by Isabel Goyer

To say I was looking forward to flying Cessna’s new Citation M2 is a great understatement. As I flew from Austin, Texas, up to Wichita, Kansas, in my Garmin-equipped SR22 to meet with the folks from Cessna, I couldn’t help but wonder how Cessna had made a light jet designed more than 20 years ago […]

Advanced aircraft design was on display last night during the World Series game number 5 between the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals when a fan from the upper deck threw a paper airplane down to the field that landed within feet of the pitcher’s mound. After the game was over the same fan […]

S-Tec parent company Cobham launched a new digital autopilot, the S-Tec 5000, a dual digital system with a number of advanced capabilities and pricing that on paper make it a potent competitor in the replacement autopilot marketplace. In addition to typical advanced autopilot capabilities like altitude hold, preselect, vertical speed and indicated airspeed hold, the […]

At NBAA Airbus told reporters about its new safety utilities that aim to eliminate some of the most common types of commercial aircraft accidents. The ROW/ROPS (runway overrun warning and runway overrun prevention, respectively) give ACJ pilots visual indications that encourage go-arounds if things are not going well on approach. The ROP function automatically maximizes […]

Stuart Woods, the best-selling author of the Stone Barrington action adventure novels, is moving up from a Cessna Mustang to the M2. Cessna plans to make the delivery of Woods’ M2 shortly after it earns FAA certification later this year. Woods recently visited Cessna’s Independence, Kansas, manufacturing plant and got the A-lister’s tour, seeing the […]

At the NBAA Convention on Monday Dassault announced a brand new fly-by-wire large body bizjet with a new wing and fuselage that it calls the 5X. The .90 Mmo, 69,600-pound max takeoff weight jet was pre-launched to a group of journalists in Paris earlier this month. The Falcon 5X occupies an unusual spot in the […]

At AOPA Summit Cirrus Aircraft introduced its new lineup of Generation 5 SR22s. While there aren’t any game changing upgrades, the company has followed course by giving new customers a number of quality of life improvements. For our money, the biggest improvement comes with the introduction of new brakes. The lighter and cooler-running brakes by […]

The vacation for former AOPA president and CEO Craig Fuller was a short one. On Friday the Redbird Flight Simulations Board elected Fuller as chairman of the board. We had reported last month that Fuller had been named to the board in order to devote additional energy to Redbird’s expansion plans, including mergers and new […]

Last month, Flying gave a glowing review of MyGoFlight’s high-end iPad case/kneeboard. This month, the praise continues for the Flight Bag PLC Pro. The bag is made of heavy-duty nylon and has a number of compartments, all of which are sized just right, it seems. There’s one for your laptop and iPad and one for […]

That no-strings dollar-a-gallon fuel you’ve been hearing about has a few catches now, forced by rumors and reports of commercial operators planning to game the system. When Redbird Skyport (KHYI) in San Marco, Texas, announced a couple of weeks ago that it was going to sell fuel for a dollar a gallon throughout the month […]