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Once I got the drain on the mechanical pump I ran it over to the firewall and had it exit next to the electric fuel pump drain. The next day, I was talking to Malcolm and he mentioned that he likes to combine those two lines to avoid the forest of drains poking out the bottom of the fuselage. Thats all I needed to hear. When Malcolm Collier of Hangar 18 expresses a preference about something related to building a Velocity, its pretty much always ...

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US-based Bristow Group take over operations from RAF and Royal Navy with contract worth around 3bn An official announcement on the US-based company that will take over Britain's helicopter search and rescue operations is expected today. The government has awarded the contract to run the service to the Bristow Group, which has its headquarters in Texas. The announcement which was previously reported by the Guardian will bring to an end 70 years of ...

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A report released today by the ATSB identifies important opportunities to improve the safety of amateur-built aircraft in Australia. Over the past three decades, amateur-built aircraft (aircraft built for personal use from an original design, established plans or kit, which are not entirely built and assembled in a factory) have become increasingly popular in Australia. This is the first detailed examination of their safety record. The ATSBs rese ...

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Why have we done this report In the last three decades, Australia has seen a significant growth in the number of amateur-built aeroplanes (aircraft built for personal use from an original design, established plans or kit, which are not entirely built and assembled in a factory). However, the safety record of amateur-built aircraft in Australia had not been robustly established. What did this report do The ATSB investigated the safety history of a ...

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Air France-KLM has confirmed that its management veteransgroup chairman and CEO Jean-Cyril Spinetta and vice-chairman and deputy CEO Leo van Wijkwill step down July 1. In a widely anticipated move, Spinetta and Van Wijk confirmed the plans to Air France-KLMs board meeting Monday. Current Air France CEO Alexandre de Juniac has been named as the new chairman and CEO of Air France-KLM Group and outgoing KLM CEO Peter Hartman will take on the role of ...

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Embraer says that it has successfully completed a critical design review (CDR) for its KC-390 tactical transport and tanker aircraft in conjunction with the Brazilian air force. The review was completed on 22 March, the company says. "We have concluded an important stage of the KC-390 programme and, therefore, we gave an accounting to the FAB [Brazilian air force] of the work done. We will now begin the production phase of the prototypes," says L ...

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Southwest Airlines announced Monday it will begin one nonstop route between Chicago Midway International Airport and Spokane International Airport, starting June 2. The new service includes legs to and from Chicago to Jacksonville, Fla. The morning flights come from Florida to Chicago, then continue to Spokane. The same option, the other direction, allows no-change, one-stop flights from GEG to Jacksonville, said Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins. ...

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The UK government has published its Aviation Policy Framework document, which is intended as a set of guidelines for the nations air transport industry. The publication, a successor to the 2003 Air Transport White Paper, is more limited in scope than its predecessor. Daily News

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Boeing's much-feted 787 Dreamliner returned to the skies today for the first time since January, when it was grounded by the FAA. It was the first of two flights designed to test recent changes to the plane's lithium-ion battery, which had previously caused a number of mid-flight fires . The test flight went off without a hitch, taking off from Paine Field in Everett, Washington and flying for two hours, 300 miles down the Pacific coast and back ...

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A Boeing 787 flew today for the first time since 11 February and only the second time since the fleet was grounded more than two months ago. The 135min, functional check flight from Paine Field in Washington used a LOT-ordered 787 and included Boeing 's improved battery and enclosure designs in the aft and forward electrical equipment bays. But the flight test was limited by design to stop short of validating the design changes required to re-cer ...