Posted on January 14th, 2019
Six months after launching its midsize Citation Latitude, Cessna Aircraft today at EBACE announced a $25.9 million stretched version–the Longitude–that will fly 4,000 nm at Mach 0.82. First flight is scheduled for 2016, with entry into service in 2017. “The aircraft is long on range, high on value and low on price,” Cessna president and…
Posted on July 6th, 2011
The northern hemisphere’s busy summer period for private charter flights has yet to take off, but demand levels are already ahead of 2010 figures, according to the latest data from online charter portal Avinode. As of yesterday, the company’s forward-looking demand index stood at 146.47, more than four points down from a month earlier, but…
Posted on May 30th, 2011
The Florida Aviation Trade Association is holding a breakfast program to promote general aviation to non-aviation businesses and residents during its annual meeting next month in Sarasota, Fla. The free presentation, to be held at 8 a.m. on June 15 at the Ritz-Carlton Sarasota, will inform attendees about the “positive and significant ways” general aviation…
Posted on May 9th, 2011
By: Chris Pocock Stealthy helicopters and the still-secret RQ-170 Sentinel, a stealthy unmanned or optionally piloted, tailless flying wing, may have played pivotal roles in the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 1. U.S. officials twice declined to confirm for the record the type of helicopter that carried U.S. Navy…
Posted on March 22nd, 2011
The U.S. State Department updated its Travel Warning for Japan dated March 18 in response to new information about the malfunction at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, and are now warning Americans within 50 miles (80 kilometers) of the plant to evacuate the area or to take shelter indoors if safe evacuation is not…
