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Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19661017: Effective this date, FAA required pilots to have a helicopter instrument rating to operate a helicopter under Instrument Flight Rules conditions. 19711017: Opening of the first officially designated STOLport solely for short takeoff and landing aircraft took place at Disney World, near Orlando, Fla. (The term “STOLport” had […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19360930: Three reporters left New York City to journey around the world as passengers. Herbert R. Ekins, who made all major links by air, arrived back in 18 days, 14 hours, 56 minutes. Dorothy Kilgallen and Leo Kieran made surface connections that included a sea voyage from Hong Kong […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19440923: Theodore P. Wright was sworn in as Administrator of Civil Aeronautics. Nominated on August 22, Wright succeeded Charles I. Stanton (see July 20, 1942), who submitted his resignation on August 18 and, on its acceptance, reverted to his former position of Deputy Administrator. Wright was educated at Lombard […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19280919: The Packard Motor Car Company flight tested the first diesel engine to power heavier-than-air craft. Diesel aircraft engines seemed promising but proved too heavy, and interest in their development waned during the 1930s. 19330919: President Roosevelt appointed Eugene L. Vidal head of the Aeronautics Branch with the title […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19280918: The Graf Zeppelin, the most successful rigid airship ever built, first flew. By the time it was retired in 1937, this craft had flown more than a million miles, spent 16,000 hours in the air, and carried 13,100 passengers. 19650918: FAA required distance-measuring equipment on turbine-engine aircraft and […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19670916: Typhoon Sarah struck Wake Island with winds exceeding 140 miles per hour, knocking out the island’s electric power plant, air traffic control tower, air route traffic control center, and navigation aids. Damage to the island’s housing, sanitation system, and freshwater supply necessitated the evacuation of one fourth of […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19300910: The Taylor E-2 Cub made its first flight. This design evolved into the famous Piper Cub, which was introduced in 1938 and became one of the world’s most popular general aviation airplanes. 19360910: Deutsche Luft Hansa’s twin-engine Dornier Do.18 flying boat Zephyr alighted offshore of Port Washington, N.Y., […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19600908: FAA issued a new aircraft noise abatement technical planning guide for use by Federal and local officials. The guide discouraged certain kinds of construction in areas around large airports, such as residential subdivisions, schools, churches, hospitals, and other places of public assembly. Land lying immediately under the takeoff […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19310905: The first instrument landing by a system incorporating a glide path was made at College Park, Md. The glide path was achieved by aligning an inclined radio beam with the runway, providing a path approximating the gliding angle of an airplane. (See September 24, 1929.) 19340905: Wiley Post, […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19650903: After withholding Federal funds from the Port of New York Authority (PNYA) for two years, FAA announced resumption of annual grants under the Federal-aid airport program (FAAP). In August 1963, FAA had notified the PNYA of the tentative allocation of $4.3 million in FAAP matching funds for lengthening […]