NASA Takes Delivery of GE Jet Engine for X-59
By Fred Vergneres and NASA NASA has just received the GE engine for the X-59 prototype. This step could mark the beginning of the reconquest of commercial supersonic flight. A much-awaited breakthrough in the business aviation sector. Nearly 13 feet long, three feet...
GAMA calls Calls for Targeted and Temporary Support to Help Protect American Jobs
On August 11th, a coalition representing the aviation manufacturing industry comprised of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), the Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA), the National Defense...
Business aviation: the Covid effect.
By Fred Vergneres While the pandemic is still evolving around the world, the economy as a whole is faltering. And this is particularly true for the airline industry, which according to ICAO and IATA, who are forecasting a decline in air transport revenues of more than...
Operating Business Jets During a Pandemic
Sino Jet has shared candid insight into their operational environment in 2020. The company commented that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a shift in public perception of business jets from a luxury product to a safe and efficient transportation tool and alternative...
“Europe is not off-limits”
By Sylvie Peron “Do your homework,” advises Greg Evans in his latest Chairman’s note on July 14th. Universal Weather and Aviation, Inc. is here to help those global, and particularly North American customers planning to summer in Europe, for business and...
AMAC Video Part #1 : Statement and market comments by CEO, Kadri Muhiddin
With the cancellation of EBACE (European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition) 2020 in Geneva due to Covid-19, companies have had to reinvent the way they communicate with their customers. This is the case of AMAC Aerospace - Group of Companies which has...
The passing of an Era
By Sylvie Peron The unexpected passing of Joe Clark on Monday, March 30, hit the aviation community hard. A living legend, Clark, aged 78, fervently believed aviation could be a model for green innovation. “Joe’s passing was sudden and unexpected, and left us...
Pilatus prepared for turbulence
By Fred Vergneres et Pilatus The year 2019 will go down in the company's 80-year history as another successful year with figures very similar to those of 2018. According to Pilatus, the financial year has once again passed the one billion Swiss franc mark with sales...
Humanitarian airlift
Earlier this May, as all commercial airliners were grounded, an airlift was set up between Moscow and Geneva, Switzerland, thanks to Albinati Aeronautics and French ski champion Jean-Claude Killy. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, a total of ten Russian children with...
ADS-B compliance postponed
By Frédéric Vergnères The European Commission (EC) has announced that it is extending the deadline for fitting ADS-B on board aircraft by six months to 7 December 2020. The Commission, which allows operators and professionals to take the necessary measures until 7...
