Latest from Nigel Moll
Engines
P&WC hastens support for new engines
Pratt & Whitney Canada is seeing its engines enter service on three new business airplanes this year–the Dassault Falcon 7X, Cessna Mustang and Eclipse
Bombardier forecast predicts growth
Bombardier released here its first-ever forecast for the business aviation market segments in which it competes, and the Canadian company’s crystal ball is
Training and Workforce
SaferJett to train Adam pilots
With new management and the goal of transforming itself from a development company to a lean production aircraft company, Adam Aircraft put a key foundatio
Aircraft
Cessna still mulling LCC bizjet
It was one year ago, at the NBAA Convention in Orlando, that Cessna took the wraps off its concept for a large-cabin long-range business jet (code-named LC
Low-level Flying: Ferrari F430
What’s in a name? Would a Ferrari by any other name be as provocative? What if the Ferrari boy had been born into the Focaccia family and christened Sal?
Low-level Flying: BMW M6 Convertible
Convertibles get a bad rap from some diehard sports-car purists who dismiss them as semi-serious boulevard cruisers a notch down from where they should be
Low-level flying: Lexus LS600hL hybrid
With the LS600hL, Lexus has given the hybrid propulsion system popularized by the Toyota Prius some serious muscle and cloaked it in luxury robes.
Regulations and Government
Board members' letter reveals strife at NTSB
NTSB members are strongly dissatisfied with the way in which Board chairman Ellen Engleman Conners is attempting to curb their activities.
AIN Writers Honored
Stephen Pope (right), AIN’s avionics editor and editor of our domestic show editions, won big at this year’s Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards
AIN Staff Addition
Jennifer Harrington has joined AIN as a staff editor.
Charter & Fractional
DayJet gearing up for service start
DayJet founder, president and CEO Ed Iacobucci dropped by AIN’s offices last month to provide an update on progress with his per-seat, on-demand VLJ
Low-level Flying: Rolls-Royce Phantom
You can buy the flagship Lexus LS460–a fine blend of engineering, craftsmanship and performance–for about $80,000.
Low-level Flying: Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG
Students of scoops, badges and other muscularity enhancement on cars will recognize the Mercedes S65 AMG as the most powerful production sedan on the plane
Borge Boeskov, 1935 - 2004
Borge Boeskov, the Icelandic-born father of the Boeing Business Jet, died on June 9 after a lengthy illness, one day shy of his 69th birthday.
Clearing skies greet European convention
The economy is emerging from the soup not with the sudden clarity of a westbound flight through the shattered remnants of a cold front, but more as if it w
Back Up to Speed Again?
SSBJ UPDATE: Elsewhere in this issue (“In The Works,” page 78) is word of Sukhoi’s continuing work on feasibility studies on the S-21, a supersonic busines
GlobalFlyer flexes its graceful (but very lightly loaded) wings
Known as the Model 311 Capricorn by its builder, and the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer by its pilot and sponsor, Burt Rutan’s latest creation took to the sky
Safety
Switlik Finds Golden Parachute in Life Preservers and Rafts
To anyone who hit the silk more than 30 years ago, the name Switlik Parachute is well known as a preeminent maker of the lifesaving devices.
Charter & Fractional
Executive Jet Management reports brisk charter activity
Executive Jet Management, the aircraft management and charter arm of NetJets, saw its revenue charter business rise by a healthy 36 percent last year, to 4
Aircraft
Gulfstream 550 wins JAA/EASA approval and collerthrophy, and notches more records
The flagship of the Gulfstream fleet has flown proudly in the past couple of months.
Aircraft
Production and deliveries challenge jet OEM start-ups
Given their current predicaments, Eclipse Aviation and Sino Swearingen share some similarities.
Accidents
For one pilot, survival can be measured in inches
Photos surface on the Internet occasionally that are too strong just to file away.
Commentary March 2004: Bill Wagstaff 1954-2004
Long-time aviation journalist William David Wagstaff, 49, died on February 8, following complications from surgery.
Commentary March 2004: Jerome “Jerry” Lederer 1903-2004
Aviation safety pioneer Jerome “Jerry” Lederer died February 6 at the age of 101 in Laguna Hills, Calif., of congestive heart failure.
Accidents
Editorial: March 2005 - Lawyers Circling
Airplane accidents usually cause harm beyond the grief they bring to the families of those lost, and the spate of business aircraft crashes late last year
People in Aviation: March 2005
McKinney Aerospace recently announced several personnel changes.
Security
The High Cost of Protecting Against Missile Attack
Fear mongering has been a growth industry in the U.S.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
Editorial: FAA resource management
The FAA’s budgetary woes are but one symptom of the U.S.
GlobalFlyer: Son of Voyager, Mother of risky ventures
“LAST BIG PLUM” REVISITED–Burt Rutan and the Voyager team in 1986 described their quest to fly around the world nonstop and unrefueled as “the
