ARTICLE: FAA Issues Updated Airport Design Advisory Circular Airport design is a complex science involving architecture, engineering and safety. The FAA has done an excellent job of unifying all of those elements in this Advisory…
ARTICLE: Pelican Demonstrator Aimed At Airlift The CargoLifter effort to utilize the zeppelin design concept to lift heavy loads from the point of manufacture to the delivery point failed. That visionary venture attracted substantial interest…
ARTICLE: New tools aimed at non-linear design challenges Engineering uses mathematical models to test hypotheses and to design structures to meet those parameters. The above tools have been supplanted by CAD/CAM systems. While the new…
ARTICLE: Southwest Airlines names Randy Babbitt as senior vice president of labor relations Southwest is one smart company. In a period in which relationships with your unions and with the FAA are at a premium,…
ARTICLE: FAA To Redefine Aviation, Says Chief As noted here recently, the FAA Part 23 Aviation Rule-making Committee is exploring a truly innovative, creative approach to aircraft certification. In his speech to the Wichita Aero…
ARTICLE: EU Ponders FAA-Style Super Agency The headline’s reference to an “FAA-Style” super agency is a little mystifying. The FAA has no more power than the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority, France’s Direction générale de l’aviation…
ARTICLE: Everything Matters: November 6 Captain Lee Moak, President Air Line Pilots Association, International Captain Moak writes in his President’s Corner that the decision made by individual voters on November 6 matters. He starts his…
ARTICLE: Gulfstream crash: The right approach In this period of aviation safety in which data and trends push the regulator and the regulated to anticipate/prevent problems before they occur, it is unfortunate when a major…