When the European Regions Airline Association (ERA) members assemble for their annual meeting in Salzburg, Austria, this week, they should make sure not to miss a presentation scheduled for the last day. Doreen Welsh, one of the flight attendants on US Airways Flight 1549 that ditched into the Hudson River in New York following a devastating bird strike, will tell attendees about what probably were the most dramatic moments of her life and how she survived the incident.

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Electric propulsion is already here, albeit on a small scale, and now NASA is looking ahead to the technology that would be required to power a regional aircraft in 10-20 years or a narrowbody airliner in 30-40 years. But the agency intends to start small, with tests to first understand, then model the behavior and efficiency of electric propulsion system components. These will feed into ground, and potentially flight, tests of a distributed propulsion system that would be closely integrated with the airframe.

The Experimental Aircraft Association’s board of directors plans to discuss the future leadership of the organization at its fall meeting in November, a little more than a year after Rod Hightower stepped down as president. EAA Chairman Jack Pelton, the former Cessna CEO who has had experience dealing with Washington, has steered the organization in the absence of a president.

Swift Fuels is taking a step to expand its effort to produce a high-octane unleaded aviation gasoline, 100SF, that could potentially serve as a replacement for leaded gasoline. The company officially opened a new aviation fuel blending facility that could store up to 50,000 gal. of the unleaded, high-octane fuel components and broke ground on a new pilot plant operation in Lafayette., Ind. that will be capable of producing more than 10,000 gal. of 100SF per month at full capacity.

As the ban on FAA certification of new foreign repair stations passes the five-year mark, the number of applications from companies seeking U.S. approval has grown to close to 90, according to the agency. Industry groups maintain hopes that the ban could be lifted sometime in the upcoming weeks or next few months, but still fear it could take years for FAA to process the backlog given limited resources.