Jets

Textron Aviation’s Cessna Citation Latitude will make its show debut at the Middle East and North Africa Business Aviation Association conference in Dubai this week, alongside the Cessna Grand Caravan EX and the Beechcraft King Air 350i turboprops. Textron’s top-selling midsize business jet, the Citation Latitude has amassed more than 12,000 fleet hours in just […]

Last week, the four-seat Stratos 714 jet took to the skies for the first time from the company’s headquarters at the Roberts Field Airport in Redmond, Oregon. The plan for the flight, which lasted only 10 minutes, was to evaluate the general stability and systems operation of the single-engine jet. Test pilot Dave Morss was […]

Designed to fit between its entry-level jets and behemoth bizliners, Embaer’s Legacy 450 has changed the midsize jet game with superb speed and range and fly-by-wire controls. Flying recently had the chance to fly and review the Legacy 450 near Embraer’s production facility in Melbourne, Florida. See some of what gives the Legacy 450 a […]

A decade ago, some people scoffed when Embraer announced its intention to create a complete line of business airplanes, from entry-level jets to behemoth bizliners, especially when the sum total of the company’s bizav experience to that point had been creating the Legacy 600 from the ERJ-135 regional jet. But once the Phenom series of […]

When the U.S. Navy flew an EA-18 Growler in September, 100 percent powered by fuel created from renewable sources, ARA lead engineer Ed Coppola said, “Initial results showed our CHCJ-5 performed just like petroleum-based JP5.” Coppola works for Applied Research Associates, the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based co-creator of the new fuel. ARA worked closely with Chevron […]

1. SAT — Static air temperature (sometimes called true air temperature) is the temperature of undisturbed air; that is, the temperature you would read if you could suspend a thermometer out in the air without having the effects (temperature rise) of an airplane moving through the air nearby. In jets, SAT (aka OAT) is determined […]

There has been a lot of talk of supersonic airplanes of late, with Aerion developing a Mach 1.5 bizjet and NASA working on new technologies to make supersonic flight quieter. Now a new supersonic commercial passenger jet named Boom is emerging. The Denver-based team is targeting a top speed of Mach 2.2, Mach 0.2 faster […]

Today could potentially go down as a very big day for the future of supersonic passenger flight. Denver, Colorado-based Boom Technology has unveiled its XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator, a 1/3-scale version of the company’s supersonic airliner. The demonstrator is expected to fly next year. The full-scale airplane, expected to take flight in 2020, has targeted top […]

The two-hour and 27-minute maiden flight of Canadian aircraft builder Bombardier’s new Global 7000 went off on Monday without a hitch. The first of the Global 7000 test aircraft departed Bombardier’s Toronto test facility with two pilots and one test engineer and allowed ample time for the crew to evaluate the airplane’s flight controls and […]

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