Reading them the ROTOR Act
2/27/202643 min
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, after passing unanimously in the Senate, the US House of Representatives votes down the aviation safety-focused ROTOR Act, which was championed by the NTSB, pilots’ unions, and families of the victims of last year’s mid-air collision in Washington DC. The House will now turn to an alternate bill, the […]
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First 90 secondsIan Petchenik· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to episode 359 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchenik, here as always with Jason Rabinowitz.
Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:17
Hello, Ian. What's up?
Ian Petchenik· Host0:18
Hello, Jason. It's episode 359.
Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:22
Ah.
Ian Petchenik· Host0:23
It is the A350-900 episode.
Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:27
Yes, that's true. The, the original A350 episode.
Ian Petchenik· Host0:31
This isn't in the show notes, but are you excited about a possible stretched A350?
Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:37
Is that a thing? I didn't- Are we going beyond the 1000?
Ian Petchenik· Host0:41
It is something that was talked about last week during Airbus's big, you know, year in review presser.
Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:50
Annual press conference.
Ian Petchenik· Host0:50
They hinted that it's possible there could be a stretched version of the A350 beyond the 1000.
Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host0:59
Would it be the 1100 or the 2000, or does... Can you really make that aircraft longer? I, I, I missed this.
Ian Petchenik· Host1:07
They're gonna try, I guess. Yeah, it was- Okay ... it was slightly, it, it was one of those, "Yeah, we're thinking about it, but we, we're not seriously there yet."
Jason Rabinowitz· Co-host1:19
Maybe. You never know.
Ian Petchenik· Host1:20
There you go. E- exactly. You, you just never know. We'll talk a little bit more about Airbus later in the show. We're gonna talk about more engine stuff and production