Britain’s coalition government–composed of an exotic combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats–is at war with itself in more ways than one. But its recent proposals for a new tax on private aviation are a prime example of this conflict.
AIN Blogs
April 11, 2011 - 5:18am
Gregory Polek
Now that the FAA issued an emergency AD to address fatigue cracking in some 175 Boeing 737 Classics, the question arises: how could have Boeing so wildly miscalculated the interval at which inspections of this particular area of fuselage should occur?
April 8, 2011 - 6:06am
R. Randall Padfield
As a general rule, AIN does not discuss aircraft accidents with reporters from the general media for the simple reason that we can’t really add much more than background information to what the NTSB and FAA report. We have also found, as have many others, that speculation about the cause of any accident, as is often reported in the general media, is usually pointless and often harmful.
April 5, 2011 - 6:02am
Matt Thurber
The FAA is abdicating its safety responsibility.
April 1, 2011 - 10:50am
Chad Trautvetter
If I were to experience a tornado, or a near-tornado, my guess would have been while visiting one of the aircraft manufacturers in Wichita. After all, it's hard to miss the emergency tornado shelters scattered throughout the Cessna, Hawker Beechcraft and Learjet campuses in the self-proclaimed Air Capital of the World.
March 30, 2011 - 6:10am
Matt Thurber
The rapid uptake of Apple’s iPad into business and even commercial aviation cockpits has been stunning. So, too, has been the deployment of applications that do everything from displaying moving maps with geo-referenced (own-ship) position on airport, en route and approach charts to providing terrain awareness and pre-flight (and soon in-flight) weather.
March 30, 2011 - 5:36am
Chris Pocock
The air campaign over Libya has rekindled the debate about what exactly air power can accomplish without “boots on the ground.”
March 29, 2011 - 2:10am
Matt Thurber
Feedback on my safety management system article in AIN’s March 2011 issue exhibits the mixed feelings that business aviation users continue to have on the subject of SMS. One of the elements of the article that readers didn't like is the photo of the Citation CJ2 that ran off the runway at Atlantic City's Bader Field on May 15, 2005.
March 16, 2011 - 11:12am
Gregory Polek
This week’s International Society of Transport Aircraft Traders (ISTAT) conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., drew some 1300 attendees–a new record.
March 16, 2011 - 9:58am
Gregory Polek
This week’s International Society of Transport Aircraft Traders (ISTAT) conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., drew some 1300 attendees–a new record.
