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Avionics Update: Honeywell studies automated cockpit to prevent crashes

Honeywell is testing a new type of automated cockpit concept that can take control of airplanes to keep them from flying into the ground or buildings.
ATC

Avionics Update: Transportation Department begins audit of FAA's Nexcom project

The DOT last month began a top-to-bottom audit of the FAA’s next-generation air-to-ground communications (Nexcom) program that is closely scrutinizin
Avionics

Toasts all around for Primus Epic

Calling it one of the most complex design efforts ever undertaken in the field of avionics, Honeywell engineering executives were popping champagne corks l
Aircraft

In The Works: VisionAire Vantage

Defunct VisionAire’s intellectual property for its six-seat, single-engine Vantage very light business jet and two-seat, single-engine Spirit sport jet is
Aircraft

In The Works: Maverick Jets Leader

Melbourne, Fla.-based Maverick Jets has moved manufacturing of its five-seat Leader twinjet kitplane to Tbilisi Aerospace Manufacturing in the republic of
Aircraft

In The Works: Explorer Aircraft 500T

Explorer Aircraft of Jasper, Texas, which showed its proof-of-concept aircraft, configured as a 500T with a single Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6-135B, at
Aircraft

In The Works: Beriev Be-103

Beriev Aircraft, of Taganrog, Russia, received FAA Part 23 type certification for its Be-103 twin-piston amphibian at EAA AirVenture directly from FAA Admi
Aircraft

In The Works: ATG Javelin

In addition to announcing its selection of the Avidyne FlightMax Entegra for its two-seat Javelin “executive jet," Aviation Technology Group of Englew
Maintenance and Modifications

Putting wake vortex to sleep

French inventor Christian Hugues has patented a new wingtip device promising an 8-percent reduction in induced drag and a 5.4-percent increase in lift.
FBOs

PrivateSky billed as center of excellence for Gulfstream

The idea of opening a new Gulfstream repair station in southern Florida was evolutionary for Vincent Wolanin.

ADI taps the potential of the corporate shuttle

“This is about changing the entrepreneurial spirit,” Brad Bruce, flight department manager of ADI Corporate Shuttle Services, told AIN.
Security

Terror threat is only one of many security risks

The world didn’t necessarily become a more dangerous place on Sept.

Bizjet makers doing their part to quiet Machbusting flight

“Everybody talks about the weather,” Mark Twain once famously quipped, “but nobody ever does anything about it.”The sound barrier amounts to ro
Cabin Interior and Electronics

UK firm weaves around natural-fiber difficulties

There’s usually more than a little one-upmanship to business aircraft interiors.
Regulations and Government

FAA drafts a plan for the future

Saying aviation faces the “one-two-three punch” of terrorism, ATC modernization requirements and tenuous global economic conditions, the FAA has drafted an
Engines

Jet-Care's engine-monitor program goes online

Increased use of the Internet and software improvements have made Jet-Care International’s engine condition health online (Echo) program more user-friendly

Laptop PCs and PDAs keep pilots connected on the road

Designed to facilitate productivity on the go, laptops and PDAs come in a variety of shapes and sizes to fit various computing needs.
Safety

Cabin air filters protect those aboard from many biohazards

As the global marketplace continues to reduce the size of the world, we not only embrace the languages, cuisine and customs of other cultures; we find ours
ATC

Media is better source for TFR areas

Warning that TFRs should be expected for any Presidential and Vice Presidential visits, NBAA is encouraging its members to monitor media reports of planned

Suspended aviation

“Five hundred years from now, you’ll want to be able to pop open something on the aircraft and see how it worked,” noted David Hahn, acting collections man

Propane Blast Closes Bombardier Plant

Bombardier canceled the midnight and morning shifts at its Downsview, Ontario factory today to clean up debris from an explosion at a nearby north Toronto
Regulations and Government

TSA boss admits blunders

In testimony before Congress in June, Admiral James Loy, head of the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), stated that 1,208 of the airport passenger
Regulations and Government

Operators give the DGAC an 'F' on aircraft registration reform

The prospect of mandatory French registration for all aircraft based in France appears to be fading following a recent census of foreign-registered aircraf
FBOs

Best AeroNet launches new business at North Texas field

Jet-fuel discount provider Best AeroNet formally opened its Lake Texoma Jet Center on the Sherman/Denison Grayson County Airport (GYI) last month and annou
Charter & Fractional

Latino airline jumps into exec charter biz

Argentina’s economic crisis has created a unique business experience for the country’s national flag carrier, Aerolíneas Argentinas.
Airports

Kai Tak Airport

Though the former Hong Kong International Airport–Kai Tak–closed on July 5, 1998, its passenger terminal, control tower and hangars remain in ad hoc use, r

A sea of troubles for Hong Kong: Public and charter ops and airlines struggle

“Kowloon City used to be the place for dinner before flying from Kai Tak Airport.
Aircraft

Why the ProJet? Why now?

The idea for what is now known as the ProJet started four years ago during a conversation between Carey Robinson Wolchok, then a principal at private equit
Aircraft

Riding the rocket

Is there a pilot alive whose pulse has not raced upon seeing Concorde’s lithe shape part the sky? Of the many airliner cockpit rides I have been fortunate
Charter & Fractional

Aircraft share owners largely satisfied with their frax provider

A substantial majority of fractional aircraft share owners indicated that they are satisfied with their current program.