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Tecnam Displays P2012 Traveller At NBAA-BACE

Tecnam recently delivered the first of its new P2012 Traveller commuter aircraft to Massachusetts-based Cape Air. Tecnam USA Director of Sales Shannon Yeager told AVweb more about it at the 2019 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Air Force Wants Diversity

The head of recruitment for the U.S. Air Force says she’s on a mission to improve diversity and boost the ranks of the organization with greater flexibility for those who serve. Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt told an audience at NBAA-BACE 2019 that recruitment services have been put all under one roof so those who want […]

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Recruitment Is A Sales Job Says Irving

It’s not enough to present young people with opportunities, they have to be sold on their benefits according to a young pilot who has made it his mission to do just that. Barrington Irving, who became the youngest person to circumnavigate the world solo at the age of 23, told an audience at NBAA-BACE that […]

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Uber Updates Elevate Plans

Uber Elevate hopes to have urban mobility services operating in Dallas, Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia, by 2023. Eric Allison, who heads up Uber’s aviation division, told an audience at NBAA-BACE 2019 in Las Vegas the form and function of the new type of urban transportation is starting to come together into what he terms […]

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Tamarack On The Mend, Planning New Products

Tamarack Aerospace hopes to emerge from Chapter 11 protection by the end of the year and then resume expanding the range of aircraft that can benefit from its active winglet installation. The company was rocked by an emergency airworthiness directive that grounded more than 100 Cessna Citations equipped with the system earlier this year. The […]

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FlightSafety, Gulfstream Partner On G700 Training

Gulfstream Aerospace has partnered with FlightSafety International to provide training for its new G700 business jet, which was unveiled at the 2019 NBAA convention this week. As part of the future training program, FlightSafety is designing a simulator in tandem with the development of the G700. The FS1000 flight simulator will be installed at the […]

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SyberJet’s Latest SJ30i At NBAA

At NBAA 2019 in Las Vegas, SyberJet was showing a cockpit and cabin mock-up of its latest SJ30i, and it also brought along a flying certification test airplane with the latest Honeywell Epic 2.0 avionics and Williams fanjet FJ44-2A engines rated at a total of 4600 pounds of thrust. The aircraft has a 560-MPH (Mach […]

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The Magic Of Business Aviation

Inclusion was the theme of speakers at the opening session of the NBAA-BACE convention in Las Vegas Tuesday. For Steuart Walton, the grandson of Walmart founder Sam Walton, that means making communities, individuals and businesses all participants in keeping local airports vibrant. Basketball great Magic Johnson talked about inviting inner city minorities into doing something […]

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