Content Archive: April 2011

Torqued: Disaster prompts new look at risk assessment

The Japanese trifecta of tragedy has some people rethinking risk-assessment models and catastrophic risk in general.

AIN Blog: FAA Should Leave BARR Alone

Early last month, the FAA published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)
ATC

ATO Chief Krakowski Resigns from FAA

Hank Krakowski, head of the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization (ATO), resigned today amid the fallout of not one but two incidents in as many weeks where the s

NARA Meeting Sounds Upbeat Note for Bizjet Sales

Reports from last week’s National Aircraft Resale Association’s spring meeting in Naples, Fla., inspire continued optimism about the business aviation indu
Aircraft

GKN To Build HondaJet Fuselage

GKN Aerospace has been selected to build the entire fuselage for the HondaJet, the UK-based aerostructures specialist said today at a press conference in L
Charter & Fractional

Fractional Share Sales Take Off at Flight Options

Cleveland-based Flight Options said it saw renewed interest in fractional share and jet card (JetPass) sales during the first quarter, noting that net shar
Rotorcraft

Offshore-oil Eurocopter EC175 Pegged for 2012 Approval

Eurocopter confirmed that it plans to gain type certification for the EC175 medium twin this year while clarifying that it expects complementary certificat

AIN Blog: Why David Sokol Refused My Interview Request

As you've probably read, NetJets chairman and CEO David Sokol resigned abr

Torqued: Work continues for a future free of fatalities

Certainly the news that there were no U.S.