Perhaps the “AW169” designation of the helicopter making its first EBACE appearance will serve as a reminder that Leonardo Helicopters originated with what we used to know as the AgustaWestland division of Finmeccanica.

More regulations are coming to aviation as a whole, and it will be EBAA’s mission in the months ahead to ensure these are “equitable, proportionate and fair.”

Don’t you just love the guy who can’t decide whether he’s in the fast lane or the slow lane? Or the one who seems to be broken down by the roadside, then fixes his problem and shoots straight across into the outside lane? The following survey examines newcomers to the business aircraft market, but contains so many stop-go, fast-slow projects that it could be a treatise on weekend driving.