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AirVenture 2010
EAA AirVenture, as usual, brought the aviation family together for another week of celebration, innovation and pure enjoyment at Wittman Regional Airport i
Maintenance and Modifications
Raisbeck’s Learjet 60 Fuselage Locker Makes Debut
The new Raisbeck Engineering Learjet 60 aft fuselage locker made its Labace debut as part of the Bombardier exhibit.
Aircraft
Boeing Pushes First 787 Deliveries into Mid-First Quarter
Boeing today announced yet another delay to the 787 program, following “an assessment of the availability of an engine needed for the final phases of fligh
Sustainability and Environment
Airline Bean Counters Need To Count Emissions Carefully
Airlines that will be subject to Europe’s new
Dassault Sees Brazilian Market Growth
Dassault Falcon president and CEO John Rosanvallon sees Brazil as “one of the fastest-growing markets in the world,” and his company expects to deliver 13
IATA: Strong Demand Continues as Recovery Enters Slower Second Phase
Statistics released by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) for the month of July clearly reflect an
Safety
Bombardier Safety Standdown Draws a Crowd
Bombardier’s first safety standdown in Latin America drew a crowd the day before the opening of the annual Labace show.
Engines
Pratt & Whitney Joins with Tap for Engine Overhaul
Engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Canada and the Brazilian maintenance and engineering division of TAP Portugal announced an agreement to provide “co
LAN-TAM Merger Reflects Growing Latin American Solidarity
In what might prove the biggest cross-border airline merger ever between two
Labace 2010 rides wave of Latin American growth
In the three years since the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (Labace) was relaunched, it has benefited from an increasingly he
Hawker’s 2Q earnings and its backlog shrink
The possibility of Hawker Beechcraft moving some of its Wichita-based manufacturing elsewhere came up again early last month with the release of the compan
Accidents
Stevens crash investigation under way
The investigation continues into the cause of last month’s crash of a de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Otter turboprop-conversion floatplane in Alaska that kille
Sustainability and Environment
OEMs embrace more-electric aircraft systems
Business jet manufacturers are quietly progressing toward more-electric architectures, where electricity replaces hydraulic and pneumatic power in systems
Sustainability and Environment
Committee studies eco-friendly production, dismantling
Operating an aircraft accounts for 80 percent of the machine’s lifetime environmental footprint, according to a newly released Dassault study.
Sustainability and Environment
Rockwell Collins Plays Key Role in Green Connection Evaluations
Rockwell Collins, as a member of a consortium of industry partners led by Swedish air navigation service provider Luftfartsverket (LFV), has been awarded a
Sustainability and Environment
Boeing Headquarters Earns EPA Energy Star
Boeing’s Chicago downtown headquarters has earned the U.S.
Sustainability and Environment
Honeywell Launches New Emissions and Monitoring
Honeywell is offering a new emissions monitoring service for business jets operating in European airspace to assist in compliance with European Union emi
Sustainability and Environment
FAA Awards $125M in Green Contracts
Five aerospace companies have been awarded a total of $125 million in contracts as part of an environmental initiative to spur development of new aircraft
Sustainability and Environment
EPA begins ruling process to phase out leaded avgas
With the deadline for the comment period on the Environmental Protection Agency’s advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to phase out leaded avgas
Sustainability and Environment
Eurocopter joins biofuel quest
Eurocopter and parent company EADS have teamed with Argentina-based BioCombustibles del Chubut (BC) to study the feasibility of building an aviation biofue
Sustainability and Environment
Alternative fuels still face hurdles
The alternative aviation fuel industry continues to conduct flight tests to validate the use of new jet-fuel blends.
Sustainability and Environment
Turbofan manufacturers continue ‘green’ efforts
Turbofan manufacturers are developing cleaner, quieter and more environmentally friendly engines that will meet current and future regulatory requirements.
Sustainability and Environment
Next-gen ATC promises environmental rewards
The benefits of implementing NextGen and its European counterpart, the Single European Sky ATM Research (Sesar), are threefold: not only will the new proce
Sustainability and Environment
Business Aviation and the Environment
There is no silver bullet for reducing the effect of business aviation on the environment, most industry analysts agree, but the combination of new technol
Regulations and Government
FAA bill could end Stage II operations
If the FAA reauthorization bill currently under debate in Congress is finally passed in its present form, one provision that it contains could seal the fat
Regulations and Government
FAA Adopts ICAO’s ‘Line Up and Wait’ Terminology
Current FAA terminology for an air traffic controller’s instruction for a pilot to taxi onto the runway and await takeoff clearance is “position and hold.”
Nigerian jet buy lifts veil on discounts
The Nigerian government’s announcement last month that it is buying two Falcon 7Xs and one Gulfstream G550 has yielded a rare public viewing of business ai
Former Jet Aviation scion dies
Carl Hirschmann, Jet Aviation’s former CEO and the eldest son of company founder Carl W.
Safety
EFB-Pro software gets hot module
Cavu Companies has added a new hold-over time (Hot) module to its EFB-Pro performance software to help pilots ensure compliance with regulatory re quiremen
