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Stratolaunch Completes Captive-Carry Flight with TA-1 Test Vehicle
Some news from Mojave, California regarding the Stratolaunch enterprise. Stratolaunch, LLC announces the completion of a captive carry flight with the first powered Talon-A hypersonic vehicle, TA-1. The flight was the twelfth for the company’s launch platform Roc and the first in which the aircraft carried a Talon vehicle with live propellant as part of a buildup approach for Talon-A’s first powered flight. The flight lasted a total of three hours and 22 minutes and represented a significant step forward in the company’s near-term goal of completing a powered flight with the Talon-A vehicle, TA-1...
First Flight On Batteries For EcoPulse Demonstrator
While the EcoPulse aircraft has been under preliminary testing since its introduction in 2019, the aircraft which is a modified Daher 900 series turboprop, has been utilizing its main turboprop propeller. However, at the end of November the aircraft took-off from Tarbes, France with batteries onboard and utilized the electric propellers along with the hybrid turbogenerator...
Special Edition Cirrus SF50 Unveiled
Cirrus Aircraft has unveiled a new special edition SF50 Vision Jet. The initial announcement was made at the 2023 NBAA BACE in Las Vegas, Nevada. The special edition SF50 Vision Jet is for the 500th delivery overall of this single-engine personal jet. The SF50 is recognized as the first jet-powered single-engine personal jet in the world...
Bombardier Globals With Vision FlightDecks In Line For AAU
Vision-equipped Global business jets made by Bombardier now can have that system upgraded. It can be upgraded through the Advanced Avionics Upgrade (AAU) and that is essentially avionics software and hardware enhancement that boasts the latest technology to enhance situational awareness and offer advanced visualization features. Powered by Collins Aerospace and available for in-service Global 5000, Global 6000, Global 5500 and Global 6500 aircraft equipped with the Bombardier Vision flight deck...
GlobalEye Program Continues With Latest Delivery
The latest (seventh) Bombardier Global-based jet has been delivered to Saab for its conversion into the renowned GlobalEye airborne platform. The newest aircraft is now ready to be transformed into Saab’s Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) solution which we know as GlobalEye. Saab’s GlobalEye incorporates some essential attributes of the Global business jet including over 11 hours of operational endurance, state-of-the-art avionics, and class-leading maintenance intervals...
First Hybrid-Electric STOL Flight For Electra Goldfinch Demonstrator
Electra is proud to announce that its Goldfinch eSTOL demonstrator took off for the first time earlier this month. The first flight took place on November 11th and again since then. The aircraft is a hybrid-electric craft that uses a runway like a conventional aircraft does but not needing alot of runway...hence its STOL (Short Take Off and Landing) credentials. The company says the aircraft only needs around 300-feet to take off...
Gulfstream Finishes World's First Trans-Atlantic Flight On 100% SAF
The world's first Trans-Atlantic flight on 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) has been completed by Gulfstream utilizing one of their G600 aircraft. Data Collected During This Mission Will Advance Industry Toward Net-Zero Goals. The aircraft in question departed the company’s headquarters in Savannah and landed 6 hours, 56 minutes later at Farnborough Airport in England...
Progress Updates With Overture Program
With a myriad of ground-related testing completed for the XB-1 demonstrator aircraft that BOOM Supersonic is using to push forward into the flight-testing realm, the first actual flight of the XB-1 is around the corner. BOOM Supersonic said that ground testing included ground taxi testing up to 90-knots. High-speed taxi tests are next and then first flight will take place after at the Mojave Air & Space Port...
Switchblade Flying Car Takes First Flight
The Switchblade Flying Car by Samson Sky has made its first flight. For those who may not know...the Switchblade is a three-wheel, street legal vehicle that you drive from your garage to a nearby local airport. Once there, the wings swing out and the tail extends in under 3 minutes...
Aircraft Management Services By Honda Aircraft
With the global fleet of respective iterations of the HondaJet approaching the 200,000 flight hour mark Honda Aircraft Company has introduced Aircraft Management Services (AMS), a customer-centric service solution designed to make HondaJet ownership effortless while offering owners greater control and predictability over maintenance demands. This was announced at the recently held NBAA-BACE show in Las Vegas, Nevada...
Gulfstream Down On Delivery Performance For Q3'23
Gulfstream is likely hoping that full FAA Certification is given for their G700 aircraft soon as that would help the last quarter deliveries rise. We say this on the context of Gulfstream falling short of their delivery performance for the third quarter. For this quarter the General Dynamics company managed to ship 27 business jets to customers which included 2 large-cabin and five midsize jets...
'BBJ Select' Unveiled At NBAA-BACE 2023
Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) used the 2023 edition of the NBAA-BACE in Las Vegas to unveil 'BBJ Select'. These are pre-designed premium cabin options to streamline design process, accelerating interiors installation and jet delivery...
CJ3 Now CJ3 Gen2 With New Upgrades
Textron Aviation announced at the ongoing NBAA-BACE that they have upgraded the Citation CJ3. The CJ3 now comes in line with some of the improvements made to some of the other Citation CJ models in the last few years. As you could guess, it is now called the Citation CJ3 Gen2 and boasts a revamped interior for the passenger and pilot experience...
NBAA-BACE Updates On The Bombardier Ecojet Project
Bombardier has been continually working on their EcoJet Project. Here is the latest news regarding this program that Bombardier announced at the 2023 NBAA-BACE in Las Vegas, Nevada. The program has now entered its second phase and marking that new phase is the unveiling of a new much larger demonstrator model which scales up the testing. This new model is 18-feet wide making it considerably larger than the much smaller proving design. Although we are now seeing a photo of the new demonstrator, it has flown last year...
Honda Aircraft Company Officially Names HJ2600 As Echelon
News from the starting day of the 2023 NBAA-BACE in Las Vegas, Nevada has to do with the Honda Aircraft Company. The airframer has announced that the aircraft previously known as the HondaJet 2600 (HA-480) is now formally called the HondaJet Echelon. The aircraft which was formally introduced at the EBACE in May has been moving along in the initial development stages and is expected to enter service in 2028...
100% Neat SAF Testing On Phenom 300E; Praetor 600 Successfully Concludes
Embraer has been testing 100% neat Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) use on the Phenom 300E and the Praetor 600 and announced that those tests have now been concluded. Most modern aircraft can take a blend of SAF and conventional fuel but not 100% pure SAF. The powerplants on the next business jet models are being made to take 100% SAF use. However, it is good news to know that more existing powerplants like those powering the Praetor 600 and Phenom 300E can take advantage of this bridge fuel...
Embraer Announces New Autothrottle Feature For Phenom 300
Recently, Embraer announced a slew of improvements both in the cabin and cockpit for the entry-level Phenom 100, which they now call the Phenom 100EX. The bigger Phenom sister, the Phenom 300 is also seeing an addition that the pilots will be benefiting from. The new autothrottle will be an optional feature though and is set to further enhance what is an already good single-pilot platform...
G500 Gets Steep Approach Approval From FAA
The Gulfstream G500 has been certified for steep-approaches. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval comes after the G500 demonstrated that it can fly the low-speed high-angle approaches into airports like Lugano in Switzerland and London City Airport. "Our customers already benefit from the revolutionary performance and efficiency of the G500," said Gulfstream president Mark Burns...
New Features; Performance Enhancements To PC-24
The PC-24 Super Versatile Jet is even more capable now thanks to upgrades that were just announced today by the airframer Pilatus Aircraft. Commencing with new aircraft deliveries in 2024, Pilatus has extended the payload-range capability of its Super Versatile Jet to achieve a maximum range with six passengers of 2,000 nautical miles (3,704 kilometers)...
Revamped Phenom 100 Revealed By Embraer As Phenom 100EX
The Embraer Phenom 100 has gone through some upgrades to the passenger cabin to the extent that the aircraft is now being called the Phenom 100EX. Let's look at what Embraer has done to justify the name-change. The Phenom 100 is Embraer's smallest light jet and the airframer has managed to make the cabin feel lighter -aesthetically and physically-. Lighter tones and colours are being used in the interior now as well as a reduction to the overall weight of the cabin, they managed to shave off 190 lbs. The added bonus is that the price for the entry-level jet remains unchanged despite all the changes made by Embraer...
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