The accurate display of airspeed information at high altitude is vital because the margins between the low-speed and high-speed buffet margins can be thin.
Although transport aircraft have three independent speed-sensing systems, environmental factors such as high-altitude ice crystals have the potential to remove this redundancy and create simultaneous failures.
Whenever I witness a transport airplane cross a runway threshold by a few feet, I think back to all the accidents in which aiming for “brick one” ended badly.
By the 1920s, it was apparent that with larger aircraft carrying growing numbers of people, there a cabin crewmember was needed to take care of passengers.
The Corporate School of Etiquette was launched by a former corporate flight attendant to focus on the finer areas of service skills and culinary arts training.
Business aircraft travel to Moscow in the last two years has fallen by 50% and is continuing at that level the year, says security expert Charlie Leblanc.
Piper's PA-46-500TP Meridian has been the lowest-priced pressurized, single-engine turboprop offered by an airframe manufacturer for nearly two decades.
Status: Capital (Moscow), largest city, financial and cultural center Country visa requirement: Required for passengers and crew; for tech stops, generally unnecessary, but as this policy varies from airport to airport, operators are advised to obtain visas as a backup. At Moscow, flight crews can obtain visas on arrival. However, the process is time-consuming and not recommended by flight planning agencies.
Bombardier announced enhancements to its support capabilities for business aircraft customers in China on the eve of the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition.
An electronics travel case designed to protect and organize everything from headsets to small cables. The PowerShuttle Plus will fit a Bose A20 or a Lightspeed Zulu 3 snug.
uAvionix, a developer and manufacturer of miniature avionics for communications, navigation and surveillance applications, says it is testing a prototype control radio for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and urban air mobility vehicles.
uAvionix, a developer and manufacturer of miniature avionics for communications, navigation and surveillance applications, says it is testing a prototype control radio for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and urban air mobility vehicles.
After helping set an endurance record for multirotor small unmanned aircraft of more than 12 hr., the UK’s Intelligent Energy has launched a fuel-cell power unit for the commercial drone market.
