Business & Military

Florida-based fractional Avantair employs about 500 people, is the target of a class-action lawsuit, and Wednesday said that it is furloughing pilots and workers while seeking financing to keep its aircraft and continue operations. Last summer, a company Piaggio Avanti turboprop lost its left elevator during flight and landed safely with passengers on board. And […]

Honda hopes to begin deliveries of HondaJet aircraft as early as next year and said in a Tokyo interview, Tuesday, that its aviation business is on track to become profitable within fives years after that. Honda has kept order numbers close to the vest, saying its order books are full for at least two years, […]

Scott Bengston Longtime Cessna executive Scott Bengston has joined EastWest Aircraft Sales. He worked for Cessna for 30 years, mostly as the contract administrator for the Caravan, but he also worked on the Mustang, M2, and 300 and 400 series programs.

Bombardier is expected to fly its new CSeries commercial jet for the first time this week, following a disappointing response to the airplane at the Paris Air Show last week. “This is a white-hot market for selling aircraft and the only odd man out is Bombardier,” Richard Aboulafia, of the Teal Group, told The Canadian […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to watch on YouTube. Lockheed Martin has been at work on a giant high-lift hybrid airship since at least 2005, and the company now is moving toward certification and first delivery as soon as next year. The FAA […]

Original, Exclusive Videos from AVweb |Reader-Submitted & Viral Videos How do you cut a hole the size of a two-car garage door into the side of a 747 and fly with it at 0.8 Mach without turning the thing into a 300-ton organ pipe? In this exclusive AVweb video, find out how NASA did exactly […]

In the wonderful documentary, In the Shadow of the Moon, there’s a revealing scene in which astronaut Alan Bean openly wonders if the engineers who designed the Saturn V booster really got the load calculations right, given how the thing shook and vibrated during the first-stage ascent. I thought of that last week when I […]

Frank Thielert, founder of Thielert Aircraft Engines, which produced Centurion diesel engines for the aviation market, last week was jailed by a judge in a German bankruptcy court who reportedly considered him a “flight risk.” According to the Google translation of a story in the Hamburg Abendblatt newspaper, the judge said Thielert faces several years […]

An ambitious campaign to save a unique part of aviation history is on in Michigan but just like the events that created the Willow Run bomber manufacturing plant, the volunteers trying to preserve it face a daunting challenge. The Ford-owned plant, which churned out B-24 Liberators at the astonishing rate of one an hour during […]

China’s AVIC Heavy Machinery has produced what it claims to be the world’s largest titanium aircraft part critical to an aircraft’s structure printed from a 3D printer — and with massive cost savings. The part, displayed at the 16th China International High-tech Expo, fits a J-20 or J-31 stealth fighter. According to the company, the […]