Coming Airworthiness Directive Expected to Ground All Airworthy B-17s Last Saturday (April 15), the Yankee Air Museum announced it was grounding its World War II-vintage Boeing B-17G “Yankee Lady” in anticipation of an FAA Airworthiness Directive (AD), expected within a few weeks. Online sources, including a detailed article at[…] Read this article
Southwest Airlines Again Suffers Delays; Equipment Issues Cited CNN and multiple other news outlets are reporting that 1,820 Southwest Airlines flights were delayed this morning (April 18) when, the airline said, “data connection issues resulting from a firewall failure” led to a temporary ground stop. According to an[…] Read this article
Diamond Aircraft Announces Dedicated Engine Testing Program For SAF So far, at least, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is limited to the jet fuel set, which has kept most piston-powered aircraft out of the conversation. A notable exception is the fleet of Austro-Engine-powered Diamond Aircraft models, which burn jet fuel[…] Read this article
FlightSafety International Ups Its Display Game With Vital Upgrade With a half-century of history developing flight simulators and visual systems technology, training provider FlightSafety International (FSI) has introduced its latest advancement. The next-generation Vital system has been developed by FSI partner Unreal Engine and provides “an extremely photorealistic simulation[…] Read this article
Women In Aviation International Announces Scholarship Winner Pilar Wolfsteller, winner of this year’s Women in Aviation International Martha King Scholarship for a Female Flight Instructor, recalled her high school physics teacher’s reaction back in the 1980s when she expressed an interest in flying: “You’re too dumb to[…] Read this article
Short Final: Vectors On a recent LightHawk flight, we were approaching Willow Run, Michigan, just before sunset. The weather was clear enough for a visual approach to 23, but with the hour and the abundance of airports we hadn’t seen before, we thought[…] Read this article
