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March 03, 2014

Airborne 03.03.14: Snowbirds Return, Titan A/C Engines, P-38 For Sale

Also: Adam Smith Joins CAF, Small UAVs Mean Big $$$, B-25 Engine-Out Procedures, GA Protects Airports From Lawsuits

Organizers of the Oregon International Airshow thought they had lost the Snowbirds as their headline act due to budget cuts. But just weeks after saying it would not be able to perform at the 2014 event, the team announced that the Hillsboro-based show was back on the schedule, as were the rest of its planned U.S. performances. Needless to say, the airshow organizers were happy to report this. Home-built airplanes and light sport aircraft create a fertile field for engine development. This field is now being plowed by Danbury Aerospace. T

Airborne 03.03.14: Snowbirds Return, Titan A/C Engines, P-38 For Sale

Also: Adam Smith Joins CAF, Small UAVs Mean Big $$$, B-25 Engine-Out Procedures, GA Protects Airports From Lawsuits,

Organizers of the Oregon International Airshow thought they had lost the Snowbirds as their headline act due to budget cuts. But just weeks after saying it would not be able to perform at the 2014 event, the team announced that the Hillsboro-based show was back on the schedule, as were the rest of its planned U.S. performances. Needless to say, the airshow organizers were happy to report this. Home-built airplanes and light sport aircraft create a fertile field for engine development. This field is now being plowed by Danbury Aerospace. They announced that their “completed engine business” has been spun off into a new and separate company. Titan Aircra

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Touchy-Feely Joystick Heading To Space Station

Controller To Be Mounted To A Body Harness To Prevent Pushing Operator Around The Station

Stowed inside ESA’s next supply ship to the International Space Station will be one of the most advanced joysticks ever built, designed to test the remote control of robots on the ground from up in orbit.

JSSI: 2013 Was a Good Year for Business Aviation

Business Aviation Index Indicates Global Market Growth With Flight Activity Up 4 Percent

Jet Support Services, Inc. (JSSI), a provider of maintenance support and financial services to the business aviation industry, has released its 2013 year-end Business Aviation Index, which tracks the number of hours that business aircraft have flown by region, industry and aircraft type.

Shape-Changing Flap Arrives For Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge Flight Tests

Experimental Flaps Tested On NASA's Gulfstream G-III

A milestone for the Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) project at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center occurred in mid-February with the delivery of two revolutionary experimental flaps designed and built by FlexSys of Ann Arbor, MI, for installation on Dryden’s Gulfstream G-III Aerodynamics Research Test Bed aircraft.

FAA Standards For New Air Traffic Controllers Criticized

Agency To Hire Thousands Of Controllers In The Next Several Years

The FAA plans to hire thousands of air traffic controllers over the next several years, but the agency has come under fire for relaxing its standards for potential new hires.

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Rotorsim To Continue Expansion With First AW169 FFS

Will Also Place An AW189 Simulator In UK

Rotorsim, owned equally by CAE and AgustaWestland, is continuing to expand with the purchase of two CAE 3000 Series Level D helicopter simulators.

NASA Building Four Spacecraft To Study Magnetic Reconnection

Observatories Must Be Identical, Will Launch Together On A Single Rocket

First thing every morning, the engineering team for NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission gathers for a 10-minute meeting. A white board sits at the front of the room with the day's assignments – who will wrap tape around the wires, which instruments need to be installed where, which observatory needs to undergo its next test.

Kaman Aerospace Establishes New Engineering Services Office in Charleston, SC

New Offices Located On Clemson University Restoration Institute Campus

Kaman Engineering Services, has opened a new office at the Clemson University Restoration Institute Campus (CURI) in North Charleston, SC.

GAMA Announces Expansion Of Government Affairs Team

Brian Oszakiewski Joins The Staff As Director

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) has tapped an eight-year veteran of Capitol Hill, Brian Oszakiewski, to be a director of government affairs.

Sentinel-1 Spreads Its Wings

Engineers On Earth Rehearsing Solar Panel Deployment

When Europe's environmental monitoring satellite Sentinel-1 is placed in orbit in a few weeks, it has to perform a complicated dance routine to unfold its large solar wings and radar antenna. Engineers have recently been making sure the moves are well rehearsed. Sentinel-1 is the first in a family of satellites built specifically to provide a stream of timely data for Europe’s ambitious Copernicus environmental monitoring program.

How To Catch A Satellite, ESA-Style

European Agency Looks At Capturing Derelict Spacecraft In Orbit In 'Clean Space Initiative'

Standard space dockings are difficult enough, but a future ESA mission plans to capture derelict satellites adrift in orbit. Part of an effort to control space debris, the shopping list of new technologies this ambitious mission requires is set for discussion with industry experts.

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Trimble Launches New Airborne LiDAR Systems

AX60i, AX80 Add To Low- and High-Altitude Aerial Mapping Capability

Trimble has announced two new additions to its airborne LiDAR portfolio. The Trimble AX60i and AX80 are designed to meet the demands of aerial survey operators for corridor and wide area mapping projects. The new airborne systems, together with flight planning and analysis software tools, have been designed to provide rapid and efficient point cloud capture as well as high-resolution images and proven workflows with high productivity. The systems can be installed on either fixed wing or rotary aircraft.

AvFinity Accelerates Aviation's Move To FAA's NextGen Digital Efficiencies

FAA-Tested Solution Helps Airlines Migrate From Decommissioned Networks To NextGen

AvFinity, a developer of data communication solutions for the aviation industry, today announced the availability of AvFinity NADIN CONNECT AIRS, a solution designed to speed aviation's adoption of the FAA's NextGen digital communications advancements. The AvFinity NADIN CONNECT AIRS provides rapid benefits from NextGen efficiencies and an up-to-24-month reduction in an aviation company's development time for a CMHP (Common Message Handling Protocol) solution.

ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 03.03.14

Who Knew? – The Pilot Shortage is About Money…

Six United Pilots Sue for Lost Seniority…

Going to Space – Virtually&hellip

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ALPA: Pilot Shortage is All About the Money

Union Says Airlines Should Start Pilots At A 'Livable' Wage

Amid all the talk of a pilot shortage, the Air Line Pilots Association Int’l (ALPA) says that it will only exist if U.S. airlines fail to provide qualified pilots with career potential, adequate livable wages, and benefits. Although some within the airline industry blame the new pilot qualifications and training rules instituted by the FAA for a pilot shortage, the airline industry actually helped craft those rules and supported their passage.

Former Continental Pilots File Class-Action Lawsuit Against ALPA

Say They Were Treated Unfairly By The Union

Six former Continental Airlines pilots who now work for the merged United Airlines have filed a class-action lawsuit against their own union based on claims their seniority was unfairly stripped when the two airlines merged in 2010.

Klyde Morris 03.03.14

That's All Covered In Chapter 11, Klyde

FMI: www.klydemorris.com

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Airborne 02.28.14: Red Bull Returns!, New Enstrom Heli, Cessna Latitude Performs

Also: Honeywell Heli-Forecast, CFI Renewal, True Blue Power, ANN Wants YOU For Oshkosh!

Are you ready to race? ANN was excited to report, earlier this year, that the Red Bull races are back on track for a full season in 2014, and now it has started. The first race of the season began today, Friday, February 28th, and continues through tomorrow in Abu Dhabi. U.S. cities scheduled for Red Bull Air Races in September and October are Fort Worth and Las Vegas. Sales of lightweight helicopters continue to grow and the Enstrom Helicopter Corporation has now entered the market with a helicopter designed for training. The newest member of its Enstrom family is

GA Legislature Considers Protection For Cities From Aviation Accident Lawsuits

One Mayor Says Such Lawsuits Could Bankrupt His City

A bill passed by a subcommittee in the Georgia House of Representatives would offer cities the same protection from lawsuits stemming from aviation accidents as is afforded to counties.

Snowbirds To Perform At Oregon International Air Show

Canadian Jet Team Had Cancelled, But Now Back On Board

Organizers of the Oregon International Air Show thought they had lost their headline act ... Canada's Snowbirds jet demonstration team ... due to budget cuts. But just weeks after saying it would not be able to perform at the 2014 event, the team announced that the Hillsboro-based show was back on the schedule, as were the rest of its planned U.S. performances.

CAF Names Smith As Executive Vice President Of Strategic Development

Will Oversee The Organization's 'Airbase Strategy'

The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) has added Adam Smith to its staff as the Executive Vice President of Strategic Development. In this role, Smith will oversee the execution of CAF’s “Airbase Strategy” to include leading the design, funding and construction of the CAF National Airbase; and ultimately the oversight of the existing and future Airbases.

Report: Small UAV Market Worth $582.2 Million By 2019

Growth Anticipated Despite Downturn In Military Budgets

According to the new market research report "Small UAV Market by Trends (Mini, Micro, Hand Held UAV), by Propulsion (Hydrogen, Electric, Solar, Lithium ION), by Payload (NBC Detection, Telemetry Systems, Software Systems, Meteorology), by Application (Civil, Military, Security), by Region & by Country - Global Forecast to 2014 - 2019", published by MarketsandMarkets, the Small UAV Market is expected to register growth with CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 21.70%, and reach $582.2 million by the end of 2019.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (03.03.14): Center Weather Advisory

Center Weather Advisory An unscheduled weather advisory issued by Center Weather Service Unit meteorologists for ATC use to alert pilots of existing or anticipated adverse weather conditions within the next 2 hours. A CWA may modify or redefine a SIGMET.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (03.03.14)

Aero Linx: 100 Years of Commercial Flight On January 1st, 1914, Abram C. Pheil, former mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, made a decision that would change the world – to become the first ever paying passenger on a commercial flight. On that landmark day, pioneering pilot Tony Jannus flew a bi-wing airboat across the bay from St. Petersburg to Tampa, Florida - on a 23-minute journey that would mark the birth of the global airline industry. Since that historic moment 100 years ago, commercial aviation has transformed the world in ways unimaginable in 1914. It has re-united loved ones, connected cultures, expanded minds, opened up markets, saved lives, and allowed people worldwide to dream of a bigger, brighter future -

Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (03.03.14)

“There is a shortage of pay and benefits for pilots in the regional airline industry, not a shortage of pilots who are capable and certified to fly the airlines’ equipment. Congress, labor and the industry need to work together to create an airline industry that can offer jobs that are attractive to those who are interested in a career as an airline pilot.” Source: Capt. Lee Moak, president of ALPA, refuting current stories about the "Pilot Shortage."

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