NBAA held its annual meeting October 31 at its Washington headquarters, a move required by the association’s bylaws and the laws of the District of Columbia. The session would normally have been held at the annual meeting and convention, which has been postponed until this month.
Aviation International News » December 2001
May 23, 2008 - 6:09am
Qatar Airways is planning to use its new Airbus Corporate Jetliner (ACJ) to replace a pair of Falcon 900s used by the government and ruling family. It will also be operated on European summer-season VIP scheduled service to destinations such as London; Geneva; and Nice, France; as well as for charter or wet-lease operations in the winter.
May 23, 2008 - 6:07am
The Dubai Air Show, held November 4 to 8, demonstrated an abundance of business-as-usual spirit when it opened its doors in the face of a worldwide security crisis and the intensifying war in Afghanistan just 500 mi away to the northeast.
May 23, 2008 - 5:39am
Following September 11, the FAA issued a requirement that all U.S. commercial aircraft and all foreign commercial aircraft flying to the U.S. be equipped with new fortified cockpit doors by April 2003. But it left the specifics of what constitutes a “fortified cockpit door” pretty much up to the industry.
May 23, 2008 - 5:04am
Announcing the purchase earlier this year by the UK’s BBA Group of Tyler International School of Aviation at Texas’ Tyler Pounds Field, David McRobert, chief executive of BBA-owned British flight school Oxford Aviation Training, said, “This is an excellent step forward for all of us and I’m very excited by the potential.
May 23, 2008 - 5:02am
Writing in the spring 2000 issue of the FAA’s Federal Air Surgeon’s Medical Bulletin, Rogers Shaw, team coordinator of the FAA’s Civil Aerospace Medical Institute’s aeromedical education division’s airman education program, offered these tips for heading off the dangers of dehydration:
• Drink cool (40 deg F) water (forget the old theory that lukewarm water is absorbed more quickly into the system).
May 23, 2008 - 5:01am
The next time you fly, soak a terrycloth hand towel so that it’s dripping wet and hang it up on the flight deck. Then fly a leg that’s at least an hour-and-a-half long. At the end of that time, the towel will be bone dry, the water absorbed by the ultra-low humidity of the cockpit and cabin environment.
May 23, 2008 - 4:52am
Sales of pre-owned turboprop aircraft are a little like the old line, “I have good news and bad news. Which do you want first?”
Last year at this time, dealers predicted that the market was facing a rocky ride, with economic storm clouds already on the horizon and the presidential election still not decided. No one had any inkling of just how rocky it was going to become.
May 23, 2008 - 4:48am
The sales inventory of pre-owned corporate jets has nearly doubled in two years, according to statistics obtained from JetNet of Utica, N.Y. A consistent month-over-month increase in inventory, which began in December 1999, has pushed the number of used business jets up for sale to nearly 2,000. Consider that in 1997 the inventory level was at a low of 737 units during a time when buyers were clamoring for business jets.
