All articles by John Croft – Page 51
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NewsNew owner to expand Piper’s presence in Asia Pacific
Piper Aircraft owner American Capital has sold the Florida-based general aviation manufacturer to Asia-Pacific-based corporate finance and investment firm, Imprimis
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Embraer Lineage 1000: Where modest meets magnificent
Luxuries aboard Embraer's Lineage 1000 include 'wow' divans, pressure-mapped seats, surround sound, shower and bed
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Working week – Flying caps a career hat-trick
Ray Brindle worked in information technology and then for a dot.com company before he became a full-time flier. Now a contract pilot for the US Environmental Protection Agency, he faces a variety of challenges
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Cessna loss is competitors’ gain
Cessna's 29 April decision to shelve its new super-midsize Citation Columbus could be music to the ears of its competitors.
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CAE to provide maintenance training to Jazz
CAE will provide maintenance training programmes "anywhere in the world" to employees of Canadian low-fare carrier Jazz under a licensing agreement signed...
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Cargo Boeing 737 crashes, burns in DRC
News services are reporting that a Boeing 737 aircraft crashed and burned at 0600h local time this morning near Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic...
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NewsCessna sinks Columbus, closes Bend facility
Cessna today suspended development of its flagship business jet, the Citation Columbus, a platform that was to launch the airframer into a new and more lucrative sector of the market.
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Boeing ponders “variably” manned aircraft
Boeing has filed for a US patent on an aircraft control system that could be configured for two, one or zero pilots.
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NewsCanadians demonstrate brownout vision aid
CAE and Neptec Design Group have successfully demonstrated a CAE-developed synthetic vision system that fuses real-time landscape captured by a Neptec-built Lidar sensor on a CAE-built terrain database
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NTSB asks for Boeing 757 manual revisions
The US NTSB is asking the FAA to require Boeing to make changes to 757 and 767 procedures and training materials based on a 22 September incident involving...
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FAA to publish expanded bird strike database
Bowing to pressure from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the US DOT has pulled back a 19 March proposal by the FAA to block the public from...
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FAA aims for 2011 HEMS safety rule
The US Federal Aviation Administration has launched a rulemaking effort to codify safety best practices for the helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS)...
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TSB: No follow-up on Air Canada A320 emergency
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has categorized a 14 April in-flight emergency of an Air Canada A320-200 (C-FTJQ) enroute from Montreal to...
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FAA lags Transport Canada in Q400 gear directive
The US tomorrow will issue a final airworthiness directive (AD) aimed at preventing Bombardier Q400 landing gear collapses.