Satcom Direct’s FlightDeck Freedom datalink and Universal Weather and Aviation, Inc.’s online flight planning and weather services are now available in an integrated and bundled offering, pairing one of the industry’s leading business aviation connectivity providers with the global resources and expertise of Universal. Joining forces to offer seamless datalink and online flight planning, Satcom…
Gulfstream has confirmed that its fourth G500 test aircraft, T4, has completed its first flight and officially joined the G500 flight-test program. The G500 took off from the Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport at 9:47 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20, with Flight Test pilots Eric Holmberg and Brian Dickerson at the controls. Flight Test engineers Dominic…
Gulfstream Aerospace’s G600 iron bird recently completed its “first flight,” marking growing maturity of the new aircraft program. The iron bird is a dimensionally accurate structure that includes a flight deck, allowing engineers to test the flight control and mechanical systems—including landing gear, brakes and hydraulics—in a ground-based lab. During the 30-minute session, the iron…
The new B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber was recently released by the U.S. Air Force! The U.S. Air Force unveiled the first rough designs Friday of the new $80 billion Northrop Grumman Long Range Strike Bomber, giving it the designation of B-21. While unveiling the future military aircraft at the Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando,…
Earlier this week, Gulfstream announced that the G600 Iron Bird took its debut flight. Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. has announced that the Gulfstream G600 iron bird recently completed its “first flight,” demonstrating the company’s continued commitment to research and development and the growing maturity of the G600 aircraft program. A spatially correct, dimensionally accurate structure that…
Noting that Arkansas has a “significant interest in the continued vitality of general aviation,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson recognized February 2016 as General Aviation Appreciation Month. According to the FAA, Arkansas has 91 public-use airports, which serve more than 5,000 pilots and more than 3,000 active general aviation aircraft.
Inside a cavernous building on the Textron Aviation East Campus, a team of workers is putting together what will be the assembly line for the company’s biggest Cessna business jet so far, the Citation Longitude. The $23.9 million, revamped super–midsize business jet was unveiled in November at the National Business Aviation Association Convention in Las…
Check out this awesome insight into the History of General Aviation! Serendipity can lead you to amazing discoveries in Aviation Week’s 100-Year Archive. One of our interns who was checking the 400,000 pages scanned into the archive asked me a question about an ad for the Wright-Martin Aircraft Corp. in an issue from 1917. The two-page…
As you begin maneuvering for the planned approach, the controller states that, due to a marine layer that has moved into the area, visibility has gone from the forecast 2 mi. to less than a quarter of a mile. You’ve come prepared. Thanks to the special onboard systems, this approach is authorized down to zero/zero…