Honda Aircraft handed over 43 HondaJets in 2017, only the second full year of deliveries. Its North Carolina plant is designed to build six units a month.
The EC rules that NetJets Transportes Aereos in Portugal may extend duty time of its pilots in any seven consecutive days to 70 hr. with certain limitations.
Mastering basic flying skills, maintaining situational awareness and equipment, including angle-of-attack (AOA) indicators would help prevent loss of control in flight, the leading cause of fatal general aviation (GA) accidents, panelists said April 24 during a roundtable discussion hosted by the NTSB.
Boeing HorizonX’s latest venture capital investment is in a California-based startup Morf3D, specializing in the engineering and manufacturing of 3D-printed metal parts.
Startups in the automated drone and air taxi markets have attracted senior executives from the automotive and technology sectors as they seek to grow their operations.
BCA subscribers, log in to download the entire 2018 Purchase Planning Handbook, including airplane comparison tables as well as Avionics Marketplace charts, which are available only in digital format.
Airline pilots’ labor groups oppose a provision of proposed FAA reauthorization legislation that would start research into single-piloted cargo aircraft.
Production at Honda Aircraft has overtaken the company’s closest competitors in the light business jet market, with steep rises in output still scheduled.
Electric airplanes' software, computer boards and augmented controls will be used for much more than propulsion, and will do so with precision, immediacy, efficiency and endurance unknown in mechanical systems, says GAMA executive Greg Bowles.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau notes incidents in which pilots became distracted or confused while attempting to manage flight guidance systems in high-workload environments.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is concerned that pilots operating modern flight control systems can find themselves spending too much heads-in time during rapidly changing, high-workload situations in terminal areas.
We in the aviation community take as an article of faith that those who occupy the seats in an airplane cockpit for a living are, in every sense of the word, professionals.
Frugal and Gulfstream are in deep harmony at a high-energy business that is keeping legacy members of one of the best-known purpose-built business jet series alive and humming.
The aircraft salvage business can be the shortest, most direct path to lower operating costs and continued service of your aging, but still useful, aircraft.
