Latest from Nigel Moll
Training and Workforce
FlightSafety Opens New Gulfstream Learning Center in Hong Kong
AIN Blog: Wanted: Birdbrains
Innate skills elude some allegedly trained pilots.
AIN Blog: AirTran Ordered To Rehire Whistleblower Pilot
AirTran rehired a whistleblower pilot
Cessna Citation Ten Makes Maiden Flight
Citation Ten makes maiden flight.
AIN Blog: Brace for More Banker Backlash
Buckle up and fly clean because the business jet is still a big fat whipping boy.
New Citations Tackle Embraer Threat
Cessna came out swinging against the Embraer challenge in late September and at the NBAA Convention last month, unveiling two additional Citations
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
Cessna Changes Its Latitude with New Midsize Bizjet
Cessna launches Citation Latitude, a clean-sheet midsize jet.
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
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
NBAA Reacts Swiftly to WSJ Coverage
NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen’s letter to The Wall Street Journal:
“Your front-page story detailing the movements of ‘general aviation’ airplanes
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
