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• Dassault’s Falcon 7X Approved For Steep Approach Landings By FAA

  Created: Tuesday, 11 August 2009 01:35 Author:

  Dassault’s Falcon 7X Approved For Steep Approach Landings By FAATue, 11 Aug '09Pilots May Fly Approach Angles Up To Six Degrees Dassault Falcon has received approval from the FAA to perform steep approaches with slopes up to 6° for the Falcon 7X. This...

• Southwest bids more than $170 million for Frontier

  Created: Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:13 Author:

  Southwest bids more than $170 million for Frontier Tuesday August 11, 2009 Southwest Airlines yesterday confirmed its submission of a binding cash offer worth more than $170 million to acquire Denver rival Frontier Airlines, which now will be sold at au...

• IATA Global Airline Traffic Crashing

  Created: Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:06 Author:

  IATA Global Airline Traffic Crashing  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has published its traffic report for June 2009, showing a 7.2% decline in passenger demand compared to the previous year, while cargo demand is also down by 16.5%.T...

• Frontier And Teamsters Reach Wage And Benefit Concessions Agreement

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2009 04:34 Author:

  Frontier And Teamsters Reach Wage And Benefit Concessions AgreementSun, 09 Aug '09Section 1113 Appeals Are Also Settled, Vote Later This MonthFrontier Airlines and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), Local 961, Thursday entered into a consen...

• Senators Question Regional Pilot Pay

  Created: Monday, 10 August 2009 04:11 Author:

  Senators Question Regional Pilot Pay By Andrew Compart - Aug 7, 2009Aviation Week and Space Technology     U.S senators yesterday continued to question the pay and sleeping habits of regional pilots, with the chairman of a Senate aviation ...

• Scientists Track Down Source of Earth’s Hum

  Created: Friday, 07 August 2009 20:23 Author:

  Scientists Track Down Source of Earth’s HumYou can’t hear it, but the Earth is constantly humming. And some parts of the world sing louder than others.After discovering the mysterious low-frequency buzz in 1998, scientists figured out that the Earthâ€...

• The CERN LHC

  Created: Friday, 07 August 2009 20:06 Author:

  CERN's collider to get 'safe' start in NovemberSilicon Detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC)August 7, 2009 8:36 AM PDTAfter a year of setbacks, CERN plans to restart its Large Hadron Collider in November at a tempo that won't overtax the machin...

• Airspeed Systems Failed on U.S. Jets

  Created: Friday, 07 August 2009 19:56 Author:

   Airspeed Systems Failed on U.S. JetsBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPublished: August 7, 2009WASHINGTON (AP) -- On at least a dozen recent flights by U.S. jetliners, malfunctioning equipment made it impossible for pilots to know how fast they were flying, federa...

• FAA Chief Says He Will Ensure That New Rules on Pilot Fatigue Move Forward

  Created: Thursday, 06 August 2009 14:38 Author:

  FAA Chief Says He Will Ensure That New Rules on Pilot Fatigue Move Forward By Sholnn FreemanWashington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 6, 2009Two days after The Washington Post published an examination of the living conditions endured by some pilots f...

• NetJets Founder stepping down from Company

  Created: Wednesday, 05 August 2009 15:53 Author:

  NetJets Founder stepping down from CompanyAug 5, 2009 In a startling development, Richard T. Santulli, the Wall Street mathematician who created and then oversaw the development of NetJets Inc. into the largest operator of business jets in the world, is ...

• STS-128: Shuttle Discovery Rolls-Out and Secured at Launch Pad

  Created: Wednesday, 05 August 2009 15:25 Author:

  STS-128: Shuttle Discovery Rolls-Out and Secured at Launch PadNASA | August 04, 2009STS-128: Shuttle Discovery Rolls-Out and Readied at Launch PadDiscovery Secured to Launch PadTue, 04 Aug 2009 11:11:03 AM MST (NASA)Space shuttle Discovery reached Launch ...

• Is a $99 iPhone 3GS coming soon?

  Created: Wednesday, 05 August 2009 12:13 Author:

  Is a $99 iPhone 3GS coming soon?Today, 10:27 AMCurrently, you can get the 8GB version of the older iPhone 3G for $99 with a two-year contract. But rumor has it that an 8GB 3GS may be right around the corner--and it may also cost $99.READ MORE:...

• Windows 7 XP Mode enters RC

  Created: Wednesday, 05 August 2009 12:04 Author:

  Windows 7 XP Mode enters RC8-4-09, 6:12 PMMicrosoft announces that XP Mode, the Windows 7 add-on that will allow users with the proper hardware to run a virtual version of Windows XP within Windows 7, has entered Release Candidate status. READ MORE:...

• NATA Offers Industry Tools To Combat Illegal Charters

  Created: Wednesday, 05 August 2009 11:13 Author:

  NATA Offers Industry Tools To Combat Illegal ChartersSun, 02 Aug '09Hotline Is Available To Contact FAAIn response to Tuesday's NTSB hearing on an accident involving an aircraft that was being operated for-hire without proper certification, the National A...

• FAA Mandates Timely Activation Of Ice Protection Systems For New Designs

  Created: Wednesday, 05 August 2009 11:05 Author:

  FAA Mandates Timely Activation Of Ice Protection Systems For New DesignsMonday, 4:24 PMAutomatic Activation Or Cockpit Indicator Will Be Required The FAA Monday changed its certification standards for transport category airplanes to require either the aut...

• Aero-TV At Oshkosh 2009 REDUX: Carter Aviation - Personal Air Vehicle Prototype

  Created: Wednesday, 05 August 2009 11:01 Author:

  Aero-TV At Oshkosh 2009 REDUX: Carter Aviation - Personal Air Vehicle PrototypeMonday, 4:30 PMIntriguing Prototype Shown To Public Is Subject Of New Aero-TV Programming Option... Aero-Minutes! Carter Aviation Technologies has revealed reveals their four-s...

• GA Shipments Continue To Decline

  Created: Wednesday, 05 August 2009 10:54 Author:

  GA Shipments Continue To DeclineWed, 05 Aug '09But Some Encouraging Signs Are Showing Up As wellThe General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) Tuesday released the industry's second quarter shipment and billings figures, and they do not bode well f...

• Air Force One Liberty Flyover

  Created: Saturday, 01 August 2009 23:38 Author:

  Air Force One Flies over the Statue of Liberty!               Photos released by Government    Here is the complete Department of Defense release of the New York Flyover Photos (.PDF file).   CLICK HERE:...

• Do these Russians have Talent?

  Created: Friday, 31 July 2009 23:52 Author:

  Do these Russians have Talent?...

• Space Shuttle Endevour returns safely

  Created: Friday, 31 July 2009 15:57 Author:

   Space Shuttle Endevour returns safelyJuly 31, 2009 CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts returned to Earth on Friday, completing a long but successful construction job that boosted the size and power of the internat...