AvTalk Episode 359: Reading them the ROTOR Act

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🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 359 of AvTock.
0:13.0	I am Ian Petchnik here as always with Jason Urbanowitz.
0:17.6	Hello, Ian.
0:18.5	What's up?
0:18.8	Hello, Jason.
0:19.7	It's episode 359. It is the A350-900 episode.
0:28.0	Yes, that's true. The original A-350 episode. This isn't in the show notes, but are you excited
0:34.4	about a possible stretched A350?
0:38.5	Is that a thing?
0:39.0	I didn't.
0:40.7	Are we going beyond the 1000?
0:48.8	It is something that was talked about last week during Airbus' big year-in-review presser.
0:50.0	Annual press conference.
0:51.1	They hinted that it's possible there could be a stretched version of the A350
0:58.1	beyond the 1,000.
0:59.8	Would it be the 1,000 or the 1,000?
1:04.2	Can you really make that aircraft longer?
1:06.7	I missed this.
1:07.6	You're going to try, I guess.
1:09.4	Yeah, it was slightly, it was one of those, yeah, we're thinking about it, but we're not
1:18.3	seriously there.
1:19.4	Maybe.
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