Aircraft

A pleasant spring jaunt on a sunny day often leads to meandering down a winding river. It’s one of the most scenic trips you can make, and a light airplane makes it so much more thrilling than floating downstream in an inner tube. But before you succumb to the temptation to skim too close to […]

Cirrus Aircraft’s Brent Wouters talks with Fox Business Network about its partnership with Red Bull in the 2010 World Championship and how its new marketing strategy — from expanding its marketing effort globally and targeting institutional clients (i.e. universities, government) — has helped improve sales trends in 2010. Watch the latest business video at video.foxbusiness.com

In honor of the event, Cessna Aircraft Company has partnered with its global Cessna Pilot Center (CPC) network to celebrate the Experimental Aircraft Association’s inaugural International Learn to Fly Day on May 15. Anyone who visits and registers with a domestic CPC on May 15 will be eligible for two drawings. First prize is a […]

Many years ago the author Richard Bach, then writing for Flying, proposed that the solution for a pilot who had flown into a box canyon and could not turn between its walls was to pull up into a vertical climb, perform a stall turn and recover going in the other direction. Pilots who had never […]

I sometimes chuckle when I think about the complexity of the electrical systems in new airplanes, particularly single-engine airplanes. Most current production singles have multiple electrical buses, more than one electrical power source and, often, emergency backup batteries. And that’s great. But there is still only one engine, and if it quits, the airplane is […]

This week’s European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva appears to be showing the way toward worldwide economic recovery for general aviation. Trade shows such as EBACE and the annual National Business Aviation Association show in the U.S. are not always accurate economic indicators, but the past two years have shown significant evidence […]

Press releases from Hawker Beechcraft Corp. (HBC) filled journalists’ inboxes as EBACE opened its doors in Geneva this week. One of the new strategies announced there takes a page from premium automobile brands with a “certified” pre-owned aircraft program. Under the Hawker Beechcraft Select Pre-Owned Program, qualifying turbine aircraft (sorry, pistons aren’t included) purchased through […]

On April 30, a pair of European pilots commemorated the 100th anniversary of the first flight of an aircraft in Switzerland. Their goal? To fly a pair of Flight Design CTLS light sport aircraft (LSAs) around the world. The two Swiss airline pilots, Yannick Bovier and Francisco Agullo, left Sion Switzerland on the first leg […]

American Legend has announced a new model, the Classic J3 Cub, aimed at delivering simple, fun flying at a price lower than most — $95,000. Described as a “slimmed down” version of its other Cub models, the new J3 is powered with a 100-hp Continental O-200.

First quarter results for General Dynamics revealed the largest number of new orders since mid-2008. Jay Johnson, GD’s president and CEO said, “The Aerospace Group is off to a very good start in 2010.” The business group includes Gulfstream Aerospace, Jet Aviation and GD Aviation Services divisions. International orders dominated the ledger for Gulfstream, continuing […]