ARTICLE: Boeing Fix for Battery Is Approved by FAA One of the most visible airworthiness review processes has come to an end. Secretary LaHood and Administrator Huerta issued a joint press release announcing the determination…
ARTICLE: Flight Safety Foundation Seeks More Involvement in Helicopter Industry The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is one of the most important assets of the world’s aviation community. Unlike the FAA, which has a similar mission…
ARTICLE: Certification: A missing link in the safety chain? Congress has never appropriated enough dollars to hire FAA inspectors to be present at every step in the airworthiness process of analyzing every element of an…
ARTICLE: Cessna Aircraft Company rolls out fastest business jet in the world One of the great benefits of business is the efficiency which the aircraft generates and one of the (if not THE) prime measurements…
ARTICLE: FAA Approval Is Big Breakthrough For Shanghai FBO The Shanghai Hawker Pacific Business Aviation Service Center (SHPBASC) is literally breaking ground in the China civil aviation market. Coincident to the ABACE convention, the site…
ARTICLE: Aviation Safety: FAA’s Progress on Key Safety Initiatives On Tuesday, the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on the FAA’s progress on a number of key safety initiatives. Chairman Rockefeller established the parameters of…
ARTICLE: Preparing for the next solar storm Good preparation by Eurocontrol on how to respond to the inevitable sunspot is presented in this internet post. While we all intuitively acknowledge the massive energy of the…
ARTICLE: White House extends aviation biofuel program As noted previously, the Administration does not seem to give aviation programs a priority; high speed rail is more important than NextGen and more taxes on aviation are…