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11.01.2009		Editor’s Note: A Corner Turned I couldn’t help but feel patriotic at the Sept. 29 roll-out of the Gulfstream G650 in Savannah, Ga. There we stood, a gaggle of journalists on a makeshift platform, waiting just inside the hangar door of the cavernous new manufacturing building erected...
10.01.2009		Editor’s Note: The Business Case As we report in our preview of the 62nd National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) annual meeting and convention this month (page 22), organizers and exhibitors alike are bracing for a reduced event as the crisis continues in business aviation. There was...
09.01.2009		Editor’s Note: UAVs Unabated What a mood swing. Nigh on three months ago, we soldiered through the Paris Air Show, calling out the few bright spots at an otherwise glum centennial event. Last month’s Unmanned Systems North America 2009, put on by the Association for Unmanned...
08.01.2009		Editor’s Note: NowGen Next In a previous Editor’s Note and in the news section of this magazine, we have reported on the deliberations of the NextGen Mid-Term Implementation Task Force. Earlier this year, the FAA asked RTCA to establish this committee of industry and government...
07.01.2009		Editor’s Note It’s auspicious for NextGen that new FAA Administrator J. Randolph "Randy" Babbitt chose to make his first public speech outside of Congress at the RTCA Symposium in June. Babbitt is not a newcomer to the NextGen effort — prior to being...
06.01.2009		Editor’s Note: Task Force Meets The RTCA task force assigned the unenviable task of recommending "mid-term" NextGen operational capabilities to FAA, as in those capabilities that can be achieved by 2018, wasn’t given a lot of rope to work with. Conceived in January and...
05.01.2009		Editor’s Note: ARINC IA Meetings The AMC maintenance forum and the AEEC engineers consummated a merger of sorts with the first collocation of their annual meetings in recent times, an event held March 30 through April 2 in Minneapolis. From the perspective of someone who has attended several...
04.01.2009		Editor’s Note: Hotels And Bizjets I was comparing notes with my brother the other day about the sorry state of the economy. He’s an executive at a luxury resort in Florida. Nice place, to say the least. I’ve stayed there before (at a discount) and imagined: this is as good as it...
03.01.2009		Editor’s Note ADS-B Advances Somewhat under the radar (I hate to start with a cliché, but the days may be numbered for radar)... FAA’s NextGen air-traffic control modernization is progressing. Despite all that has transpired in the last year in aviation and...
02.01.2009		Opportunity Knocks Amidst the doom and gloom of the global financial meltdown, there are discernible signs of movement, at least within the avionics industry. In the stagnant economy we’ve inherited from Wall Street, companies can choose either to hunker down, contain...
01.01.2009		Editor’s Note: On Wing And Prayer It’s not often that I get to mention my favorite World War II aircraft in the pages of a 21st century technology magazine. So I was pleased when Marion C. Blakey, president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), provided an entrée...
12.01.2008		Editor’s Note: Working Together In a previous column, I remarked on some of the different aircraft I’ve been fortunate enough to fly aboard as an aviation journalist. Another perk of this job is the opportunity to visit some of the world’s great industrial plants, the facilities...
11.01.2008		Editor’s Note: Light Jets Burdened One of the interesting subplots of this year’s National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) convention in Orlando was the state of the light-to-Very Light Jet (VLJ) sectors. A year ago, we were quoting forecasts in the thousands of VLJs, but recent...
10.01.2008		Editor’s Note: Flying Machines You get to ride in some interesting flying machines on this job — always a treat for a guy who mainly flies a desk equipped with Apple Macintosh avionics. Since my last dispatch, I’ve added two aircraft to the portfolio, both relevant to the...
09.01.2008		Editor’s Note: While Rome Burned When Boeing interrupted its kickoff briefing at the Farnborough Airshow to announce a $4 billion order from start-up airline FlyDubai, I couldn’t help thinking, "is this really going to happen?" To me, it was analogous to a major-league sports...
08.01.2008		Editor’s Note: Tanker Tribulations Before June 18, I was fond of saying that one of the main beneficiaries of the contested KC-X tanker contract was The Washington Post. After Boeing filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) over the $35 billion-plus contract award to...
07.01.2008		Editor's Note: Sense Of Urgency Under pressure in its efforts to manage air-traffic growth, FAA appears to have a capable new commander in Hank Krakowski, the former United Airlines executive named last fall to head the agency’s Air Traffic Organization (ATO). Krakowski shows a...
06.01.2008		Editor’s Note: Software Standard Aerospace, like medicine, is an inexact science. The best-laid plans and remedies may not work as hoped or expected. Witness Boeing’s latest postponement of the 787 Dreamliner debut, calling into question its new business model of outsourcing the design...
05.01.2008		Editor’s Note: UAS In Civil Airspace For each of the past two years that I served as chairman of an avionics conference in Amsterdam, two prominent advocates of mainstreaming unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in civil airspace challenged, even cajoled the audience to get involved. The tag team of...
04.01.2008		Editor’s Note: All That It Seems? Is Singapore really all it seems? I was well aware of this island-nation’s reputation as a prosperous, orderly place before traveling there in February for what was billed as the first Singapore Airshow under new management. You’ll recall that the...
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