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Click for a Larger Image Embraer announced two new jets (and possibly a new jet category) in its pre-NBAA news conference Monday. The Brazilian company said it is considering building a mid-sized jet (MSJ) and a “mid-light jet” (MLJ). It’s unveiling a mockup of the MSJ today on the convention floor. Embraer has launched aggressively […]

Click for a Larger Image In case you havent noticed, the glass cockpit concept is now into its third decade and although progress has been steady, its also been slow. The basic displays havent changed much and the human interface-the buttonology-is long overdue for an overhaul. And thats exactly what Rockwell Collins is doing with […]

While light aircraft makers Cirrus and Columbia can be credited with launching the glass cockpit revolution for piston singles, Cessna took its time dropping steam gauges. As of this week, with the announcement that the turboprop Caravan will now have the G1000, everything in the Cessna line now features state-of-the-art EFIS. The G1000, along with […]

Click for a Larger Image Honeywell and Jeppesen recently completed a Required Navigation Performance (RNP) approach for Morristown, N.J. to show how such procedures can be developed for the use of business arircraft. RNP uses GPS and ground stations to provide precision guidance for aircraft flying into airports with congested airspace, difficult terrain and bad […]

Honeywell has significantly increased the number of business jets it predicts will be sold in the next 10 years to 14,000 and Embraer says it, too, is revising its projections upward. The Brazilian planemaker last year predicted that about 11,600 business aircraft would be sold between 2006 and 2016 but says that’s too low. The […]

Cessna will deliver almost as many business jets next year as the entire industry did a few years ago, and CEO Jack Pelton says there’s no end in sight to the jet boom. “Last year, we delivered 307 business jets. This year we expect to deliver 380. Next year, we plan to deliver 470,” said […]

Anticollision Device Please tell the chaps in Arizona they don’t have to invent the wheel twice (AVwebFlash, Sep. 17). We’ve got want they want. There are hundreds of gliders in Europe equipped with FLARM, a GPS-based anticollision device that works wonderfully. It saves lives!Dr. Richard Bieber AOPA/Lockheed Martin Conflict Of Interest? I notice at AOPA’s […]

This article originally appeared in Light Plane Maintenance, Mar. 2005. Elbow grease, grease the skids, greasy kid’s stuff; grease makes the world go ’round — literally. The earliest forms of grease were various and sundry animal extrusions and leftovers.Today still, numerous organically based greases give excellent service — although their origins are more from lithium […]

It isn’t often that an airline flight crew has time to go to a football game during a layover. Many years ago when I was a plumber on the old DC-8 we used to have beacoup Detroit layovers, which meant we were laying-over in Ann Arbor at the venerated Ann Arbor Inn.Those layovers were seasonal […]

The business aircraft market has never been hotter, but that doesn’t mean everything is perfect. As the National Business Aviation Convention rolls into the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta on Tuesday, NBAA and its allies in general aviation remain embroiled in a political battle in Washington that could fundamentally change the way general aviation […]