The plane, a Piper PA 34 aircraft, went down shortly after 5 p.m. Friday, about a half-mile west of the town of Caroga, near the Royal Mountain Campsites, in woods near Route 29, Fulton County sheriff's office and the Federal Aviation Administration said. The Associated Press, quoting Sheriff Thomas Lorey, said the flight was an Angel Flight, which provide transport for sick patients in critical condition. The plane left from Hanscom Field in Bedford, Mass., and was headed to Rome in Oneida… (www.timesunion.com) More...
Court decision on compensation after Iceland volcano scrubbed flights spurs debate in Europe, U.S. EIPZIG, Germany – Compensation abroad for airline passengers whose flights are canceled is changing with the smoke of a European volcano. Europe has a generous compensation policy, which forces airlines to give each passenger as much as $775 when a flight is canceled. (www.usatoday.com) More...
AOPA on May 22 denounced an FAA plan to charge the Experimental Aircraft Association for the travel costs, per diem expenses, and overtime pay of the air traffic controllers it deploys to staff EAA AirVenture, the association’s annual aviation fly-in, expo, and airshow, which is also the largest gathering of civil aircraft in the world. (www.aopa.org) More...
From Youtube: "Three high definition cameras were mounted to my Beechcraft Bonanza when the engine quit on takeoff from Fairbanks Alaska on July 26th 2012, One was pointed forward, one to the right side, and one to the rear. All three cameras caught the crash as it happened in HD. Both people on board survived with only minor injuries, but the airplane didn't." (www.youtube.com) More...
On the day that United Airlines re-launched Boeing 787 commercial service from the airline’s hub in Houston, the carrier has provided details of new 787 services it plans to begin this summer. (www.airlinesanddestinations.com) More...
Former presidents George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton all have airports named for them. So do former cabinet secretaries John Foster Dulles and Norman Y. Mineta and celebrities as varied as John Wayne, Bob Hope, Louis Armstrong, Will Rogers and Arnold Palmer. There's also a long-held tradition of naming airports, airfields and terminals for people with links to aviation history. Here are a dozen to explore. (www.usatoday.com) More...
The $6,200,000,000 redesign of the F-35B has borne fruit with the first vertical takeoff and landing of the F-35B. Projected unit cost of at least $112M a copy, but nice video, so I guess it's worth it. (www.youtube.com) More...
