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Backtalk 06/18/09
received national attention when a plane piloted by commercial pilot and Purdue alumnus Charles "Sully" Sullenberger was hit by a flock of Canadian geese and forced to land in the Hudson River. Gene Rhodes, a professor of forestry and natural resources, documented that animals got onto to airports...
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ASAP's Getting Zapped
summarizes what happened that morning now almost two years ago. A transcript of the cockpit voice recorder was printed in the August 2006 issue of Business & Commercial Aviation. From the evidence it's clear that Comair 5191's crew violated the FAA's sterile cockpit rule (FAR Part 121.542...
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SmartMovesTM Spotlights: Gammil/Statler Stitcher (.pdf)
, Indiana, with their line of CNC. routing equipment, automated notching equip-. ment and CNC cut-off saws. Stephen Johnson, President at CMM, a. SPOTLIGHTS. division of JIT Distributing, says "Most commercial grade. Galil controller enables CNC routing to provide precise. vinyl today includes UV...
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SmartMovesTM Spotlights: JIT/CMM (.pdf)
, Indiana, with their line of CNC. routing equipment, automated notching equip-. ment and CNC cut-off saws. Stephen Johnson, President at CMM, a. SPOTLIGHTS. division of JIT Distributing, says "Most commercial grade. Galil controller enables CNC routing to provide precise. vinyl today includes UV...
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Caught in a Valley
it comes to certification engine-out performance. - When planning a departure, the light-twin pilot should think beyond the airport fence. Caught in a Valley | AVIATION WEEK. Commercial Aviation. Defense. MRO. Space. Business Aviation. INDUSTRY SEARCH: Find Companies, Products or Services. Search...
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A Seat At ATC's Table
the doors and down the glass-lined corridor into the lobby that leads to the FAA's ATC System Command Center. But unless you can produce the proper ID once again, the large security guard with the firearm strapped to his hip won't let you by. A Seat At ATC''s Table | AVIATION WEEK. Commercial...
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Safety Management Systems for Business Aviation
proliferation, subscribes to this point of view. "In Canada," he told Business & Commercial Aviation, "SMSes are coming over the fence from commercial operations, and I expect that this will occur here, since Nick Sabatini [former FAA associate administrator for safety], before he retired from FAA...
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Accident-Prone Flight Organizations
almost exclusively on the pilot. We are finding that the organizational environment may be even more responsible for these 'pilot errors' than the pilot. Accident-Prone Flight Organizations | AVIATION WEEK. Commercial Aviation. Defense. MRO. Space. Business Aviation. INDUSTRY SEARCH: Find Companies...
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Metal Floors - White Paper
and even carpet. This is not the most common use of metal floors so let's narrow our focus to metal floors that can be used throughout public areas such as metal floors for industrial and commercial environments. Plate, grating, perforated plate, expanded metal and plank are just a few of the products...
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No more PVC?
. "These compounds have served as antifoulants in marine paints because they help prevent growth of microorganisms, barnacles, and seaweed on the hulls of ocean vessels. Commercial tin stabilizers used by the vinyl industry exhibit no biocidal properties, and it is important that they not be confused...