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AW139 Obtains Flight-in-icing Approvals

The FAA, EASA and Transport Canada approved Goodrich's rotor-blade ice-protection system (Rips) for the AgustaWestland AW139 medium twin, the Charlotte, N.
Aircraft

G650 Slips the Surly Bonds at Mach 0.995

Gulfstream Aerospace on Friday evening said its G650 S/N 6001 skirted the speed of sound on August 12, reaching Mach 0.995 during flutter testing as part o
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Cabin Interior and Electronics

Cabin Crafters is the American success story

In 1986, Mario Diaz came from his native Argentina as a boy "to spend a couple of months." Twenty-five years later he is CEO of Cabin Crafters, a fast-grow
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Charter & Fractional

Gama, Hop-A-Jet Latest To Attain ACSF Charter Registry Approval

Gama Charters of Stratford, Conn., and Hop-A-Jet Worldwide Jet Charter of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Friday became the latest air charter operators to gain
Regulations and Government

FAA Adopts ICAO’s ‘Line Up and Wait’ Terminology


Current FAA terminology for an air traffic controller’s instruction for a pilot to taxi onto the runway and await takeoff clearance is “position and hold.”
Regulations and Government

FAA bill could end Stage II operations

If the FAA reauthorization bill currently under debate in Congress is finally passed in its present form, one provision that it contains could seal the fat
Sustainability and Environment

Business Aviation and the Environment

There is no silver bullet for reducing the effect of business aviation on the environment, most industry analysts agree, but the combination of new technol
Sustainability and Environment

Next-gen ATC promises environmental rewards

The benefits of implementing NextGen and its European counterpart, the Single European Sky ATM Research (Sesar), are threefold: not only will the new proce
Sustainability and Environment

Turbofan manufacturers continue ‘green’ efforts

Turbofan manufacturers are developing cleaner, quieter and more environmentally friendly engines that will meet current and future regulatory requirements.
Sustainability and Environment

Alternative fuels still face hurdles

The alternative aviation fuel industry continues to conduct flight tests to validate the use of new jet-fuel blends.
Sustainability and Environment

Eurocopter joins biofuel quest

Eurocopter and parent company EADS have teamed with Argentina-based BioCombustibles del Chubut (BC) to study the feasibility of building an aviation biofue
Sustainability and Environment

EPA begins ruling process to phase out leaded avgas

With the deadline for the comment period on the Environmental Protection Agency’s advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to phase out leaded avgas
Sustainability and Environment

FAA Awards $125M in Green Contracts

Five aerospace companies have been awarded a total of $125 million in contracts as part of an environmental initiative to spur development of new aircraft
Sustainability and Environment

Honeywell Launches New Emissions and Monitoring

Honeywell is offering a new emissions monitoring service for business jets operating in European airspace to assist in compliance with European Union emi
Sustainability and Environment

Boeing Headquarters Earns EPA Energy Star

Boeing’s Chicago downtown headquarters has earned the U.S.
Sustainability and Environment

Rockwell Collins Plays Key Role in Green Connection Evaluations

Rockwell Collins, as a member of a consortium of industry partners led by Swedish air navigation service provider Luftfartsverket (LFV), has been awarded a
Sustainability and Environment

Committee studies eco-friendly production, dismantling

Operating an aircraft accounts for 80 percent of the machine’s lifetime environmental footprint, according to a newly released Dassault study.
Sustainability and Environment

OEMs embrace more-electric aircraft systems

Business jet manufacturers are quietly progressing toward more-electric architectures, where electricity replaces hydraulic and pneumatic power in systems
Accidents

Stevens crash investigation under way

The investigation continues into the cause of last month’s crash of a de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Otter turboprop-conversion floatplane in Alaska that kille
Engines

Pratt & Whitney Joins with Tap for Engine Overhaul

Engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Canada and the Brazilian maintenance and engineering division of TAP Portugal announced an agreement to provide “co
Safety

Bombardier Safety Standdown Draws a Crowd

Bombardier’s first safety standdown in Latin America drew a crowd the day before the opening of the annual Labace show.
Sustainability and Environment

Airline Bean Counters Need To Count Emissions Carefully

Airlines that will be subject to Europe’s new
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Aircraft

Boeing Pushes First 787 Deliveries into Mid-First Quarter

Boeing today announced yet another delay to the 787 program, following “an assessment of the availability of an engine needed for the final phases of fligh
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Maintenance and Modifications

Raisbeck’s Learjet 60 Fuselage Locker Makes Debut

The new Raisbeck Engineering Learjet 60 aft fuselage locker made its Labace debut as part of the Bombardier exhibit.
Maintenance and Modifications

Aviation Partners Debuts Spiroid Winglets

Aviation Partners (API) broaught a Falcon 50 equipped with radical-looking spiroid winglets to AirVenture, the airplane’s first public appearance after a t
Accidents

Premier Crashes at AirVenture

AirVenture 2010 was blessed with few accidents.
Training and Workforce

Parrot Helps Pilots Transmit

King Schools, distributor for Redbird Flight Simulation’s desktop TD and TD2 flight training devices, demonstrated a new Redbird feature, the Parrot contex
Aircraft

Airbus-led Aire2 Trials To Spearhead Green Trajectories with A380

An Airbus-led partnership with Air France and the air navigation service providers from the UK, Canada and the U.S.—respectively, NATS
Aircraft

Spectrum Aeronautical Slows Its Jet Programs

Spectrum Aeronautical has slowed development of the lightweight high-performance S.40 Freedom and S.33 Independence jets due to resource constraints.