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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.

China News reports there are letters of intent for 100 of the four-seater Guanyi GA20. It is powered by a Lycoming O-320 engine and features Garmin avionics.

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

The tables show Jet-A and avgas prices from a survey of U.S. fuel suppliers conducted in August 2019.

The following is an excerpt from a certified transcript of the ground communications during the jet-blast event.

Cape Air took delivery of its first two Tecnam P2012 Travellers following inspection of the nine-passenger aircraft at the manufacturer's production facility in Capua, Italy.

While Part 142 sim training is essential, it is clearly not all-encompassing instruction for safe flying.

On Aug. 8, Gulfstream announced making its first G600 delivery to a customer, one month after the aircraft earned its FAA type and production certificates.

High engine thrust during maintenance activity can cause considerable damage to airplanes and other elements on an airport.

Tamarack Aerospace has received U.S. Bankruptcy Court authorization to accept $1.95 million funding from a consortium of customers, vendors and stakeholders.

Honeywell has reported a “position drift” issue involving flight management systems (FMS) on Gulfstream G350/450 and G550 business jets following a software update.

Automotive industry supplier Lear Corp. has tapped Honeywell Aerospace veteran Carl Esposito to lead its E-Systems division, which produces electrical distribution systems.

The Commercial Drone Alliance is calling on the FAA and the White House to speed the development of regulations allowing the commercial use of large unmanned aircraft systems.

The entity that will be the rest of Embraer is on course to become a separate operational unit once Boeing takes over the Brazilian OEM’s commercial aircraft business by the end of the year, company leaders said Aug. 14.

The FAA is seeking information from third parties that are interested in administering a new aeronautical knowledge test that recreational drone flyers will be required to pass.

The Aircraft Electronics Association’s Second Quarter 2019 Avionics Market Report released Aug. 12 reported sales in the first half of 2019 in the amount of $1.5 billion, representing a 4.1% increase in total sales compared with 2018.

With volatility rocking the financial markets and warnings of the first economic downturn since the Great Recession growing, new reports from credit rating agencies are measuring how the aerospace and defense industries rank.

The entity that will be the rest of Embraer is on course to become a separate operational unit once Boeing takes over the Brazilian OEM’s commercial aircraft business by the end of the year, company leaders said Aug. 14.

United Technologies (UTC) and Raytheon are working hard to convince shareholders to approve their mega-merger.

Graham Warwick and Richard Aboulafia got together to discuss how big the UAM market will be. Will there be fireworks, or harmony? Listen and find out.

The U.S. FAA has granted a team headed by the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) a waiver to fly small drones beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) of an operator using an onboard detect and avoid system.

Production of the Dornier 328 turboprop regional airliner looks set to be restarted in Germany.

Manufacturers of general aviation aircraft are having a mixed year, with increases in deliveries of business jets and piston-engine aircraft being offset by declines in turboprops and helicopters.

French air navigation service provider (ANSP) DSNA has joined a consortium of European ANSPs participating in the Iris satellite-based data link program, Inmarsat announced Aug. 14.