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The National Business Aviation Association has announced that Phil Boyer, the outgoing president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, is the winner of its 2008 Award for Meritorious Service to Aviation. NBAA says it’s the organization’s “most distinguished honor” and is awarded to an individual who “has made significant, identifiable contributions that have materially […]

Plenty of pilots are familiar with technology that tells us to “Turn right” or “Turn left” in a friendly female voice — because it’s installed on the dashboards of our cars, fresh from Best Buy. Now Alaska Airlines will be the first airline to provide similar technology for all of its airplanes, to guide pilots […]

Solazyme, a San Francisco-based company, announced on Tuesday that it has produced fuel derived from algae that meets the Jet-A fuel standards set by the American Society for Testing and Materials. The ASTM standards measure performance in areas such as density, stability, flashpoint, freezing point, distillation and viscosity. By meeting those criteria, the company said, […]

Jet fuel costs grabbed the spotlight on the second full day of the Canadian election campaign on Tuesday. Current Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that if his government is re-elected it will cut the federal excise tax on jet fuel in half, to about nine cents per Canadian gallon. No reductions in the 50-cent-per-gallon tax […]

While fuel prices are the overwhelming factor in the spate of recent airline failures, the Web site Telepresence Options claims that teleconferencing is also having an impact. The site, sponsored by a group called the Human Productivity Lab, says meeting face to virtual face by satellite is becoming a money-saving alternative to air travel and […]

It’s been a heck of a ride for most involved in business aviation for the past five years, but does what goes up necessarily have to come down? Leaders from all sectors of the industry will gather in London Oct. 23 and Oct. 24 for the second Future of Business Jets conference and they’ll tackle […]

Saturday at the Hiller Aviation Museum’s Jet Pack Show in San Carlos, Calif., scientists, inventors and pilots taught visitors about research and progress in the field of modern jet packs. Organizers claim the event was the largest collection of jet packs ever assembled in one place for display. Modern players like Jet Pack International, Thunderbolt […]

Boeing has reportedly halted production of 737, 747, 767 and 777 aircraft as 27,000 members of the Machinists union rejected Boeing’s most recent benefits and pay raise offers. Boeing intends to keep its plants open, expecting non-machinists union workers to report in but with production stopped in Everett and Renton, Wash. Analysts expect Boeing could […]

People in southern California who are short on time or patience or both may find salvation in Miwok Airways, a start-up short hop air service flying on-demand operations to and from 40 local airports, beginning this fall. Four Cirrus SR22s operated through contract with charter companies will be used to cover a stretch of SoCal […]

Commercial pilot Erica Simpson, 32, was flying a Cassutt IIIM “Little Lynn” Saturday in preparation for the weeklong event that begins today (Monday), when the wings apparently failed, the aircraft crashed and Simpson was killed. Reno’s Air Races run this year from Sept. 10 through 14 with about 150 pilots competing for $1 million in […]