A Cathay Pacific Captain was apparently fired for a high speed low level flyby during an acceptance flight of a new Boeing 777.

In a brief press release this morning, Adam Aircraft the manufacturer of the A500 push/pull piston twin and the and the A700 very light jet announced that operations had been suspended due to the company’s inability to come to terms with their lender regarding financing ongoing operations.

SAN DIEGO – The Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic manager for the Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facility issued a memo on Wednesday to all air traffic personnel immediately stopping all on-the-job training for one week in response to what she described as a “recent spike in Operational Errors/Operational Deviations,” which are incidents where controller mistakes result in aircraft coming closer to each other than FAA safety rules allow. 

Today, appearing in New York, Sir Richard Branson unveiled the final plans of the launch platform that will take passengers into space.  The concept is simple and was designed by renowned aviation pioneer Burt Rutan.  The design has a larger mother ship ferrying a smaller craft which will detach and complete the space flight.  The two vehicles are based on Rutan’s SpaceShipOne, which won the $10 million Ansari X prize in 2004.