Aircraft

The first time I spied that chunky Beluga on the ramp at Toulouse France as I taxied out for takeoff, it was clear the converted Airbus A300 was created for a very special task, carrying large, oddly-shaped cargo. But there’s little denying the Beluga is also one of the homeliest airplanes I’ve ever seen, reminding […]

A beautiful Wolf Samson biplane, a larger version of the Pitts and the only one flying today, returned to the skies over the weekend. The airplane is owned by Tim Just of Apple Valley, California, who recently imported the airplane from Germany where it has lived since it was built by renowned airplane-builder Steve Wolf […]

Any number of experts can help you buy a jet. Unfortunately, I am not one of them. But I did buy a jet — my first — recently, and the experience taught me some lessons. It is entirely possible that you and your company will employ an expert or two to help you find a […]

Piper announced at Aero Friedrichshafen in Germany this week that it will offer a diesel version of its PA-44 called the Seminole DX. It is the second Piper trainer to receive jet-A-burning diesel power after the Archer DX model emerged in 2014. The twin diesel Seminole DX will be powered by a new engine from […]

Safran’s Silvercrest engine certification delays caused Dassault in December to scrap its Safran-based Falcon 5X. Yesterday Textron announced it too had halted work, at least temporarily, on its largest new business jet, the Silvercrest-powered Citation Hemisphere. Textron’s announcement did represent the first time a specific timeframe had been mentioned, between an “18-24-month delay of the […]

Bombardier’s soon to be certified Global 7000 business jet was last week named a winner of the 2018 Red Dot Product Design award in Essen Germany. The Global 7000 was selected by the 39-person jury from more than 6,300 submissions nominated from nearly 60 countries competing in several categories. The Red Dot award honors innovation, […]

Daher announced at the Sun ‘n Fun International Fly-In and Expo that it has made further enhancements to its TBM 930. The French single-engine turboprop received the latest upgrade to the Garmin G3000 system, adding the SurfaceWatch alerting system for the runway environment; Baro VNAV, which allows pilots to fly precision approaches based on barometric […]

Tamarack Aerospace Group has achieved another Supplemental Type Certificate for its ATLAS Active Winglets, this time for the Cessna Citation CJ2 and CJ2+, otherwise known as the C525A series. Tamarack has already achieved STCs for the C525 and C525B series of Citation business jets, covering the CJ, CJ1, CJ1+, M2, CJ3 and CJ3+. “Active Winglets […]

Many thousands of general aviation pilots are benefitting from the free in-cockpit weather information broadcast over the FIS-B link accessible by 978-MHz universal access transceivers – what most of us call ADS-B In. Now, a host of new weather products are coming to the service to provide pilots with even more information they can use […]

Samson Sky says it’s now holding 615 reservations for its new Switchblade kit-built, flying sports car. The company is sponsoring a Sun ‘n Fun forum at midday on Friday about the state of the flying car industry where visitors can chat with the Switchblade creators. The Samson Sky reservation program was launched at Sun ‘n […]