Jonathan Welsh

Raytheon Technologies Corp. (NYSE: RTX) has named Christopher T. Calio as chief operating officer and says Shane G. Eddy will succeed him as president of the company’s Pratt & Whitney unit. The appointments take effect March 1. In the new post, Calio will oversee Raytheon’s four business units and company-wide functions, including technology and engineering; […]

The Kentucky House of Representatives is considering a bill that would make personal aircraft exempt from state and local property taxes. Passage of the bill would result in a tax break for private airplanes and helicopters that are “not used in the business of transporting persons or property for compensation or hire,” according to language […]

More GA airports could close as noise complaints and land values rise.

Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) says it set a company record of more than $2 billion in e-commerce parts sales in 2021, resulting in part from changes to ease its ordering process, and demand from the recovering airline industry. The company, which announced the online sales results Monday at the Singapore Air Show, said its Boeing […]

Legendary pilot has done it all, from movies and TV to world speed records.

High-altitude load-hauling T182T has oxygen system, Garmin NXi avionics, new interior

Town board voted to close the airport and reopen with rules to cut noise.

Speed is a difficult topic. It unites and divides us. Pilots and nonpilots obsess over it, always asking how fast a given airplane can travel to whatever destination. We compare cruise speeds, time to climb, mixture-tweaking, and other tricks for squeezing out a few more knots. Sometimes it seems like we all wish we could […]

Developer of electric ground-effect vehicles moves ahead with new funding.

Garmin Ltd. (NYSE: GRMN) has launched the D2 Air X10, its latest in a series of smartwatches designed for pilots. Unlike previous watches in the D2 Air line, the new device connects with users’ compatible phones, allowing them to press a button to take calls and use the phone’s voice assistant to send texts, control […]