Just as public enthusiasm for unmanned aircraft systems forced the U.S. to draw up new rules for drones, so China’s civil aviation authorities will be forced to embrace general aviation (GA) as people take to the skies illegally.
Sherry Carbary, vice president of Boeing Flight Services, said at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh that 617,000 new pilots will be needed in the next two decades.
Textron Aviation is moving forward with plans for a diesel-powered Turbo 172 Skyhawk JT-A, while plans for a diesel-powered Turbo 182 Skylane JT-A are on hold.
While there were a handful of new projects and steady progress on existing forward-looking programs, the industry took time to reflect on structural issues—the less-than-stellar safety record, medical and regulatory reform—that are being solved in order to put general aviation on a more solid footing.
Elliot Sequin, experimental test pilot, Mooney Aircraft; founder/pilot Wasabi Air Racing, Mojave Air & Space Port, Mojave, California; [email protected]
Industry experts say turbo-electric propulsion is still years away, so NASA should focus research also on gas turbines, sustainable jet fuels and propulsion-airframe integration if it wants to reduce carbon emissions.
The primary purpose of investigating any aircraft accident is to prevent recurrence. Legal teams may wrestle with "who" when assigning blame, but investigators are focused on the "why" to make sure the "what" never happens again.
Aircraft operating costs are presented in a format that separates the data into seven areas: Mission Costs, Variable Costs, Fixed Annual Costs, Periodic Costs, Personnel Costs, Training Costs and Facilities Costs.
Jet spacing over the North Atlantic was reinstated to 120 mi. at all altitudes. The FAA cited the complexity of a double standard above and below 29,000 ft., and excessive ATC workload from numerous requests for altitude changes. With this decision, the FAA validated ALPA’s arguments for such reinstatement.
Managing an aircraft flight path, along with its energy level, is a basic piloting responsibility. The professional pilot community has been told for decades about the importance of the stabilized approach. It has been a consistent message from aviation safety organizations around the world. And yet the problem of unstabilized approaches continues.
A temporarily closed runway and relatively low ceilings caused a glut of aircraft to arrive into Wittman Airport at the same time Sunday, many of which flew unstable approaches by traditional metrics.
LAM Aviation is beginning an in-house flight test campaign of an innovative wing design that provides both high-speed performance and low-speed control protection, while at the same time seeking a launch customer for its LAM Columbia Volant experimental aircraft.
Textron Aviation introduced the Cessna Turbo Stationair HD, an enhanced version of its T206H single-engine piston aircraft, at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh July 25.
Key capabilities required for routine commercial deliveries by small unmanned aircraft are to be flight tested by Amazon in the U.K., in partnership with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
Piper Aircraft has received FAA type certification on its newest aircraft, the Piper M600 single-engine turboprop, a higher-performing version of its Meridian. Piper and the FAA announced the award June 17.
Despite there being only a handful of the 30-seat regional turboprops still in service, it is such an extraordinary machine that we decided to focus on it for this month’s used aircraft report.
Doug May, vice president of piston aircraft for Textron Aviation, speaks with Molly McMillian at AirVenture Oshkosh about the company's announcements - and also the atmosphere at the show.
Cirrus Aircraft was the recipient of the first Joseph T. Nall Safety Award for its safety record, awarded by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Air Safety Institute (ASI).
Textron Aviation unveiled the name of its new single-engine turboprop — the Cessna Denali — along with a cabin mockup of the aircraft at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh on July 25.
