Content Archive: August 2008

Rotorcraft

Agusta hot to trot on civil tiltrotor

Unfazed by (or perhaps because of) murmurs from within Bell Helicopter management to the effect that development of the BA609 might be accelerated, Agusta-
Accidents

Bell says V-22 incident is 'nonevent'

The history of the Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey military tiltrotor is that of the rankest of Hollywood cliffhangers.
Aircraft

Embraer 170 soldiers on toward November approval

Brazil’s Embraer remains firmly on target for November certification of its much-heralded but delay-prone Embraer 170, according to company vice president

Profit-leader ACA builds its case for new low-fare venture

During a quarter in which all the big publicly traded regional airlines turned a handsome profit, it came as little surprise that Atlantic Coast Airlines l

Suspended aviation

“Five hundred years from now, you’ll want to be able to pop open something on the aircraft and see how it worked,” noted David Hahn, acting collections man
Regulations and Government

FAA drafts a plan for the future

Saying aviation faces the “one-two-three punch” of terrorism, ATC modernization requirements and tenuous global economic conditions, the FAA has drafted an

Laptop PCs and PDAs keep pilots connected on the road

Designed to facilitate productivity on the go, laptops and PDAs come in a variety of shapes and sizes to fit various computing needs.

Propane Blast Closes Bombardier Plant

Bombardier canceled the midnight and morning shifts at its Downsview, Ontario factory today to clean up debris from an explosion at a nearby north Toronto
Maintenance and Modifications

Putting wake vortex to sleep

French inventor Christian Hugues has patented a new wingtip device promising an 8-percent reduction in induced drag and a 5.4-percent increase in lift.

Bizjet makers doing their part to quiet Machbusting flight

“Everybody talks about the weather,” Mark Twain once famously quipped, “but nobody ever does anything about it.”The sound barrier amounts to ro