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The Latest News From EAA - Experimental Aircraft Association:
Too Early for EPA to Make Fuels Assessment
The Environmental Protection Agency currently does not have sufficient data to make a determination on lead emissions from aircraft engines, according to GA Avgas Coalition comments submitted by EAA and other aviation and petroleum associations to the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday.
The comments, submitted to the EPA's "Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking," were jointly signed by EAA and AOPA, GAMA, NBAA and NATA, as well as the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA). It was the next step in what will be a multi-year process to replace 100 low-lead with an unleaded fuel for general aviation.
Deja vu? King Skyhawk Also Mis-ID'd in January 2009
The airplane that prompted Santa Barbara, California, Police to detain John and Martha King of the King Schools on Saturday, August 28, was also misidentified as stolen in January 2009, prompting local police in Wichita, Kansas, to detain its pilot before things were straightened out, according to EAA contributor Max Trescott.
The Kings were detained at gunpoint Saturday by police and handcuffed when the airplane in which they had arrived at Santa Barbara Airport, a Cessna Skyhawk (172S) leased from Cessna Aircraft, was identified as a stolen airplane because it had the same registration number (N-50545) as a C-150 reported stolen in eight years ago from McKinney, Texas.
Police Chase Ends Next to Runway at Dallas Love Field
A high-speed police chase in Dallas last week (August 19) spilled onto the active runways and taxiways of Dallas's famed Love Field when carjacking suspect Michael Lawrence Brown rammed an airport fence in a stolen truck. The chase caused at least one go-around and forced the temporary closure of both parallel runways (13-31) at Love in the middle of the afternoon rush at this active airline and general aviation airport.
The Latest News From AOPA - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association:
Calif. legislature sends flight school reg delay to governor
The California Assembly overwhelmingly passed legislation Aug. 31 that would impose a moratorium on costly new flight training regulations in the state. The Senate had already adopted the bill, which now goes to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Land-use measure passes California legislature
California public-use airports would be assured the protection of an airport land-use commission under a bill passed by the state Assembly Aug. 30.
Aircraft financing program offers new lower rates
The AOPA Aircraft Financing Program's goal is to get pilots into the aircraft of their dreams. To help make aircraft ownership more attainable, the program just lowered its rates to make monthly payments more affordable.
The Latest News From Aero-News Network:
NASA Accepting Applications For Aeronautics Scholarships
Awards Of $15,000 To $35,000 Plus Stipends Available For Aeronautics Students NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is accepting scholarship applications for the 2011 academic year. The agency expects to award 20 undergraduate and five graduate scholarships to students in aeronautics or related fields.
Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Thursday 09.02.10
ANN Daily Touch-And-Go: 09.02.10 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 09.02.10 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature: Brian McCallen on PPCs at PRA - 09.02.10 (ANN Special Report, with Brian McCallen, airboss for the powered parachutes this summer at the Popular Rotorcraft Association's Convention & Fly-In)
Winners Announced In The X Prize Foundation/Lego Group 'MoonBots' Contest
Team Of Five 8th Graders Will Tour The Lego Factory In Denmark The X Prize Foundation, an educational non-profit organization that drives innovation through incentive prizes, and Lego Group, a manufacturer of play materials for children, on Wednesday announced the winners of MoonBots, a global educational contest.
The Latest News From AVweb:
Question of the Week: Is It Safe to Panic Yet
By now you've likely heard about John and Martha King being held at gunpoint by police in Santa Barbara last weekend. We've already heard from more than 100 readers about how they feel about the whole thing. Now, we want to know how you feel ? not about what happened to the Kings, but where GA fits in the whole scheme of security and crime.Plus: Last week, we asked AVweb readers about a mid-air collision between a radio-controlled model airplane and a biplane ? and whether than indicated a need for new regulations. Click through to see the breakdown of answers.
Picture of the Week: AVweb's Flying Photography Showcase
Your AirVenture photos continue to dominate the "POTW" submission box! This one, from John E. Rees of Blacklick, Ohio, is our latest baseball cap winner (and, incidentally, our current desktop wallpaper).
Swift Biomass Fuel Speed Record Attempt
Air Force veteran Richard Young will attempt, this Sept. 11, to establish a closed-course speed record using unleaded fuel developed by Swift Enterprises. Young will be flying his one-of-a-kind Western Air Racing Special, which is a "purpose built closed course pylon racer" that he flew at Reno in 2007, 2008, and 2009, according to his website. The current and applicable closed-course speed record for a piston-engine aircraft weighing between 300 and 500 kilograms was set in 2004 at 238 mph, according to Young. That aircraft burned conventional leaded avgas. Young hopes to run the course at 260 mph in his aircraft burning Swift's product and "verify the performance characteristics of clean burning bio fuel" at the same time. That could be difficult to do in one 62.1 mile stint flown at 260 mph (or about 15 minutes), but we'll be watching for whatever information the attempt produces.
AOPA's Helicopter BlogAOPA Pilot (blog)I have studied and written about helicopter accidents for most of my career. I believe many accidents contain valuable lessons that can help all of us be ... |
LSA, IFR, And IMC: An UpdateAVwebThat process could take until the end of this year or perhaps longer, Dan Johnson, chairman of the Light Aircraft Manufacturing Association, told AVweb on ... |
How the FAA Works Against SafetyAVweb (blog)I know by firsthand experience that AVweb finds its way into the upper reaches of the FAA's HQ at 800 Independence Avenue in Washington. ... |
EAA AirVenture 2010High Performance CompositesSource: EAA AirVenture Tied up at the EAA AirVenture's Seaplane venue at nearby Lake Winnebago, the amphibious ICON A5 (bottom photo) from ICON Aircraft ... |
A blast from aviation's pastTheDay.comThe restored World War II B-17G bomber "Aluminum Overcast', owned and operated by the Experimental Aircraft Association, is in New London on its 2010 ... and more » |
LSA, IFR, And IMC: An UpdateAVwebFor a while now, an ASTM committee that develops the standards for light sport aircraft to operate under instrument ... |
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