The idea that a jet's flight controls could be hijacked in flight by hackers continues to capture public imagination. Aircraft manufacturers insist it is impossible - but this does not mean that aircraft are immune from cyberattacks.
The world’s most “printed engine,” GE’s new Catalyst advanced turboprop in which additive manufacturing replaces 855 normally made parts with just 12 “printed” components, ran at full power for the first time last month with its composite five-blade McAuley propeller.
Embraer is working to expand its business jet lineup even before the ink is dry on the certification of its brand new super midsize Praetor 600 – and as its midsize Praetor 500 flies toward that goal in December.
Bombardier Aerospace has delivered the ultra-long-range Global 7500 business jet to its first European customer – Formula One driver and F1 World Champion Niki Lauda.
In conjunction with its Far East customer, Metrojet, the U.S. company announces, today, the launch of a new Boeing Business Jet services bundle, for which Metrojet is the first to sign a five-year agreement.
Florian Reuter, CEO of Germany's eVTOL aircraft pioneer Volocopter, is to open EBACE 2019's keynote session, thus highlighting the likely importance of urban air mobility in aviation's future and its connection with business aviation.
Promising to significantly increase the conversion rate from charter enquiry to confirmed booking, Takeoff Ready is a fast-lane feature within Avinode that gives priority in search results to crew-ready flights available to depart within 96 hours.
Bamberg-based BHS Helicopter service has solidified its growth plans with the acquisition of the Swiss helicopter business of its Stuttgart-based cooperation partner DC Aviation. The move brings greater critical mass to the helicopter business, while allowing each company to focus on rotary and fixed wing charter and management, respectively.
Bombardier’s Global 7500 has flown from London City, notable for its steep approach requirements, to Van Nuys, California, in the industry’s first non-stop mission between the two cities.
Falcon set out to establish a new coast-to-coast business jet speed record from Santa Monica to Teterboro, departing from one of Santa Monica’s shortened GA runways.
GlobeAir, the only operator to have demonstrated that air taxi with a fleet of small jets can be a viable business in Europe, is now talking to major airlines to offer them a “last mile” service.
For four years Gulfstream’s ultra-long-range G650ER has reigned as the world’s fastest and farthest business jet. Then in January, the newly-certified Bombardier Global 7500 proved it could go even further.
Pratt & Whitney Canada is now running five PW812D development engines for the fast-paced Dassault Falcon 6X program and says certification of the PW815G-configured Gulfstream G600 is imminent.
If sustainable alternative jet fuels are to help the business-aviation industry to meet the carbon-reduction goals it has collectively set for itself, plenty of work needs to be done.
A Gulfstream G550, powered by a sustainable alternative jet fuel covered the 3591 nautical miles in seven hours and 13 minutes, at an average speed of Mach 0.85.
Younger customers and new-generation aircraft are compelling VIP completions centers such as Lufthansa Technik to adapt futuristic technologies for their luxury cabins.
Cabin completion and refurbishment specialist Greenpoint Technologies is showing its latest design inspirations for 787 and 777X Boeing Business Jet interiors.