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June 26, 2014

Airborne 06.25.14: NTSB Rules On Asiana 214, A350XWB Fleet, Princely Chopper

Also: Breezys to Flock To Oshkosh, Green Flight Challenge, TSA Gouging Us Again, Electric A/C Record

This report summary is only a synopsis of the NTSB findings on the crash of Asiana flight 214 while executing a visual approach and to San Francisco International Airport on June 16, 2013. The summary contains almost 5000 words and is testimony to the scope of the investigation. Flight testing and certifying a new airliner is a tough job and it takes more than one of the new models to finish the job in a reasonable amount of time. For certification of the new Airbus A350 XWB, the 5th test airplane has now joined in the certification process. The next ti

“AMA cannot support this rule. It is at best ill-conceived and at worst intentionally punitive and retaliatory. The Academy strongly requests the FAA reconsider this action.” Source: AMA Executive Director Dave Mathewson.

A cloud of a class characterized by globular masses or rolls in layers or patches, the individual elements being larger and darker than those of cirrocumulus and smaller than those of stratocumulus.

Cessnas 2 Oshkosh 2014

The arrival of the summer solstice signals the beginning of the final stretch on the way to the 9th Annual Cessnas 2 Oshkosh Mass Arrival. Planning starts to give way to execution as the registration and training activities begin to wrap up.