Content Archive: May 2008
Aircraft
Falcon 7X will let the wires do all the work
The Dassault Falcon 7X will be the first purpose-built business jet to have a fly-by-wire (FBW) system.
Aircraft
Experimental test pilot ranks are no place for cowboys
“Beginning autorotation with left turn.”“Roger.
Maintenance and Modifications
Giant Citation service center to open in summer 2003
More than 18 months after it was revealed that Cessna was seeking corporate approval to build its largest ever Citation service center in Wichita, Cessna a
Engines
Walter Beech King Air 90 STC expanded
Clintonville, Wis.-based Performance Conversions has received an STC for installing 751-shp Czech-built Walter M601E-11 turboprop engines and five-blade Av
Aircraft
In The Works: McCotter Aviation MC 2400
The GE T58-powered Maverick TwinJet is available only as a kit, but now McCotter Aviation, which purchased 90 percent of Penrose, Colo.-based Maverick Air
Aircraft
In The Works: Sierra FJ44 Eagle II
Sierra Industries is turning from base to final for approval of its Williams FJ44-engine modification program for the Cessna Citation 501SP, which it calls
Crossair aims for rapid growth as Swissair falls
A task force headed by Peter Siegenthaler, director of the Swiss federal finance administration, has proposed a dozen seasoned executives for Crossair’s ne
Training and Workforce
The National Test Pilot School
Sean Roberts, an experimental test pilot for both military and civilian projects with more than 18,000 flight hours, started the National Test Pilot School
Regulations and Government
News Note: EU scraps legislation
Legislation to ban certain large transport aircraft that have hush kits from using all European airports starting next April has been scrapped by the Europ
Drink up!
Writing in the spring 2000 issue of the FAA’s Federal Air Surgeon’s Medical Bulletin, Rogers Shaw, team coordinator of the FAA’s Civil Aerospace Medical In
