Content Archive: May 2008

Training and Workforce

Night-vision training offered to more pilots

Bowing to demands from an even more security-conscious aviation community, Bell Helicopter is offering the first FAA-approved night-vision-goggle (NVG) tra
Security

Genav and helos were slowest to recover

When the call went out in those early, panicky hours of the crisis that’s collectively come to be called “9/11,” some 4,500 aircraft were airborne in U.S.
Rotorcraft

Sikorsky Helo Goes Hollywood

Movie stars tend to get what they want, so when comic actor Adam Sandler asked to borrow Sikorsky’s S-92 helicopter for a cameo appearance in his new film
Aircraft

In The Works: American Utilicraft FF-1080-200

Looking for a way to secure financing to develop its twin-turboprop FF-1080 Freight Feeder, American Utilicraft (AMUC) has signed a memorandum of understan
Aircraft

In The Works: Archedyne Nauticair 400/450

The long-simmering lawsuit between Archedyne Aerospace and Lake Aircraft reached a resolution of sorts on June 21 when the jury in the Ninth Judicial Court
Aircraft

Pilot Report: Boeing Business Jet

When General Electric’s CEO Jack Welch decided it was time to shop for a new business aircraft, he knew he needed more of what every executive wants.
Aircraft

In The Works: Extra EA-500

The turboprop variant of the Extra-400, a pressurized six-seat, all-composite airplane built by Extra Flugzeugbau in Hunxe, Germany, made its first flight
Regulations and Government

U.S. INS can turn away foreign bizav passengers without visas

Yes, there is a bill, signed into law by President Clinton in October 2000, that would allow business aircraft operators to enjoy the same visa-waiver conv
Regulations and Government

DUI conviction could bar PAX from entering Canada

In recent months a number of reports have surfaced of U.S.-citizen business aviation travelers to Canada being denied entry and deported after accurately r
Aircraft

In The Works: Farnborough Aircraft F1

At an extraordinary general meeting on July 8, Farnborough-Aircraft.com Ltd.