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At least two companies, LightSpeed Aviation and Aloft Technologies, have set aside over-the-ear headset ANR technology with in-ear technology products, driving sound with hearing-aid speakers and dampening it with … replaceable ear plugs. A third, the Panther CATS system (which is similar, but not as new) takes a mold of the user’s ear, making the […]

Epic has announced its intention to produce a (very light) jet (download the press release, here) with an expected cruise 35 knots faster than it’s “older” turboprop sibling on which it is based, for a higher fuel burn and an extra $150,000 in base price — perhaps simply proving the practicality of the turbine. Recall […]

Possibly one of the nicest perks of corporate air travel has been quashed in a provision in a corporate tax bill signed into legislation by President Bush last week, and it could put a damper on the bizjet and fractional-ownership industry. While alphabets and manufacturers lauded a provision in the bill that extended the delivery […]

The NTSB has blamed the first officer’s “unnecessary and excessive rudder pedal inputs” for the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in Belle Harbor, N.Y., on Nov. 12, 2001. In its final report, released Tuesday, the NTSB said the vertical stabilizer separated from the Airbus A300-605R after the first officer “inappropriately manipulated the rudder back […]

A system that’s helped fighter and attack aircraft pilots see better for decades could soon be coming to a GA panel you recognize. Forward.Vision, a division of Aercomp Inc., has developed a relatively low-cost (under $20,000) forward looking infrared system (FLIR) for general aviation. It’s been selling them to homebuilt owners for the last couple […]

Someone once said he could teach a monkey to fly but researchers at the University of Florida have taken it a quantum leap further. The biomedical team says it has a dish full of about 25,000 rat neurons that can keep a PC flight simulator on the straight and level. “It’s as if the neurons […]

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