Bundaberg’s Jabiru Aircraft has come on board as a major sponsor of Australian Aviation contributor Owen Zupp’s ‘There and Back’ initiative, providing an aircraft to undertake next year’s around Australia flight. “The choice of the Australian built Jabiru J230 will make ‘There and Back’ a truly all-Australian flight,” said Owen. The new build VH certified
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft has announced that it has completed high altitude trials of the SuperJet 100, which were conducted at Gyumri in Armenia. The program of tests included continued take-off as well as OEI missed approach flights. The majority of the takeoffs were performed with one engine failure imitation at maximum take-off weight.
AveoEngineering has partnered with Brumby Aircraft Australia to introduce its DigitalFlightDeck touch-screen avionics suite to the general aviation market. Under its partnership, Aveo will integrate the first two modules of the DigitalFlightDeck into production models of the Brumby light sport aircraft. The modules include Aveo’s DataHUD, which mounts on the glareshield to provide real time
The European Aviation Safety Agency has issued an emergency airworthiness directive for inspections of Goodrich supplied pitot tubes on Airbus A330s and A340s which may have manufacturing flaws, possibly leading to incorrect airspeed readings. “Several reports have recently been received of loose pneumatic quick disconnect unions on Goodrich pitot probes P/N 0851HL,” the AD reads.
The General Aviation Manufacturer’s Association has welcomed a report which claims that American companies using business aviation outperform those without aircraft on a number of measures. “It’s no surprise that America’s best-performing and most-admired companies rely on business aviation to provide concrete and unique competitive benefits that are reflected in shareholder and enterprise value,” said
Boeing’s vice president of sales Randy Tinseth wrote in his blog last week that modification work on the wing join of the first Boeing 787 is currently underway. “Modifications are indeed underway. We’ve begun installing the reinforcements on the area within the side-of-body section on Airplane #1 and on the static airframe,” Tinseth wrote. The
