AIN Blogs

AIN Blog: Cessna’s Pelton Was General Aviation’s Biggest Fan
May 6, 2011 - 10:15am
Paul Lowe

In what would turn out to be one of his last appearances as boss of Cessna Aircraft, Jack Pelton gave a roomful of aviation policy leaders a Paul Revere-like warning last month: the Chinese are coming, the Chinese are coming. Textron Inc, Cessna’s parent company, announced on May 2 Pelton’s retirement from Cessna, which becomes effective on June 1.
AIN Blog: RNP Offers Alternative Fix for Airport Noise
May 6, 2011 - 6:12am
Matt Thurber

There’s a new way to fix long-standing noise and emissions problems at airports that are surrounded by nearby neighbors, such as Naples Airport in Florida and Santa Monica Airport in Southern California. 
AIN Blog:Covert Insertions Go Stealthy
May 5, 2011 - 7:35am
Chris Pocock
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I have often wondered whether the U.S. had a “black” program to provide a stealthy air vehicle to transport special forces into sensitive locations. It seems an obvious requirement, yet very little has surfaced about such a capability. 
AIN Blog: An Unabashed Plug for Aircraft Product Support
May 5, 2011 - 5:25am
R. Randall Padfield

Ask experienced aircraft owners and pilots what good product support means to them and they will likely tell you it is extremely important to every safe flight and every successful flight operation.

AIN Blog: Linguistic Restraint
May 2, 2011 - 12:31pm
Nigel Moll

The Southwest Airlines 737-300 that lost some fuselage skin last month must surely have provided its occupants with some horribly tense minutes, but the airplane made it safely back to terra firma. 
AIN Blog: FAA Interpretation Outlines Onerous AD Compliance Issues
April 27, 2011 - 6:30am
Matt Thurber

One of the problems with the aviation rulemaking committee (ARC) process is that it gives people, and especially FAA lawyers, too much time to think. And too much thinking often leads to onerous interpretations of what seem like simple regulations.

AIN Blog: Don’t Blame Obama for Labor Board’s Complaint against Boeing
April 27, 2011 - 5:15am
Gregory Polek

Republican lawmakers and conservative pundits claim that an April 20 National Labor Relations Board complaint against Boeing for building a 787 plant in South Carolina–a so-called right-to-work state–somehow arose out of the Obama Administration’s desire to punish the company for behaving in its own best interest. 
AIN Blog: Rep. Mica has no love for the TSA
April 26, 2011 - 12:09pm
Paul Lowe

When it comes to love/hate relationships, Congressman John Mica seems to have a hate/hate relationship with the Transportation Security Administration. The Republican chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee makes no secret of his desire to rid TSA of its nearly 50,000 transportation security officers (aka screeners).

AIN Blog: I Never Wanted To Be a Mechanic
April 21, 2011 - 10:40am
David A. Lombardo

I never wanted to be an aircraft mechanic. That’s probably a good thing, because I would never fly in anything I worked on. 
AIN Blog: Behind the Scenes at Business Jet Traveler
April 21, 2011 - 7:29am
AIN Staff
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Luminary cover subjects are a signature feature of Business Jet Traveler, a bimonthly publication that focuses on the users of business aviation, as opposed to the pilots, maintenance technicians, FBO personnel and others in the industry who are the focus of its sister publication, the monthly Aviation International News. Of course, a lot people read both magazines, which is fine with us.

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