FAA Bill Stalled At Senate Committee After a promising start on Wednesday, the process to reauthorize funding for the FAA came to a halt Thursday when the Senate Commerce Science and Transportation Committee indefinitely postponed markup of its bill. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed[…] Read this article
Cirrus Plans An IPO When CubCrafters announced the novel idea of raising capital through a public stock offering last year, I think the general reaction was, well, that’s creative. Now along comes Cirrus with its own IPO plans, this time on the Hong Kong[…] Read this article
Poll: Would You Buy Shares In A Small Airplane Company? Read this article
Best Of The Web: Things Flight Instructors Get Wrong We’re a fan of physicist Scott Manley’s spaceflight-focused YouTube channel. Now that he’s working on his private certificate he has discovered certain … umm … anomalies in the way instructors explain things. This includes the deadly blackhole of why wings[…] Read this article
Engine Mix-up Led To 737 Ditching The NTSB says the crew of a first-generation Boeing 737 that ditched in the ocean off Honolulu on July 2, 2021, mixed up which engine was underperforming on the plane and steadily reduced power to the good engine while trying[…] Read this article
Flying Wild Pilot Jim Tweto Killed In Crash Legendary Alaska bush pilot Jim Tweto has been confirmed as one of two men who died in the crash of a Cessna 180 near Unalakleet, Alaska, on June 16. Tweto was flying the 180 and the other victim was Idaho[…] Read this article
Diamond Flies Dart-750 Turboprop Trainer Diamond Aircraft flew its DART-750 military trainer test article for the first time on June 12 and, as expected, all went well. The longish thin-winged hot rod sports a 750-horsepower Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-25C and is billed as an[…] Read this article
Top Letters And Comments, June 16, 2023 FAA To Require Secondary Flight Deck Barrier This is a response to 9/11. It’s sobering to think that new college students (and even 19-year-olds) today do not remember this event: to them, it is something they learned about in history[…] Read this article
