The News Review:
- New company to get Eclipse Aviation assets
- Air Controller Gave No Warning in Hudson Crash
- Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum — McMinnville R
- Crash kills ‘aviation entrepreneur’
- Inspector General Questions Value of Some Airport Stimulus Projects
New company to get Eclipse Aviation assets
Bizjournals.com
_87BDB225FD48478B8A5D7DA1E1BC3FC8. which filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy last March is about to be resurrected under the new name Eclipse Aerospace. The new company headed by Mason Holland Jr. chairman of insurance benefits software company Benefitfocus of Charleston S. was the sole bidder on Eclipse's assets when the deadline for bids came due at noon on Friday Aug.
Air Controller Gave No Warning in Hudson Crash
New York Times
This timing leaves the possibility that the plane’s pilot was preoccupied with tuning the radio rather than looking out the window in an area where the main means of avoiding collision is a technique called “see and avoid” just as the controller may have been preoccupied with a call to an employee in the airport’s operations department. A supervisor who was supposed to be present was not. The Federal Aviation Administration which employs air traffic controllers said in a statement on Thursday evening that it was suspending the air traffic controller and his supervisor but that “we have no reason to believe at this time that these actions contributed to the accident. ” n Friday the safety board pointedly did not concur. “The role that air traffic control might have played in this accident will be determined by the N.
Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum — McMinnville R
Seattle Post Intelligencer
It has undergone several name changes and is now called the H-4 Hercules — but the world knows it as the Spruce Goose. Intended to fly hundreds of troops on each flight or two tanks it came to fruition at the end of WW II and so was never placed into production. After a colorful history Evergreen Aviation purchased the aircraft after promising to house it inside a museum building. Credit and thanks should also be given to Evergreen Aviation and a host of volunteers for completely restoring the flying boat. Entry into the museum also offers limited entry onto the plane’s main deck compartment where one can view forward and aft into the fuselage. A tour of the overlying flight deck is offered for an added fee and is good for up to five people per ticket.
Crash kills ‘aviation entrepreneur’
The Press Association
“Michael Robert Dacre 53 was killed when the plane he was test flying went down during take-off from an airstrip in Taiping Malaysian police said. Mr Dacre was flying a Jetpod aircraft developed by his own UK-based company AVCEN when the crash happened. The plane which was being tried out at Tekah airstrip near the northern town is being developed to take off and land in short distances and cruise at low levels at 500km-per-hour. It would need only 125 meters (135 yards) to take-off or land allowing runways to be constructed close to the centre of major cities and would be quiet enough to not be noticeable above city traffic.
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Inspector General Questions Value of Some Airport Stimulus Projects
New York Times
The advisory found that the Federal Aviation Administration had awarded $38. 5 million to low-priority airport projects of questionable economic merit and that it had awarded $15 million more to four airports whose operators had been cited in the past for trouble managing federal grants. The aviation agency selected the projects as part of a $1. 1 billion stimulus program for improving airports around the nation. Two of the airports the inspector general cited were in Alaska.