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All News

May 15, 2014

AEA Announces First-Quarter 2014 Avionics Market Report

Overall Growth In Total Sales 11.2 Percent

The AEA has released its first-quarter 2014 Avionics Market Report. In the first three months of the year, total worldwide business and general aviation avionics sales amounted to $651,748,994.12, or more than $651 million.

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Insitu Pacific Demonstrates Fire Management Assistance With ScanEagle

Unmanned Aircraft Monitored Wildfire At Wollemi National Park In Australia

Australia-based Insitu Pacific recently conducted a successful demonstration for the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) using the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS).

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Dassault Falcon 7X Sets New Speed Record

Flew From Teterboro To London City At An Average Speed Of Mach 0.88

Dassault Aviation's Falcon 7X has set a new transatlantic speed record, flying between Teterboro in the New York metropolitan area and London City Airport at an average speed of Mach 0.88.

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Gone West: Former NATA, ACSF Chairman Jim Christiansen

Business Aviation Loses Long-time Advocate And Friend

The Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF), NATA, and the NBAA were saddened to learn of the passing of Jim Christiansen.

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Tuskegee Airmen Exhibit, UAVs Headline Virginia Fly-In

Ten Exhibitors Will Have Unmanned Aircraft On Display

The Commemorative Air Force's Red Tail Squadron's Rise Above Tuskegee Airmen exhibit as well as a rare P-51C will be prime attractions at the 17th Virginia Regional Festival of Flight. Plus, for the first time, 10 exhibitors will be showing and demonstrating Unmanned Aerial Systems, commonly known as drones.

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F-35 Flies First Training Sortie At Luke AFB

Academic Training Center Under Construction, Completion Expected In September

An F-35 Lightning II took to the sky over the West Valley at Luke AFB in Arizona May 5 in what was the first local training sortie for the fifth-generation fighter jet.

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Mission Altran - The Solar Impulse Experience

Game Offers Facebook Players The Chance To Guide The Solar Airplane

Altran has launched "Mission Altran", a serious game on Facebook designed to enable the public to live the experience of the Altran team which guides the Solar Impulse plane on its missions.

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Northrop Grumman, University Of North Dakota Sign Cooperative Agreement

Will Offer Domestic, Global Pilot Training Using SandShark

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks have signed a cooperative agreement to offer unmanned aircraft system (UAS) pilot training to domestic and global customers using SandShark, a remotely-piloted aircraft (RPA) trainer.

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ESA: Iris Means Safer Air Travel

International Collaboration On Satellite System To Modernize Air Traffic Control

Aviation accidents sometimes highlight how much we still rely on old-fashioned radio contact by pilots and vulnerable tracking systems. But satellites are set to change sky safety, thanks to international collaboration.

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LMC Integrates Latest Ground Control Technology With Fury UAS

Processing And Communications Support Comes In A Small, Rugged Package

To increase expeditionary capabilities in its long endurance Group 3 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), Lockheed Martin recently fielded its newest Expeditionary Ground Control Station, or "xGCS", for use with the Fury UAS.

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Study Of UAV Operation In Australia Planned

Northrop Grumman, RMIT University To Collaborate On The Project

Northrop Grumman Corporation is collaborating with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, to study airworthiness requirements for operating unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in Australia.

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Sikorsky, National Robotics Engineering Center Partner For Matrix Application

Demonstrate U.S. Army Autonomous UGV Delivery By Optionally-Piloted Helicopter

Sikorsky has won a significant demonstration project with the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) of Carnegie Mellon University to demonstrate an autonomous delivery of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) by an Optionally Piloted Black Hawk helicopter enabled with Matrix Technology. The UGV will subsequently execute a mission to investigate a potentially contaminated area, while keeping human personnel out of harm’s way.

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Clark State CC Approves Precision Agriculture Degree Program

College Will Contribute To The Region's Focus On UAS Growth Through Student Training

Chancellor John Carey of the Ohio Board of Regents has approved Clark State Community College’s request to offer an Associate of Applied Science degree in Precision Agriculture beginning in August.

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Aero-TV: Ultimate Airshows: In Flight With Rob Holland

Looking Back At Oshkosh 2012 With One Of The Airshow Industry's Top Fliers

Top-notch aerobatic performer, Rob Holland, amazed the crowds at EAA AirVenture 2012. ANN had a chance to talk with Rob and asked him about his career as an airshow performer. Rob said that while going to college for an aviation degree he made a trip to the local airport and saw a pristine Steen Skybolt airplane parked on the ramp. He asked the owner if he could take a picture of the airplane and the owner offered to take him for a flight. One flight was all it took; Rob was hooked on aerobatics.

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Airborne 05.14.14: Airshows Impress, Pipistrel LSA Audit OK, Asiana Fallout

Also: Balloon Accident, Cathay Pacific Uniform Flap, Renny Price!, Airliner v UAV

According to the International Council of AirShows (ICAS), air shows throughout the country are reporting strong attendance. Whether big or small, civilian or military, with or without military jet teams, pent up demand generated by the cancellations of the 2013 air show season seems to be fueling higher-than-normal enthusiasm among the three dozen or so shows that have already been held this year. We have another follow-up on the tragic Asiana Airlines accident that occurred at San Francisco International Airport last July. The woman who was driving a piece of firefighti

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NTSB Recommends Improvements To Agricultural Aviation

Calls For Stronger Collaboration Between Regulators And Industry 

The NTSB has released findings from its Special Investigation Report on the Safety of Agricultural Aircraft Operations. As a result of the safety issues identified in the study, the NTSB issued eight safety recommendations to the FAA and the National Agricultural Aviation Research & Education Foundation urging the two organizations to work together to develop and distribute agricultural operations-specific guidance on fatigue management, risk management, aircraft maintenance, and pilot knowledge and skills tests.

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FAA Cuts Paperwork For ADS-B Approvals

Application Reduced From 200 To 20 Pages

The FAA’s Flight Standards Service (AFS) has created OpSpec/MSpec/LOA A153, a new and more efficient operations authorization for U.S.-registered aircraft in order to comply with early automatic dependent surveillance – broadcast (ADS-B) directives mandated by a growing number of other countries, primarily in the Asia-Pacific region. The new approval is in the final stages of development and is expected to be available to operators at the end of June 2014.

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Pirker Responds To FAA Appeal Through Legal Brief

Calls FAA Action 'Unprecedented Regulation-By-Policy'

Attorneys for Raphael Pirker have filed a legal brief in response to the FAA's appeal of an NTSB Administrative Law Judge's decision to dismiss a $10,000 fine against the young UAV operator.

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NTSB Issues Preliminary Report In Travis AFB Air Show Fatal Accident

Air Show Pilot Eddie Andreini Was Attempting A Ribbon-Cutting Maneuver

We marvel at their skill, and that may be why we are so shocked when something goes horribly wrong. The NTSB released its preliminary report from such a fatal accident that occurred May 4 at Travis AFB during the "Thunder Over Solano" open house involving air show pilot Eddie Andreini.

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North Dakota Leads UAS Research At First FAA-Mandated Test Site

Advancing Research And Supporting Business In The Expanding Industry

This week, North Dakota aerospace and aviation leaders are in Orlando, FL. for the AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America 2014 conference.

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Space Station Crew Returns To Earth, Lands Safely In Kazakhstan

Expedition 39 Members Spent 188 Days In Space

Three crew members from the International Space Station (ISS) returned to Earth Tuesday after 188 days in space, during which they orbited Earth more than 3,000 times and traveled almost 79.8 million miles.

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John Langford Awarded The NAA Cliff Henderson Trophy

Recognized For His Work In Unmanned Systems At Aurora Flight Sciences

The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) is proud to announce that Dr. John Langford, President and CEO of Aurora Flight Sciences, has been selected to receive the 2014 Cliff Henderson Trophy.

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Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (05.15.14)

"Out of the likely one billion model aircraft operations in United States history, why did the FAA pursue enforcement only against this one, involving a five-pound styrofoam model which caused no injury or property damage?" Source: Excerpt from a legal brief filed on behalf of Raphael Pirker.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (05.15.14): Foehn

A warm, dry wind on the lee side of a mountain range, the warmth and dryness of the air being due to adiabatic compression as the air descends the mountain slopes.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (05.15.14)

FAA Office Of Accident Prevention

The FAA has just launched an Office of Accident Prevention, which is intended to be a clearinghouse for resources, allowing the FAA to better understand current and emerging risks across the aviation community.

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