A glimmer of hope can be seen for the sales of Dassault’s Falcon business jets in the recent acceleration of orders after years of sluggish transactions, according to numbers released during the company’s biannual press conference at its Saint-Cloud headquarters near Paris.
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.
The drone affiliate of cargo airline Astral Aviation has signed an agreement with Yamaha Motor Co. to introduce Yamaha’s Fazer R G2 unmanned helicopter in Kenya for “last-mile” cargo deliveries and crop-spraying applications.
Embattled aerospace valve provider Circor, whose management recently fended off an unsolicited takeover attempt favored by its own shareholders, has sold its Spence and Nicholson product lines to Emerson for about $84.5 million in cash.
IATA DG and CEO Alexandre de Juniac said “preventing fragmentation” between international regulators remains the group’s foremost concern regarding the return-to-service of the Boeing 737 MAX.
With hundreds and occasionally thousands of exhibitors, small and medium-size enterprises often fail to stand out. Sadly, that is partly self-inflicted.
CAE plans to expand its business with the acquisition of a 50% stake in SimCom Holdings, a training provider, for $85 million, the training provider says.
Germany’s Volocopter has conducted a test flight at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in Finland with its prototype electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.
The leading U.S. developers of supersonic aircraft have called on the Transportation Department to modify its proposed rule on supersonic flight authorizations, arguing the proposal’s wording amounts to an effective prohibition on all supersonic flight.
The FAA has suspended the use of an automated system at JFK International Airport that allows drone operators to request and obtain authorization to fly in the vicinity of the New York City airport.
The pilots who will fly NASA’s X-59 QueSST low-boom supersonic flight demonstrator are evaluating the external vision system (XVS) that will provide forward visibility in an aircraft where the long shockwave-shaping nose completely blocks the view from the cockpit.
The 1,215-lb. vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft made a 64-sec. first hover flight on Aug. 14 at the Camp Roberts California National Guard Base.
The FAA has OK'd a certificate of authorization allowing General Atomics to fly its Predator B remotely piloted aircraft beyond visual line of sight of an operator using a ground-based sense-and-avoid system to prevent midair collisions.
The only remaining backcountry airfield in Death Valley National Park, commonly called Chicken Strip, has been officially authorized, removing any question about its legal use by visitors.
Business aircraft flight activity in North America was mixed during the first half of 2019, with three months of activity gains and three months of declines, according to Argus International’s TraqPak data.
