Boeing holds a Production Certificate issued in 1949 Production of B-787 line has had Quality Control Problems FAA staff to exercise final review of 4 B-787s Boeing holds what is arguably the oldest Production Certificate…
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Boeing changed the leadership of its Max 8 production The Toyota Lean Management Expert retires New leader has extensive shop floor, safety and decisional experience Boeing recently announced that it was replacing Walter…
OIG issues its 3rd Report on Organization Designation Authorization Congress authorized and revised statutory basis Boeing 737 Max 8 and ODA Congress proposes more engineers and training–enought? The New DOT Inspector General, Eric J. Soskin,…
AERION LLC. announces it’s “tracking” B-737 Max 8s for FAA For what purpose? Monitoring MCAS post airworthiness determination The announcement by Aireon, LLC its contract with the FAA to follow all Boeing 737…
EASA Director Ky’s statement on FAA certification Rep. Graves (R-Mo) and Graves (R-LA) ask Sec. Butigeig to question Earlier Actions by EASA and others have wounded/killed BASA? The Republican House T&I leadership have written to…
Airships were “dead”, but are being reborn New Technologies allow new capacity, greater operability and GREENER Hybrid Air Vehicles , Flying Whales and Lockheed Martin coming Airships are coming; you cannot hear then because they…
New Part 23 certification relies on Performance Standards ASTM issues F3498 for Fatigue Loads Spectra Applies to all GA materials for airplane wing and/or empennage The promise of a new PERFORMANCE-BASED certification of Part 23…
EASA merges its GA and UAS certification offices FAA has a separate Drone Office Organizational designs– which might be better for their sectors EASA has placed the UAS certification within its General Certification Office, while…