Also: Hubble On Pause, FedEx Pilots Picket, Nexus eVTOL, VFS Honors The Rotax folks have published a Service Bulletin after issues were noted that may affect all R915i and R916i series engines. Rotax operators have reported occasional, isolated, cases a...
John W. Winter of AEA and Avionic Fame Passes John W. Winter brought Mid-Continent Instrument Company into the modern era in 1980, purchasing the firm and using it as a base for expansion throughout the aviation industry. “My father mastered...
Oxygen Purveyor Improves Situational Awareness Aerox has now made its Cylinder Sentinel application compatible across the board, allowing operators to wirelessly check the current condition of their aviation O2 bottles wherever they are in the plane from a simple phone....
Next-Gen Industries Invited to Bed Down in the Uintahs Utah publicized a bevy of AAM plans centered around their new Air Logistics Transportation Alliance project, or Project Alta. They describe it as a "collaborative partnership with a mission to establish...
Yak 52 Display Turns Fatal, But Still No Answers Yet A combined Spanish-Portuguese aerobatic demo team suffered a fatality at the Beja AirShow, when one of their aircraft clipped another during a performance. Apparently, the lost pilot was the only...
Also: Starship Set To Launch, Nexus eVTOL, Merlin, SPRINT X-Plane The Drone industry has raised its hackles regarding the Drones for First Responders Act introduced by Congressional rep Elise Stefanik, describing it as a boon to the EMS/Fire/Police crowd at...
Hold For Release Used by ATC to delay an aircraft for traffic management reasons; i.e., weather, traffic volume, etc. Hold for release instructions (including departure delay information) are used to inform a pilot or a controller (either directly or through...
Aero Linx: International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine (IAASM) The Academy was founded in 1955, with the object of searching for and promoting new knowledge in Aviation and Space Medicine and contributing to international co-operation and exchange of information...
Mach Technique [ICAO] Describes a control technique used by air traffic control whereby turbojet aircraft operating successively along suitable routes are cleared to maintain appropriate MACH numbers for a relevant portion of the en route phase of flight. The principal...
“As FedEx begins its journey to restructure under the ‘One FedEx’ strategy, our pilots remind management that there’s still unfinished business to address in the near term. Our negotiations began well ahead of this realignment strategy, and we strongly believe...