Latest from Bernard Fitzsimons
JetAlliance places $280M Citation order
JetAlliance CEO Lukas Lichtner-Hoyer signed a contract here yesterday for 25 Cessna Citations valued at $280 million.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
Fortis offers structured finance to buy a plane
Given the bucks or the ability to borrow them, buying a business jet ought to be a straightforward affair.
Cabin Interior and Electronics
VIP jet interiors take time
It can take up to two years to outfit a VIP widebody jet.
Avionics
Honeywell flight display may be adaptable to 3-D airport maps
Future versions of Honeywell’s integrated primary flight display (IPFD) may include 3-D airport maps that would give pilots a clear view of the entire airp
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
New jet financing firm is created
Guggenheim Partners and UBS have formed Guggenheim Aero Finance, a corporate jet financing company that will combine worldwide reach with a streamlined app
Global economic growth is fueling business aviation
Much of the unprecedented recent growth in sales of business aircraft has been driven by the international market, where advantageous exchange rates have m
Aircraft
PrivatAir’s jet card practically selling itself
PrivatAir has taken $10 million in deposits for its Select jet card, which enables customers to pre-buy blocks of flight hours.
‘Nice’ work boosts LHT to OEM status
Lufthansa Technik (Booth No.
Aircraft
Lufthansa, Bombardier seek expansion in Germany
Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services (LBAS) celebrated its 10th birthday in Berlin on Saturday night with news of an expansion plan that will see the joi
Bombardier charts course for more sales in ’07
Bombardier set a new record for business jet deliveries in its latest financial year, shipping 212 airplanes in the 12 months to January 2007.
Avionics
eNfusion CNX product bows here
A new fourth model in EMS Satcom’s eNfusion CNX line of mobile cabin gateways is making its debut here at EBACE’07 (Booth No.
Cabin Interior and Electronics
Science of the sound of silence
The prototype personal stereo was famously developed in 1978 to help Sony founder Masaru Ibuka listen to opera while airborne on business trips.
Online planner set for liftoff
AirData (Booth No.
Regulations and Government
Europe mulls new rules for aircraft with HUD and EVS
New regulations being developed by Europe’s Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) may soon enable operators of HUD-equipped aircraft to hand-fly Cat II and Cat
Avionics
Synthetic-vision systems flying in more cockpits
Situational awareness is fundamental to safe flight.
ATC
Eurocontrol upbeat over conflict-resolution tool
Eurocontrol has demonstrated the technical and operational benefits of a new ATC decision aid known as medium-term conflict detection (MTCD), which could a
Avionics
Connexion by Boeing airborne Internet in airline service
Since Connexion by Boeing was announced four years ago, the service has matured from tantalizing possibility to in-service reality.
Lufthansa Airbus
ATC
European ‘single sky’ plan gains momentum
Launched in 1999 by European Commission vice president Loyola de Palacio, the move to create a single European sky (SES) for air traffic management and con
ATC
Germans buying SITA VHF datalink
Germany’s air navigation service provider (ANSP), Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS), has agreed to buy the SITA network of 27 VHF datalink (VDL) ground stations
ATC
Raytheon’s ADS-B unit cuts down on
Raytheon Systems Limited (RSL) has unveiled a new automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) receiver that uses a 16 MHz or better sampling rate, a
ATC
Sensis considers expanding ADS-B
Sensis is building on its experience of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) in the FAA-sponsored Capstone trials in Alaska and the increasin
ATC
Smaller Aircraft Mean Big Headaches for ATC Providers
Growing numbers of smaller aircraft are compounding the problems air navigation service providers face, senior officials told the Jane’s conference at last
ATC
France publishes its first GNSS approach
The French civil aviation authority, DGAC, has published the first GNSS nonprecision approach procedure for a French airport and is working toward introduc
ATC
European initiatives look to remove ATC jams
The air-traffic community gathered in the Netherlands last month to discuss the continually evolving options for modernizing ATC.
ATC
Germany planning network of GPS precision approaches
Germany’s air navigation service provider (ANSP), Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS), is working toward the national implementation of differential GPS-based pre
Parker reflects its customers’ diversity
Parker Aerospace companies are supplying a wide range of systems and components to airframes that range from the Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 airliners to th
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s a wind turbine blade
Aviation and the environment often appear to be in conflict, sometimes in unpredictable ways.
Big Boeings’ cargo systems by Goodrich
A follow-on contract to supply cargo systems for the Boeing 777, 767 and 747 that could be worth more than $390 million over the next seven years is one of
Aircraft
Yak/Irkut to assemble 12 Yak-130s
The Yakovlev design bureau plans to build another 12 examples of the Yak-130 advanced trainer, which is on display in the static park here, during the next
Aircraft
Crane really puts brakes on
Crane Aerospace & Electronics is here (Hall 5 Stand G17) celebrating its selection by EADS CASA to supply the braking and antiskid system for the Airbus A4
