Business Aviation

By Sean Broderick
Industry is requesting more time to weigh in on the FAA’s proposed set of sweeping changes to aircraft interiors flammability standards.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Bombardier has pledged to invest nearly $13 million to offer more than 1,000 paid internship positions in Canada for the 2019-2020 academic year, the company announced Sept. 12.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Salaries and benefits in the business aviation industry are generally equal to or higher than other aviation segments, including the airlines, according to a 2019 compensation survey by the Canadian Business Aviation Association.
Business Aviation

By Victoria Moores
Environmental protest group Heathrow Pause plans to disrupt flights at London Heathrow Airport for at least five days starting Sept. 13 by illegally flying UAVs within the airport’s exclusion zone.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Textron Aviation has opened an aircraft parts warehouse in Australia to support regional growth of its fleet of business jets, turboprops and piston aircraft.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
Leading small drone manufacturer DJI and French drone services company Delair announced a partnership on Sept.12 to provide visual data collection and analysis products for industrial applications.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
The “LuxStream” service will connect with SES’ managed Ku-band satellite network to offer data speeds of up to 25 Mbps in the U.S. and 15 Mbps globally.
Business Aviation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
Prevention of flutter and other aeroelastic modes requires proper maintenance, preflight attention and immediate reactions if it occurs in flight
Business Aviation

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

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

By Molly McMillin
Mooney International has sold out of its Mooney Ovation Ultra and Acclaim Ultra aircraft until March 2020, according to Premier Aircraft Sales, a Florida-based authorized Mooney dealer.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
Good requirements resolve security issues with drones, according to an executive with the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), which operates a large fleet of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) that includes DJI drones made in China.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
As high-profile companies such as SpaceX start to deploy thousands of small satellites in orbit to provide global internet connectivity, what happened with the couple of small companies that sought to provide the service over the continental U.S. using commercial aircraft?
Business Aviation

By Mark Nensel
A twin-engine Convair 440 cargo aircraft crashed into the parking lot of a truck repair facility in Toledo, Ohio early Sept. 11, an FAA spokesperson told Aviation Daily.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Global Medical Response has pledged $1 million in relief aid to support Bahamian emergency medical needs and infrastructure in the wake of Hurricane Dorian.
Business Aviation

Sponsored by Manassas Regional Airport
Located 30 miles from Capitol Hill in a region of vibrant economic activity, Manassas Regional Airport has over 400 based aircraft and more than 85,000 annual aircraft operations, making it the busiest general aviation airport in Virginia.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Flight activity across Europe remained sluggish in August, with a 5.8% decline compared to a year ago, Argus International said.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Business aviation flight activity in North America posted an 0.6% decline in August compared to a year ago.
Business Aviation

By Jen DiMascio
When Linda Hudson took over as president and CEO of BAE Systems in 2009, she was the first woman to occupy nearly every job she had throughout her career.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
The closed environment of the aircraft cabin has often been described as an incubation tank for bacteria, viruses, and pathogenic organisms.
Business Aviation

Bombardier’s 23rd annual Safety Standdown, to be held Nov. 12-14, has reached full capacity, the company reports.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
Drone delivery service provider Flirtey on Sept. 9 unveiled the Flirtey Eagle, a boxy quadcopter that it expects will begin delivering food and packages to households by year’s end.
Business Aviation

By James Albright
Circumventing academic annexation and putting SA to practical use.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
German air taxi developer Volocopter has raised an additional €50 million ($55 million) in the first part of a Series C funding round, taking the total capital raised so far to €85 million.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
The FAA has postponed the release of a draft rulemaking for remote identification of drones by two months until December.
Business Aviation