GA Airports Get $20 Million For ATC Upgrades General aviation airports will get a $20 million slice of the Biden administration’s infrastructure funding with 33 grants to 29 facilities to improve air traffic control equipment. The funding specifically targets airport-owned towers. Most of the grants are in the[…] Read this article
Rotax and CubCrafters: Let's Hear It For Putting Light Back Into Light Aircraft When I was but a tender student pilot, my instructor put three of us in a brand-new airplane to fly around North Carolina to complete our cross-country work. The airplane was sleek, sexy and had eyeball vents, just like an[…] Read this article
Sun 'n Fun 2023: CubCrafters Unveils The New Carbon Cub UL One of the most long-lived LSA designs is CubCrafters’ Carbon Cub. From the outset, it has been a light, well-powered design and now, the company is upping the ante again. At Sun ‘n Fun 2023, it took the wraps off[…] Read this article
Takeoff Aborted In 'Abundance Of Caution' There were some frayed nerves and shredded tires but no injuries when a New Orleans tower controller ordered a Delta A321 to abort its takeoff on Friday night. “An air traffic controller canceled the takeoff clearance for Delta Air Lines[…] Read this article
Canada Likely To Buy 16 P-8s Canada is poised to buy 16 P-8A Poseidon long-range patrol aircraft for about $5 billion to replace an aging and troublesome fleet of its version of the P-3, the CP-140 Aurora. In spite of protests from Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier,[…] Read this article
Lockheed Martin Invests In Potential Sea Skimming Assault Craft Lockheed Martin is dipping a toe in the sea of electric aircraft offerings with “major investment” in the ground effect sea skimming Regent Seaglider. The unusual application has gathered a reported 400 orders, mostly from airlines that have a lot[…] Read this article
