All General aviation articles – Page 11
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NewsPARIS: Global 7500 makes its show debut
Bombardier's flagship Global 7500 is making its Paris air show debut, with the arrival of the ultra-long-range business jet marking the climax of its six-month, eight-country demonstration tour.
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PARIS: Cape Air named as launch customer for the Alice electric aircraft
Israeli start-up Eviation Aircraft has announced Cape Air as the commercial launch customer for its Alice all-electric aircraft, with the “double-digit purchase option” from a long-established airline helping to validate the in-development design and put the nascent sector on the map.
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NewsPARIS: Gulfstream G600 makes Paris debut
Soaking up the sunshine on the Gulfstream static is the G600, which is making its Paris debut ahead of its planned certification early in the third quarter.
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NewsPARIS: Qatar Executive debuts its G500
Little more than a week since its arrival in Doha, Qatar Executive’s fourth Gulfstream G500 has made the trip to Paris where it is taking centre stage on the Qatar static alongside an Airbus A350 widebody belonging to its sister airline
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NewsPARIS: EmbraerX shares its vision for urban air mobility
EmbraerX has arrived at Paris to share its exciting vision for the future of urban air mobility and the vital role that disruptive technology and industry collaboration will play in creating and sustaining this market.
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PARIS: Daher buoyant after Quest acqusition
Patrick Daher, chairman of French aircraft manufacturing, aerostructures and logistics group Daher, is bullish about the company's prospects with newly acquired US airframer Quest Aircraft as part of its portfolio.
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PARIS: Cranfield fund-raising for new flying lab
Cranfield University is at the show spreading the word about its fund-raising effort for a new flying laboratory. The UK aviation educational institution is replacing its 35-year-old British Aerospace Jetstream 31, which it has used to give students experience of a flight test environment for the past 16 years.
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NewsPARIS: Largest show on record with over 2,450 exhibitors
This year’s Paris Air show – the 53rd outing in its 110 year history – is the biggest ever, with the number of exhibitors at the longest-running and largest aerospace event in the world exceeding 2,450. “We sold out within weeks of opening the booking in October 2018,” says ...
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Lilium picks London as its software engineering hub
German electric aircraft developer Lilium is to base its software engineering hub in London to take advantage of what the company calls “the rich pool of talent” in and around the UK capital.
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PICTURE: NFT unveils Aska eVTOL flying car
US start-up Next Future Transportation (NFT) has unveiled a one-sixth-scale model of its electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) flying car, which it hopes will become leading player in the nascent urban air mobility (UAM) market and revolutionise point-to-point transport for many thousands of travellers.
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NewsCalifornia's Ampaire demonstrates parallel hybrid Cessna 337
A Cessna 337 Skymaster powered partly by an electric motor flew on 6 June from a California airport, demonstrating a prototype propulsion system that manufacturer Ampaire hopes to deploy commercially by 2021.
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Tamarack files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Emergency airworthiness directives in Europe and the USA related to Tamarack Aerospace's Atlas active winglet system equipping certain Cessna Citation jets have pushed the Idaho-based supplier into seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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NewsHoneywell and Vertical Aerospace team up on eVTOL design
Honeywell has joined forces with UK electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer Vertical Aerospace to address what it calls "the technical, regulatory and business challenges of the emerging urban air mobility (UAM) segment".
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Alaka'i unveils concept for hydrogen-powered electric aircraft
Massachusetts aerospace company Alaka'i Technologies has thrown its hat into the urban air mobility ring, announcing development of an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
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NewsWheels Up acquires US charter company TMC
US membership-based private aircraft firm Wheels Up has acquired charter operator Travel Management Company (TMC) in a move designed to broaden its fleet of “high quality” light business jets and enhance the service offering for its 5,000+ members.
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NewsFlexjet launches by-the-day-based fractional programme
Flexjet, the world's second-largest fractional ownership operator, has introduced a by-the-day-based programme for the Gulfstream G650. The move is designed to give greater flexibility to shareholders of the ultra-long-range business jet and help boost the company's share of the high-end private jet travel market.
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INTERVIEW: Management with a personal touch
Robert Coleman is general manager for Vertis Aviation's US office. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, he is spreading the word about the aircraft charter broker and building its business throughout the Americas
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EmbraerX proposes air traffic control framework for air taxis
Embraer has laid out details of an air traffic control infrastructure it says must be in place before the urban air taxi concept can evolve to reality.
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NewsGama plots MRO expansion with new flagship facility
Gama Aviation – one of the largest business aviation services providers in the world – has its eyes set on rapid expansion in the maintenance sector, and sees the recent opening of a new flagship facility in Bournemouth, UK as crucial to achieving that ambition.