G100UL Approved: Now What? On Sept. 1, 2022, the FAA finally approved the first unleaded 100-octane aviation fuel, GAMI’s G100UL. Now things get complicated as companies have to figure out how to market and distribute the fuel in a universe where 100LL hasn’t been[…] Read this article
British Red Arrows Pilot Survives Bird Strike At 100 Feet, 400 MPH A British Royal Air Force demonstration pilot was both lucky and good during a Welsh airshow performance on Aug. 28. Red Arrows Squadron Leader Gregor Osten—aka Red 6—was making an opposition pass in his Hawk T1-A jet with his counterpart[…] Read this article
Diamond Twin Star Overturned by 54-Knot Gusts; One Killed A freak microburst at Orlando Executive Airport (KORL) overturned a Diamond DA42 Twin Star on Thursday evening, Sept. 1, killing one of the two on board. Another parked aircraft also overturned. The DA42 was holding short of Runway 7 when[…] Read this article
GAMI On What's Next For G100UL Avgas On Sept. 1, 2022, the FAA finally approved STCs for General Aviation Modifications Inc.’s G100UL unleaded aviation fuel. In this video interview conducted by AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli, George Braly and Tim Roehl explain what happens next. Read this article
Citation Suffers Apparent Pressurization Failure, Crashes In Baltic Sea Searchers have found debris and human remains at the assumed crash site of a Cessna Citation II SP off the coast of Latvia. Lt. Cmdr. Peteris Subbota, head of the Latvian military’s Marine Search and Rescue Coordination Centre, told The[…] Read this article
Short Final: 'After You!' In the early 1980s, when I was an admissions recruiter for East Coast Aero Technical School (now part of the National Aviation Academy network) at Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts, I was on my way to nearby Beverly Airport to[…] Read this article
