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AIN Blog: Dassault’s 7X Grounding Is a Safety Milestone
June 3, 2011 - 10:26am
Matt Thurber

Dassault Aviation’s grounding on May 26 of the entire 112-aircraft Falcon 7X fleet because of a runaway trim incident is extraordinary in many ways. (Dassault didn’t actually ground the 7X fleet, but it did ask the EASA to issue an emergency airworthiness directive; EASA, then the FAA, followed through quickly.)
AIN Blog: Torqued: Willful blindness poses serious safety threat
May 28, 2011 - 4:05am
John Goglia

At the same time as the Southwest 737 Flight 812 debacle was unfolding–almost as rapidly as the fuselage skin tore off the aircraft shortly after departure from Phoenix–a book crossed my desk that could have been written for the aviation industry, and Boeing and Southwest in particular. But the FAA could also take a lesson.
AIN Blog: Beware Complacency
May 27, 2011 - 8:59am
Curt Epstein

One of my assignments here at AIN is compiling and editing the Accidents page for our flagship monthly magazine, Aviation International News. Each month I comb through reports on the NTSB website and others, looking for those accidents that I think will be of value and interest to our readers. Unfortunately, I cannot include them all because of space constraints.
AIN Blog: Regionals Take Their ‘Seat of the Table’
May 24, 2011 - 11:12am
Gregory Polek

For the first time in the history of the Regional Airline Association (RAA), a sitting Department of Transportation Secretary attended the group’s annual convention this year.
AIN Blog: The most frightening thing in aviation
May 23, 2011 - 9:49am
David A. Lombardo

Flying is still a mysterious thing for many people. I’m often asked what it’s like, what does it take to become a pilot, and what’s frightened me the most.
AIN Blog: Aviation's balsa roots
May 23, 2011 - 7:09am
Kirby J. Harrison

I spent most of my childhood summers on my grandfather’s farm, in the misty hollows that nestle in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.

In an age when every mistake in one’s life is attributable to a terrible childhood, I have no such excuse. I have only myself to blame. Whatever the road, it was of my choosing. And that is how this story begins, a near-lifetime ago.
AIN Blog: Ryanair’s Rantings Erupt Again as Scientists Say Volcano Groundings Were Right
May 11, 2011 - 7:04am
Charles Alcock
New scientific research into last year’s eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajoku...

In late April, scientists from Denmark’s University of Copenhagen and the University of Iceland in Reykjavik published the findings of an almost year-long study into last year’s eruption of the Eyjafjallajokul volcano.
Torqued: Willful blindness poses serious safety threat
May 10, 2011 - 10:02am
John Goglia

At the same time as the Southwest 737 Flight 812 debacle was unfolding–almost as rapidly as the fuselage skin tore off the aircraft shortly after departure from Phoenix–a book crossed my desk that could have been written for the aviation industry, and Boeing and Southwest in particular. But the FAA could also take a lesson.
AIN Blog: Shine a Light on Your Flight Department, or Close It Down
May 9, 2011 - 8:16am
Jeff Burger

“We like to keep a low profile for our jet use.”

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard variations on that line since I arrived at Business Jet Traveler in 2004. It has been a constant challenge to find business jet owners and passengers willing to be profiled in our pages and companies that will go on the record about their use of private aviation. “The less said the better” seems to be the prevailing philosophy.
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.

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