After completing an optimization of the mechanical design, Iacobucci is ready to build and distribute the product to VIP and commercial aircraft customers around the world.
Bombardier met with the heads of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale and the U.S.’s National Aviation Association to celebrate the setting of a world record that has already been broken.
The idea that a jet's flight controls could be hijacked in flight by hackers continues to capture public imagination. Aircraft manufacturers insist it is impossible - but this does not mean that aircraft are immune from cyberattacks.
Florian Reuter, CEO of Germany's eVTOL aircraft pioneer Volocopter, is to open EBACE 2019's keynote session, thus highlighting the likely importance of urban air mobility in aviation's future and its connection with business aviation.
In conjunction with its Far East customer, Metrojet, the U.S. company announces, today, the launch of a new Boeing Business Jet services bundle, for which Metrojet is the first to sign a five-year agreement.
Bombardier’s Global 7500 has flown from London City, notable for its steep approach requirements, to Van Nuys, California, in the industry’s first non-stop mission between the two cities.
Bamberg-based BHS Helicopter service has solidified its growth plans with the acquisition of the Swiss helicopter business of its Stuttgart-based cooperation partner DC Aviation. The move brings greater critical mass to the helicopter business, while allowing each company to focus on rotary and fixed wing charter and management, respectively.
Embraer is working to expand its business jet lineup even before the ink is dry on the certification of its brand new super midsize Praetor 600 – and as its midsize Praetor 500 flies toward that goal in December.
The world’s most “printed engine,” GE’s new Catalyst advanced turboprop in which additive manufacturing replaces 855 normally made parts with just 12 “printed” components, ran at full power for the first time last month with its composite five-blade McAuley propeller.
For four years Gulfstream’s ultra-long-range G650ER has reigned as the world’s fastest and farthest business jet. Then in January, the newly-certified Bombardier Global 7500 proved it could go even further.
A Gulfstream G550, powered by a sustainable alternative jet fuel covered the 3591 nautical miles in seven hours and 13 minutes, at an average speed of Mach 0.85.
Pratt & Whitney Canada is now running five PW812D development engines for the fast-paced Dassault Falcon 6X program and says certification of the PW815G-configured Gulfstream G600 is imminent.
Bombardier’s Global 6000 is by no means an unfamiliar sight at Geneva, but there was something different about its arrival on Saturday. The aircraft was the first of several that flew in from TAG Farnborough using sustainable fuel.
Take a slow look around the interior of your average business jet. Are most of the lines straight, or of constant curvature – a bit, well, “samey”? Contrast that with the concept interior for the BBJ MAX 7 highlighted, the creation of Sky Style, a U.S. company founded by Argentinians Lucas Columbo and Max Pardo.
Systems integrator Innovative Solutions & Support plans to certify its ThrustSense retrofit autothrottle system early next year on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6-powered Beechcraft King Air B200.
FlightSafety International announced Platinum, a program that provides “new and innovative services, exceptional benefits and the highest level of training program customization available.”
After a “soft launch” earlier this year, Terrafugia, the Massachusetts-based roadable aircraft company purchased last year by China’s Geely Group, is taking orders for its Transition vehicle for the first time at this year’s NBAA Convention and Exhibition.
Developed under a veil of secrecy for Bombardier’s Global 5500/6500 ultra-long-range business jets, Rolls-Royce’s Pearl 15 turbofan has passed the 10,000-cycle milestone in the run-up to entry into service in late 2019.
Blackhawk Modifications increases the power output of utility aircraft suffering from tired-engine syndrome. Today, they are celebrating the completion of the 800th upgrade and releasing details of a new project that will soon be enlarging on that number.
