload. The company will try for a second time Feb. 8 to land a spent booster rocket on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean now that it has figured out the rather pedestrian […]

For the next while, FAA inspectors will have to line up and wait like the rest of us if they want to get to a secure area of the airport. The move comes after an unidentified inspector used his secure area identification area badge to bypass security at Atlanta Airport before boarding a flight for […]