Jets

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Textron Aviation began the week on uplifting news of Saturday’s successful 2-hour and 2-minute first flight of the company’s new Longitude super midsize business jet. The Longitude, announced four and a half years ago and unveiled at last year’s NBAA Convention in Las Vegas, departed Beech Field on the east side of Wichita, with experimental […]

(function(d, s, id) { if (d.getElementById(id)) return; var js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = ‘//cdn4.wibbitz.com/static.js’; d.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)[0].appendChild(js); }(document, ‘script’, ‘wibbitz-static-embed’)); Embraer introduced the latest example of its growth in the United States, cutting the ribbon Monday at a new 50,000-square-foot seat-manufacturing facility in Titusville, Florida. The Embraer Aero Seating Technologies facility marks the Brazilian […]

Boeing has teamed up with Swedish Saab AB, designer of the Gripen multi-mission fighter jet, to produce a military jet trainer designed to compete for the U.S. Air Force T-X contract. The contract is expected to include an order of at least 350 jets worth billions of dollars to replace more than 400 existing T-38 […]

Polish car-part manufacturer Metal Master has for years been working on a very light jet named Flaris LAR 1, which was on the road to its first flight in early 2015. The company has now mounted a new engine, the Williams FJ33-5A, to the tail section of the tiny fuselage. The engine received FAA certification […]

The first flight of what will be Cessna’s largest business jet is just weeks away, the manufacturer says. Cessna this week successfully completed ground engine tests on the Citation Longitude’s Honeywell HTF7700L turbofan engines. “The engine run tests are one of the final major milestones as we prepare for first flight,” said Textron president and […]

A Gulfstream G280 owner recently had the chance to show off the midsize business jet’s range on a nonstop flight from Chicago Aurora Municipal Airport to Tours Val de Loire Airport in France. The flight was the jet’s longest to date. David MacNeil, founder and CEO of automobile accessories manufacturer WeatherTech and owner of the […]

Embraer continues to update its rapidly expanding product line. At a press conference at EAA AirVenture, the company’s president and CEO Marco Tulio Pellegrini introduced an updated version of Embraer’s entry-level jet, the Phenom 100. The new Phenom 100 EV promises greater speed and significantly shorter takeoff distance, improving the airplane’s hot and high-performance capabilities. […]

Pilatus Business Aircraft broke ground on its new North and South American headquarters last week in Jefferson County, Colorado. Officials from Pilatus, Tectonic Management Group, Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport and Jefferson County gathered to celebrate the company’s new center for aircraft completions and support. Since 1996, Pilatus has completed more than 1,000 PC-12 aircraft at […]

Take a close look at the inner workings of a modern turbofan engine and you’ll discover a marvelous network of parts that puts Newton’s second law of motion to work with elegance and surprising simplicity, allowing today’s jets to go farther on less fuel while making less noise and emitting lower emissions. Here’s how a […]