Content Archive: June 2008

Aircraft

First Legacy delivery slips to December

Certification setbacks have postponed Embraer’s plans to deliver the first Legacy business jet to launch customer Swift Aviation.
Avionics

First phase of Cockpit 1 unveiled

Universal Avionics has unveiled the first phase of its new synthetic-vision cockpit avionics suite, Cockpit 1, which features large flat-panel integrated d
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Collins system sorts cabin/cockpit e-data

Rockwell Collins is banking on its new digital data acquisition, distribution and display architecture, called eFlight, to coordinate a wide range of in-fl

Crisis mode: NBAA headquarters responds to terror

The events of Tuesday, September 11th shaped the week for NBAA’s staff, obviously.
Aircraft

Freight feeder mockup was ready for viewing in New Orleans

American Utilicraft’s full-size fuselage mockup arrived in New Orleans on September 11, to be ready for display at the scrubbed NBAA Convention.
Aircraft

Sino Swearingen CEO test flies the SJ30-2

Sino Swearingen president and CEO Jack Braly made his first flight in the conforming prototype SJ30-2 in early September from San Antonio International Air

Messier-Dowty foresees success for systems sales

Messier-Dowty believes that the success of its fully packaged landing gear for Bombardier’s Global Express and Continental and Raytheon’s Hawker Horizon ha
Aircraft

BAE looks to build its bizplane business base

BAE Systems Aircraft Services Group is looking to build on the success of the deal it forged at the NBAA show last year, when it announced a lease agreemen

EBACE looks to be bigger, better next May 28 to 30

At its inaugural staging in April, the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) did more than enough to seize a space for itself in t