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Sustainability and Environment
Alternative fuels still face hurdles
The alternative aviation fuel industry continues to conduct flight tests to validate the use of new jet-fuel blends.
Sustainability and Environment
Eurocopter joins biofuel quest
Eurocopter and parent company EADS have teamed with Argentina-based BioCombustibles del Chubut (BC) to study the feasibility of building an aviation biofue
Sustainability and Environment
EPA begins ruling process to phase out leaded avgas
With the deadline for the comment period on the Environmental Protection Agency’s advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to phase out leaded avgas
Sustainability and Environment
FAA Awards $125M in Green Contracts
Five aerospace companies have been awarded a total of $125 million in contracts as part of an environmental initiative to spur development of new aircraft
Sustainability and Environment
Honeywell Launches New Emissions and Monitoring
Honeywell is offering a new emissions monitoring service for business jets operating in European airspace to assist in compliance with European Union emi
Sustainability and Environment
Boeing Headquarters Earns EPA Energy Star
Boeing’s Chicago downtown headquarters has earned the U.S.
Sustainability and Environment
Rockwell Collins Plays Key Role in Green Connection Evaluations
Rockwell Collins, as a member of a consortium of industry partners led by Swedish air navigation service provider Luftfartsverket (LFV), has been awarded a
Sustainability and Environment
Committee studies eco-friendly production, dismantling
Operating an aircraft accounts for 80 percent of the machine’s lifetime environmental footprint, according to a newly released Dassault study.
Sustainability and Environment
OEMs embrace more-electric aircraft systems
Business jet manufacturers are quietly progressing toward more-electric architectures, where electricity replaces hydraulic and pneumatic power in systems
Accidents
Stevens crash investigation under way
The investigation continues into the cause of last month’s crash of a de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Otter turboprop-conversion floatplane in Alaska that kille
Engines
Pratt & Whitney Joins with Tap for Engine Overhaul
Engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Canada and the Brazilian maintenance and engineering division of TAP Portugal announced an agreement to provide “co
Safety
Bombardier Safety Standdown Draws a Crowd
Bombardier’s first safety standdown in Latin America drew a crowd the day before the opening of the annual Labace show.
Sustainability and Environment
Airline Bean Counters Need To Count Emissions Carefully
Airlines that will be subject to Europe’s new
Aircraft
Boeing Pushes First 787 Deliveries into Mid-First Quarter
Boeing today announced yet another delay to the 787 program, following “an assessment of the availability of an engine needed for the final phases of fligh
Maintenance and Modifications
Raisbeck’s Learjet 60 Fuselage Locker Makes Debut
The new Raisbeck Engineering Learjet 60 aft fuselage locker made its Labace debut as part of the Bombardier exhibit.
Maintenance and Modifications
Aviation Partners Debuts Spiroid Winglets
Aviation Partners (API) broaught a Falcon 50 equipped with radical-looking spiroid winglets to AirVenture, the airplane’s first public appearance after a t
Training and Workforce
Parrot Helps Pilots Transmit
King Schools, distributor for Redbird Flight Simulation’s desktop TD and TD2 flight training devices, demonstrated a new Redbird feature, the Parrot contex
Aircraft
Airbus-led Aire2 Trials To Spearhead Green Trajectories with A380
An Airbus-led partnership with Air France and the air navigation service providers from the UK, Canada and the U.S.—respectively, NATS
Aircraft
Spectrum Aeronautical Slows Its Jet Programs
Spectrum Aeronautical has slowed development of the lightweight high-performance S.40 Freedom and S.33 Independence jets due to resource constraints.
Rotorcraft
Pre-Owned Turbine Aircraft Sales Up, Prices Down
Sales of pre-owned business jets, turboprops and turbine helicopters increased in the first seven months versus the same period last year, though at the sa
Rotorcraft
Civil Helicopter Outlook Good, Says Frost and Sullivan
In its just-released world commercial helicopter market report, res
Sustainability and Environment
World Fuel To Acquire Western Petroleum
World Fuel Services on Monday announced an agreement to acquire Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Western Petroleum, including its branded aviation fuel distributi
Charter & Fractional
Desert Jet Launches Facebook-enabled Charter Quoting
Desert Jet, an aircraft charter company based near Palm Springs, Calif., yesterday launched what it claims is the first air charter quoting program accessi
Engines
Rolls-Royce Sues UTC for Patent Infringement
Rolls-Royce today filed a complaint alleging infringement by United Technologies Corp.
Engines
Sukhoi Superjet 100 Makes First Appearance in Italy
The third Sukhoi Superjet 100 landed in Italy for the fir
Regulations and Government
DHS streamlines waiver procedure
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano chose a general aviation event–EAA’s AirVenture– to unveil a streamlined process for business aviation users t
Regulations and Government
Congress delays decision on bonus depreciation renewal
Although support for accelerated depreciation for major equipment purchases is growing, Congress left for its summer recess without making it so.
Regulations and Government
Interim FAA bill includes new pilot training rules
Faced with leaving for vacation without passing an FAA reauthorization bill that would tighten pilot training rules, lawmakers stripped those provisions fr
