A potential partnership between Embraer and Boeing would, if OK'd, benefit Embraer’s executive jet division, which would become Embraer’s largest division.
Brad Nolen joined Bombardier in 2002 as a product strategy analyst after serving at Safran Landing Systems and Goodrich Aerospace as a structural engineering consultant.
GE Aviation’s subsidiary in the Czech Republic is to study the combination of its H-Series turboprops with electric drives developed by Austria’s ATB Antriebstehnik to produce propulsion systems for general aviation and urban air mobility.
Boeing has made a “significant investment” in supersonic business-jet developer Aerion to accelerate development of its Mach 1.4 AS2. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Boeing will provide engineering, manufacturing and flight test resources, as well as “strategic vertical content,” to bring the 12-passenger AS2 to market, the company says in a statement.
A record breaking four billion passengers travelled by air in 2017 according to the 62nd annual report released by the International Air Transport Association.
Improving the safety of Part 135 air carrier operations by holding them to the same requirements that apply to airlines is one of the NTSB’s top safety priorities.
A Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) analysis of runway incursions at Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) led the board to recommend reconfiguring part of the airfield and put a spotlight on how inconsistent airport-design standards can present risks for flight crews.
Malta-based VistaJet posted a record 2018, with a 25% increase in global flights, a 46% jump in North American flights and a 31% climb in program membership.
Secretive startup Joby Aviation says its S4 five-seat eVTOL air taxi will be capable of flying at 200 mph and operate at noise levels 100 times quieter than a helicopter.
Bell has begun flight tests of the largest version yet of its tail-sitting electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) Autonomous Pod Transport (APT).
