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News and developments about airplanes, helicopters and unmanned air vehicles used in all varieties of operations, including airlines, military, business, commercial, general aviation and private.
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In business class, A380 provides plenty of luxury
It was a short flight, two-and-a-half hours over the Pacific Ocean, but even that amount of time was enough to learn that business-class seats in an Emirat
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Stevens Aviation Delivers First Lear4Ever Aircraft
Business aircraft maintenance, modification and completions firm Stevens Aviation today delivered the first Lear4Ever–an upgraded Learjet 35–to Dr.
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Dilemma for Boeing as Pentagon Issues Revised RFP for KC-X
Boeing faces a tough decision, now that the Pentagon has confirmed that bigger is better in the KC-X tanker competition.
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Boeing Confident on C-17 Future; Pitching New Version
Continuing production of the C-17 Globemaster airlifter into the next decade now seems assured.
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Signs Point To Gulfstream G250 Launch Soon
Two weeks before Gulfstream Aerospace unveiled the G650 on March 13, a JP Morgan analyst report said the Savannah, Ga.-based aircraft manufacturer would la
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Cessna Reaches Milestones for Mustang, CJ4
Cessna Aircraft yesterday delivered the 100th Citation Mustang at the Independence, Kan.
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CRJ1000 first flight expected early next month
An integration fault in the Bombardier CRJ1000’s fly-by-wire rudder control system has forced the company to install a software revision in the flying prot
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P&WC and Eclipse Probing PW610F Carbon Concern
Pratt & Whitney Canada, manufacturer of the PW610F engine that powers the Eclipse 500 very light jet, and Eclipse Aviation are jointly investigating th
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Cessna’s Columbus Sails through Wind-tunnel Tests
Cessna yesterday said it completed a series of wind-tunnel tests for its large-cabin Citation Columbus.
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FAA Issues Revised AD on Eclipse Thrust Levers
In response to a thrust-lever quadrant failure in an Eclipse 500 on June 5, the FAA issued an emergency Airworthiness Directive (AD 2008-13-51) on June 12,
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EF-18G Growler Readying for Fleet Duty
Ahead of schedule and under budget, Boeing delivered the first of an expected 85 operational models of its EF-18G Growler to the U.S.
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Epic Elite Jet Is Hostage to Georgia Conflict
The conflict between Russia and Georgia is reverberating at Bend, Ore.-based Epic Aircraft, which in late June temporarily moved its sole Epic Elite Jet pr
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Riding the rocket
Is there a pilot alive whose pulse has not raced upon seeing Concorde’s lithe shape part the sky? Of the many airliner cockpit rides I have been fortunate
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Why the ProJet? Why now?
The idea for what is now known as the ProJet started four years ago during a conversation between Carey Robinson Wolchok, then a principal at private equit
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In The Works: ATG Javelin
In addition to announcing its selection of the Avidyne FlightMax Entegra for its two-seat Javelin “executive jet," Aviation Technology Group of Englew
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In The Works: Beriev Be-103
Beriev Aircraft, of Taganrog, Russia, received FAA Part 23 type certification for its Be-103 twin-piston amphibian at EAA AirVenture directly from FAA Admi
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In The Works: Explorer Aircraft 500T
Explorer Aircraft of Jasper, Texas, which showed its proof-of-concept aircraft, configured as a 500T with a single Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6-135B, at
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In The Works: Maverick Jets Leader
Melbourne, Fla.-based Maverick Jets has moved manufacturing of its five-seat Leader twinjet kitplane to Tbilisi Aerospace Manufacturing in the republic of
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In The Works: VisionAire Vantage
Defunct VisionAire’s intellectual property for its six-seat, single-engine Vantage very light business jet and two-seat, single-engine Spirit sport jet is
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Avionics Update: FlightMax Entegra cockpit selected for Adam A500
Adam Aircraft of Englewood, Colo., will equip the in-development Adam A500 piston twin with Avidyne’s FlightMax Entegra integrated flight deck.
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Regionals Update: Air Deccan launches ATR 42 service
India’s Air Deccan operated its inaugural revenue flight with one of six 48-seat ATR 42-320s on August 25, between its home city of Bangalore and Hubli, in
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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
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Second Embraer 175 flies
The second Embraer 175 prototype flew its maiden mission on August 7, marking the resumption of a comparatively short flight-test program scheduled to last
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Electric airplane gets $400,000 NASA grant
A fuel-cell-powered electric airplane is the goal of Worcester, Mass.-based Advanced Technology Products and its nonprofit arm, the Foundation for Advancin
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43-year-old bizplane still in service
In the 1950s, Dee Howard of San Antonio converted and rebuilt Lockheed B-34/PV-1 Venturas as executive transports, calling them the Howard Aero 250 and 350
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Pilot Report: Flying a Walter-powered Beech King Air C90
I recently had the chance to fly one of the King Air C90s re-engined with two Walter M601E-11s
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Walter-powered King Airs, a better idea?
Dan Sigl, president of Seagull Aviation in Clintonville, Wis., has invested a significant portion of his career in Walter 601-powered derivatives of existi
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ATR 42 drop test useless, claims RAA
The Regional Airline Association last month lambasted the FAA for the agency’s highly publicized drop test of an ATR 42-300 turboprop in Atlantic City, N.J
