Content Archive: May 2008

Avionics

CMC accelerates pace of enhanced vision testing

With the ink still fresh on the paperwork certifying the installation of the $500,000 enhanced vision system (EVS) from Gulfstream and Kollsman, rival avio
Aircraft

Learjet 85 gets Pro Line Fusion avionics and European launch customer

Zurich-based ExecuJet signed for six Bombardier Learjet 85 midsize jets, making the executive aircraft sales, charter, completions and mainte
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Powers get power from new Turbomeca engines

Agusta has delivered the first A109E Power to be driven by Turbomeca’s newly FAA-certified Arrius 2K1 engines to Erie, Pa.-based aeromedical transport prov
Regulations and Government

Stalemate continues on FAA funding plan

The Senate bill to reauthorize and fund the FAA for the next four years was once again stalled on the tarmac last month because of procedural infighting be
Accidents

King Air fatal downunder

MOUNT GAMBIER, AUSTRALIA, DEC.
Aircraft

Cirrus Jet Single Flying by Oshkosh?

At the EBACE show in Geneva last week, Cirrus Design’s full-size mockup of its single-engine (and yet-to-be-named) jet enjoyed a prominent spot in Hall 7 n
ATC

Future approaches to usher in an entire new set of acronyms

Before GPS, approach classifications were cut and dried–they were either precision (ILS) or nonprecision approaches.

Regionals Update: Northwest Airlink reorganizes Memphis ops

Northwest Airlink subsidiary Express Airlines I will move to an all-regional-jet fleet and Minneapolis-based Mesaba Airlines will provide all Northwest Air
Regulations and Government

Congressional Observer: January 2002

As the first session of the 107th Congress wound down, the wonderful days of bipartisan behavior that followed September 11 gave way to partisan bickering
Accidents

IMC cargo Caravan crash

CESSNA 208 CARAVAN, BESSEMER, ALA., DEC.