Content Archive: September 2008

UK-based Rolls-Royce and GKN Aerospace have established a joint venture to study the use of composite materials in fan blades.

The quality of cabin air remains a concern for aircraft manufacturers in their quest to ensure the safety of crewmembers and passengers.

Operators in the future will possibly be able to use X-rays from pulsating stars–or pulsars– light years away from earth to navigate with the same accuracy

The FAA has begun trials of four separate systems designed to automatically detect, report and pinpoint the location of foreign objects on airport runways.

French company Simav is developing a new thermal process, thermolysis, to recycle the carbon fiber contained in composite materials and claims that its pro

BAE Systems Regional Aircraft this year will deliver six more of its corporate-configured, four-engine Avro RJs for a variety of business and government op

ExecuJet Aviation and Hawker Pacific have begun operating the new Skypark FBO at Kuala Lumpur’s Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport.

Dassault Aviation and Unijet, two companies that have a long history at Paris Le Bourget, have been selected to operate from the new terminal at the dedica

Last Wednesday’s congressional hearing on FAA certification and

The dwindling ranks of Australian-designed and -built Nomad twin turboprops may yet grow again as Gippsland Aeronautics has purchased the Nomad program and