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Middle Eastern airlines went on a shopping spree at the 10th Dubai Air Show, currently underway, and Airbus appears to have regained its position as the top-selling commercial planemaker. Airbus says its taken a total of 290 orders at the show while Boeing was at 153 on Tuesday. The redesigned A350 is proving especially popular […]

Project Phoenix announced a way to obtain a large business jet for a fraction of the time and money that the leading manufacturers are offering at the Dubai Air Show, as long as you dont mind a few thousand cycles or more on the airframe. The company is buying Bombardier CRJ-200 regional jets on the […]

Tarek Bin Laden, a Saudi businessman and half-brother to Osama Bin Laden, was the first to put a deposit on an Aerion supersonic business jet when positions went on sale at the Dubai Air Show on Monday. Reno-based Aerion has yet to start work on a flying example of its Mach 1.6, eight-to-12-passenger aircraft but […]

S/N002 — that’s Quest Aircraft serial number two, the secondproduction KODIAK aircraft and the first customer aircraft — hasflown and will be delivered in early December. The ten-place G1000-equipped, three-glass-paneled, PT6-powered KODIAK can take off inunder 700 feet at its full gross weight of 6,750 pounds carrying a fulluseful load of 3,450 pounds and drive […]

Heavy, wet snow and strong winds were present when a Bombardier Global 5000 business jet’s landing gear collapsed after the aircraft apparently landed short of the runway at a private airport at a golf resort in Nova Scotia on Sunday. None of the eight passengers and two crew was seriously hurt, although some were checked […]

Amid an overall decline in piston aircraft sales, Diamond Aircraft isreporting a year-over-year growth in sales of 17 percent, bolsteredby a double-digit rise in deliveries of both DA40 Diamond Star andDA42 Twin Star aircraft. According to numbers last week released bythe General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), Diamond’sfigures offer a sharp contrast to the piston market […]

Eleven-thousand-hour pilot Lochland Jeffries called on the experience of his 1,000 successful jumps as an Air Force Pararescue member to escape without injury after he lost control of his aircraft while practicing aerobatics over Ossippee, N.H., Sunday. The single-seat biplane (type unknown) he was flying crashed in the woods, according to an initial report by […]

What is likely the first civilian Harrier jump jet reportedly had its first flight in private hands at St. Marys County Airport in Maryland on Saturday. Owner Art Nalls reportedly decided not to shatter any neighbors nerves (not to mention their windows) and made his first takeoff and landing in the ex-Royal Navy Harrier FA2 […]

Oshkosh may be the biggest and Paris the most influential but when it comes to getting people to lay their money down, it would appear the Dubai Air Show is on top of the game. On the first day of the show, airlines, charter companies and others committed to more than $35 billion worth of […]

The initial prototype of Solar Impulse, a solar-powered aircraft that may fly around the world without fuel in 2011, was unveiled last week in Switzerland by project organizer Bertrand Piccard. The first aircraft has a wingspan of almost 200 feet and will be used to test the basic science behind the project. If all goes […]