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Monday, 07 August 2006 |
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Your day couldn’t be going any better. It’s a beautiful Midwest spring day and you’re cruising at 3500 feet inbound to a local fly in pancake breakfast. Although your Cessna 172 hadn’t flown all winter, she started up immediately and your first take off of the season felt as if you were at 20,000 hour airline Captain.
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Tuesday, 21 February 2006 |
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Eclipse Aviation Corporation has won the 2005 Robert J. Collier Trophy "for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America.” The 95 year-old trophy, aviation’s most prestigious award, will be presented to the company “for leadership, innovation, and the advancement of general aviation” in the production of very light jets, specifically, the Eclipse 500.
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Thursday, 16 February 2006 |
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Four hundred skydivers from over 31 countries established a new world record by hold hands in a mid-air free-fall formation. |
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Global Flyer Record Flight |
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Sunday, 12 February 2006 |
After being airborne for more than 73 hours and travelling over 23,000 miles the destination airport was just appearing on the horizon. Just when Steve Fossett and his Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer had the hard part of the journey behind them, things went wrong fast.
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Saturday, 04 February 2006 |
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A Czech-made L39 two-seater training jet owned by USA Air Inc. of Las Vegas, crashed into a trailer park in Ketchikan, Alaska, last Wednesday, killing the pilot. The pilot’s body was found still strapped to the ejection seat about 100 yards from the crash scene. Details are few but no one was injured on the ground. |
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Mitsubishi MU-2B Safety Report |
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Saturday, 04 February 2006 |
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The increasing number of accidents in recent years on MU-2B series airplanes prompted the FAA to conduct a thorough and complete safety evaluation involving not only a review of the certification aspects of the airplane, but also including a review of operations, maintenance and training. |
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Saturday, 28 January 2006 |
User fees for general aviation in the United States may be just around the corner if you start reading between the lines of a speech delivered by U.S Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta to the Aero Club of Washington (D.C.) on Tuesday, Jan. 24.
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