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• Going to the Moon Was Easy Compared To 100UL January 22, 2021
  The National Academies report on reducing lead in avgas is a trip through time. Unfortunately, it seems to always end back where it started. The post Going to the Moon Was Easy Compared To 100UL appeared first on AVweb.
  Paul Bertorelli
• Picture of the Week, January 21, 2021 January 21, 2021
  I shot this picture of Peter Donath flying his Globe Swift off the wing of my RV-8 on December 29, 2020. We were flying over the Catalina Channel off the coast of the the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California. I used a Nikon D800 with a 50mm lens and 1/100th shutter speed. Copyrighted photo […]
  Editorial Staff
• magniX Moves To Everett January 21, 2021
  Aerospace electric propulsion systems company magniX has announced that it is moving its global headquarters from Redmond to Everett, Washington. According to the company, it also plans to relocate all of its Australia and Redmond operations to Everett, which boasts a new 40,000-square-foot engineering, manufacturing and testing facility. magniX says consolidating operations has “resulted in […]
  Kate O'Connor
• Airbus Updates 2021 Production Rates January 21, 2021
  Airbus has announced that its production rates will remain lower for longer than originally anticipated in response to the current market environment. The company now plans to raise A320 family production rates from 40 per month to 43 a month in the third quarter of 2021 and 45 a month in the fourth quarter. Airbus […]
  Kate O'Connor
• Sriwijaya Air Crash Probe Eyes Autothrottle January 21, 2021
  Investigators are looking into the possibility that an autothrottle problem contributed to the fatal crash of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 near Jakarta, Indonesia, on Jan. 9, 2021. While the data has not been made public, information from the Boeing 737-500’s flight data recorder allegedly indicates that the system was causing one engine to produce more […]
  Kate O'Connor