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Order Today, Get Your Plane In February … of 2008 … They’re more than a year away from delivering their first airplane but Eclipse Aviation is already making plans to boost production. The Albuquerque company announced earlier this week that it plans to hit the ground running and build 260 planes in its first year […]

And while those attending NBAA are filled with breathless optimism about the future of business aviation, there are more than a few would-be attendees who couldn’t make the show because of some problems with the here and now. Quite simply, Las Vegas’ three local bizjet-capable airports are full. Anyone who hoped to use the flexibility […]

Although all the major companies have shiny new hardware to show off and projects to announce, likely the biggest buzz surrounds the plan by a Reno company to build a supersonic bizjet. As AVweb reported a few weeks ago, rumors of Aerion Corp.’s ambitious initiative have been circulating for some time but the official announcement […]

Bizjet Manufacturers Celebrate End Of The Slump… You expect the companies, associations and dignitaries attending something like the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) convention to be upbeat and positive but there seems to be more substance behind that sentiment this time around. On the eve of the big show in Las Vegas, Honeywell released its […]

Futron Corp., whose space-tourism market study has been frequently cited by the alternative-space entrepreneurs, recently released the entire 79-page study to the public domain. The study, originally published in 2002, is based on a poll of affluent Americans. The poll gauged the level of interest in, and willingness to pay for, space tourism experiences among […]

While lots of companies are eager to develop new space technologies, they won’t get far without financial backing. One source of that money, paradoxically, may be NASA. “NASA has just received close to 4,000 proposals for advanced technologies for space exploration from private companies, and they will be giving away something like $600 million over […]

Space Travel Faces Next Wave Of Regulation… Last week on Capitol Hill, the nascent “alternative space industry” barely deflected a potential meltdown — a bill that was written to help boost space tourism came within hours of being passed with a new provision that some say would have killed the whole idea. In its original […]

Meanwhile, at Adam Aircraft, in Englewood, Colo., good news has been on a roll. First there was the recent word that the Williams engine for their AdamJet was FAA-certified and good to go. Then the company received Type Inspection Authorization from the FAA for its A500 Centerline Twin, a major milestone on the road to […]

While Howard Stern’s jump to a satellite station (provided by Sirius Radio) got all the media hype last week, over in Duluth, Minn., the aviation world got its own boost into the satellite age via XM Radio. Cirrus Design announced on Thursday that its satellite datalink weather option is now a reality. Dr. Robert Segal […]

A New (Sport Pilot) Airplane Factory… To balance the all-too-common overload of gloom and doom in the news, today we have a roundup of positive new things happening in the aviation world. For starters, Shiloh Airport, a pretty little field in Rockingham County, N.C. (which describes itself as “a pilots’ airport run by pilots”) is […]