Stephen Pope

The Senate has removed a provision in President Obama’s Jobs Act that would have imposed a $100-per-flight user fee on corporate jet flights. The move comes after strong opposition to the fee proposal in the business aviation community, highlighted by calls at last week’s NBAA Convention in Las Vegas to abandon the plan. “Over the […]

What do airplanes and sharks have in common? Maybe not a whole lot at the moment, but that could change – radically so – if aerodynamics research just getting under way at the University of Alabama pays off. Dr. Amy Lang, endowed with a Lindbergh Foundation grant, has launched a study aimed at determining how […]

Jeppesen has joined the Lindbergh Foundation’s Aviation Green Alliance as a founding member. The group’s aim is to tackle environmental challenges facing the aviation industry, including emissions, noise and operational efficiency. “Jeppesen fully supports the collaborative effort led by the Lindbergh Foundation Aviation Green Alliance to develop solutions for addressing environmental challenges facing the aviation […]

China is emerging as the world’s fastest growing market for business jets sales, with industry watchers projecting deliveries of hundreds of large-cabin business airplanes worth billions of dollars over the next decade. Evidence of the Chinese market’s sudden strength was on display at last week’s NBAA Convention in Las Vegas, as Embraer racked up a […]

(October 2011) If you’ve ever wished you could create a flight plan on your iPad and then somehow automatically beam it to the avionics in your airplane, you’re in luck. Aspen Avionics has introduced a Wi-Fi-based technology called Connected Panel that will let pilots do just that — and a whole lot more. The first […]

Buyers of 2012 model year Piper M-Class airplanes (Matrix, Mirage and Malibu) are getting a host of upgrades on the inside and out, the manufacturer announced at the NBAA Convention. For the same base price as a comparable 2011 model, Piper is throwing in interior and exterior LED lighting, a pair of Bose A20 headsets […]

Elbit Systems-Kollsman, the New Hampshire elctro-optic systems maker, announced the delivery of its 1,000th enhanced vision system since it pioneered EVS technology a decade ago aboard Gulfstream business jets. Fittingly, the 1,000th installation was also aboard a Gulfstream, as have been about 80 percent of all Kollsman EVS deliveries. The Kollsman EVS displays an infrared […]

Comlux, the Swiss-based private jet travel company, is the launch customer for the Sukhoi Business Jet, a new executive version of the Superjet 100 regional airliner built in Russia. Comlux president Richard Gaona said at the NBAA Convention that his company has placed an order for four airplanes, which carry a list price of $50 […]

Strolling the million or so square feet of exhibit space at the NBAA Convention in Las Vegas, you’d swear you’d stepped into some strange parallel universe where the business aviation industry’s worst-ever downturn simply never happened. The show floor is packed with people and products, business jet makers aren’t skimping on their lavish Vegas exhibits […]

The National Transportation Safety Board has begun its investigation into what caused a Bell JetRanger to crash in Manhattan’s East River on Tuesday, killing one passenger and sending three others to the hospital. NTSB chairman Mark Rosekind said at a press briefing that investigators had recovered the helicopter’s GPS receiver and also collected video of […]