Business & Commercial Aviation

Business & Commercial Aviation news from October 1969.​

There, at the bottom of the AirNav.com “Airport” page under “Additional Remarks” was this: “WATCH FOR HORSES OR BIG GAME ANIMALS ON RY.”

In accepting To Do’s, the best of intentions can lead to big trouble.

There are FBOs that go beyond client expectations, and then there's Sweden's Grafair Jet Center.

Lynn Nichols, chairman and CEO of Wichita-based FBO Yingling Aviation, has announced the promotion of his son Andrew to president from chief financial officer.

“Environmental sustainability is a key issue on the political agenda in Europe,” Eurocontrol Director General Eamonn Brennan reminds non-European operators.

Selected accidents and incidents, July 2019. The NTSB information is preliminary.

The only remaining backcountry airfield in Death Valley National Park has been officially authorized, removing any question about its legal use by visitors.

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The absolute critical phase of flight after a total power loss is the transition from powered climb to unpowered glide.

Falcon 8X operators are virtually unanimous in saying that the Dassault flagship is a substantial improvement over the smaller Falcon 7X.

A new U.S. Commerce Department study has found the Global Positioning System has provided $1.4 trillion worth of nongovernment economic benefits since 1984.

The National Air Transportation Association and its Illegal Charter Task Force have launched a website to help identify, avoid and report illegal charters.

FlightSafety International is offering a specialized small Unmanned Aerial Systeme (sUAS) remote pilot course for civil and government services.

Prevention of flutter and other aeroelastic modes requires proper maintenance, preflight attention and immediate reactions if it occurs in flight

The aeroelastic behavior of long, thin swept wings prompted engineers to incorporate inboard and outboard ailerons on such airfoils.

Orville and Wilbur Wright made beneficial use of aeroelastic effects for roll control of their Flyer by using wing warping.

Circumventing academic annexation and putting SA to practical use.

The nondisclosure agreement does not allow you to sit silent in a deposition or on the witness stand if you are asked about criminal behavior in the plane.

Communities tend to tolerate public safety flights because they are infrequent and have clear community value. However, communities historically oppose other uses due to noise.

Alexandre Couvelaire is inextricably connected with the elevation of Le Bourget into Europe’s premier business aviation airport.

eVTOL/UAM advocates believe their aircraft will be embraced by the public — vehicles that give people back time otherwise lost in their daily ground commutes.

With more and more business aircraft pilots joining the scheduled carriers, the importance and appeal of temporary contract pilots is gaining attention.

Jet blast is created by turbine aircraft engines and can be powerful enough to cause large upsets to aircraft on the ground or close to the ground.

Skeptics, myself included, have long been involved in the negatives of helicopter operations in metropolitan settings.