Flight Safety Information October 23, 2019 - No. 216 In This Issue Lion Air crash investigators tell victims' families 737 MAX design flaws linked to accident Boeing fires Kevin McAllister, head of unit that makes the 737 Max Boeing makes progress on 737 MAX, but FAA needs weeks to review Incident: Swift B734 at Santo Domingo on Oct 21st 2019, engine failure Basler BT-67 Turbo 67 (DC-3T) - Runway Excursion (El Salvador) Incident: Thai B773 at Bangkok on Oct 20th 2019, rejected takeoff due to uncontained engine failure Incident: Jetblue A320 near Jacksonville on Oct 21st 2019, cargo smoke indication HONEYWELL PREDICTS SINGLE-PILOT FUTURE Regular air service suspended at Unalaska after fatal crash, stranding some travelers Four flight attendants arrested on money laundering charges at Miami International Airport Advanced Aircrew Academy added to USAIG Performance Vector Bombardier brings big data to business aviation FAA may require Narcan on passenger planes Rolls-Royce Unveils Pearl 700 Engine Boeing Unveils Order for Two 787 Dreamliner Airplanes to One VIP Customer Daher completes acquisition of Quest Aircraft Jeff Bezos Unveils Blue Origin's Dream Team to Land NASA Astronauts on the Moon. CABIN CREW FATIGUE RESEARCH PROJECT AVIATION COMMUNICATION: STRATEGY AND MESSAGES FOR ENSURING SUCCESS AND PREVENTING FAILURES - Book United States Helicopter Safety Team...Industry Co-Chair Search Chair Position Announcement Instructor Pilot Aviation Safety Officer Manager, Helicopter Maintenance SAFE SKIES FOR ALL: INTRODUCING SPACEFLIGHT INTO OUR SKIES Lion Air crash investigators tell victims' families 737 MAX design flaws linked to accident * Mechanical and design issues behind crash, investigators say * Assumptions about anti-stall device, pilot reactions also blamed * Lack of documentation on systems behaviour faulted * Crew communications, control of aircraft also seen problematic JAKARTA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Mechanical and design issues contributed to the crash of a Lion Air 737 MAX jet last October, Indonesian investigators told victims' families in a briefing on Wednesday ahead of the release of a final report. Contributing factors to the crash of the new Boeing jet, which killed all 189 on board, included incorrect assumptions on how an anti-stall device called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) functioned and how pilots would react, slides in the presentation showed. The briefing slides also showed that a lack of documentation about how systems would behave in the crash scenario, including the activation of a "stick shaker" device that warned pilots of a dangerous loss of lift, also contributed. "Deficiencies" in the flight crew's communication and manual control of the aircraft contributed as well, the slides showed, as did alerts and distractions in the cockpit. The deficiencies had been "identified during training," the slides said, without adding details. Reliance on a single angle-of-attack sensor made the MCAS system more vulnerable to failure, while the sensor on the plane that crashed had been miscalibrated during an earlier repair, according to the slides. The final report will be released on Friday. A Boeing spokeswoman declined to comment on the briefing, saying, "As the report hasn't been officially released by the authorities, it is premature for us to comment on its contents." A Lion Air representative declined to comment. The 737 MAX was grounded worldwide after a second deadly crash in Ethiopia in March 2019. U.S. planemaker Boeing is under growing pressure to explain what it knew about 737 MAX problems before the aircraft entered service, especially after a Reuters report on messages from a former test pilot describing erratic software behaviour on the 737 MAX jet two years before recent crashes. Boeing has already said it would redesign the anti-stall system to rely on more than a single sensor and to help reduce pilot workload. The planemaker is set to release third-quarter financial results later Wednesday. LION AIR FLIGHT Contact with the Boeing 737 MAX jet was lost 13 minutes after it took off on Oct. 29 from the capital, Jakarta, heading north to the tin-mining town of Pangkal Pinang. The airplane had suffered a sequence of problems in cockpit readings since Oct. 26, culminating in a decision to change the angle-of-attack sensor before the penultimate flight from Denpasar to Jakarta. During the fatal night-time flight, a "stick shaker" was vibrating the captain's controls, warning of a stall throughout most of the 13 minutes aloft, based on what investigators believe to have been erroneous data on its angle to the oncoming air. That angle is a key flight parameter that must remain narrow enough to preserve lift and avoid an aerodynamic stall. The airplane's anti-stall system repeatedly pushed the nose down, which is how pilots usually get air under the wings. Boeing was widely criticised for placing emphasis on piloting and maintenance issues in its public response to an earlier report, sparking a furious dispute with Lion Air's cofounder, Rusdi Kirana. But it has since acknowledged that MCAS and a faulty sensor played a role, and apologised for lives lost without admitting formal responsibility. The planemaker last month settled the first claims stemming from the Lion Air crash, a U.S. plaintiffs' lawyer said. Three other sources told Reuters the families of those killed will receive at least $1.2 million each. The manufacturer faces nearly 100 lawsuits over the Ethiopian Airlines crash on March 10, which killed all 157 people on board the flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-lion-air-crash-investigators-060240209.html Back to Top Boeing fires Kevin McAllister, head of unit that makes the 737 Max Boeing president and CEO of Commercial Airplanes Kevin McAllister was dismissed and immediately replaced. Boeing on Tuesday fired Kevin McAllister as president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, the jet maker's unit that produces the 737 Max. McAllister was immediately replaced by longtime Boeing executive Stan Deal, who's led the launch of the Boeing General Services unit over the past two years. "Stan brings extensive operational experience at commercial airplanes and trusted relationships with our airline customers and industry partners," Boeing President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg said in a statement. McAllister's ouster as the head of the Renton-headquartered Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) unit comes after less than three years on the job and a day after Boeing's board of directors met in Texas. The Chicago-based company will release its third-quarter results on Wednesday. The BCA unit overseen by McAllister has seen a host of problems and challenges, ranging from the grounded 737 Max, engine and other woes with the 777X and quality issues and concerns with 787 Dreamliners made in Charleston South Carolina. Aerospace analysts expect Boeing to add billions of dollars in a new charge for the costs of the global grounding of the 737 Max. The plane has not been allowed to fly since March. Boeing Chairman David Calhoun said the board "fully supports" the leadership changes, which come a week after Muilenburg was removed as Boeing board chairman. "Boeing will emerge stronger than ever from its current challenges and the changes we're making throughout Boeing will benefit the flying public well into the future," Calhoun said. The Boeing announcement about McAllister's firing does not mention the 737 Max, though Muilenburg said that Boeing is "committed to delivering on our commitments and regaining trust with our regulators, customers and other stakeholders." "We're grateful to Kevin for his dedicated and tireless service to Boeing, its customers and its communities during a challenging time, and for his commitment to support this transition," Muilenburg said. A longtime Boeing insider, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it became apparent that though McAllister knew much about aircraft engines from his time GE Aviation, he lacked operational experience at a much larger aircraft manufacturing company like Boeing, which employs more than 150,000 people at factories in the Puget Sound region and South Carolina. Those weaknesses became far more apparent as Boeing grappled with the 737 Max crisis and reduced manufacturing at its Renton factory. As part of the leadership changes, Boeing also named Ted Colbert to succeed Deal as president and CEO of Boeing Global Services. Vishwa Uddanwadiker was appointed to Colbert's former role as interim chief information officer and senior vice president of Information Technology & Data Analytics. https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2019/10/22/boeing-fires-kevin-mcallister-head-of-program-that.html?ana=yahoo&yptr=yahoo Back to Top Boeing makes progress on 737 MAX, but FAA needs weeks to review * FAA has "complete system description" of 737 MAX changes * Official says FAA has "several more weeks" of work to do * Boeing says has done dry-run certification flight test (Adds more details, background) WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Boeing Co is making progress toward getting its 737 MAX aircraft in the air again, but the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will need at least several more weeks for review, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said on Tuesday. Boeing and the FAA are grappling to contain a crisis in the wake of two deadly 737 MAX crashes that have left 346 people dead, forced airlines to ground more than 300 aircraft, and put on hold Boeing deliveries worth more than $500 billion. Boeing has said it hopes to resume 737 MAX flights later this year, although major U.S. and Canadian airlines have cancelled MAX flights into January or February. Dickson said at a conference of air traffic controllers in Washington that the agency had received the "final software load" and "complete system description" of revisions to the plane, which was grounded in March. The FAA is currently using "aircraft production software" in the engineering simulator. The next step is to complete pilot workload management testing and have U.S. and international pilots conduct scenarios to determine training requirements before a key certification test flight. "It is going to be several more weeks before we go through all of that part of the process," Dickson said. "We've got considerable work to do." Separately, Boeing said that last week it successfully conducted a dry-run of a certification flight test. Dickson told Reuters last month the FAA would need about 30 days from the time of the certification test flight before the plane could resume flights. The system description is a "500-ish page document that has the architecture of the flight control system and the changes that they have made," Dickson told Reuters last month. 'SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS' Boeing shares rose on Tuesday after two sharp days of declines following the release of instant messages on Friday from a former Boeing pilot that the company had withheld from the FAA and which raised questions about what Boeing may have known about a key safety system known as MCAS. That prompted an immediate demand for an explanation from the FAA about why the messages were not turned over sooner. Boeing said on Tuesday it had "made significant progress over the past several months" in its work to return the MAX to service. The changes include an MCAS software update with new safeguards for an anti-stall system at the heart of the two fatal crashes. Dickson said once the steps were completed ahead of the certification test flight "it is a fairly straightforward process to unground the airplane." He reiterated he would not let the 737 MAX fly again "until I am satisfied it is the safest thing out there." Boeing chief executive Dennis Muilenburg will appear before Congress for two days of testimony next week. He was stripped of his title as board chairman earlier this month. On Wednesday, Indonesia plans to share with victims' families a final report into Lion Air flight 610 that crashed into the Java Sea shortly after take-off from Jakarta on Oct. 29, 2018, killing all 189 people on board. The report on the 737 MAX crash is expected to be made public later this week. The MAX was grounded after a second crash, on March 10, involving Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, which killed 157. https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-boeing-makes-progress-737-140829131.html Back to Top Incident: Swift B734 at Santo Domingo on Oct 21st 2019, engine failure A Swift Air Boeing 737-400, registration N420US performing flight WQ-1996 from Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) to Miami,FL (USA), was climbing through FL220 out of Santo Domingo when the crew decided to return to Santo Domingo due to an engine (CFM56). The aircraft landed safely back in Santo Domingo about 40 minutes after departure. Passengers reported they were praying "Our Father" upon learning an engine had failed. A replacement Boeing 737-400 registration N438US reached Miami with a delay of 5:45 hours. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/SWQ1996/history/20191021/1739Z/MDSD/KMIA http://avherald.com/h?article=4ce542f0&opt=0 Back to Top Basler BT-67 Turbo 67 (DC-3T) - Runway Excursion (El Salvador) Date: Tuesday 22 October 2019 Type: Basler BT-67 Turbo 67 (DC-3T) Operator: Fuerza Aérea Salvadoreña Registration: FAS116 C/n / msn: 16534 First flight: 1944 Crew: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: Total: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: Aircraft damage: Substantial Location: San Salvador/Ilopango International Airport (SAL) ( El Salvador) Phase: Takeoff (TOF) Nature: Military Departure airport: San Salvador/Ilopango International Airport (SAL/MSSS), El Salvador Destination airport: ? Narrative: A Turbo DC-3 operated by the El Salvador Air Force suffered a runway excursion on takeoff for a paratrooper mission. https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20191022-0 Back to Top Incident: Thai B773 at Bangkok on Oct 20th 2019, rejected takeoff due to uncontained engine failure A Thai Airways Boeing 777-300, registration HS-TKL performing flight TG-970 from Bangkok (Thailand) to Zurich (Switzerland) with 339 passengers and 20 crew, was accelerating for takeoff from Bangkok's runway 01L when the crew rejected takeoff at low speed (about 55 knots over ground) due to the failure of the left hand engine (GE90). The aircraft slowed safely and returned to the apron. The left engine shows a large hole at the inboard casing. The airline reported the aircraft was taking off from Bangkok when the left hand engine failed prompting the crew to reject takeoff. It was found the aircraft needs repair, no spare aircraft was immediately available, hence the passengers were taken to hotels. A replacement aircraft departed later the day. A replacement Boeing 777-300 registration HS-TKK reached Zurich with a delay of 12 hours. Passenger Video following the big bang (Video: Aerotelegraph): http://avherald.com/h?article=4ce47f3f&opt=0 Back to Top Incident: Jetblue A320 near Jacksonville on Oct 21st 2019, cargo smoke indication A Jetblue Airbus A320-200, registration N828JB performing flight B6-2581 from Fort Lauderdale,FL to Nashville,TN (USA) with 152 people on board, was enroute at FL340 about 80nm west of Jacksonville,FL (USA) when the crew received a cargo smoke indication and decided to divert to Jacksonville. The aircraft landed safely on runway 08 about 20 minutes later. Attending emergency services found no trace of fire, heat or smoke. A replacement Airbus A320-200 registration N635JB reached Nashville with a delay of 6 hours. The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground in Jacksonville for about 4 hours, then resumed service. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/JBU2581/history/20191021/1501Z/KFLL/KBNA http://avherald.com/h?article=4ce533ec&opt=0 Back to Top Back to Top HONEYWELL PREDICTS SINGLE-PILOT FUTURE TECHNOLOGY GAINS WILL ALLOW FOR SAFE FLIGHT WITH ONE PILOT And then there was one. Agatha Christie's theme will be playing out soon in aircraft, according to Honeywell executives who believe that technology will pave the way for automation to support single-pilot commercial operations in the next five to seven years. Honeywell executives (left to right) Lisa Butters, Bryan Wood, Bindu Chava, and Amanda King discuss electric vertical takeoff and landing and urban air mobility markets, high-speed airborne connectivity for real-time data sharing, hybrid-electric propulsion, and more October 20 at the National Business Aviation Association's annual convention in Las Vegas. Photo by Kollin Stagnito. Technologies supporting the emerging electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) and urban air mobility (UAM) segments will provide the safeguards and the confidence to allow for the elimination of the co-pilot in the next few years-especially for cargo operations, according to Bindu Chava, director of project management at Honeywell Aerospace. Among her responsibilities are flight control systems, particularly as they relate to eVTOL and UAM. Chava was one of four young Honeywell executives on a panel discussing the future of the company at the National Business Aviation Association convention in Las Vegas October 20. Amanda King, who oversees aircraft connectivity, said the future is about speed. UAM will speed people to their destinations. Supersonic business jets are back on the horizon. And high-speed airborne connectivity will allow not only for speed of communications among people, but also the ability to share data in real time off the aircraft-potentially eliminating the need for "black boxes" in the future as the aircraft transmits data to the cloud for analysis and tracking. King said Honeywell's latest connectivity system can report on the fly what is happening on the airplane and provide predictive maintenance data to ground crews while also helping flight crews pinpoint optimal flight profiles based on real-time ambient conditions and potential air traffic congestion at major hubs. Adam Kress, left, Honeywell Aerospace director of external communications, video chats live with John Peterson, vice president and general manager of software and services connected enterprise, from aboard Honeywell's Falcon 7X flying overhead Las Vegas. The chat demonstrated Honeywell's high-speed connectivity capabilities and allowed Peterson to describe new features that give ground staff the ability to manage and oversee data usage on the aircraft. Photo by Tom Haines. Bryan Wood, senior director of hybrid-electric/electric propulsion, said electric propulsion options are maturing faster than most people realize. However, challenges remain regarding necessary infrastructure, including vertiports. The electric grid as it sits today is not in a position to charge the volume of aircraft envisioned. Such infrastructure upgrades will require significant capital investments in coming years. Lisa Butters says she is running a start-up inside giant Honeywell. As the general manager of GoDirect Trade, she oversees the project to bolster the $4 billion market in used aerospace parts. Today GoDirect Trade sees an average parts value of $10,000 for products that move through her network. But unlike how consumers typically purchase products online these days, most of these parts sales occur through email and phone calls-whether it's a $1 part or a $1 million engine. Her goal over the next decade is to position Honeywell as the leader in this growth market and to make all transactions electronic. One component of that evolution is block chain technology, which will allow for greater transparency into the database of parts-showing highly detailed information about the history of a particular part and other data not currently available. https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2019/october/21/honeywell-predicts-single-pilot-future Back to Top Regular air service suspended at Unalaska after fatal crash, stranding some travelers A Penair plane that flew from Anchorage to Dutch Harbor, pictured off the runway at the Unalaska-Dutch Harbor airport on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (Jennifer Wynn) Regular flights to and from Unalaska, a place that relies on air travel, are suspended in the aftermath of a fatal commercial plane crash on Thursday that killed a Washington state man. The cessation of regular service left travelers stranded or scrambling for charter flights even as demand for seats spiked with Bering Sea crabbers headed out for the season opener. Alaska Airlines markets two or three flights a day from Anchorage to Dutch Harbor, an airport notorious for temperamental Aleutian weather at a runway hemmed in by water. Alaska Airlines and PenAir, a Ravn Air Group carrier, are temporarily stopping operations to and from Dutch Harbor in "the interest of safety" and "are working together to determine a timeline for resuming service," according to an Alaska Airlines statement. Alaska markets the flight as PenAir, but that company was purchased by a Ravn affiliate in bankruptcy proceedings last year. Alaska is offering a full refund to people who bought tickets on the route through Oct. 28. An Alaska Airlines spokesman said that doesn't mean service will be suspended through that date. A Ravn spokeswoman referred all questions to Alaska Airlines. The crash occurred Thursday afternoon when a plane landing with 39 passengers and three crew from Anchorage ran off the end of the runway on the pilot's second attempt to touch down. The Saab 2000 twin-engine turboprop came to a stop with its nose hanging over the edge of a rocky embankment at the water's edge. Parts of a propeller blade ended up in the cabin. Traumatic injuries killed Wenatchee resident 38-year-old David Allan Oltman. People in Unalaska say Oltman's construction job brought him there fairly regularly. Another critically injured passenger was flown to Anchorage. Nine more people got hurt, including at least one member of Cordova's high school swim team who needed a trip to Anchorage for metal embedded in his leg. The rest of the team returned home Friday. ['Cover the baby!': Mom recalls fatal Unalaska plane crash] An 8-member National Transportation Safety Board team is in Unalaska investigating the crash, according to the agency's Alaska chief, Clint Johnson. A barge brought the plane to another site at the airport for inspection. The cockpit recorders yielded good recordings, Johnson said. It wasn't the NTSB's decision to suspend air service, which falls outside that agency's authority, he said. The disruption to air service stranded some either in Unalaska or on their way back. Don Goodfellow's quality control manager at Alyeska Seafoods Inc. was stuck in Portland as of Tuesday. Another of his employees couldn't rotate out for vacation and was helping with maintenance between pollock and crab processing seasons. The next pulse in demand for air travel could come within a few days, Goodfellow said, when crab fishermen get a break between seasons and will want to go home. "I'm expecting my dock will be very full of very frustrated fishermen if we don't get service restored pretty soon," he said. Several companies provide charter service to the area: flights booked by a single entity, like a seafood processor, instead of seat by seat. Alaska Central Express on Tuesday was sending two charters to Unalaska and two to Akun Island, the closest place to get a boat or smaller plane over to Dutch Harbor, according to Steven Deaton, senior vice president. But getting one of 16 seats on the company's Beechcraft 1900 isn't as easy as booking a ticket online. "Thing is, they're trying to buy one seat," customer service representative Alicia Tufaga said Tuesday. "We don't do that, we don't sell individual seats. People are trying to get on the charter but they have to contact the people who chartered the plane." Grant Aviation doesn't provide scheduled service between Anchorage and Unalaska. But some travelers booked flights from Unalaska to Saint Paul Island where they could catch a Ravn flight to Anchorage, according to Grant's station manager in Unalaska. Flying challenges are familiar in the Aleutians, longtime Unalaska resident Suzi Golodoff said Tuesday, reporting "crappy visibility" and a nasty cross-wind near the airport. The current situation is causing residents to cancel medical appointments and planned trips but at the same time, it's not unusual to go for days without getting out, Golodoff said. "The bigger thing is people are badly shaken and really feeling tender about what happened," she said. "It was really a horrible thing to see that plane over the embankment like that." https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/aviation/2019/10/23/regular-air-service-suspended-at-unalaska-after-fatal-crash-stranding-some-travelers/ Back to Top Four flight attendants arrested on money laundering charges at Miami International Airport Customs and Border Patrol says four flight attendants - clockwise from top left, Carlos Alberto Munoz-Moyano, Maria Isabel Wilson-Ossandon, Maria Beatriz Pasten-Cuzmar and Miaria Delpilar Roman-Strick - laundered more than $22,000 into Miami International Airport. Four flight attendants were found with more than $22,000 in cash when they went through a routine Customs check at Miami International Airport. Authorities believe they were laundering the funds. After just arriving at MIA from Chile, American Airlines flight attendant Carlos Alberto Munoz-Moyano, 40, was put through a routine check conducted by a Customs and Border Patrol agent early morning Monday, an arrest report said. He told the agent that he only had $100 on him, but the agent found $9,000, the report said. This caused several other flight attendants to be be stopped and checked. Authorities found three more flight attendants with a large amount of cash on them: Miaria Delpilar Roman-Strick, 55, was searched and agents found $7,300. Maria Isabel Wilson-Ossandon, 48, had $6,371. Authorities did not say if Maria Beatriz Pasten-Cuzmar had any money on her, but did say she was checked in the Customs area, CBP agents said. Authorities interviewed the group and said they were told that Pasten-Cuzmar had conspired with the other three to transport U.S. dollars into America and deliver it to a "known person." In total, the flight attendants smuggled $22,671. They all said they were to receive 1% of the amount they had on them. They were smuggling currency on behalf of someone else, the report said. They were all arrested and charged with money laundering and unauthorized money transmitting between $300 and $20,000. American Airlines told the Miami Herald, "We take this matter seriously and are cooperating with law enforcement throughout their investigation." https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article236533813.html Back to Top Advanced Aircrew Academy added to USAIG Performance Vector A catalog of 60 training modules will support business aviation operators. USAIG President and CEO John Brogan introduces the new training modules.USAIG USAIG, a leading aviation-specific insurance provider, announced today at the National Business Aviation Association's Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) that a Training Program Support Package from Advanced Aircrew Academy (AAA) has been added to its Performance Vector safety initiative. This initiative enables eligible policyholders to select annually from a diverse portfolio of training and safety-enhancing services delivered by world-class providers. The Training Program Support Package from AAA enables flight operations to fulfill their flight department training needs in the most efficient and affordable way, in any location at any time. Modules for professional pilot, flight attendant, flight coordinator, and maintenance are delivered via the web using an online aviation training system. "Turbine aircraft operators require regular and updated training," said AAA CEO and founding partner Dan Boedigheimer. "AAA sets itself apart from the competition by offering up-to-the-minute informational developments and demands. Most company training modules are updated annually or even less often. AAA's subject matter experts are updating the training every week, which presents a significant benefit to turbine aircraft operators." AAA offers a comprehensive catalog of more than 60 General Operating Subject training modules that support business aviation operators by satisfying Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), International Standard for Business Aircraft Operations (IS-BAO), and Business Aviation Safety Consortium (BASC) training requirements. "Advanced Aircrew Academy is a natural and great fit within our Performance Vector Program," said USAIG President and CEO John Brogan. "A comprehensive and professional review of a flight operation's training needs and practices is a strategically minded step with huge upside for strengthening operational safety and culture. It's the kind of enhancement to ongoing safety initiatives that our policyholders have found especially valuable in the Performance Vector program, and we're delighted Advanced Aircrew Academy's expert services are now accessible as an option there." Attendees at NBAA-BACE will find USAIG in the Central Hall, booth #C8119 and AAA in the North Concourse, booth N5810. https://www.flyingmag.com/advanced-aircrew-academy-added-to-usaig-performance-vector/ Back to Top Bombardier brings big data to business aviation Bombardier is to offer to install a health monitoring unit (HMU) in every Global and Challenger free of charge, as part of an initiative to bring the growing world of big data to business aviation. The Canadian manufacturer revealed at NBAA it is teaming up with GE Aviation to fit the smart boxes to around 2,500 aircraft from next year under a programme it calls Smart Link Plus. It has already started to install them in new Globals and Challengers. The HMUs, which GE describes as "brains", will capture data from each flight. Data will then be "analysed and transferred into actionable insights, drawing on Bombardier's aircraft expertise and leveraging the power of the entire connected fleet", says the airframer. Operators will be able to use this information to predict when maintenance will be required. The smart boxes combine hardware from GE's joint venture, Avionica, with the engine manufacturer's health and data management software. Big data and predictive maintenance have become big themes in the airline market, but its impact in business aviation - where fleets tend to be much smaller - has been less significant. Bombardier hopes to change this. "Our new Smart Link Plus connected aircraft programme will create fully connected aircraft, enabling customers to access key data and insights to help with decision-making and flight operations," says Jean-Christophe Gallagher, Bombardier's vice president and general manager, customer experience. "This new relationship with Bombardier will help streamline customer service relationships by offering integrated connectivity service offerings and customer support," says Andrew Coleman, senior vice president for digital solutions at GE Aviation. Coleman insists the fact that rival engine manufacturers supply the engines on many Bombardier aircraft - Honeywell in the case of smaller Challengers and Rolls-Royce on the Global 5500 and 6500 - is not a conflict of interest, citing examples of where GE supplies similar technology to airlines that fly R-R- and Pratt & Whitney-powered types. GE and Bombardier also announced a "Preferred Service Provider" agreement, where GE will "power Bombardier's cockpit and cabin connectivity solutions". https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/bombardier-brings-big-data-to-business-aviation-461692/ Back to Top FAA may require Narcan on passenger planes With Narcan available over the counter, advocates say everyone should carry it (WPRI) - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is considering a plan that would require airlines to add overdose-reversing drugs to emergency medical kits on passenger planes. In an Oct. 8 letter to members of Congress, the FAA said it is "reviewing the best way for 121 air carriers to include opioid antagonists as part of the emergency medical kits carried aboard their fleets." Congressman Jim Langevin sent a letter to the FAA in August urging the agency to make the change. "As opioid overdoses continue to claim thousands of lives each year, we must ensure access to life-saving treatments both on the ground and in the air," Langevin said in a statement. "I am pleased the FAA shares my concerns on this issue." Currently, onboard emergency medical kits are required to include several items including a stethoscope, CPR masks, and antihistamine tablets. Though Narcan is not mandatory, airlines may choose to carry the drug. In a statement to Eyewitness News, the FAA said, "Each airline has its own protocol for dealing with medical emergencies, including a possible drug overdose. At this time, Narcan is not one of the mandatory drugs included in the Emergency Medical Kit each airline must carry, but many airlines have customized their kits with additional medications, and some may contain Narcan." Narcan is the brand name of naloxone. The FAA does not track in-flight overdose incidents, so it is unclear how often this type of emergency happens. https://www.wpri.com/news/call-12-for-action/faa-may-require-narcan-on-passenger-planes/ Back to Top Rolls-Royce Unveils Pearl 700 Engine Rolls-Royce (Booth C8312) unveiled the new Pearl 700 engine this week at NBAA-BACE 2019. The 18,250-pound-thrust engine will power the just-announced Gulfstream G700 ultra-long-range business jet. The Pearl 700 combines the company's Advance2 engine core technology, a new low-pressure system, and various design and material changes to deliver 8 percent more takeoff thrust, a 12 percent better thrust to weight ratio (8 percent more thrust and 4 percent less weight), 3.5 percent less fuel burn, and 5 percent greater efficiency compared to the company's BR725 engine on the current-production G650. The new engine will meet or exceed Stage 5 noise standards and have nitrous oxide emissions that are projected to be 35 percent below the CAEP/6 standard. It is being developed at Rolls-Royce's Center for Business Aviation Engines in Dahlewitz, Germany. The Pearl 700 features a 10-stage, high-pressure axial compressor; improved gearbox breather exhaust; new Safran-Aircelle nacelle; 24-blade, 51.8-inch blisked fan; bypass ratio in the 5:1 range; high-pressure compression ratio of 24:1 (compared to 16:1 on the BR725); six blisked stages; low-emission combustor; two-stage shroudless high-pressure turbine; and an enhanced four-stage low pressure turbine. The improved thrust comes from the larger fan combined with the more powerful core. Significant weight savings come from the stronger and lighter nacelle, blisked fan, and the lighter, more powerful engine core. Compared with the BR725, the shape of the blades are different to optimize the fan to increase thrust, reduce noise, and limit resonance excitations to reduce fan flutter, according to Dirk Geisinger, chairman of Rolls-Royce Deutschland. He called the engine's core "the most efficient in business aviation," thanks to the blisks, new bearing cooling techniques, the increased use of composites including on the drive (tower) shaft, and advanced manufacturing techniques, including friction-stir welding. The Pearl 700 uses the same nacelle line as that on the BR725 while accommodating a fan that is 1.8 inches larger. Geisinger said Rolls-Royce engineers were tackling 250 technical issues regarding changes between the BR725 and the Pearl 700. Other advanced technologies Rolls-Royce is looking at for the Pearl 700 include using 3D printing to manufacture ceramic tiles inside the combustor to limit heat and noise and ceramic nozzles to simplify manufacturing and reduce weight. "We've run these combustors already," said Geisinger. "Now we have to decide whether they will enter into service with the G700 or later. It's saving weight and making heat distribution more even." The Pearl 700 is backed by the Rolls-Royce CorporateCare Enhanced hourly maintenance program and features a new engine health monitoring unit with advanced vibration monitoring, bidirectional communications, and the ability to remotely reconfigure engine-monitoring features from the ground. It feeds data into a system of cloud-based analytics, smart algorithms, and artificial intelligence. Its health monitoring system detects all vibrations coming from the engines and identifies likely sources such as fuel pumps. Altogether, the system identifies more than 10,000 parameters, filters and livestreams data, and predicts to enable the timely replacement of line replaceable units. The engine will be maintained on condition with a goal of 10,000 hours before it has to be taken off-wing. Geisinger said the goal for the new engine is a 100 percent dispatch rate and that it was achievable with the engine's new monitoring system. Rolls-Royce executive v-p for business aviation Scott Shannon said that adding vibration detection atop the traditional gas path monitoring of legacy health monitoring systems made this a realistic goal. "When your principal wants to go, he wants to go." He said the hourly rates for CorporateCare Enhanced-which adds to CorporateCare by adding items such as nacelles and corrosion-on the Pearl 700 would be similar to those on the BR725. https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2019-10-22/rolls-royce-unveils-pearl-700-engine Back to Top Boeing Unveils Order for Two 787 Dreamliner Airplanes to One VIP Customer • The two ultra long-range and exclusive jets are valued at $564 million according to list prices • Boeing Business Jets now has 16 orders for the 787 variant, making it one of the world's most popular widebody business jets LAS VEGAS, Oct. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- A VIP customer was behind the purchase of two ultra-long range 787-9 Dreamliner airplanes, Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced today at the National Business Aviation Association's annual convention. The order, placed in August, has a list price value of $564 million. The VIP customer has requested to be unidentified. The BBJ 787-9, a business jet version of the technologically-advanced 787-9 Dreamliner, is sought after by customers who place a premium on the jet's globe-spanning range, spacious cabin and unrivaled passenger comfort. The airplane can fly 9,485 nautical miles while offering amenities such as larger windows, a lower cabin altitude, smooth ride technology, cleaner and higher humidity air, and a quieter cabin. "The BBJ 787-9 offers our most discerning customers the ability to travel in ultimate comfort and fly directly to just about any city on earth. We're talking about London to Sydney or Tokyo to Cape Town. Our newest BBJ 787-9 customer can clearly see the possibilities and more," said Ihssane Mounir, senior vice president of Commercial Sales and Marketing for The Boeing Company. "With a total of 16 orders to date, the BBJ 787 program has won over other government and private customers who want to work, rest, and arrive refresh and ready for a productive day." The BBJ 787-9 offers one of the most spacious cabins in the industry with 2,775 ft2 (257.8 m2) of space. The spacious cabin provides a large canvas for a range of interior design options to ensure ultimate comfort on those short or long-distance flights. The BBJ 787 builds on the success of the 787 Dreamliner - the fastest-selling widebody airplane in history with more than 1450 orders from over 80 customers on six continents. About Boeing Business Jets Boeing Business Jets offers a portfolio of ultra-large-cabin, long-range airplanes that are perfectly suited for business and private, charter, corporate and head-of-state operations. The product line includes the BBJ MAX family and high-performance versions of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, 777X, and 747-8. Since its launch in 1996, Boeing Business Jets has delivered 240 jets on 262 orders. Approximately 75 percent of widebody business jets sold in the last 22 years have been Boeing Business Jets and include the 787, 777 and 747. For more information, visit: www.boeing.com/bbj https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/boeing-unveils-order-for-two-787-dreamliner-airplanes-to-one-vip-customer-300942839.html Back to Top Daher completes acquisition of Quest Aircraft Daher returns to NBAA following US Federal Aviation Administration certification for the TBM 940 with the announcement that it has completed its purchase of Quest Aircraft from Japan's Setouchi Holdings. The French airframer and aerostructures company acquired the maker of the Kodiak 100 single-engined turboprop (pictured below) in June to strengthen its aircraft manufacturing business and help grow its North American footprint. Daher describes Quest as a "perfect fit" for the family-owned company because of its "strong culture, values and outlook". It was founded in the late 1990s to create a rugged aircraft for humanitarian missions in developing countries. To date, nearly 280 Kodiaks have been delivered, with the fleet notching up of 165,000 flying hours, says Daher. The 10-seat Kodiak is an ideal match for the high-speed, high-end TBM family, more than 950 examples of which have been delivered to owners and operators since the first aircraft entered service in 1991. The trio share variants of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A engine, as well as the Garmin G1000 NXi flightdeck, in the baseline TBM 910. The flagship TBM 940 features the G3000. Daher is now exploring synergies between the two companies "to help make us stronger," says chairman Patrick Daher. "Already we have decided to discontinue our TBM distributorship in northwest USA and base our sales effort for all three aircraft in Sandpoint," he adds. Daher is also exploring new markets for the Kodiak. "It is a great utility aircraft with many possibilities," says Nicolas Chabbert, senior vice-president aircraft, citing a niche for the type in the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and paragliding markets. "It could also have a much greater share of the ad hoc charter and seaplane sectors, where the platform is also ideally suited." The Quest acquisition has also given Daher a manufacturing footprint in the USA, and an opportunity to expand its aerostructures and logistics services business. The company builds parts for a host of aircraft manufacturers, including Airbus, Boeing, Dassault, Embraer and Gulfstream, with the work spread around facilities in France, including its headquarters in Tarbes, as well as in Nogales and Queretaro, Mexico. Daher hopes the new US facility will attract more business from North American airframers and he says the company could expand the Sandpoint footprint to accommodate the extra contracts. https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/daher-completes-acquisition-of-quest-aircraft-461663/ Back to Top Jeff Bezos Unveils Blue Origin's Dream Team to Land NASA Astronauts on the Moon Draper, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman join the team. Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos with a mockup of the company's Blue Moon robotic lunar lander during its unveiling on May 9, 2019. On Oct. 22, Bezos unveiled new partners for a lander to carry NASA astronauts.Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos with a mockup of the company's Blue Moon robotic lunar lander during its unveiling on May 9, 2019. On Oct. 22, Bezos unveiled new partners for a lander to carry NASA astronauts.(Image: © Blue Origin) WASHINGTON - Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos on Tuesday (Oct. 22) unveiled a "national team" for his company's plan to land astronauts on the moon for NASA's Artemis program, with three veteran aerospace companies joining the project. The U.S. companies Draper, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman will join Blue Origin's bid to build a crewed lunar lander for Artemis, NASA's project to return astronauts to the moon by 2024, Bezos said. "We could not ask for better partners," Bezos told a crowd here at the 70th International Astronautical Congress. "This is a national team for a national priority." Blue Origin's crewed moon lander project follows a NASA call for proposals last month, opening the door to commercial lunar lander ideas for Artemis astronauts. According to Bezos, Blue Origin will lead its lunar lander team and provide the Descent Element that will ultimately carry a crew to the moon's surface. The descent stage will use the company's new BE-7 engine and a design derived from the robotic Blue Moon lander Bezos unveiled earlier this year. Lockheed Martin will build a reusable Ascent Element, which will house the astronauts and return them to lunar orbit once their surface work is complete. The company, which is also building NASA's Orion crew capsule, will oversee Blue Origin crew flight operations and training. Bezos touted Lockheed Martin's expertise at landing on Mars and long experience with crewed life support systems. "They are experts in life support systems and so to have their expertise on the Ascent Element is a really big deal," he said." Northrop Grumman will provide a Transfer Element for the lunar lander, bringing it near the moon before the lander separates to make the final descent. That company built NASA's original Lunar Module for the Apollo program, Bezos reminded the crowd. Draper, meanwhile, will design the guidance and navigation systems that will guide the lander to the moon. It's something Draper has done before for NASA's Apollo program, but the process has evolved with new technologies. "We guided Apollo to the moon and back nearly 50 years ago," Draper President and CEO Kaigham Gabriel said in a statement. "We're ready to do it again with the Blue Origin team for Artemis." In his remarks here, Bezos hailed Blue Origin's partners as essential of NASA is going to fly astronauts to the moon in the next five years. "This is the kind of thing that's so ambitious, it needs to be done with partners," Bezos said. "This is the only way to get back to the moon fast." In addition to Artemis moon lander partner announcement, Bezos offered a few clues on Blue Origin's space plans in the months and years to come. The company is testing its suborbital New Shepard spacecraft for space tourist flights, which could begin in 2020, and is also developing a massive reusable rocket, called New Glenn, that is scheduled to make its debut in two years. "New Glenn will fly in 2021," Bezos said. He did not mention a target for crewed flights on New Shepard. Blue Origin is building its New Glenn rocket at the company's factory in Cape Canaveral, Florida so it will be closer to its launch site at the nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Bezos said. It will have a payload fairing that will offer twice the volume than any other booster on the market and Much of the advancements for New Glenn stem from Blue Origin's experiences developing its New Shepard suborbital rocket and spacecraft. The company has launched 11 New Shepard missions since 2016, reusing its capsules multiple times. The most recent flight, called NS-11, launched (and landed) in May at Blue Origin's West Texas proving grounds. "Everything is better when you do a version two," Bezos said. "New Glenn is version two." https://www.space.com/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-artemis-moon-lander-team.html Back to Top CABIN CREW FATIGUE RESEARCH PROJECT Fatigue is a pervasive issue that affects all airline cabin crew. Fatigue may impede cabin crews' ability to consistently and effectively manage passengers from safety, security and service perspectives. As part of our undergraduate research project at Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia), we are conducting a survey of international cabin crew primarily engaged in long-haul (LH) and ultra long-haul (ULH) flight operations. This survey asks cabin crew for their views on various issues associated with work-related fatigue and stress. We also seek your views on the availability and effectiveness of various fatigue countermeasures. If you are working as LH or ULH cabin crew, you are invited to participate in this study. You will be asked to complete an online questionnaire, which also includes a consent form. The study takes approximately 20 minutes to complete. To access the study, please go to the following website: https://swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8qBLCKgmpWlraxT Participants who complete the study will be eligible to enter a draw to win the latest iPad (6th Generation). This research project is being supervised by Peter Renshaw at the Department of Aviation, Swinburne University of Technology. If you have any questions, please contact Peter at prenshaw@swin.edu.au Back to Top AVIATION COMMUNICATION: STRATEGY AND MESSAGES FOR ENSURING SUCCESS AND PREVENTING FAILURES, 1ST EDITION 'THIS BOOK IS A MUST-HAVE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL AVIATION BUSINESS COMMUNITY AS A TRI-FUNCTIONAL INDUCTION, TRAINING, AND REFERENCE TOOL.' Now available to order from www.routledge.com/9781138624825 Aviation Communication: Strategy and Messages for Ensuring Success and Preventing Failures by Linda J. Tavlin With a foreword by Professor Graham Braithwaite "This is a great book that helps prepare communicators and business leaders in facing the worst. As Linda rightly points out, communication is a thought process and needs to be practised." - Tony Fernandes, Group CEO, AirAsia Group Do you ever wonder why an airline's communication strategy can crash and burn in a crisis? A lack of understanding an acceptable aviation communication strategy can, in this fast world of social media, ruin a company's credibility in the aviation industry. Aviation Communication: Strategy and Messages for Ensuring Success and Preventing Failures is the first go-to book to reveal to everyone in the aviation industry how to stop an organization's communication strategy from becoming the tragedy-after-the-tragedy that we've seen so often. In such instances, after the media go home, the economic, political, regulatory, and legal effects can linger for years. The strategies and messages in this book show how to prevent this along with the ultimate safety net used by those who have been successful. Readers will learn to prevent catastrophic communication mistakes with strategic templates for a wide array of scenarios, as well as 25 specific techniques that give the actual words to use to deliver the book's messages and reveal the safety net of the 4-point formula that organizations with successful strategies have used. USE CODE A015 FOR 20% DISCOUNT AT CHECKOUT Purchase your copy here: https://www.routledge.com/9781138624825 Back to Top United States Helicopter Safety Team Industry Co-Chair Search The USHST also has begun a search for an industry co-chair to succeed Raj Helweg, chief pilot of Air Methods, who is nearing completion of his second two-year term as co-chair. Helweg will remain with the USHST Steering Committee. The USHST government co-chair is Wayne Fry, FAA Flight Standards Division Manager for General Aviation Safety Assurance. For information and criteria on how a helicopter safety expert can join the USHST effort, contact Chris Hill via email at chris.hill@rotor.org. And don't forget to join in on the Helicopter Safety conversation! https://www.facebook.com/groups/524159038149866/ Thank you for everything that you do to support our safety initiative! We are 93+ days since our last fatal accident due to a strong communication network and also exceptional leadership! We value your feedback. The AVS Customer Feedback Form is at: http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/avs/stakeholder_feedback/air/air600/ United States Helicopter Safety Team http://www.ushst.org/ Back to Top Chair Position Announcement Department of Aerospace Middle Tennessee State University Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) invites applications for an innovative leader to chair the Department of Aerospace. Start date for the position is August 1, 2020. Expedited tenure upon appointment possible. The selected candidate must have prior experience and/or academic credentials that would allow a tenured appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor. All applications must be submitted through the MTSU Jobs web page (https://mtsujobs.mtsu.edu). Additional details and instructions can be found there. With approximately 1,000 undergraduate majors, the Department of Aerospace (https://www.mtsu.edu/aerospace/) is a signature department at MTSU, and is one of the nation's largest collegiate aviation operations programs. Our majors can choose among six concentrations: Aerospace Technology, Aviation Management, Flight Dispatch, Maintenance Management, Professional Pilot, and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operations. In addition, the department offers minors in Air Traffic Control and Unmanned Aircraft Systems as well as a Master's degree in Aeronautical Science with concentrations in Aviation Education, Aviation Management, and Aviation Safety and Security Management. MTSU is located in Murfreesboro, just outside of Nashville, in one of the fastest-growing counties in the nation. Located in the geographic center of the state, and included in Money magazine's "Top 100 Places to Live," Murfreesboro is implementing a community-wide growth plan while still maintaining a small-town feel. In addition to college events, the 'Boro' features a thriving Square, an extensive Greenway system, a Center for the Arts, and a variety of festivals and music venues. The primary responsibility of the chair is strong academic leadership for the department, ensuring excellent quality program delivery and student success and achievement. Other responsibilities include budgetary coordination, faculty/staff hiring and management, operational oversight of the MTSU airport campus and flight school, and partnership development with business, industry, and associations. The chair will serve as a champion for the growing program and will be expected to engage in fundraising, navigate periodic AABI accreditation review, and ensure compliance with FAA and other pertinent regulations. Successful candidates must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrated vision, leadership, and the ability to work productively with faculty and students from diverse backgrounds. The selected candidate will have a bachelor's or higher degree in an aviation discipline and will also have a doctorate or terminal degree in an appropriate, related field. The selected candidate will have pilot, maintenance, or dispatch certification and must have 3 years teaching and/or leadership experience at the collegiate level. Candidates who have 5 years'experience working in or managing flight operations will receive special consideration. Back to Top Instructor Pilot: Assists with the development and delivery of flight, ground and simulator training programs to ensure that Air Care training is vigorously applied. Coordinates to integrate pilot training with medical crew training. Assists in developing and implementing flight related medical personnel training. Operate North Memorial aircraft according to Federal Aviation Regulations and North Memorial Policies to transport customers to local hospitals. Basic Qualifications: Education • Some college with Bachelor's Degree preferred. Experience • Helicopter & instrument instructor experience, or • Simulator instructor experience. • Classroom instructor experience. • Possess the required experience as listed in the Federal Aviation Regulations under Part 135. • FAA CFI/CFII or former military instructor pilot desired. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities • Possess a current FAA Medical Certificate; and an FAA Commercial Pilot Certificate. • Ability to semi-annually pass the required FAA instrument proficiency exam. • Ability to annually pass the required FAA Ground exam. • Organizational & people skills. • Some management skills. • Computer knowledge and writing skills. Apply Here: https://northmemorial.com/north-memorial-health-careers/ Back to Top Aviation Safety Officer: Responsible for the development, implementation, and management of the Safety Management System (SMS). Serves as a consultant to the all aviation departments on safety issues and performs related safety duties as required. Establishes and maintains active working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Basic Qualifications: Education • Bachelor of Science Degree with major course work in Aviation Management, Industrial Safety or • Hygiene, Public Administration, or closely related field. Experience • Previous experience with helicopter or other aviation-related organization • Certified helicopter pilot and/or maintenance technician preferred • Experience with auditing protocols and accreditation programs Knowledge, Skills and Abilities • Familiar with FAA rules and regulations • Application of FAA/NTSB/NASA aviation safety programs Licensure/Certification(s)/Registration • Valid Class D Driver's license in the state of residency with acceptable driving record---State Requirement • FAA CFI/CFII----NMHC Preferred • Airline Transport Pilot/Commercial Pilot License---NMHC Preferred Apply Here: https://northmemorial.com/north-memorial-health-careers/ Back to Top Manager, Helicopter Maintenance This position serves in the role of Director of Maintenance as described in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations. Supervises maintenance personnel as well as managing and scheduling aircraft maintenance. Supervises the maintenance of all tools, equipment, and supplies. Maintains all required aircraft records in a current status and transfers any log discrepancies not repaired to the deferred sheet. Directs all training and maintenance activities of maintenance personnel, determines personnel requirements based on present and projected workloads, and submits reports required by FAR 135.415 & FAR 135.417. Basic Qualifications: Education • High School Graduate or equivalent (GED) required • Airframe and powerplant technical school graduate • Factory training on at least one aircraft operated by North Memorial Health Air Care Experience • Must meet recent experience requirements of FAR 65.83 on same category and class of aircraft operated by North Memorial Health • Five (5) years' experience as a certified aircraft mechanic • In lieu of item 2: 3 years' experience with a certified airframe repair station, including 1 year in the capacity of approving aircraft to return to service. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities • Must know maintenance sections of operations manual, operations specifications, FAR 135.39C, and other applicable regulations. • Must be highly knowledgeable of the Aircraft Manufacturer's Maintenance Manual, inspection and maintenance specifications, applicable Federal Aviation Regulations and applicable portions of the Operations Manual. Must maintain close liaison with local FAA-FSDO on maintenance matters. Apply Here: https://northmemorial.com/north-memorial-health-careers/ Back to Top JOIN US! SAFE SKIES FOR ALL: INTRODUCING SPACEFLIGHT INTO OUR SKIES www.alpa.org/safeskies October 31, 2019 | Hyatt Regency Hotel | Washington, D.C The Air Line Pilots Association, Int'l and the Commercial Spaceflight Federation invite you to a dynamic one-day conference as we highlight numerous, ongoing efforts to transform our airspace for the future. Curt Lewis