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When the general public thinks about general aviation, we know what they usually think first — weekend fliers in dangerous little airplanes, crashing into buildings and making useless noise. But now there is a new icon for GA — thousands of dangerous little jets, darkening the skies and clogging up already-overloaded airports. Those concerns were […]

It’s a bright new day at Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary NetJets, which offers fractional shares in a variety of business jets. “NetJets generated pre-tax earnings of $143 million in 2006 as compared to a pre-tax loss of $80 million in 2005,” according to a Berkshire Hathaway release. And the turnaround might not be so much about […]

Honeywell is developing Integrated Primary Flight Display (IPFD) synthetic vision technology for helicopters to enhance flight safety by improving situational awareness and reducing pilot workload. IPFD uses advanced computing power to provide easy-to-understand, three-dimensional graphic displays of surrounding terrain and obstacles, regardless of outside conditions. “Poor visibility, loss of horizon, uncontrolled drift and windy conditions […]

Comparing the region to the airspace over metropolitan New York, an Israeli Air Force officer told the Jerusalem Post that private and chartered aircraft sometimes fly recklessly and are the main source of aerial dangers in Israel. A booming aviation economy has its bonuses, but the officer involved in coordinating joint military/civilian use of airspace […]

Raytheon suggests we can all just get along — on the same frequency. The key to lowering ADS-B equipment costs and improving safety lies in “adopting a single international standard for locating aircraft,” according to a release distributed by Raytheon’s ADS-B team. What that translates to, according to the team, is mandating a single frequency […]

The sale of Wichita-based Raytheon Aircraft Company to GS Capital Partners and Onex Partners is expected to be completed in the first half of this year, but that company’s pending purchase has already given rise to a new company. Soon-to-be Hawker Beechcraft Corporation will apparently be starting life through the help of Hawker Beechcraft Inc. […]

“We’re building the next plane same as the last,” Sport-Jet founder Bob Bornhofen told AVweb Tuesday. With the fuselage currently in construction, that aircraft should be in the air “in 10 or 11 months.” The project to produce a $1 million certified four-seat single-engine jet that would cruise at 340 knots at 25,000 feet suffered […]

Eclipse Aviation and Avidyne decided last week to terminate their relationship, leaving the company’s 500 jet’s Avio avionics system to the newly appointed hands of Chelton Flight Systems, Innovative Solutions & Support, Garmin, Honeywell and PS Engineering. While working with Avidyne, Eclipse had concurrently “been working closely with this group behind-the-scenes for a number of […]

One week after revealing a divorce from Avidyne, Eclipse Aviation on Monday announced that Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S), Chelton Flight Systems, Garmin, Honeywell and PS Engineering will be its new partners for the Eclipse 500’s improved avionics system. Dubbed Avio NG (for next generation), the upgraded version of the very light jet’s deeply integrated […]

A British man who describes himself as blind as a bat intends to fly an ultralight from Britain to Australia later this year, following the route of a 1919 air race through Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Miles Hilton-Barber, who crossed the English Channel in an ultralight equipped with voice annunciating instruments in 2003, […]