Latest from Nigel Moll
Aircraft
Gulfstream Weathering Stormy Skies
Class warfare is much in the headlines of late, and there’s a sort of parallel in business aviation.
Aircraft
Citation Latitude Busts Out of Cessna Midsize Mold
At NBAA 2011 in Las Vegas this morning, Cessna took the wraps off a long-overdue enlargement of its midsize cabin in an addition to the Citation line call
Aircraft
Cessna Changes Its Latitude with New Midsize Bizjet
Cessna launches Citation Latitude, a clean-sheet midsize jet.
Murdoch BBJ Listed for Sale: ‘Make Offer’
News Corp./News America chief Rupert Murdoch’s Boeing Business Jet was listed for sale on September 1, coincidentally the publication date
Engines
Product Support Survey 2011 Part 3: Engines
Williams once again takes the top spot among turbofan manufacturers.
Aircraft
New Cessna Citation M2 Relights CJ1+ Torch
Cessna announced a new twinjet derivative yesterday to serve as a step-up for Mustang owners or as a higher entry-level Citation between the Mustang and CJ
AIN Blog: Gambling Away a Heritage
The publicly known facts are scarce at this stage, but the in-flight structural failure of a Cessna Corvalis composite high-performance piston single in th
AIN Blog: Trials by Mother Nature
NBAA put out a press release yesterday noting that there are “only 40 days left until NBAA 2011.” That's fitting, with Hurricane Irene’s liquid legacy thre
Charter & Fractional
Flexjet Launches Learjet 85 Frax Program
Flexjet, Bombardier’s Texas-based fractional ownership operation, launched a Learjet 85 program.
Charter & Fractional
Flexjet Launches Learjet 85 Frax Program
Flexjet, Bombardier’s Texas-based fractional ownership program, launched a Learjet 85 program yesterday.
Burt Rutan: The Measure of His Success
How does one measure the success of an airplane designer?
Was John Thorp a success because he designed, among many others, the airplane (his T-16 of the m
EBAA Hires New CEO, Humphries To Remain as President
The European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) appointed an airline lobbyist as its new leader yesterday.
AIN Blog: The Final Shuttle Mission Looks Down on a Vastly Changed World Beneath
At 11:29 this morning, the final space shuttle flight got under way as Atlantis rose from the launch pad on a column of fire from the Kennedy Space
Paris 2011: New Grounds Underway for ILA Berlin 2012
The ILA Berlin Air Show, scheduled for September 11-16 next year, will be located “directly next door to Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt, the capital’s fu
Record Turnout on Sweltering Ramp for HPN Forum
While professing satisfaction with what turned out to be record participation at NBAA’s business aviation regional forum at Westchester County Airport yest
AIN Blog: Brendan Gallagher’s Influence on Aerospace
Brendan Gallagher died last Sunday morning at his home in London, just days after participating in press trips to Geneva, Belfast and Turkey with his
With Pelton out, Textron boss running Cessna
Following what was described on May 2 as the retirement of 52-year-old Cessna chairman, president and CEO Jack Pelton, Textron chairman and CEO Scott Donne
Aerion to subsonic set: Go with the (natural laminar) flow
The past couple of years have not been the best of times for a would-be developer to sign deals with industrial partners and customer-users for a new super
Engines
Geared Turbofan for Bizav Not Suited to All Missions
Business aviation will still be burning fossil fuels in things that are recognizable as turbine engines 30 years from now.
Jack Pelton Leaving Cessna
After 11 years at Cessna, and eight of them in the left seat, Jack Pelton is leaving the Textron-owned, Wichita-based aircraft manufacturer.
AIN Blog: Linguistic Restraint
The Southwest Airlines 737-300 that lost some fuselage skin last month must surely have provided its occupants with some horribly tense minutes, but the ai
Foley Assembling Cirrus Counter-offer
Convinced that he can round up enough U.S.
NRC adds smarts to helo fly-by-wire
The innate intelligence of fly-by-wire (FBW) flight controls makes them a natural for reducing the relatively high pilot workload that can come with rotar
Bell Delivers First 429s to Mideast, India
Bell Helicopter delivered the first 429s to the Middle East and India last month.
Heli-Expo 2011: Striving for Zero Blemishes, Bristow Hones Its Image
Anyone who has flown aboard a helicopter in support of oil and gas exploration knows that this form of flying ranks among the more exhilarating ways of tra
Heli-Expo 2011: Pino’s State-of-Sikorsky Address a Rich Lode
Buoyed by steady and solid U.S.
