By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Former FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said the effort to spin off U.S. air traffic control (ATC) from the FAA failed because it became too focused on the structure of a proposed new entity.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Honda Aircraft Honda Aircraft is to receive the 2018 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Foundation Award for Excellence, for leading the design, development and commercialization of the HondaJet.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Israel Aerospace Industries plans to develop an electric short-haul commercial aircraft. The company says future electric-powered aircraft will reduce emissions and noise and provide significant savings in fuel costs.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau notes incidents in which pilots became distracted or confused while attempting to manage flight guidance systems in high-workload environments.
With a surging market and operations climbing, the outlook for the avionics business has never been brighter, right? Never mind the Wall Street turbulence—things are looking up for business aviation.
We in the aviation community take as an article of faith that those who occupy the seats in an airplane cockpit for a living are, in every sense of the word, professionals.
The aircraft salvage business can be the shortest, most direct path to lower operating costs and continued service of your aging, but still useful, aircraft.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is concerned that pilots operating modern flight control systems can find themselves spending too much heads-in time during rapidly changing, high-workload situations in terminal areas.
Electric airplanes' software, computer boards and augmented controls will be used for much more than propulsion, and will do so with precision, immediacy, efficiency and endurance unknown in mechanical systems, says GAMA executive Greg Bowles.
Frugal and Gulfstream are in deep harmony at a high-energy business that is keeping legacy members of one of the best-known purpose-built business jet series alive and humming.
Tamarack Aerospace Group received additional EASA and FAA approvals for its active winglets on the Cessna Citation business jet line, with new supplemental type certificate (STC) authorizations for the C525A series including the CJ2 and CJ2+ aircraft. Tamarack already has approvals on the C525 and C525B CJ series.
Daher introduced the latest features and functionality on the Garmin G3000 all-glass integrated flight deck configuration for the TBM 930 — the high-end model in Daher’s turboprop aircraft family.
New from Cloudbase are sunglasses that feature Carl Zeiss lenses chosen specifically for pilots. These lenses are designed to provide high contrast, outstanding optical clarity and excellent UV protection.
The headset has phone and audio interface and, smart audio muting that allows you to choose what auxiliary audio you hear, including automatic muting of aux audio when the intercom is active.
The Silvercrest turbofan engine, whose recurring problems caused Dassault to terminate the Falcon 5X program (see page 56) is being tweaked to better meet the needs of its only remaining application, the Cessna Hemisphere.
FlightSafety International is offering FAA-approved Part 142 Night-Vision Goggle initial and recurrent training in simulators for helicopters built by Bell, Airbus and Sikorsky.
