All Business Aviation news – Page 57
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NewsVista Global snaps up JetSmarter
Business aviation holding company Vista Global has entered into an agreement to acquire US online charter marketplace JetSmarter in a move designed to bolster and complement its growing portfolio of products.
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NewsPilot academy OSM orders fleet of all-electric aircraft
Scandinavian pilot-training organisation OSM Aviation Academy has ordered 60 electric aircraft from US manufacturer Bye Aerospace.
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VIDEO: Flaris LAR 1 personal jet takes flight
Metal Master's Flaris LAR 1 got airborne for the first time on 8 April and has now completed a number of sorties from the airframer's flight-test base at Zielona Gora airport in western Poland.
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NewsPrivateFly completes Skyjet integration
Online business aircraft charter brokers PrivateFly and Skyjet have completed their merger, with the two companies now operating as a single entity under the PrivateFly brand within Directional Aviation's OneSky subsidiary.
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Honeywell to develop autonomous flight systems with Volocopter
Aerospace company Honeywell has jumped into the urban air mobility market with a deal to help develop automatic landing technology for electric air taxis under development by German company Volocopter.
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NewsStratos to open 716 VLJ orderbook at AirVenture Oshkosh
US start-up Stratos Aircraft will open the orderbook for its 716 very light jet at the AirVenture show in Oshkosh in July, where a full-scale cabin mock-up of the single-engined, six-seater will also be displayed for the first time.
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Flying car firm Terrafugia’s founders leave amid sweeping changes
Anna and Carl Dietrich, co-founders of US-based flying car developer Terrafugia, have departed from the business amid sweeping changes at the company, including the closure of its California research facility.
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INTERVIEW: Paula Kraft on training the aircrew of the future
Paula Kraft is founder of DaVinci Inflight Training Institute, dedicated to delivering highly skilled and versatile crewmembers for the business aviation industry, using very hands-on, interactive approach.
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NewsPiper launches 'value-priced' training aircraft
Piper has launched a pair of "value-priced" entry-level trainers, which are designed to plug a gap in the market from the growing training school sector for aircraft with "optimal acquisition and operating costs and economics".
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AIX: AMAC returns with major projects due for delivery
AIX might not seem the natural home for a company that specialises in highly-bespoke completions and supplemental type certificate projects on VIP jets, but Switzerland’s AMAC Aerospace is back at the show after making its debut here last year.
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NewsWTCE: Gategroup announces collaboration with Eat
Former MasterChef: The Professionals finalist Arnaud Kaziewicz has helped curate a new collaboration between travel retail and catering company gategroup and sandwich chain Eat, which has been introduced here at the show.
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Lufthansa to move vintage Ju 52 by road to Hamburg
Lufthansa is preparing to transfer its vintage Junkers Ju 52 from Munich, by overnight road transport, to the company’s Hamburg station.
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NewsEurope approves G1000 NXi upgrade on Piper M500
Piper has secured European certification for the next-generation Garmin G1000 NXi integrated flightdeck on the M500 single-engined turboprop. Deliveries are now under way.
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NewsFlightSafety and Tru form training venture for Textron aircraft
FlightSafety International and Textron subsidiary Tru Simulation and Training have formed a joint venture to provide training for the Beechcraft, Cessna and Hawker families of business and general aviation aircraft.
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S7 Group chief's Epic LT involved in previous accident
Russian investigators have disclosed that the Epic LT aircraft which crashed killing S7 Group chief Nataliya Fileva was an 11-year old airframe operated by a company identified as Globus.
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INTERVIEW: Educating aviation's next generation of professionals
Barry Butler is president at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, combining his love of aviation with higher education as he seeks to make the institution fertile ground for future inventors and innovators
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Harbour Air aims to lead electric flight with Beaver seaplanes
Some old planes in Canada may be getting very new engines, and could become the first electric-powered passenger aircraft.
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NewsFirst Europe-based Global 7500 handed to Niki Lauda
Bombardier has delivered the first Europe-based Global 7500 to long-time customer and former Formula 1 racing driver and airline entrepreneur Niki Lauda.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Britten-Norman pledges return to civil manufacturing
Perhaps Britten-Norman's greatest success is that it has survived. In its early 1970s heyday, the UK's only commercial aircraft manufacturer – since BAE Systems axed its regional jet activities in 2001 – was shipping 100 piston-twin BN-2 Islanders a year. Today, annual production of its no-nonsense utility and nine-passenger transport ...
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LIMA: UK's Samad promotes modular air taxi design
UK firm Samad Aerospace has developed a modular air taxi concept in which a passenger pod can easily transfer between a wheeled base for travelling on roads, to a wing-borne system for flight.