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HUERTA
CONFIDENT UAS DEADLINES WILL BE MET
Acting FAA Administrator
Michael Huerta was long on optimism but short on specifics in a pointed
Q & A session at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems
International conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The FAA is under
congressional order to integrate most UAVs into the national airspace
system by 2015 (2014 for UAVs weighing less than 55 pounds) and Huerta
told a room full of people with a lot riding on those deadline the
agency will get it done. "I am very optimistic that we will get there,"
Huerta said. "Rest assured that the FAA will fulfill its statutory
obligations to integrate unmanned aircraft systems." Just how it's going
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FLIGHT
TEST CRASH MAY AFFECT RELENTLESS
The crash of a decades-old
Bell 414 helicopter in Texas on Tuesday could have an impact on the
development of Bell's latest high-tech helicopter, the 525 Relentless.
The 414 is a technology demonstrator for Bell's Xworx development center
in Arlington, Texas, and was apparently testing gear for the Relentless
when it went down about 30 miles from Arlington. Both pilots escaped
injury after making an emergency landing in a cotton field after
reporting tail rotor problems. The aircraft flipped on its side on
landing. More...
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CIRRUS
WILL BUILD ICON COMPONENTS
Cirrus Aircraft will build "a
significant portion" of the composite airframe components for the Icon
A5 light sport aircraft, the two companies announced on Monday. Cirrus
will add up to 60 jobs over the next 18 months or so to handle the extra
work, Cirrus spokesman Todd Simmons told AVweb. "It could be even
more," Simmons said. Composite component production will begin by the
end of this year at the Cirrus facility in Grand Forks, N.D., and the
first production aircraft will be completed next summer, according to
the news release. Icon expects the effort to produce about 50 airframes
in the first 12 months, and about 250 to 300 in the second 12 months,
Icon spokesperson Amy Julian told AVweb. More...
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HAWKER
CUTS 170 MORE JOBS
Another 170 workers at Hawker Beechcraft
have been told their jobs will gone in 60 days, the Wichita Eagle reported last week. The jobs will be
lost from across the ranks at the company's facility in Little Rock,
Ark. "The company continues to evaluate and balance production rates
throughout a difficult and rapidly changing environment," Hawker said in
a letter to employees. "Over the last several months, we have worked to
appropriately size our business, primarily in Wichita. Today, we are
faced with additional challenging decisions that involve further
resizing our work force." More...
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MATTRESSES
AID HELO LANDING
A medical helicopter broke a skid in flight
when it hit a cellphone tower early Sunday morning, but the crew landed
safely at San Antonio International Airport after firefighters built a
pile of mattresses to take the place of the missing skid. The Bell 407
helicopter, with three crew and a patient on board, was headed for the
San Antonio Military Medical Center about 3:30 a.m. when the accident
occurred. "[The pilot] knew if he landed, that he would crash,"
firefighter Kevin Campbell told the San Antonio Express-News. "He
suggested mattresses, and I told Engine 23 to grab three or four
mattresses from the dorm." They also brought 45-pound weights from the
firehouse gym to hold the mattresses down. Campbell said the
helicopter crew hovered for a short time before attempting the landing.
"It was tense for a little bit," he said. But the helicopter landed
safely, and nobody was hurt. "It worked great," Campbell said.
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WHO'S
WHERE? YOU TELL US
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include it in our new section, "Who's Where." The items will be
permanently archived on AVweb for future reference, too.
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AVWEB
INSIDER BLOG: WHY PISTONS ENDURE
We all like to flap our lips
about the imaginary light, cheap and efficient turbine that's hovering
somewhere out there over the horizon. Except that it isn't. On the
AVweb Insider blog, Paul Bertorelli examines the reason: We just
like piston engines. It's that simple. (Plus an extra bonus thought: Do
you have the guts to hog up all the overhead space in an airliner? He
doesn't.) Read
more and join the conversation. More...
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VIDEO:
FLIGHT TRIAL -- DYNON'S NEW D1 POCKET PANEL
 It was only a matter
of time before someone stuffed a full-up EFIS into a portable box the
size of drink coaster. It didn't exactly take Dynon very long to get
around to it, either. In this video, AVweb takes a tour of the
new D1 Pocket Panel, and while it's not really a full EFIS, it's close
enough — a clever combination of MEMS gyro and GPS aiding.
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