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The airport that is expected to become the world’s largest, Dubai World Central Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC) in Dubai, opened the doors for its first commercial passengers this weekend. Once the airport reaches full capacity in the mid 2020s, it is expected to handle 160 million passengers and 12 million tons of cargo per […]

After missing last year’s show because of the federal government sequestration, the Navy Blue Angels will be back to tear up the skies at the 40th annual Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In & Expo next spring at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, Florida. “After a year of sequestration and no military participation at airshows, Sun […]

Investigators are trying to determine why a dual-control P-51 Mustang owned by the Lone Star Flight Museum crashed into the water off the coast of Galveston, Texas, last week. The 51-year-old pilot and his 66-year-old passenger, a man from the U.K. who had received the flight as a wedding anniversary gift, both were killed. The […]

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 […]

Wheels Up, the newly launched membership-based private aviation company based on a fleet of King Air 350i twin turboprops, has taken delivery of its first airplane and selected Gama Charters of Stratford, Connecticut, to operate its U.S.-based fleet. Beechcraft will maintain all the King Airs in the Wheels Up fleet, which will be staged at […]

Aircell has rolled out several notable upgrades and enhancements to its Gogo in-flight Internet services, starting with Gogo Vision, a Netflix-style entertainment service for the cabin, plus a new IP-based talk and text service that can link directly with passengers’ personal smartphones. Gogo Vision in an on-demand in-flight entertainment and information service for the business […]

Talk about a vote of confidence. Cessna says it will market, sell and install Tamarack Aerospace’s innovative active winglets for the CitationJet family – on the CitationJet through the CJ3 – starting in 2015. Tamarack’s active winglets provide the performance advantages of traditional winglets while adding what the maker calls the “active technology load alleviation […]

Aviation Partners Boeing (APB), a joint venture between Aviation Partners Inc. (API) and the Boeing Company, has developed a Split Scimitar Winglet (SSW) program designed for Boeing Business Jets. APB claims the new winglets improve the long-range performance of BBJ series airplanes by 2.5 to 3 percent, adding about 200 nautical miles of range over […]

At the NBAA gathering in Las Vegas this week, Honda Aircraft has underscored its commitment to its unique “over-the-wing-engine-mount” (OTWEM) HondaJet. A concrete example (literally) of that commitment opened last Thursday at the HondaJet headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina. Honda Aircraft president and CEO Michimasa Fujino, the engineering brain behind the HondaJet, said “With the […]

The flight deck of Cessna’s Citation Latitude just got better thanks to the addition of autothrottles, an enhancement announced by the company at the National Business Aviation Association Convention in Las Vegas this week. With the move Cessna brings a level of easy operation typical of larger jets into the cockpit of the midsize seven- […]