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August 10, 2006
By The AVweb Editorial Staff
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 A laptop computer that contains personal information about 42,792 Florida pilots was stolen from a
government-owned vehicle in the Miami, Fla., area on July 27, the Department of Transportation Office of
Inspector General (OIG) said yesterday. The laptop was password-protected, but it contains a database that includes names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth. No financial or medical
information is on the laptop, the OIG said. Pilots who obtained their airmen certificates after March 2003 are not affected. Also, although the database was being used by special agents in connection
with an investigation into the use of fraudulent information to obtain pilot certificates, the list did not name individuals under investigation but instead was a general list of airman certificate
holders in the state of Florida, the OIG said. Past reviews have identified people ineligible to hold these certificates due to disqualifying prior criminal history or the use of fraudulent Social
Security numbers.
 While special agents and the Miami-Dade Police Department work to recover the laptop, pilots who believe their
personal data might be at risk can call OIG's Hotline Complaint Center at 1-800-424-9071 or go to the OIG Web site for more information. The OIG
also said it will establish a reward for information leading to the laptop's recovery. The OIG added it has no reason to believe that the laptop was targeted because of its contents. "We are making
every effort to recover the stolen laptop and resecure the data it contains," said Acting Inspector General Todd J. Zinser. "We seriously regret this matter and take our responsibilities seriously.
We have taken action and will continue to take steps necessary to prevent this from happening again." The OIG said it is working with members of Congress, federal, state, and local agencies, and the
news media to help ensure that at-risk parties are aware of the situation and the steps they may take to protect themselves from misuse of their personal information. Individual notification letters
are being sent to at-risk Floridians to every extent possible. The OIG has taken steps to ensure that no other OIG laptops or portable media devices assigned to field offices and headquarters
employees contain such data. The agency is strengthening its policies regarding laptop computers. More information about how to cope with lost identity information is available online.
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 Honda Motor Co. made clear last month at AirVenture that aviation is in its future, and this week the giant
corporation officially introduced a new subsidiary in the U.S., called the Honda Aircraft Company. The new
company will be responsible for the further development, sales promotion and production of the HondaJet. It will be based at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, N.C., where the
prototype was built more than three years ago. Michimasa Fujino, the chief engineer who led development of HondaJet, was named president and CEO. Honda will begin taking orders for the jet this fall,
with the goal of delivering the first customer copy in 2010. The new company also will manage Honda's new alliance with Piper Aircraft, which will collaborate on sales and service. Honda added that it
hasn't decided yet where the actual manufacturing facility will be located, and will announce that at a later date.
 The HondaJet will be late getting into the VLJ market, with both Eclipse and Cessna expected to start deliveries
in the next few months. It's likely that by 2010 it will be clear if the demand will materialize for the thousands of VLJs that some envision, or if the market niche will prove much smaller. Much
depends on the success of the air-taxi industry, which accounts for about two-thirds of the VLJs now on the order books. However, Honda's move may be more about image than sales. "They might just want
to dabble in it just to show what they can do from a technology standpoint," Richard Aboulafia, an aircraft analyst with the Teal Group, told the Greensboro (N.C.) News-Record. He added that North Carolina seems a likely place for
Honda to build its manufacturing plant. "The decisions that drew them there in the first place are likely to keep them there," he said.
 A couple of small operators already flying may provide some insight into how the market will develop for future
VLJs. Eos Airlines began in 2003 to offer one "premium" flight every day between New York and London, and this week the company said it will
add a second flight each day, starting next month. Eos flies a Boeing 757 fitted out with only 48 seats to serve the needs "of the international business executive looking for the ultimate in space,
comfort, service and convenience," the company says. Some may say that sounds like the kind of customer the VLJ makers may be looking for. Eos staffers greet all passengers at the airport curb to help
with luggage, check-in, and security clearance, allowing them to arrive just 45 minutes prior to departure. Another niche operator, Linear Air,
based near Boston, Mass., and flying smaller aircraft, also has been growing. Linear Air operates a fleet of Caravans fitted out with executive-style interiors, and expects to start adding the first
of 30 Eclipse jets to its lineup later this year. "Our goal from the start has been to create a business that would allow us to bridge the gap between current regional business airline travel and
private air travel. The Eclipse 500 allows us to do exactly that by offering private jet performance at a price that fits most corporate travel budgets," says Linear Air CEO William Herp.
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 Eight employees of the Swiss Skyguide air navigation service were charged with manslaughter on Monday in connection
with the July 2002 midair collision of a Russian Tu-154 airliner and a DHL 757 over Germany that killed 71 people, including 45 Russian schoolchildren. The Russian crew obeyed a controller's advice to
descend although the collision avoidance system said to climb. There was only one controller on duty at the time, and he was killed two years ago by a Russian man whose wife and children died in the
crash. All the workers charged this week denied any responsibility for the incident. Prosecutors said the workers were guilty of "organizational shortcomings," including the fact that only one
controller was on duty, and they failed to provide that controller with information about technical work in progress that decisively affected the communications and radar systems. "In the opinion of
the district attorney, the failures to carry out their duties led to the collision and crash of the two aircraft," the statement said, according to The Associated Press. The Russian man who killed the controller was sentenced last year to eight years in prison.
Although it's rare that criminal charges are filed in aviation accidents in the U.S., it is more common in Europe.
 Like a recent event near San Diego, the sky
was bright and clear on Friday afternoon, when a Cessna 182 and a 172 collided above the Canadian countryside. All three men on board were killed. Instructor Ryan Sumere, 28, and Vinoo Abraham, 26, a
private pilot, both of Mississauga, had taken off from Brampton Flying Club in the 172 and collided with 57-year-old David Morton, who launched from Burlington. Everette Ruggles was just sitting down
for an afternoon coffee at his kitchen table when the accident happened. "It landed 60 to 70 feet away from my kitchen window . . . it really freaked me out," he told the Canadian Press. His six-year-old son also saw an airplane spiraling down from the sky after
the collision. "He's a little shaken," Ruggles said.
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 LoPresti Aviation, based in Vero Beach, Fla., will
soon start building a 100,000-square-foot production plant at the Belen airport in central New Mexico, the Albuquerque
Journal reported last week. The company, which for years has been in the aviation business as LoPresti Speed Merchants, plans to start production on the LoPresti Fury, a sporty two-seat airplane
that cruises at about 175 knots. The airplanes are expected to sell for about $295,000. LoPresti's vice president for operations, Arjay Siegel, told the Journal that Belen, which is about 30 miles
from Albuquerque, rated highest among 75 communities in a national search. The company needed a site with a long runway that was located near a major transportation hub and with access to a good labor
force. Siegel sent an e-mail to AVweb on Tuesday saying he was in Belen with officials from the state and the site-selection committee. "These guys are great!" he wrote. "This is a long-term
civic partnership and they proving to be great partners. I hope to show we are equally great partners!" LoPresti plans to invest about $10 million at the airport and employ more than 300 workers,
according to the Journal. The airport will pay to repave the 6,600-foot runway and will spend $3 million to add another north-south runway, hangars and additional infrastructure.
 Several crashes this year of unmanned aerial vehicles have raised questions about their
safety, as the drone aircraft continue to proliferate. According to a USA Today story this week, a Customs and Border Protection Predator B drone, which is 36 feet long with a max weight of 10,000
pounds, crashed within several hundred feet of homes in Arizona on April 25; a prototype of a 2,000-pound tilt-rotor crashed during tests April 5 in Texas; and a 3-pound drone carrying cameras crashed
while being demonstrated for the media by a Los Angeles County sheriff on June 16, a flight that took place without FAA permission. Both the Air Line Pilots Association and AOPA have said safety
protocols for UAVs are inadequate. "We are sharing airspace where we are assured that a certain level of safety is being met, and yet there is no level of safety for these UAVs," Heidi Williams, air
traffic services director for AOPA, told USA Today.
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 Monday's AVweb story about the
lack of new pilot starts drew a response from multiple sources, including the folks at Pilot Journey, who have been busy thinking up multiple
ways to help flight schools keep busy. Latest from the Nashville, Tenn., company is an effort to help international students locate and apply to U.S. flight schools. Pilot Journey will facilitate the
official paperwork, find English lessons, and match the student to schools that offer whatever kind of training they want. The company, established in 2001, also offers a $99 Discovery Flight at over
800 flight schools, and says it's been signing up about 1,000 people a month. Their Web site also offers links and information to those looking for more information about how to become a pilot.
 Warbird pilots got some good news from the FAA during EAA AirVenture last month. "The FAA has
proposed removing the proficiency area requirements currently in place for warbirds," said EAA Warbirds of America (WOA) Executive
Director Bill Fischer. "It will mean that a civilian pilot who flies a military or surplus aircraft can fly it anywhere that a civil aircraft can go." Current FAA regulations restrict most warbird
flights to 600 miles or less from their home bases. WOA has been involved in a "continuing dialog" with the FAA to try to ease those restrictions for qualified pilots, Fischer said. "The FAA continues
to stress that warbirds in civilian operation are intended for exhibition and not for personal transport, but they have conceded that lifting the area restrictions will not affect the safety of the
pilots or the public."
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 The Australian government's policy to hand over airport control to private operators is bad for the nation's
aviation system, the Australian Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) said in a news release this week. "AOPA
does not believe these operators have the interests of aviation or the local community at heart and see the airport simply as land to be developed," the statement says. "Airports are affected across
Australia ... all Australian airports are potentially at risk; property developers see only dollars, not national assets." The federal Transport Department failed to properly investigate the issues
involved with privatization, the group says. AOPA wants federal Transport Minister Warren Truss to intervene and set rules for rent increases, land reuse and runway closures. "This needs fixing now or
Australia will be denied the benefits of a thriving aviation sector," AOPA said.
 You dropped what from 6,500 feet? We were able late last week to speak with an individual who makes this
story from AirVenture complete. During an AVweb "Meet the Editor" session at Oshkosh this year, pilot Ray Walker approached with, "Man, have I got a story for you!" ... and so it began. Ray was
flying his float-equipped ACA Scout at 6,500 feet (and a blistering 100 mph) out of Texas for Oshkosh when the unusual struck. Ray's wife was "asleep in back" when suddenly a window popped open. In
the brief mayhem that followed, Ray successfully convinced his wife (who temporarily lost her headset) they were not crashing, but also lost his cellphone, forever ... or so he thought. More than a
mile below in the remote corner where Missouri meets Illinois and Iowa lay the town of Peaksville, Mo. Population: 20. Fortunately for all, one of its residents is 68-year-old George Gilbert. On a
freshly mowed lawn, Gilbert walked between his home and a trailer, and there it was. "We just got through mowing and everything ... the phone looked like it just fell out of someone's pocket,"
George's son Ray told AVweb last week. The senior Gilbert brought the phone to the house, thinking it belonged to a family member. Though none recognized it, a family member did have an
appropriate charger. Soon Walker's father was found in the phone's contact list and phoned, then Ray. The Gilberts sent the (still in tact and working) phone off for $14.40. The Walkers responded with
a check for $50, an invitation to visit them in Texas, and their blessings. At Oshkosh, Ray Walker joked, "I drop the thing on the table and the battery goes one way, the phone, another. But from
6,500..." For the Gilbert family, "It's been an exciting thing," Ray Gilbert's son George told us. "It blew our minds." Special thanks to Ray Walker and Ray Gilbert for taking the time to share the
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The TSA says a Cape Air pilot is not a
security threat after all, settling a lawsuit...
NASA and the U.S. Air Force this week formed an aeronautics research partnership to cooperate on
studies of advanced aircraft design, propulsion, materials, and aviation safety...
It could take 20 years to perfect missile-defense systems for airliners, according to a government report obtained by The Associated Press...
The ILS at LAX failed on Monday under overcast skies, cutting the available
landing slots in half and causing delays across the country...
Chalk's Ocean Airways will return to the air today,
flying from Florida to the Bahamas for the first time since a fatal seaplane crash in December.
 Drop us a line. If it caught your attention, it will probably interest someone else, too. Submit news tips via email to
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Find all of today's stories in AVweb's: NewsWire
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This Week's Question
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Last Week's Results
PREVIOUS RESULTS ***
There's been a lot of buzz around Cessna's LSA announcement.
Last week, AVweb asked if the news would lead you to reconsider buying a
Sport Plane — of if it would change your attitude toward buying into LSA
at all.
Of the 600 AVweb readers who answer, 29% of you said the Cessna news
didn't affect you at all. I don't plan on purchasing an
LSA, you told us.
At the other end of the spectrum, 12% of you were ready and willing
to follow Cessna into the Light Sport arena, as long as the prices stay
under $100K.
What did our other respondents think?
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Past POTW Winners
This week's "POTW" competition was fierce! We're tempted to say
it wasn't pretty, but — well, the photos are kinda pretty.
Especially the one from Jeffrey Austin Randall
of Clyde, Texas, who takes our top spot this week. As our weekly
winner, Jeffrey will receive an official AVweb baseball hat and the
undying adoration of tens of thousands of AVweb readers. (Don't
get too excited, Jeffrey — we'll stand behind the hat, but we can't
promise the adoration.)
With just under a hundred photos in this week's competition, we
expected it to be a little easier to pick a winner — but a full 30 shots
made it into our "final ten" round, and whittling the contenders down to
just eight photos took some work. Remember: If you'd like to
see your photos here (and maybe even in the top spot), you have to
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There's No Place Like Home ...
Jeffrey Austin Randall of Clyde,
Texas takes home top honors this week. Up against stiff
competition from stunning skylines, innovative new aircraft, and even a
few heart-stopping air show photos, Jeffrey pulled out a "POTW" top spot
with the power of sheer natural beauty.
The subject here is Abilene Regional Airport's ATC tower. Passing
showers left the rainbow, and the setting sun did the rest of the work.
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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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Just Ripped Off the Mast
The Outback Blimp rises to flight in this photo from
Brad Donahy of Odessa, Texas.
Brad snapped this shot from on top of the mooring mast as the Blimp was
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Prop Positioned
We can just imagine the hard-hearted, action-starved souls out there in
front of their computers asking, "What's with all the natural majesty
this week? How about some excitment?" To which we
respond:
Max Haynes of Maple Grove, Minnesota
is back! In case you don't recognize the name, Max drops by once
in a while to grace us with some truly amazing shots of
Commemorative Air Force planes and pilots.
Here, Mike Henningsen in the P-51 Big Beautiful Doll "gazes
through the prop of Gunfighter, flown by Larry Lumpkin."
Max also credits Scott Romuld as the pilot of the camera plane (a T-6)
and tells this photo comes from a recent open house held by the Great
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In the wake of all that excitement, what can we do but return to the
natural beauty of a remote setting? How about we travel
(metaphorically, at least) to the Swiss Alps, where
Silvio Refondini of Lausanne, Vaud
Suisse (Switzerland) has a lovely A109K2 waiting for us.
And hurry up — we don't want Silvio to leave us behind!
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I'm Watching You
We thought we'd seen just about every paint job imaginable at Oshkosh
this year — but here's one we missed! Thankfully,
John Clear of Santa Clara,
California snapped a shot of this anti-sub SH-60 and sent it to us as
part of this week's "POTW" contest.
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Fun at the Airshow
From the high-tech, state-of-the-art sights at Oshkosh to the, uh —
decidedly low-tech.
Jerry Milek of Mississauga, Ontario
(Canada) caught this fellow "clowing during breaks" at the Aviatic
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Staggerwing Rainbow over Oshkosh
"Two rainbow shots in the same week?" Settle down, Beavis —
we couldn't pass up this one from Tim Loehrke
of Herndon, Virginia.
If it makes you feel any better, this Staggerwing was parked in the
vintage area at Oshkosh a couple of weeks ago, so you can think of it as
a "AirVenture picture" if the thought of two "rainbow pictures" is too
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Late Night Preparations for an Early Morning Launch
Steve Fisher of Simi Valley,
California writes: "Working into the evening hours, this view caught my eye as I walked back to my hangar. Plane in the foreground is my Sky Dancer (one of a kind). Background plane is a
Bakeng Duce I share with my partner, Sonny Myers."
Time to turn out the lights, Steve. We'll see you (and everyone)
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To enter next week's contest,
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A Reminder About Copyrights: Please take a moment to consider the
source of your image before submitting to our "Picture of the Week" contest.
If you did not take the photo yourself, ask yourself if you are indeed
authorized to release publication rights to AVweb. If you're uncertain,
consult the
POTW
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