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NBAA: Pilot shortages and airspace improvements become focus following regulatory victory
Having recently secured one of its most-notable regulatory victories in decades, NBAA is turning fuller attention toward addressing longstanding, industrywide issues like US airspace modernisation and easing of a pilot shortage.
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NBAA: Daher looks to dispel single-engine scepticism
Daher has returned to NBAA, and is using the event to push sales of its TBM 910 and 930 single-engined turboprop family within the US charter community.
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NBAA: Next-gen narrowbodies boost completion centres
They are the ultimate status symbols – Airbus and Boeing widebodies, purpose-built as residences in the sky for some of the world's most powerful plutocrats and leaders. Almost every business aviation show sees the unveiling of the latest cabin concepts for these twin-aisle types, with boardrooms, bedrooms and bathrooms fit ...
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NBAA: Rolls marks six decades in business aviation
Rolls-Royce is celebrating its 60th anniversary in business aviation at NBAA, having first entered the sector in 1958 powering the Dart-powered Gulfstream I turboprop.
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NBAA: Honeywell sweetens GoDirect connectivity services
Honeywell is highlighting changes to several maintenance and connectivity products – tweaks the company says give customers better control over onboard data usage, helping them cut costs.
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ANALYSIS: Satcom Direct launches agnostic end-to-end solution
Satcom Direct is aiming to become a one-stop shop for business aviation in-flight connectivity services through the launch of SD Xperience, a new self-branded, technology-agnostic product portfolio. The company says this will enable it to deliver an end-to-end solution that combines data, airtime and communications services, aircraft connectivity hardware and ...
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NBAA: StandardAero lands new maintenance deals
Aircraft maintainer StandardAero has announced several new contracts involving engine maintenance and connectivity hardware installations.
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NBAA: Bye Aerospace executive touts on-demand eTaxi potential
The prospect of electric on-demand air taxi services is a lot closer than you think, says the chief executive of Bye Aerospace.
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NBAA: Wheels Up plots path to expansion
US membership programme Wheels Up has announced an ambitious plan to grow its annual revenues by 150% by 2021, through a mixture of organic growth, partnerships and company acquisitions. Membership numbers are also expected to double over the same period to 10,000.
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UK pilots back exploration of Gatwick runway potential
UK cockpit union BALPA is backing a proposal for London Gatwick to use its back-up runway for regular operations as part of a measure to increase airport capacity.
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VIDEO: NBAA begins with flurry of announcements
With most experts and indicators pointing to a strong bounce back for the industry, delegates to the world's biggest business aviation show arrived in Orlando on 15 October to a barrage of major announcements.
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Q400 engine door separated after being left unlocked
Russian investigators have attributed to procedural failure the loss of an engine door on a Bombardier Q400 shortly after departing Vladivostok.
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PICTURES: UK trials unique carrier landing technique with F-35B
The UK has for the first time tested an experimental shipborne rolling vertical landing (SRVL) technique at sea using a Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning.
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NBAA: ISS offers autothrottle upgrade for King Air
Avionics specialist ISS has developed its ThrustSense “Integrated Autothrottle” offering as the first full-regime autothrottle system for the Beech King Air twin turboprop.
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NBAA: Loss of control in flight continues to plague business aviation
Business aviation's safety Achilles heel, like that of the airlines, seems to be loss of control in flight (LOC-I). That was true in 2016 and 2017, and it looks as if this year – with three months yet to run – is going the same way too.
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INTERVIEW: Bringing combat experience to weapons programmes
Jack Roosa's father, Stuart, was command module pilot for Apollo 14, so a career in aerospace was a natural choice for the younger Roosa, who from a very young age dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot. Having fulfilled his ambition, he is now Raytheon's programme director for the Joint Standoff ...
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Air NZ to collaborate with electric air taxi operator
Air New Zealand will collaborate with Zephyr Airworks to bring Kitty Hawk’s Cora automonous electric air taxi to market in New Zealand.
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Genghis Khan to receive first ARJ21 by year-end
COMAC has announced that it will deliver Genghis Khan Airlines' first ARJ21-700 by the end of 2018, with operations for the carrier to start early next year.
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NBAA: FalconEye cleared for 100ft reduced-minima landings on 8X
Dassault Aviation has received European and US approval for its FalconEye enhanced vision system on the Falcon 8X and is now working towards certification on the Falcon 900 and 2000 families.
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NBAA: Rare opportunity for German VIP Envoy
One aircraft on the NBAA static display at Orlando Executive has a real rarity value. It is one of only 11 Envoy 3 jets in the world.