Rob Mark

Bombardier just inked a deal to acquire the wing manufacturing operations and assets of the Triumph Group Inc. a company that has been building the wing structure for the Global 7500. Montreal-based Bombardier will enter into a lease agreement for Triumph’s facility in Red Oak, Texas, and continue to operate the production line with the […]

Ivo Boscarol, founder and president of Pipistrel announced the beginning of a long-term relationship with Honeywell to collectively explore and develop solutions for the urban air mobility market. As part of their collective effort outlined in a recent memorandum of understanding, the companies will work together to integrate Honeywell avionics, navigation, flight control systems connectivity, […]

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has expanded its face-to-face professional programs on the Daytona Beach Campus in Florida, as well as teamed with HFACS, Inc. to expand its human factors and aviation safety short-course offerings. ERAU provides open-enrollment seminars and can create customized training programs to meet the needs of the aviation industry. The new classes include […]

About 90 seconds after takeoff from runway 15 at Toronto’s Buttonville Municipal airport the solo student pilot aboard a Bellanca 8KCAB Decathlon transmitted a “Mayday,” on the YKZ tower frequency. The pilot cited an irregularly running engine for the emergency. Witnesses watched the pilot bank the aircraft hard right and begin rapidly descending until it […]

Learning to fly is fun, but as pilots also learn early on, flight training demands a commitment not only to the academics, but to ensuring the solid flow of cash needed to earn a pilot certificate. One of the biggest stressors for new pilots is the sticker shock of how to cover the cost of […]

Gulfstream Aerospace’s G-280 last week notched up another speed record when it completed a 2,243 nm journey from the company’s Savannah factory to Van Nuys California in four hours and 49 minutes against a winter headwind averaging 76 knots. The G280 completed the demonstration flight powered by sustainable aviation jet fuel at an average speed […]

On the last Saturday in January – this Saturday in fact – the Chicago chapter of the 99s holds its VFR/IFR aviation safety expo typically drawing 300 people from Northern Illinois, Southern Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana, mostly pilots in search of a day of brush-up training. Noted aviator Amelia Earhart was the first president of […]

What a difference a letter can make. Just take the “E” model of Embraer’s successful Phenom 300. The 300 has been a popular airplane from the start. The company says that at this moment, the factory at São José dos Campos Airport in Brazil just began building the 500th copy, although the E models only […]

Millicent Young, one of the earliest members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, died last week at age 96. The WASPs were a civilian group of women pilots created in the 1940s by the merging of two other civilian flying services designed to free male pilots from non-combat chores like ferrying airplanes and towing targets […]

The creation and nearly 30-year operational life of the French/Anglo Concorde, the world’s first operational supersonic airliner, is a rich history of cross-border cooperation and innovation at a time long before the personal computer revolution or the first cell phone. In fact, the origins of the first supersonic transport (SST) date back to before the […]