EAGLE Leadership Posts Unleaded Avgas Update After Meeting With Stakeholders Leaders of the “industry/government EAGLE initiative” publicly released the group’s June 23 “Joint Industry/FAA Statement” to stakeholders and interested parties this morning. EAGLE (Eliminate Aviation Gasoline Lead Emissions) reported that stakeholders included “a wide range of more than 100 aviation[…] Read this article
Top Guns: The Market For Owner-Flown Citation Jets SPONSORED CONTENT — In the high-flying world of single-pilot corporate aircraft, jetAVIVA brokers Mickea Smith and Denise Wilson are standouts. The Fort Worth-based Smith is an aviation professional with commercial, multi-engine, seaplane, and instrument ratings, and she’s within an eyelash[…] Read this article
Wind Shear When the jet age arrived in 1959, little was known about wind shear. Aviation was focused on thunderstorm avoidance. In Joseph George’s compilation of Eastern Air Line’s forecasting techniques from that era, we find thunderstorms described in terms of turbulence,[…] Read this article
U.S. Air Force Announces Progress On First Major Helmet Update Since 1980s LIFT Airborne Technologies has been chosen to continue prototype development of a new helmet for U.S. Air Force fixed-wing aircrew members. “The current helmet was based on 1980s design,” said Scott Cota, an analyst attached to the Air Combat Command[…] Read this article
Clarification: A Financial Market Analyst Takes A Look At Light Sport Aviation Companies in the sport aircraft business segment are probably not used to being analyzed by financial market specialists. But news source The Voice of the South cited a report from market watchdog HNY Research that the global market for this[…] Read this article
General Aviation Accident Bulletin, June 27, 2022 AVweb’s General Aviation Accident Bulletin is taken from the pages of our sister publication, Aviation Safety magazine. All the reports listed here are preliminary and include only initial factual findings about crashes. You can learn more about the final probable[…] Read this article
