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TRAINING
AVAILABLE TO HANDLE CESSNA INSPECTIONS
Cessna is offering a
40-hour training course to help the world's maintenance facilities
handle new inspection requirements that came into effect in April for
many of upwards of 150,000 of its products. As the company announced and
AVweb
reported in December of 2011, there are concerns about fatigue and
corrosion issues in the fleet of 100 series aircraft, some of which have
been in operation for 66 years. "We've set up 40-hour training classes
in Wichita for mechanics to be trained on the non-destructive inspection
techniques, such as ultrasound and eddy current. These techniques will
then be used to inspect high-time Cessna single engine airplanes. The
intent is to not only teach them what they are looking for, but also how
to identify issues that can occur more frequently with older, high-time
airframes," said Tom Ronnau, Cessna's manager of technical service
propeller products. More...
FAA
ISSUES EMERGENCY AD FOR CESSNA 210S
Following reports of
cracked wing spar caps in several Cessna 210s in Australia and Canada,
the FAA on Monday issued an emergency Airworthiness Directive requiring 3,665 of
the airplanes in the U.S. to be inspected. If cracks are found in the
spar cap, wing spar, or wing, they must be reported to the FAA, and the
aircraft must be grounded until the affected parts are replaced or
modified. The AD is effective on June 5. Cessna issued a service letter
(PDF) addressing the issue last month.
More...
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Bose® A20®
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TURBOPROP
AIRVAN FLIES
GippsAero announced Tuesday that its new GA10
turboprop flew for the first time on May 1. The aircraft uses a
Rolls-Royce 250 engine and the company says it's "the first single
turboprop to be designed and developed in Australia." As the name
implies, the GA10 has two more seats than the piston GA8 and is expected
to pack the extra payload with even better performance than the
already-capable piston airplane. Related Content: More...
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The Aviators: Watch Us
on TV, on DVD and Online ... Now!
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Seasons 1 and 2 now on iTunes and Hulu. Season 3 coming this fall ...
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Click here to learn more.
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AIRLINES
GET AIRSPACE PRIORITY FOR OLYMPICS
Scheduled flights will
likely get priority over business aviation if weather or other factors
disrupt normal air traffic during the 2012 London Olympics. The Financial Times says government regulators have
determined that the country's private air traffic control provider
National Air Traffic Services (NATS) already has the flexibility it
needs to put airliners ahead of business aircraft without needing an
official directive to do so. Officially, NATS operates under a policy of
first come, first served, but in unusual circumstances can pick and
choose which targets get the limited number of slots. NATS was
non-committal on how it would handle those cases, telling the Financial
Times only that it would run the airspace "as safely and efficiently as
possible." More...
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FAA
EXAMINES HISTORICAL FLIGHT RULES
The FAA said on Tuesday it's
ready to "reevaluate its policy" regarding the operation of historical
aircraft for hire, and announced a series of public meetings on the
topic. The meetings, which are open to the public, will be held June 26,
27, and 28 at FAA headquarters in Washington, D.C. The FAA said its
current Living History Flight Experience policy, adopted in the
mid-1990s, allows owner/operators of historic aircraft to sell passenger
flights "as a way to generate funds needed to maintain and preserve
these historically significant aircraft for future generations."
However, the FAA said an "increasing number of requests ... [with a]
clear market orientation" seek to operate types of aircraft, or offer
various types of flight experiences, that aren't covered by the current
policy. More...
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WingX Pro7 for iPad &
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The new WingX Pro7 for iPad and iPhone adds Synthetic Vision with
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CORSAIR
AT GOODRICH
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Corsair |
Hariel Corsair is now an airline support
manager for Goodrich Aerostructures in Chula Vista, California, managing
accounts for multiple airlines and assisting with B787 support and entry
into service. He was formerly at Pratt and Whitney.
More...
WHO'S
WHERE? YOU TELL US
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out. Drop us a line about the
staff appointment, with a nice recent photo, and we'll do our best to
include it in our new section, "Who's Where." The items will be
permanently archived on AVweb for future reference, too.
More...
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VIDEO:
RED BULL'S LATEST AERIAL BALLET
 Red Bull Wednesday
shared video of one of its latest sponsored adventures -- five wingsuit
skydivers joining up with and maintaining formation with two sailplanes
in a dive over Austria. The team flew two aerobatic LET L-13 Blanik
sailplanes and just to complicate things, the lead flew inverted and one
skydiver formed up in between the inverted and upright glider. The
skydivers and gliders came together in formation at roughly 12,000 feet.
The sailplanes wore wingtip-mounted smoke canisters and one skydiver
wore one on an ankle. The trick of the task was mating airspeed and
descent rates and this time all members performed flawlessly. Check the
video after the jump. More...
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