The helicopter industry in Europe is facing many of the same issues that proponents are battling in the U.S. It would make sense for industry and user groups to work more closely on both sides of the Atlantic to counter the threats and unfriendly perceptions that are combining to limit the functionality of the helicopter.
Claude Vuichard has an idea that he is convinced will save lives and dramatically improve safety for helicopter users: the problem is, he has to convince the world to reject 70 years of received wisdom.
Promoting itself as “a key gateway to London,” TAG Farnborough Airport (Booth W36) has the numbers to prove it: a 3.2% increase in air traffic movements (ATMs) in the first four months of this year and a 5.5% rise in large aircraft movements (ACJs, BBJs and their like) during 2016.
Associated Air Center, a Dallas, Texas-based cabin completion and refurbishment center, is sharing an exhibit at EBACE with parent company StandardAero. AAC is here to announce two recent narrowbody VIP maintenance and upgrade projects, both delivered in April.
Associated Air Center, a Dallas, Texas-based cabin completion and refurbishment center, is sharing an exhibit at EBACE with parent company StandardAero.
Boeing Business Jets is showing a $200,000 model of the new BBJ Max 7 at EBACE. Paris-based Cabinet Alberto Pinto’s design takes full advantage of the extra 6 ft 4 in length of the Max 7 compared to the original BBJ.
A principal with Global Jet Capital at its launch in 2014, Shawn Vick was named CEO in 2016. He regularly commutes in his well-equipped Cessna 182 from his home in New York's Thousand Islands region to the company's main operations center in Danbury, Connecticut.
Victor, the London-based international internet jet charter marketplace, has been named Europe’s fastest-growing aviation business in the FT1000, a new Financial Times poll of the continent’s most dynamic, fast-moving businesses.
For the first time in 16 years, Robert H. Wells, isn’t at EBACE. Two years ago, he retired as the high-profile head of TAG Aviation, his employer for 16 years, and also resigned as an EBAA board director, a position he held for 8 years. Rob and wife Edie uprooted from Geneva and transplanted to Seattle, hoping to cultivate old connections in the Pacific Northwest. Then, in January, he was named CEO of Quest Aircraft, which manufactures the rugged Kodiak bush plane.
Hahn Air Lines is quite an unusual winner of the ShowNews Top Ten European Business Aviation Leaders accolade. Revenue generated from its business jet operation is only a tiny fraction of this German company’s core business – the firm has a jet fleet consisting of just three aircraft: two Citation Sovereigns and a Citation CJ4.
Inmarsat’s Jet ConneX Ka-band satcom service is soaring, with this week’s announcements by Bombardier, Dassault and Embraer about equipping their aircraft with the high-speed satcom systems.
The world’s most “printed engine,” GE’s new Advanced Turboprop in which additive manufacturing replaces 855 normally made parts with just 12 “printed” components, is on track to run for the first time this year. It will power Cessna’s new Denali aircraft.
DC Aviation reported earlier this month that it successfully installed a Gogo Business Aviation Aviator 300 SwiftBroadband system and a Gogo UCS 5000 file server in a Bombardier Challenger 604, marking the first time worldwide that the two connectivity components were integrated into a currently existing cabin of the type, with an EASA STC.
Visitors to Dassault Aviation at Booth Z90 may be forgiven a double take. Yes, that is a model of a Rafael fighter; but, sadly, its appearance at EBACE does not mean the French airframer is courting the executive who wishes to take the fight to their competitors with unprecedented vigor.
Dry ice and holograms were deployed in Palexpo yesterday as Airbus introduced Airbus Corporate Helicopters as a comprehensive vertical lift solution for high-net-worth individuals, corporations, or business aviation operators.
Ernest joined Textron Aviation in 2011 after 29 years at GE Aviation. He has led the company through a number of development projects and the merger of Cessna Aircraft and Beechcraft. He recently sat down with The Weekly of Business Aviation to talk about the company and the business aircraft market.
Forget that ‘Top Gear’ stuff of car-versus-airplane; combine the best of the two. That’s what Airbus Corporate Jets (Booth Z58) has done in teaming with Italian hypercar Atelier Pagani Automobili to produce a new cabin design for the ACJ319neo, called Infinito.
At least three companies have new approvals for their aircraft to make the challenging 5.5-deg. steep approach to London City Airport – as well as the ability to handle the short, 1,500-meter runway available for takeoff.
Textron Aviation’s announcement this week of an available head-up display aboard the 3,500-nm range Citation Longitude provides clear evidence of a surge in product investment – $200 million to $2300 million per year.
London City Airport will begin using a remote air traffic tower in 2019. Airport operations will be controlled using Saab’s remote tower technology from a new center located at National Air Traffic Services (NATS) facilities in Swanwick, England.
