THE UNITED KINGDOM'S Civil Aviation Administration plans to use a 20 channel GPS/Glonass receiver in tests of satellite navigation performance. The CAA's Institute of Satellite Navigation at the University of Leeds, England, which developed the receiver, is cooperating with British Airways to observe GPS performance on one of its Boeing 747-400s. In recent tests, Leeds simultaneously received 11 GPS and nine Glonass satellites and obtained a common fix.

Regional airlines are emerging from a winter of turmoil caused by fatal accidents in the U.S. and major market changes.

JUST WHEN GENERAL AVIATION LOBBYISTS were confident that plans for an air traffic control (ATC) corporation were in eclipse on Capitol Hill, Senate Budget Committee chairman Pete Domenici (R.-N.M.) is reviving them.

The flight crew's failure to recognize wind shear and initiate a prompt escape maneuver caused a USAir Douglas DC-9-31 to crash at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in July, 1994, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.

How big a problem is fuel contamination? Not very big, but then neither is the amount of contamination it takes to ruin your whole day, your career or even your life.

Icing, as a potential threat to aircraft, ebbs and flows through history like the ocean tides that flood certain sections of the coast. In an effort to guard aircraft and coastlines from the most probable and predictable onslaughts of nature, engineers have carefully devised cost-effective defenses.

The Official Airline Guide is one of the most effective ways to justify the acquisition of a corporate shuttle aircraft. Run your fingers down the pages, and you'll find a list of dozens of smaller cities that have little airline service. The air fares to many of those cities, which have not benefited from the competitive effects of airline deregulation, have skyrocketed.

NASA's Ames Research Center has long pioneered aviation human factors research, and the scientists who first addressed the man-machine interface in automated cockpits there in the early 1980s now hold key positions at major airlines and at aircraft manufacturers.