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December 5, 2012
By The AVweb Editorial Staff
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The FAA has ordered inspections of Boeing 787 aircraft after improperly installed fuel line hardware was discovered on in-service aircraft and on the production line. The inspections were ordered
after two airlines reported fuel leaks on their Dreamliners. The agency gave airlines a week to check the lockwires and another two weeks to look at the connectors. Boeing said half of the 38
airplanes that have been delivered have been checked and they're working on a production-line fix.
"Certainly we would prefer not to have workmanship issues," Boeing spokeswoman Lori Gunter told the Seattle Times. "But the system finds them, we report them and we develop a solution." The inspections came as the FAA was investigating an emergency landing of a United
Airlines 787 in New Orleans on Tuesday. The aircraft was on its way to Newark when it diverted to New Orleans with an undisclosed "mechanical problem." Gunter said the diversion had nothing to do with
the fuel issue, however.
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Pilot's Guide to Avionics Now Available
The 2012-13 edition of the Aircraft Electronics Association's Pilot's Guide to Avionics is now available. To request a complimentary copy,
visit AEAPilotsGuide.net. 
This special 10th anniversary edition is a consumer's directory containing buyer's guides, educational articles and timely information about the avionics industry, its products and its people. The
publication helps pilots make better buying decisions and locate more than 1,300 AEA member companies, including government-certified repair stations around the world.
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The Middle East Business Aviation show starts Dec. 11 in Dubai and while the market has cooled in that part of the world it's still expected to be a big show. There are still plenty of people in
that part of the world with the resources to buy or replace aircraft and the show organizers make a point of stressing that they're attracting high-net-worth individuals, government reps and corporate
decision-makers. Hundreds of exhibitors will have booths at the show and there will be about 30 aircraft in the static display. For the first time this year there will be a U.S. Pavilion and there is
a strong U.S. presence at the show.
Hawker Beechcraft, Eclipse and Cirrus will all be there, along with dozens of service and support businesses. Neither Piper nor Cessna are listed among the exhibitors. The static display will be
dominated by heavy iron. Airbus will have three airliner-based bizjets on the ramp, including ACJ318, 319 and 320 models. Boeing will have a BBJ and Gulfstream, Bombardier and Embraer will have all
their biggest models there.
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New technology now available will help pilots better cope with bad weather in the mountains near Montrose, in the western part of Colorado, the FAA said this week. The Wide Area Multilateration
(WAM) system makes it possible for air traffic controllers to track aircraft in mountainous areas that lack radar coverage, the FAA said. "This system will allow pilots to fly search and rescue
missions in weather conditions that would have previously kept them grounded," said Michael Huerta, acting FAA administrator. The system also will enable pilots to land in conditions that previously
caused diversions or flight delays, Huerta said.
WAM is a NextGen technology that tracks aircraft using a network of small sensors deployed in remote areas, the FAA said. Aircraft transponders receive and send back signals to these sensors.
System computers immediately analyze those signals and determine the aircraft's precise location. The system has also been deployed in Alaska and in Canada. WAM is being used in the near-term until
ADS-B is fully deployed, according to the FAA. WAM will then serve as a backup to ADS-B in case of a GPS outage, and also will provide an additional surveillance source for ADS-B traffic
broadcasts.
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The Biggest Aviation Show on the Planet ... Is Back!
The award-winning hit TV series The Aviators is back for an all-new third season showcasing everything from the F-22 and DC-3 to LSA and balloons. We take you dogfighting in the Nevada
desert, flying with the USAF Thunderbirds, and look on as Mötley Crue frontman Vince Neil learns to fly. Join our 10 million weekly US viewers and countless more worldwide.
Watch The Aviators on PBS, iTunes, Amazon, and Hulu.
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Good for Africa, Good for China, Good for
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Growing trade ties between African countries and China may further fuel the already-buoyant market for long-range business jets. As oil- and resource-rich areas in Africa like Nigeria and
Mozambique develop their economies, the demand for consumer goods made in China is on the increase. However, airline service between Africa and China is an expensive and time-consuming process,
creating the perfect set of circumstances for the right aircraft.
For instance, it's about 6,100 nautical miles between Matola, Mozambique, on the great circle route and that's just within reach of the largest Bombardier, Dassault and Gulfstream aircraft, not to
mention airliner-based bizjets. VistaJet's announced purchase of up to 142 Bombardier Global business jets last week was made with those types of markets in mind. "A fair amount of the [aircraft]
order is allocated to the Asian market," VistaJet Chairman Thomas Flohr said.
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Solar Impulse, the record-setting solar-electric aircraft built by Bertrand Piccard and his team in Switzerland, will visit the U.S. next year, according to a 60 Minutes report that aired on Sunday. The aircraft will launch from California and
fly across the country to Virginia. No details have been released about the planned itinerary or public displays. Piccard's team is on track to attempt an around-the-world solar-powered flight in
2015, according to the report. That flight will take 20 days and 20 nights, in a new second-generation aircraft now under construction.
Solar Impulse flew about 1,500 miles from Switzerland to Morocco in June, and in 2011 the aircraft
visited the Paris Air Show. Sunday's 60 Minutes report, hosted by correspondent Bob Simon, stumbled over
aviation minutiae in the opening remarks. As all AVweb readers surely know, Charles Lindbergh was not "the first to fly over the Atlantic." Many also would dispute the statement that "the
Wright brothers [were] the first men to fly," since that overlooks more than 100 years of lighter-than-air flights.
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Resident blogger Paul Bertorelli admits that he's such an unimaginative laggard — not to mention cheap — that he struggled for days to decide what would be in his hangar when the
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