Comes Amid Calls For Better Social Standards

Major European airlines, pilots and cabin crew organizations are joining forces to demand decent social standards and clear rules for the industry to abide by. The call comes when aviation stakeholders & decision-makers meet in Vienna for the high-level European Aviation Summit under the Austrian Presidency. Just a day before, several Transport Ministers urged the EU Commission to come up with concrete measures to achieve a ‘socially responsible connectivity’ and to ensure healthy and fair competition on Europe’s aviation market.

Has Achieved A Significant Milestone With The Award Of A Design Organisation Approval From EASA

EASA has awarded Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd a Design Organization Approval. This is an important milestone on the company's path to getting the production Airlander 10 in service with customers. It is also a major achievement: just eight other organizations hold an EASA Design Organization Approval (DOA) for type certifying large aircraft.

Three Devices To Be Installed At Spokane, WA Facility

After spending the last several years considering options to supplement it's simulated training devices,  Moody Aviation has selected Frasca International to provide three reconfigurable Advanced Aviation Training Devices (AATDs) for use at their flight training facility at Felts Field in Spokane, Washington. Moody is one of Frasca's earliest customers, having purchased their first Frasca simulator in the 1960's. Moody currently uses several Frasca devices which have been acquired over the years. Their three new AATDs will replace three earlier Frasca units.

Company Will Support Rotor Blades On More Than 450 U.S. Army Chinooks Around The Globe

Boeing will continue its support for the U.S. Army's inventory of H-47 Chinook rotor blades with a new $160 million contract award.

Other Aircraft Being Assessed For Damage

A fire broke out in a hangar at New River Valley Airport (KPSK) in Dublin, VA Monday which destroyed at least two and most likely four of the seven airplanes stored in the building.

Was Third Most Successful Competitor In Reno Air Race History

A former Air Force Reserve pilot who went on to work at Lockheed where he became an SR-71 test pilot has Gone West. Darryl Greenamyer passed away Monday in Indio, CA. He was 82 years old.

The Success Story At Tianjin Has Expanded From The Build-Up Of Single-Aisle Airbus Aircraft To Completion And Delivery Of Widebody A330S

In the decade since Airbus inaugurated its Final Assembly Line at Tianjin, China, over 380 jetliners from the best-selling A320 Family have been delivered from the site to both Chinese and international airline customers.

Documents First Filed In 2013

Latitude Technologies has received United States Patent No. 10075228, “Aircraft Flight Data Monitoring and Reporting System and Use Thereof”.

International Airport [ICAO] Any airport designated by the Contracting State in whose territory it is situated as an airport of entry and departure for international air traffic, where the formalities incident to customs, immigration, public health, animal and plant quarantine and similar procedures are carried out.

Aero Linx: The Swift Museum The Swift Museum is located at the McMinn County airport (KMMI) in Athens, Tennessee approximately 60 miles southwest of Knoxville, 60 miles northeast of Chattanooga and 200 miles southeast of Nashville. We have multiple Swift aircraft on display, including the first prototype #1, stock production and modified Swifts from 1946 to 1951, as well as two T-35 Buckaroo USAF trainers. These military versions of the Swift were tested by the USAF in the early 1950’s. One of the T-35’s is an armed version used by and donated to the Museum from the Saudi Arabian Air Force. The museum is open for individual and group tours.

"The acquisition of the Frasca AATDs dovetails with the deployment of a new catalog of flight and maintenance training coursework at Moody, which highly integrate the fidelity of Frasca’s flight and systems operations into both the visual and instrument phases of training professional airman. They will also equip maintenance specialists with valuable systems operation and troubleshooting principles. An added benefit for Moody Aviation students will be the ability to continue programmed flight training during the unpredictable weather which often accompanies the winter months of the Pacific Northwest. We eagerly anticipate incorporating the new Frasca FTDs into our flight and maintenance training curriculum. These simulators will launch Moody Aviation into the next decade e