ARTICLE: Washington and business brace for an Obama wave of regulations A “perfectly” safe airplane would never take off– no Wright Brothers and no Lindbergh flight to Paris. There is risk involved in much of…
ARTICLE: Bees Attack Quadcopter In Florida Drones, such as this quadcopter, have stirred up a lot of animosity with their ability to unobtrusively intrude into private areas. Recently, to capture from the air the demolition…
ARTICLE: FAA updates inspector guidance ARSA, always aware of every FAA NPRM or revision to a handbook or any of the agency’s myriad of quasi regulatory action, identified a revision to the Inspector Guidance. The…
ARTICLE: A Seat Belt Reminder and a Smile This article does a great job of explaining how several airlines are making special efforts to assure that the safety messages, which have become “WHITE NOISE” to…
ARTICLE: Infrasonic Bird Repellent Shows Promise The inadvertent intersection of a bird and an aircraft is an increasing problem in aviation. The use of infrasonic technology appears to be a much needed and humane approach…
ARTICLE: Voss clinches air traffic oversight role Bill Voss has a long history of contributing to aviation safety, particularly in the Air Traffic discipline (Director, Air Traffic Systems Development, 1999-2002; Director Terminal Business 2002-2004) plus…
ARTICLE: The Billion-Dollar Bet On Jet Tech That’s Making Flying More Efficient John Newhouse’s 1982 book, The Sporty Game: The High-Risk Competitive Business of Making and Selling Commercial Airliners, explains how the aerospace industry has…
ARTICLE: Aviation maintenance group hits TSA for ‘inaction’ on securing international repair facilities The use of surveys in the political/regulatory sphere is an unusual tactic, but nothing is out of the ordinary in the odd…