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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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Gulfstream positioned for sales growth
“It’s a good improvement year over year,” said Gulfstream Aerospace president Bryan Moss at the company’s press conference here, commenting on the company’
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Company seeks funds for its Avanti lookalike
Ravi Tripuraneni is here at NBAA’06 promoting his design for the RT-700, a new piston-powered twin-engine airplane with a three-lifting-surface design simi
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BBJ celebrates 10th birthday with 12 orders
Boeing Business Jets celebrated its 10th anniversary yesterday with cake, champagne and good news.
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Twin Commander value hike sought
The father and son team of Jim and Mark Matheson marked the advances in fleet support for the Twin Commander Aircraft, since their acquisition of the compa
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Can a t-prop be a VLJ? Epic Dynasty says it can
Just because an airplane swings a propeller doesn’t mean it can’t be a VLJ.
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Saint-Gobain radomes go on both Phenoms
Saint-Gobain Flight Structures is supplying all the nose radomes for the Embraer Phenom 100 and 300, the company announced at a press conference here on Mo
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Brazilian Buys First New PC-12
Pilatus has sold its first $3.35 million Next Generation PC-12 to a Brazilian operator.
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Eclipse 500 Gets Provisional FAA Certification
Vern Raburn, president and CEO of Eclipse Aviation, was flanked by some 200 company employees this afternoon at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., to announc
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A400M on target for October 2009 delivery
By the end of this month, Airbus France will deliver the first forward fuselage section for the A400M military transport.
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UCAV gains apparent but debate rages on cost, uses
Having led the way with unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) concept demonstrations, the U.S.
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Testing the New Technologies
The key technologies being investigated in the current UCAV programs are advanced flight control for tail-less, blended-wing-body configurations; autonomou
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Honda Gives Green Light for HondaJet
Honda announced this morning at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., that it will “enter the HondaJet into the growing very light jet market.” According to pro
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Lockheed Insists F-35 is Worth the Wait, Cost
The reduced radar cross-section of the F-35 allows it to evade most enemy air defenses, both airborne and ground-based.
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Bubbles fail to deflate Boeing’s composites plan
Failure of a large Boeing 787 composites fuselage-barrel test section is not expected to delay the new jetliner’s initial services with Japan’s All Nippon
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787 the product of a bold new doctrine
Boeing adopted the mantle of systems integrator in a big way with the 787, calling on a group of international partners to produce complete subassemblies f
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Cessna's Jet Sales and Deliveries Climb
The first half of this year saw considerably improved sales and deliveries of Citations compared with the first half of last year, according to second-quar
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Gulfstream Headed for a Record Year
Gulfstream delivered 54 business jets in the first half of this year versus 41 in the first half of last year, according to figures released yesterday by p
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Diamond Raises D-Jet's Price
The good news is that the single-engine Diamond D-Jet is getting a parachute recovery system from St.
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E-195 certification opens new chapter for Embraer
Brazil’s Embraer passes another critical milestone in its meteoric development this month with EASA certification of the largest of its four-member family
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Michelin weighs options for 787 tire technology
Michelin still has to decide whether to offer its near-zero-growth tire technology to the Boeing 787 program.
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SJ30 Light Jet Shows Long Legs
Sino Swearingen's SJ30 (nee SJ30-2) production-conforming test aircraft (S/N 5) with two pilots aboard this weekend established several speed and range rec
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Embraer's Bizjets Selling Phenomenally Well
Embraer today revealed the firm order backlog and production schedule for its business jets–the Phenom 100 and 300, Legacy 600 and Lineage 1000.
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Bombardier Aero ponders next move
Canada’s Bombardier Aerospace (Hall 3 Stand D8) enters this Farnborough show with some critical questions to answer about the future of its regional airlin
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On duty with U.S. Marines, ScanEagle in league of its own
What makes the ScanEagle unmanned air vehicle on display here this week different from the multitude of similar robot airplanes being touted for surveillan
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Execujet Owners Take Over Grob Aerospace
Executive Jet Investments (EJI), a Swiss investment firm led by Execujet CEO Niall Olver, has acquired a controlling stake in German-based manufacturer Gro
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New owners take the reins at Grob
Executive Jet Investments (EJI)–a small group of largely anonymous Swiss private investors–has completed an acquisition of a majority stake in German airfr
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The New ’Dynasty’ Is Not a TV Soap Opera
Epic Aircraft parent Aircraft Investor Resources (AIR) last week changed the name of the certifiable version of its Epic LT turboprop single to the Dynasty
