Facing an accusation of helping Falcon business jet customers evade VAT, Dassault Aviation has issued a “clarification,” asserting it exercises sales due diligence and downplaying the scale of its fiscal engineering in the Isle of Man.
Aviation’s march towards an increasingly digital future is opening it to significant cybersecurity threats, and the industry must move purposefully and quickly to adapt.
Monitors and tablets are common sights from machine shops to assembly lines, but alone they do not make the hands-on human part of the digital thread. Augmented reality (AR) can.
NASA in 2013 launched the Advanced Composites (AC) project. Its major goal is to develop computational tools to predict the strength and life of composites and reduce design cycle time and testing by 30%.
Honeywell has launched a consigned inventory management plan that allows large business-fleet operators to store the avionics they need at the repair facility closest to them.
Business jet takeoffs and landings in North America rose 3.5% in September, Vertical Research Partners analyst Robert Stallard reports using FAA figures.
3S Engineering, a division of Sierra Nevada Corp., has issued a Supplemental Type Certificate enabling airborne text messaging through Send Solutions Airtext and Airtext+ systems.
STC Group has received FAA approval to add Piper Cherokee PA-28 aircraft to its list of certificated aircraft eligible for installation of the digital “Pro Pilot” autopilot.
Munich Airport and Moscow Domodedovo Airport have signed a sister airport agreement to provide an exchange of knowledge for employees and managers at both airports.
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Bombardier, Inc., Model CL-600-2B16 (CL-601-3A, CL-601-3R, and CL-604 Variants) Bombardier Challenger 600 series airplanes.
Richard Walker has been appointed business development director of Osprey Flight Solutions. Walker comes to Osprey from a UK-based HondaJet dealership.
The number of pre-owned business jets on the market has declined with 2,225 jets for sale, although it remains a buyer’s market, said JetNet, which released September and year-to-date figures on Oct. 30.
