I know your aviation lobbyist group is based in Washington State and therefore has little direct staff knowledge about the UNC Horace Williams Airport (IGX) situation in the Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill area of North Carolina as you continue to rally to your members. However, you should at least know that the safety systems at […]
A simple fix
To Charles Spence, Capital Comments: I read with interest your ongoing articles concerning user fees. Perhaps I am missing something, but it seems to me that Congress is trying to fix something that’s not broken.If the FAA indeed needs more operating capital, why not very simply add a few cents to each gallon of fuel […]
On the Skyhawk and wing warping
Dear writers in General Aviation News dated April 7, 2006: Meg Godlewski’s cover (Cessna’s 172 Skyhawk at 50 Years Young) and Thomas F. Norton (Pioneers of Aviation): I found the article about the Cessna 172, known as the Skyhawk, to be either a little incomplete or a bit inaccurate because according to “The Legend of […]
Special meaning
Thank you and Larry Bledsoe for the Art Report in the March 24 issue (Black Cat gets stamp of approval). I was in the 466th Bomb Group in England when the B-24 “Black Cat” was lost, so this article by Larry Bledsoe has a special meaning to me. Jim Walston via email
Today’s problems have been decades in the making
WASHINGTON, D.C. — One problem of being around an industry for a long time is that you remember what the worries were then and what was or was not done about them. Take airports and air traffic control, for instance. About 45 years ago, general aviation manufacturers were a part of the Washington-based Aerospace Industries […]
Is it a sticking valve? An induction leak?
QUESTION: I have a 1993 Glasair experimental that has a standard Lycoming 180 hp IO-360A1B (fuel injected). Some months ago, my #2 EGT suddenly started to climb to about 1480° in cruise and at altitude. The other cylinders stayed the same and have never changed. I tried all different power settings and still no change. […]
Can you hear me now?
Kip Pratt, director at Berkeley County Airport (50J) at Moncks Corner, S.C., recently wrote to let me know that my article, “”Stay safe while fueling your plane”” in the March 24 issue, would be posted around the airport “”in hopes that my tenants who use auto fuel will take heed.”” Kip Pratt, director at Berkeley […]
Boom time for Florida’s Palatka Airport
“This is not an airport. This is a business center,” says Glenn Ball, manager of Palatka Municipal Airport (28J) in northern Florida. “There’s a difference.” Everywhere you look around the city of Palatka, something is being built. Marinas, restaurants and motels are going up on the St. Johns River shores. Inland, it’s industrial buildings ranging […]
FAA revises VLJ forecast — downward
For some time now the FAA has been predicting that 8,700 very light jets would clog the air traffic control system by 2016, feeding the airline industry’s campaign for general aviation user fees. In recent weeks, however, some sort of realism has struck Washington, D.C. — at least at FAA headquarters — and the number […]