It’s beginning to heat up now. I’m told this is the prelude to the scorching that’s coming in August, a condition I readily accept as just penance for fleeing south before the winter of all winters turned my New England hometown into an ice locker buried in towering snowdrifts.
A common trait among maintenance managers is a kind of career blindness. Most enter aviation because of the airplanes, or their talent for fixing things.
Many flight departments also coordinate with other aviation organizations, comparing standards and practices. Participating teams often are led by people who want to move up the chain of command, perhaps becoming flight department managers themselves.
Dassault Aviation’s Falcon 5X, the first in a line of next-generation business aircraft from the French firm, rolled out in front of 500 company guests, employees and partners at its Bordeaux Merignac plant on June 2nd.
Sessions on June 24 at the annual National Business Aviation Association Regional Forum at Teterboro Airport, New Jersey, covered the business aviation market outlook and NBAA's concern about the proposal to privatize air traffic control. Plus, view specs and forecasts for the Gulfstream G650/G650ER program.
The business jet industry has been wishing for lower fuel prices, lower interest rates and a strong dollar. “And damned if we didn’t get it,” said Jay Mesinger, founder and CEO of Mesinger Jet Sales. What the industry didn’t get, however, was the robust recovery that typically accompanies previous recessions.
Electric propulsion is already changing personal aviation. Could a new NASA X-plane pave the way for a revolution in on-demand transport and a rebirth for commuter airlines?
Gulfstream Aerospace has announced it has received approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for installation of the next-generation Satcom Direct Router (SDR), an enhancement that simplifies cabin communications on Gulfstream G550 and G450 aircraft.
Professional pilots can be perfectionists regarding preflight planning, cockpit resource management and adherence to SOPs. So, why is it that a large percentage of them aren’t equally fastidious about what’s in the fuel tanks of their aircraft?
The union is ready to sit down with Onex and Advanced Integration Technologies regarding their plans, Molina told union members. “We are always willing to explore opportunities to create and maintain union jobs in Kansas."
