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All News

April 01, 2006

AOPA Takes Over Ownership of Meigs Field

Startling Turn-About In The Meigs Saga To Be Announced Shortly

In a breathtaking change of scene for the Chicago landscape, ANN has learned that AOPA will shortly announce their legal ownership of Meigs Field. This masterstroke, coming just three years since Chicago Boss/Mayor Richard Daley bull-dozed the field under the cover of darkness and deception, signals a tremendous turn-around in one of the most hotly contested issues in civil aviation history.

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Cirrus Sued Again... For Alienation of Affection

In yet another example of a GA manufacturer being implicated as liable for just about anything, the National Enquirer is suing Cirrus Aircraft for alienation of affection on behalf of movie star Jennifer Aniston.

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ANN Cancels Pension Plan

In an prepared statement issued last night after the financial markets closed, Aero-News Editor in Chief Jim Campbell announced that the high-flying aviation news service would default on future pension liabilities. The quasi-governmental Pension Benefits Guaranty Corp. will take over the unfunded portion, leaving taxpayers potentially on the hook for millions of missing dollars -- or dozens, at least.

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Heavenly: The Pope Learns To Fly

Copter Makes Even The Big Jobs Easier

The name on the airman certificate says Julius C Ratzinger, and he has private privileges in rotorcraft-helicopter. But you probably know him as Pope Benedict XVI (that's "the sixteenth," if you're not of the, er, Roman persuasion). Yep. The world's newest helicopter pilot (shown above, shortly after passing his check ride) is also, I suppose you could say, CEO of a large international organization: the Catholic Church.

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De-Iced and Shiny Clean: TKS Intro's Super-Soaped 'SlickWings' System

Already an up and coming favorite on a number of new high-performance GA birds, the folks who brought the TKS anti-icing system to the aviation market are about to unveil yet another novel product.

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TSA Finally Admits Other Vehicles, Not 'Just' C-150s, Pose Security Threat

Unveils New TRTR Guidelines

At a news conference Wednesday, TSA chief Kip Hawley finally spoke the words pilots have longed for him to say.

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Air Journey Announces Latest Long-Distance Tour

Forget Those Caribbean Jaunts...

Aero-News has learned of Air Journey's latest long distance tour... the first-ever Journey to the Moon for private planes.

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'Killer Bonanza MSB' Details Revealed

Fly The Suddenly Not-So-Friendly Skies

When Cessna honcho Jack Pelton used the term "Cirrus killer" to describe his company's rumored new product to secure GA skies for metal airplanes once more, other legacy manufacturers may have thought there's something to taking an aggressive stance to maintain market share as well.

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EPA To Crack Down On Airfield DHMO

Dangers of Ubiquitous Chemical Exposed By '60 Minutes'

Once, no one took the DHMO threat seriously. While great precautions were made to keep the chemical out of avgas and Jet A -- after all, it's noted for its corrosive properties  -- DHMO was widely used as a solvent.

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Cirrus Introduces New SP

Aircraft Optimized For Northern Latitudes

After a whole lifetime of living in the snowbound North Central US, the Klapmeier brothers have finally introduced an airplane for the winter conditions in their home stomping grounds (as in stomping your feet to try to get circulation back), Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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AD: AS&T 'SlickWings'

The FAA has just announced an unusual AD in advance of the public release of a new product line whose existence was only recently leaked to the Aero-News Network. The AD targets the AS&T "SlickWings" system, a modification of the TKS anti/de-ice system that has been retrofitted to allow the use of a solvent/detergent solution to clean an airplane in-flight.

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