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Solid Embraer is ready for life beyone Botelho

This is Mauricio Botelho’s last Farnborough International show as chief executive of Embraer.
Engines

P&WC testing engine for Phenom 100

Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) has started running the PW617F engine.

CH-53K gets Collins avionics

Sikorsky Aircraft has made its first major subsystem supplier award for the U.S.
Aircraft

Bell/Urban Aeronautics unveil vertical lift X-Hawk

Bell Helicopter of Fort Worth, Texas, and Urban Aeronautics based near Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport will unveil today the X-Hawk, an innovative vertical-lif

Outsider Named President of Bombardier Business Aircraft

Bombardier Aerospace reached outside the company to appoint Pierre Gabriel Côté as president of Bombardier Business Aircraft, a position that has been held

Fix the airplane, Jeeves. . .

Bombardier has selected TAG Farnborough Engineering and Gold Air International as its newest maintenance providers, increasing its number of service center

Raytheon Seeks FAR Exemptions for Hawker 4000

Raytheon's long and bumpy road toward type certification of the Hawker 4000 has taken another twist.

‘Brain’ for 787

One of the most technology-packed airplanes of all time recently received its brain, as it were.
Aircraft

Eclipse 500 by the Numbers

Eclipse Aviation has released the final performance numbers for the Eclipse 500, and it meets or exceeds all of the guarantees but one.
Aircraft

JSF is the New Lightning

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was formally named Lightning II at the program’s Fort Worth, Texas headquarters nine days ago.

Wx radar by Collins smooths the bumps

The next flight you take could be much smoother, thanks to a new airborne weather radar design from U.S.

Eurocopter wants to lease helos to UK

Eurocopter and an unnamed UK operator have proposed leasing civil EC 225 medium-lift helicopters to the British Ministry of Defence as an interim solution
Aircraft

Sino Swearingen Plans First Delivery

San Antonio-based Sino Swearingen hopes to deliver its first SJ30-2 before the end of this month, some nine months after receiving FAA certification for th
Aircraft

BAE’s Herti UAV will spy in uniform or in civvies

BAE Systems is showing its recently-revealed Herti UAV system here for the first time, but the company’s unmanned, low-observable Raven and Corax vehicles

Farnborough revamps and reinvents show

Back in 2004, the Farnborough International show opened against a backdrop of uncertainty about its future organization with doubts over how the Society of
ATC

Training Proposed for Flying VFR Near D.C.

Special awareness training via an online course will be required for any pilot who flies VFR within 100 nm of the Washington, D.C.
Accidents

Saab 340 Icing Incidents Prompt NTSB Action

The NTSB yesterday asked the FAA to attend immediately to what it deemed deficiencies in the cold-weather procedures of Saab 340 pilots and the airplanes&a
Aircraft

Twenty CRJ900s for PSA Airlines?

August 1 marks the deadline for PSA Airlines pilots to agree to US Airways’ conditions for placing 20 Bombardier CRJ900LRs with the wholly owned

BAE to MoD boss: bring pounds

BAE Systems hopes that up to three important UK contracts will be confirmed when British defense minister Des Browne visits the show tomorrow.
Airports

Farnborough Blocked On Movement Increase

TAG Aviation's application for more weekend aircraft movements at the London-area Farnborough Airport was rejected by the local Rushmoor Borough Council.

EADS confronts credibility crisis over Airbus program delays

EADS executives can talk all they want about refusing to allow the Farnborough airshow to dictate the timing of their decisions, but in their current predi
Rotorcraft

HAI Initiates "First-responder Database"

A program intended to allow emergency response agencies to quickly identify, locate and coordinate helicopter assets is now available at Helicopter Associa
Safety

Data Show Fewer Fatalities in First Half

Despite a rash of accidents in June involving U.S.-registered turbine business airplanes, there were fewer fatalities in the first six months of this year
Accidents

Montrose Crash Copilot Suing Bombardier

Eric Wicksell is suing Bombardier for negligence, claiming the Challenger 601 is defective because operating and training manuals didn't disclose what he a

Helisureste a firefighting outfit that can never lower its guard

Fires are a huge and growing problem in Spain and its islands, as they are throughout southern Europe.

Mideast Business Aviation Event Expanding

Are the organizers of the Middle East Business Aviation (MEBA) conference planning to turn future meetings into yet another bizav show? During the event's

Boeing's GoldCare program offers Midas touch for 787s

Three years ago, Boeing product support experts started thinking about new ways to take care of the 787 fleet.
Accidents

NTSB Report Shows False Data by MU-2 Pilot

The pilot of a Mitsubishi MU-2 that crashed shortly after takeoff from Portland-Hillsboro (Ore.) Airport in May last year had falsified his records, accord

Switzerland relies on Ruag for defense work

Aerospace and defense group Ruag (Hall 1 Stand A21) currently has two major domestic defense orders in process.
Aircraft

Comp Air Aims To Certify Turboprop Single

Merritt Island, Fla.-based Comp Air recently unveiled plans to certify its 10-seat, all-composite Comp Air 12 turboprop single.