All articles by John Croft – Page 37
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FAA and EASA certification for King Air 350i
Hawker Beechcraft has received US Federal Aviation Administration and European Aviation Safety Agency type certifications for its new Beechcraft King Air...
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FAA extends ground stop to Port au Prince
The US FAA has extended a ground stop through 18:00EST for all air traffic headed for Haiti's Toussaint L'Ouverture airport. The traffic stoppage is...
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FAA denies Embraer's request to withdraw E-170 rulemaking
The US FAA has denied a request by Embraer to withdraw a proposed airworthiness directive (AD) requiring operators of as many as 77 US-registered E-170 aircraft...
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NewsPICTURES & VIDEO: Limited damage in gear-up Newark landing
FAA officials say damage to a United Airlines Airbus A319 (N816UA) that landed at Newark on 10 January with its right main landing gear retracted is less...
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US regulators to probe industry on automation
US FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt says he will bring together airlines and human factors experts in April or possibly sooner to discuss the consequences...
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FAA to issue massive sole-source contract to Mitre
The US FAA in early August plans to award Mitre Corporation's centre for advanced aviation system development (CAASD) a sole-source contract valued at close...
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FAA alerts operators to Honeywell FMS nuance
The US Federal Aviation Administration is alerting operators of a wide range of business jets that input errors on their Honeywell Primus Epic flight management...
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Lights to guide Piper's way
Czech tie-up would propel airframer back into the market for entry-level flying
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NewsEASA: Thumbs-up for Oma Sud SkyCar
Italian general aviation manufacturer Oma Sud has received European Aviation Safety Agency certification for its twin-engine piston-powered SkyCar pusher
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NewsEmivest's SJ30 flies glitch free by owner actor Freeman in movie promotion tour
The second production SJ30 built by Emivest Aerospace flew without a hitch during a recent international tour taken...
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NewsNTSB shoots holes in FAA windscreen PMA for crashed PHI S-76C++
NTSB data on the crash of a PHI S-76C++ seven minutes after departure from a heliport in Louisiana on 4 January reveals a flawed STC and PMA for the aircraft's shattered windscreen
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NewsSikorsky settles with survivor, families of Cougar S-92A crash victims
Sikorsky has reached an out-of-court settlement with the lone survivor and families of the 17 passengers and crew killed in the crash of an oil industry S-92A off the coast of Newfoundland in March 2009.
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Northrop Grumman readies first RC-12X clutch
Northrop Grumman has successfully completed electromagnetic emissions and interference (EMI/EMC) tests of an RC-12X Guardrail platform for the US Army. This...
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Airbus submits patent for airspeed error monitoring
Airbus has submitted a US patent application for an independent means of monitoring an aircraft's pressure-based airspeed measurement for errors. While...
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Forecasts 2010: Avionics - Focusing in on equivalent visual operations
Enhanced vision technologies are being developed rapidly and are likely to take great strides in 2010
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Forecasts 2010: Sonic boom
Plans to move the aviation community back to flying faster than the speed of sound are likely to gather pace in 2010
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TSA issues whole-body scanner contract to L-3
The US Transportation Security Administration yesterday issued a $165 million contract to purchase whole-body imagers for airport security checkpoints from...
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NTSB: Complex error chain preceded Delta 767 taxiway landing
A series of atypical circumstances preceded an early morning taxiway landing of a Delta Air Lines Boeing 767 at the Atlanta Hartsfield International airport...
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Unmanned flight tests to advance airline reduced-crew concepts
GE Aviation is participating in a series of unmanned flight tests with the FAA that the company says could eventually yield reduced-crew options for cargo...
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Boeing wins NASA contract for new aircraft monitoring system
NASA has awarded Boeing a contract worth up to $2.1 million to design, implement and demonstrate an aircraft health evaluation system that will monitor in...