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February 9, 2006
NewsWire Complete Issue
By The AVweb Editorial Staff
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A proposal under discussion in the Bush White House would allow the FAA to issue bonds that it would pay back by charging user fees, The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend. Administration officials have been consulting Wall Street investment banks for advice on how to proceed with the bond sales, the
WSJ said. Such bonds "would be well-received by the investment community and certainly a viable option for the FAA," Michael Lexton, a senior managing director at Bear Stearns Cos. and an adviser to
the FAA, told the WSJ. It's expected that the administration will approach Congress with its proposal this spring. The proposal may be a hard sell in Congress, since it would diminish legislative
control over finances. GA lobbies are also lined up against it, but there is some support. Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens told the WSJ that the FAA needs money to upgrade its technology, and issuing bonds
would be one way to raise capital.
On Monday, The Wall Street Journal took another look at the aviation world, with an editorial supporting
privatization of the air traffic control system. The editorial criticized the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) for its "excessive demands." FAA Administrator Marion Blakey's
proposals are "modest" and "reasonable," the editorial says, while NATCA, funded with union dues from taxpayer-financed salaries, is lobbying Congress to take away the FAA's right to impose a contract
if the talks stall. NATCA President John Carr was quick to respond, calling the editorial a "highly polished piece of pandering" in his blog on Tuesday. Carr asks, "Why does the Wall Street Journal find it necessary to try to make it sound like
a dirty, bad thing when a union grows, and organizes the unorganized, and collectively bargains?" Carr goes on to dissect the editorial in detail.
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Adam Aircraft announced on Monday the first flight of its first FAA-conforming A700 AdamJet, Serial Number 002. The jet took
off smoothly and stayed in the pattern for a 34-minute flight at Centennial Airport, Englewood, Colo. "The aircraft handled very well, stability was excellent, and the flight controls were very
responsive and predictable," said test pilot Ken Sasine. "The throttle response was smooth and strong, and the climb performance was strong and steady. The airplane handled just as we expected." The
jet's Williams FJ-33 engines are already FAA-certified, and CEO Rick Adam hopes that the 65-percent commonality with his FAA-certified piston twin A500 will significantly reduce time to certification.
SN002 was constructed from production tooling, featuring a production fuselage with improved cabin window and emergency exit placement, with the balance of the aircraft manufactured from A500
production parts, Adam said. The prototype jet, SN001, has been flying since July 2003 and had logged over 400 hours. More than 250 A700s have been sold to owners/operators, fleet operators and air
taxi companies, Adam says. Two more production copies will join SN002 for the FAA flight test program.
Meanwhile, at Spanish Fork, Utah, Spectrum Aeronautical's new Spectrum 33 light twinjet is moving right along. The jet made its second and third
flight tests last Thursday. The flights tested out some improvements and adjustments that were made after the first
flight on Jan. 7. Test pilot Bill Davies said the 33 felt solid in longitudinal control. "We were able to conduct shallow coordinated turns with rudder input alone, and saw excellent control in
all axes," he said. He also said the 33 took off in less than 800 feet, and touchdown speeds were 85 knots with 15 degrees of flaps. Takeoff acceleration and climb performance "is well beyond
anything I've seen in this class of aircraft," Davies said. The key may be materials and construction. He added that "the tests are confirming that the 33 is highly stable, docile and easy to fly for
single-pilot operations." The Spectrum 33 is a new light business jet built using unique carbon-graphite construction techniques that do not utilize a core material of foam or honeycomb (which is
traditionally the case). The company says that the build process results in a cabin size similar to many popular eight- to nine-seat light business jets, at less than two-thirds the weight. The
aircraft is designed to cruise at FL450 at speeds up to 415 knots and fly as far as 2,000 nm while using about half the fuel of comparably sized current production aircraft. FAA Type Certification of
the Spectrum 33 is expected for 2007 or 2008.
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The Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer launched successfully at 7:22 Wednesday morning from Kennedy Space Center on a planned 80-hour,
26,000-mile jaunt around the world, plus. The aim is to fly the longest nonstop non-refueled distance ever in an aircraft. On takeoff, pilot Steve Fossett passed the 8,000-foot mark on the runway
where he had hoped to rotate, and instead rotated sharply and lifted off at 11,500 feet, with about 4,000 feet of runway remaining. The aircraft ran into two birds about the size of pigeons as it
climbed out, but no damage was reported. Fossett is expected to land at Kent International Airport in southern England on Saturday. The route may vary as Fossett seeks out favorable winds, but he is
first heading for the African coast, then past Egypt and the Red Sea, then across India and China, then past Japan. It will take about 17 hours to cross the Pacific, arriving above the Baja Peninsula
in Mexico. Fossett will then fly above Texas and Florida, and continue northeastward to Newfoundland, passing Ireland before landing in England.
The GlobalFlyer flew around the world last year and ran into trouble when fuel was vented overboard. The
system was redesigned to prevent that problem this time, but the reworked system had not been tested with a full fuel load until this week. A planned takeoff on Tuesday morning was scratched when the
new vents began leaking under the pressure of 18,000 pounds of fuel. "One of the new vent systems that has been added in the boom tank is where the problem occurred ... one of the vent lines that
penetrate the tank has a leak and this was discovered when fuel started leaking out of the wheel well," said Jon Karkow of Scaled Composites. Fossett has said that the trip's success is not assured.
"I'm not confident of success because of what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to fly the airplane to its full capability of distance and I'm stretching the limits of the airplane. We calculate that I
will be able to complete the flight and have a success, but it will be very close," he said. Karkow has estimated that there should be around 500 pounds of fuel left when Steve reaches England, but
added: "If Steve was to run out of fuel he could glide for 200 miles from that point."
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On Monday, President Bush announced that his budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2007 would include $16.8 billion for NASA, a 3.2-percent increase over 2006. But the Aeronautics Research
Mission Directorate would see its budget cut by 22 percent. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin
said the $724.4 million aeronautics allotment would be focused on "the mastery of our core competencies in subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flight." John Douglass, president of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), said the cuts "would continue a debilitating decline in aeronautics
research investment." The AIA said funding for aeronautics has been slashed repeatedly since 1994, when $1.5 billion was budgeted. Griffin, of NASA, said that while it's important that the nation's
aviation industry does not lose market share to global competitors, "NASA's aeronautics research cannot and will not directly subsidize work to specific corporate interests." Rather, NASA's R&D will
focus its aeronautics research on fundamental questions in aeronautics research, he said. Under the president's plan, NASA's Langley Research Center would lose about $50 million, and at Glenn Research Center, near Cleveland,
more than 300 jobs would be eliminated.
Aircraft Investor Resources (AIR), the parent company of Epic Aircraft (six-place experimental propjet manufacturer), has been sued by British firm Farnborough Aircraft Corp. over a dispute that grew from a cooperative arrangement between the two companies, the Bend Bulletin reported last week. Farnborough says that Epic,
based in Bend, Ore., was supposed to deliver a jointly developed prototype, called the F1, and has not done so. Epic says that Farnborough is trying to usurp its design. According to Aviation International News, the two companies had been cooperating in the joint development of their respective
Epic LT and Farnborough F1 turboprop singles. The case is now in federal court in Eugene, Ore., and both sides have agreed to try to settle their dispute in arbitration. "We believe we have a strong
case," Farnborough commercial director Richard Blain told the Bend
Bulletin. "And we will use every legal remedy available to us to resolve the situation." AIR said in the suit that it needs to protect its trade secrets from leaking to competitors.
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An Albatros L-39 jet that crashed in Alaska last month may have hit the water two miles from its target airport
three times after descending under low clouds in poor visibility, according to a preliminary report by the
NTSB. The ATP-rated pilot was trying to execute an instrument approach at the Ketchikan International Airport, shortly after noon local time, and had reported to a Flight Service Station that he had
the airfield in sight although one witness (a pilot) estimated visibility at three-quarters of a mile. The NTSB says the "pilot-rated witness" saw the airplane descend from the clouds about 200 feet
above the waters of the Tongass Narrows, about two miles from the crash site. The witness said the Albatros, with landing gear down, descended at a high rate at about a 20- to 25-degree angle to the
surface of the water, about 200 yards from shore. The airplane struck the surface twice, each time gaining about 10 feet, before skipping on the surface for a third time. The first two water impacts
produced an extensive spray of water that obscured the witness's view of the airplane. The airplane then gained altitude and climbed out of his line of sight. The pilot ejected from the jet before the
crash, but not all the rockets ignited and the pilot did not survive.
Several witnesses aboard a ferry on the Tongass Narrows reported seeing a large splash in the water three-quarters to one mile in front of the vessel. They thought the splash was a whale, but due to
the limited visibility of one-half to three-quarters of a mile, none reported seeing or hearing an airplane. After the water impact, other witnesses on shore reported seeing the airplane at treetop
level over the town of Ketchikan and hearing engine sounds, but then noted the engine stopped making any sound. The L-39, a surplus military warbird built in the Czech Republic, had been issued a
special ferry permit by an inspector with the Van Nuys FSDO in California to make a flight from Anchorage to Seattle. The ferry permit was signed by an FAA certificated mechanic, certifying that the
airplane was safe for a ferry flight.
Virgin Galactic is on track for taking passengers into space by the end of 2008, Richard Branson said on Monday. "It is going very well, we
have 100 engineers working on it and we have had about 50,000 people who have put their names down to fly," he was quoted by UTV online. Branson was in Florida this week for the launch of the GlobalFlyer, and said that NASA has offered Virgin Galactic a base at the Kennedy Space Center. The offer is
interesting, he said, but discussions are still preliminary. "I think we would find that it would bring a lot of people to the area who would watch the flight as well as those who were flying," he
said. Test flights are expected to begin late next year for the fleet of five spaceships being built at Scaled Composites in Mojave, Calif. Tourist flights are expected to begin in late 2008.
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The Columbia 350 & Columbia 400 Have a New Corporate NameThe Lancair Company has re-branded itself as
Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation. The manufacturers of the Columbia 350 and Columbia 400, the world's fastest certified piston aircraft, made the change as part of an ongoing
campaign to develop a unique identity for these premium aircraft. The schedule for the Fly Columbia Tour, an interactive Columbia experience, is posted online.
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On Tuesday, the NTSB said it has determined that the probable cause of the crash of a Beech King Air operated by Hendrick
Motorsports was the flight crew's failure to properly execute the published instrument approach procedure. A contributing cause was the crew's failure to use all navigational aids to confirm and
monitor their position during the approach. The King Air collided with mountainous terrain in October 2004 during a missed approach to Martinsville/Blue Ridge Airport, in Virginia. All eight
passengers, some of them Hendrick employees, and both flight crewmembers died. The flight had departed from Concord (N.C.) Regional Airport, operating on an instrument flight plan. Radar data shows
that after the crew was cleared for a localizer approach to Runway 30 at Martinsville, the airplane did not descend at the proper point. About seven miles beyond the airport, the airplane began a
straight-ahead climb. The airplane's radar target was lost. The missed approach should have occurred over the Martinsville Airport by executing a climbing right turn, the NTSB said. "The approach and
missed approach procedures provide for safe operation in instrument weather conditions," said NTSB Acting Chairman Mark Rosenker. "It is imperative that pilots use all available navigational aids to
ensure that the approach is properly flown." The airplane was not equipped with a ground proximity warning system. The final report will be published in three or four weeks, The Associated Press said.
By the year 2020, the average general aviation airplane will be almost 50 years old, says the FAA. The FAA will address the safety of the aging fleet in a public meeting to be held next month in Kansas City, Mo. The FAA held a similar
meeting in 2000, but since then, fatal GA accidents and primary component failures blamed on aging have raised further concerns. Issues to be discussed at the meeting include service difficulties,
modification and inspection programs, and continued field support from type certificate holders. The meeting will be held March 22-23, and those who can't attend are invited to submit written
comments. AOPA's Luis Gutierrez, director of regulatory and certification policy, plans to be there. "Our
goal is to make sure the 'cure' is not worse than the 'problem,'" he said. "We want to keep our older aircraft safe, but we also want to keep them affordable." AOPA believes that owner education will
provide greater long-term benefits than excessive new regulations.
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Two small aircraft collided yesterday over El Cajon, CA, shortly before 5 p.m. local time. Three souls, all aboard the aircraft, were lost. Multiple eye witnesses compared what they saw to the
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster -- a star shaped explosion in the sky with flaming debris raining down. The wreckage fell into a largely residential area and ignited one home, but no one on the
ground was hurt. Early reports could not clearly identify either aircraft from the charred parts...
The comment period on the FAA's DC-ADIZ NPRM has closed, with a record 21,380 comments...
A team of 400 skydivers achieved a world-record formation drop above Thailand this week...
Fire broke out on board a UPS DC-8 cargo airplane yesterday, it made a safe emergency landing at Philadelphia
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A Diamond DA-20 was apparently hot-wired, taxied away from its hangar, and then abandoned by the thief at a Salt Lake City
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Two Shorts 360 cargo airplanes that collided in mid-air in Wisc. on Sunday were taking pictures on a
final shakedown flight before heading to Iraq. Three people died, and three survived after a gear-up landing...
EAA's Sport Pilot Tour makes it first 2006 stop at Falcon Field in Mesa, Ariz., on Saturday, Feb. 18. The free
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*** PREVIOUS RESULTS ***
Last week,
AVweb asked if your aircraft had ever been on the receiving end of a
lightning strike.
Most of you (65% of respondents) said no, you'd never been the
victim of a lightning strike — and you fly a metal airplane.
Another 4% of you (who fly composite aircraft) said you hadn't been
stricken either. Counting the 8% of you who chose our somewhat
cheeky answer (Does St. Elmo's Fire count?), that's 77% of
AVweb respondent who have not been stricken by lightning.
One the other hand, 15% of you (flying mostly metal aircraft)
have been stricken by lighting — and another 9% were stricken
while flying an airliner.
One single reader told us he (or she) had been hit while flying a
mostly composite aircraft.
*** THIS WEEK'S QUESTION ***
Mid-airs — they've multiplied over the past few days. How
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aircraft?
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Past POTW Winners Strap yourselves in, because this latest
installment of "Picture of the Week" is action-packed!
Submission numbers dipped slightly this week (to around 75 pictures),
but the quality was as high any week in recent memory. What's
more, we received a larger number of "aircraft in action" shots than we
normally do. Spinning props, swooping wings, and contrails
dominated this week's contest, so we thought it only appropriate that
the top spot go to Erwin Stam's dizzying helicopter photo. As soon
as we recover from the vertigo, we'll be sending Erwin an Official AVweb
baseball cap for his efforts.
Remember: We only award one cap each week — but we squeeze in
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Erwin Stam
of Medemblik, North Holland (Netherlands) decided to use a "shock and
awe" strategy on us this week. And what do you know? — It worked!
We were so impressed with Erwin's photographic might that we had to name
his photo this week's top winner.
If you're amazed now, wait 'til you click through to the
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our POTW contest. Here are some of the runners-up. Due to privacy issues,
AVweb does not publish e-mail addresses of
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"Flying the Colors"
Dave Upchurch of Tucson, Arizona
reminds us: Always take your camera to AirVenture! He
snapped this shot during one of the
Liberty Parachute
Team's demonstration jumps at Oshkosh in 2005.
(The Liberty Team may bill themselves as the "opening act" at AirVenture,
but don't let that fool you — they're headliners in our book.) |
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"Birmingham Nights"
Pete Kellum of Pinson, Alabama slows
down the pace just a bit, with this night-time airport image (of
Birmingham International?). For the camera buffs among us, Pete
tells us he used a Samsung Digimax U-CA505 with 5.1-megapixel
resolution. His technique? "Turned off the flash, pointed,
and pushed the button."
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"Uh, Lead 57, Check Your Six — Now!"
Charles E. Stewart of Apple Valley,
California kicks things back into high-gear with this photo taken during
last fall's Thurman Fire in the San Bernardino Mountains. Charles
tells us the photo was taken on October 1, just a couple of days before
the fire was officially declared "contained," about 2 miles from the
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"Echoes of More Heroic Times"
Lija Flude of Toronto, Ontario
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"F4U Corsair Bears Its Teeth"
Lest we think the glory days of warbirds are long gone,
John R. Davis of Media, Pennsylvania
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"Foggy Afternoon"
There must have been quite a few delays at Fitchburg Airport in
Massachusetts on the day Louise C. Anderson
took this photograph. Louise tells us it has been a day full of
rain, and as the sun set, there was a 25-foot fog over most of the
runway. Despite the inconvenience, she did manage to get this
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