The FAA will assemble an aviation rulemaking committee to provide the agency with recommendations for allowing routine flights of drones beyond an operator’s visual line of sight, Administrator Steve Dickson said June 9.
The FAA has issued an emergency order revoking the ability of Universal Flight Services, based in Sarasota, Florida, to charge passengers for flights and the pilot certificate of its owner for allegedly conducting illegal charter flights, the FAA said.
Ali Bahrami spent most of his time as head of FAA’s safety and certification activities under intense scrutiny following fatal Boeing 737 MAX accidents in October 2018 and March 2019.
Pfizer Inc.’s corporate aviation department helped reduce the amount of time the company needed to gain emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine by about two weeks, according to its director.
Under the proposed budget, the FAA would spend $2.4 million in the coming fiscal year to place “senior representatives” in the UK, Mexico, Poland and somewhere in Southeast Asia.
The FAA plans to transition a new rocket tracking capability from test to operational status in June, providing a way to reduce flight disruptions as the pace of commercial space launches increases.
Millions of years ago when the Earth was warmer, alligators and crocodiles lived in Greenland. Should the Earth continue on its expected warming path, alligators could return to the Arctic and whether the Earth could feed its people would be in question, Anthony Patt, professor of climate policy at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, said during a European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition Connect webinar.
A coalition of several dozen aviation organizations showed strong support for a recently introduced bill that would establish a blender’s tax credit for sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).
The coalition of two-dozen organizations representing a broad cross-section of the aviation industry called on U.S. lawmakers to help decarbonize air travel as part of a broad infrastructure spending package now under consideration on Capitol Hill.