Content Archive: December 2009

Charter & Fractional

Newsmakers 2009: Frax founder Santulli ejects from NetJets

Individually last year there was no taller toppling in business aviation than that of NetJets founder and chairman Richard Santulli, who on August 4

Newsmakers 2009: Alphabets and OEMs tackle negative portrayal of bizjets

The coordinated response by NBAA, GAMA and business jet manufacturers to critics who chose to make business aircraft a high-profile symbol of all that’s wr
Maintenance and Modifications

Dassault’s ‘digital factory’ streamlines production

After pioneering digital design in the aerospace industry 25 years ago, Dassault Aviation has implemented what it calls “the digital factory.” The Falcon 7
Aircraft

Texas Turbine upgrades Caravan

After Bobby Bishop’s Texas Turbine Conversions converted the single-engine de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter from a PT6 to a TPE331 engine, the company neede

Singapore Airshow Preview

The 2010 Singapore Airshow is set to be a sell-out by the time it opens its doors for this year’s February 2 to 7 event.

Industry mourns death of leader Ed Stimpson

Ed Stimpson, a driving force behind the law that resurrected the moribund general aviation industry in the mid-1990s, died November 25 at age 75 after a fi
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Bizliner business sees slight dip in demand

In March last year, it appeared the bizliner completion centers were sailing through the recession with barely a ripple, working at capacity with slots fil

Boeing flies 787 Dreamliner

On December 15 at 10:27 a.m., under a gray 2,500-foot broken cloud layer, Boeing’s big bet on the company’s future–the mostly composite 787 Dreamliner–fina

GD Chief Optimistic about 2010/11

At a Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Global Industrial Conference last month, General Dynamics chief Jay Johnson said that his company’s aerospace division–n