SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2006--Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation (SSAC) announced today the completion of another major milestone for the SJ30 business jet. The final flight test in ...

Simplex manufacturing has been selected by Battelle to develop a large internal water tank for the CH47 Chinook Helicopter. The tank will be a component in a new airframe icing test system called the ...

An SLD Guard installed on a wing surface is tested in a wind tunnel. CAV Ice Protection Pilots operating aircraft into known icing conditions must always guard against an encounter with super-cooled ...

Airframe icing doesn’t need extreme cold or dramatic clouds to become a problem. In this flight, light but persistent ice formed at a temperature many pilots wouldn’t immediately associate with danger ...

The US Federal Aviation Admini­stration is proposing new certification standards for detecting and coun­tering airframe ice on new transport category aircraft. The notice of proposed rulemaking comes ...

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Center for Research and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (Cenipa) said yesterday that a preliminary report into the August crash of a Voepass airliner ...

The FAA on Monday will propose a new rule that would require airlines operating aircraft with maximum take off weight (MTOW) of less than 60,000lb (27,216kg) to begin using equipment and or procedures ...

Federal safety investigators said Wednesday the flight data recorder from last month's air crash near Buffalo, N.Y., shows the plane's stall warning system had activated before the accident and that ...

CLEVELAND — NASA’s Glenn Research Center has awarded contracts to three companies to provide propulsion airframe integration and airframe systems technologies in support of the agency’s aerospace ...