Congressionally Mandated Report on Significant Rulemakings Any Impact from COVID-19? It Depends Only in Washington are the regulators required to keep a separate account of progress in writing of rules. It is not enough for…
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Various reports point to remedial actions for FAA and Boeing Dickson initiates improvement in Certification Engineering and Human Factors Calhoun’s upgrading of Certification and ODA not as apparent Few Aviation Safety matters have received as…
The Green Party, the EU/EASA and to a degree, ICAO, have made demands and set expectations about aviation’s contribution to the reduction of CO2 , as explained by the Tech Explore article: “Aviation accounts for…
FAA Administrator Dickson’s Senate Testimony Can Change Everything But is it necessary? By Mike Borfitz U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a hearing titled, “Examining…
France announces a €50B investment in Zero Carbon A320 EASA certificates an all electric aircraft Should the US invest now in future aerospace investment? As the global aeronautical industry recovers from the two-headed dragon of…
From one in the field,it’s a mess Engineers and Inspectors are hurting and getting overloaded Absence of Aircraft Certification Engineers and Inspectors hurting industry Use of Delegation may help both FAA staff and Industry The Partial…
ICAO’s USOAP 20th anniversary of ACTIVITIES- time to RETHINK? Activities v. Actions Audits at a Point in Time v. Continuous Collaboration Duplicative, even contradictory, Audits Single, Consolidated, Consistent, Cooperative In a self-congratulatory press release (see…
In a candid interview, David Calhoun largely laid the blame for the company’s 737 Max crisis on his predecessor. By Natalie Kitroeff and David Gelles March 5, 2020 FLORISSANT, Mo. — In his eight weeks…