Cessna Bringing Jet A Fuel Engine to Piston Market | The JetAv Blog by Paul Pitts | Premier Jet Aviation Cessna Aircraft Company, is introducing an innovative technology for single-engine airplanes that will usher in new capabilities and increase the flexibility of general aviation. Cessna’s Model 182, Skylane will now be available as the new […]
Cessna Citation Latitude Range Increases to 2,500 Nautical Miles | The JetAv Blog by John Hall | Premier Jet Aviation SAO PAULO, Brazil, August 15, 2012 — Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition that it has increased the […]
Embraer Executive Jets Launches Legacy 450 Fabrication São José dos Campos, Brazil, August 13, 2012 – Embraer Executive Jets passed a major milestone in the mid-light Legacy 450 program last week when the first part was milled for the business jet, ushering in the beginning of fabrication. “Even as we have been making progress on […]
First Lineage 1000 Spreads its Wings in Mainland China | The JetAv Blog by John Hall | Premier Jet Aviation São José dos Campos, August 2, 2012 – Embraer’s Lineage 1000 ultra-large executive jet will spread its wings for its first mainland China customer with the delivery to China’s Xinjiang Guanghui Industry Investment Group Co., […]
Bell Receives 429 Increased Weight Approval in Argentina | The JetAv Blog by Paul Pitts | Premier Jet Aviation Bell Helicopter recently announced another country has approved the increase of the aircraft operational gross weight to 7500 pounds. The Administración Nacional de Aviación Civil in Argentina has joined the growing number of countries who have […]
Brief Introduction of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” for China’s Civil Aviation | The JetAv Blog by Paul Pitts. The goal of China’s “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” is to strategically build aviation in order to guide the development of the civil aviation industry to ensure continued safety, to speed up the construction of the infrastructure and to […]
Melbourne, FL, June 26, 2012 – Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) granted a type certificate to Embraer for its Phenom 300 light jet. The Phenom 300, which received its initial certification by U.S. and Brazilian aviation authorities in 2009, is now certificated in more than 40 countries. “Transport Canada’s certification strengthens our position in Canada, […]
The Eurocopter X3 Begins its US Tour by Paul Pitts. | The JetAv Blog | Premier Jet Aviation Earlier this month I wrote about the helicopter industry’s search for higher horizontal speeds and the aerodynamic and economic challenges in both. This week I had the privilege of seeing the Eurocopter X3 (“X-cube”) in flight as […]
New Human Powered Helicopter Record by Jack Schweibold | The JetAv Blog | Premier Jet Aviation As promised this week we are reporting the breaking of Judith Wexler’s last year’s 11.4 second flight record for a Human Powered Helicopter. Yesterday, June 21st, Colin Gore, a PhD student in materials science at the University of Maryland […]
Human Powered Helicopter Record Attempt June 20th will witness a new attempt to claim the $250,000 prize offered by the American Helicopter Society. Pictured here is Judith Wexler in her Gamera I helicopter built by the University of Maryland’s Team last year, setting a National Aeronautic Association’s sanctioned record of 11.4 seconds. This month’s attempt […]