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Barry Controls Aerospace has launched a range of engine vibration solutions for the new Very Light Jet market. The series of simple, modular mount solutions are designed to allow customers flexibility, according to company officials.

When Paul Besing was building an RV-6A in the 1990s, disaster struck. “I had my builder log on a spread sheet and when I reformatted my computer, I forgot to save it,” he said. “I lost everything.” In the process of recreating the logs, an idea – and a company – was born. “I started […]

As small jets become increasingly common, both for business and personal transportation, perhaps it is natural that Honda is interested in airplane and aircraft engine manufacturing. After all, Ford, another company that brought automobiles to the masses, bought into the airplane business in 1925, just as air transportation caught the public imagination. Honda may see […]

The FAA is demanding the city of Chicago pay a $33,000 civil penalty for the destruction of Merrill C. Meigs Field (CGX). The waterfront airport was destroyed two years ago when Mayor Richard Daley ordered heavy equipment to carve large Xs into the runway under the cover of night, rendering the airport useless and stranding […]

Deliveries of new turbine business airplanes shot up more than 31% in this year’s first half, compared to last year’s, according to a report from the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA). Exactly 100 more business jets and turboprops were delivered in the first six months of 2005 than during the same time period last year. […]

The National Business Aviation Association convention, one of the industry’s largest, has been relocated to Orlando. The show, originally slated for New Orleans, also has been moved up a week. It will be held Nov. 9-11.

The FAA wants to spend $289,000 to study pilot satisfaction with its aeromedical certification services. Critics claim the study is a waste of money, noting that those funds would be better spent on manpower to take care of the backlog in Oklahoma City. The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) must approve the […]

The Seawind 300C, an amphibious four-place airplane, will be powered by the Continental IO-550N 310-hp engine. FADEC (Fully Automated Digital Electronic Control) will be offered as an option. Seawind officials also tapped Sagem to supply a glass cockpit for the airplane, which is expected to obtain certification in both Canada and the U.S. by January. […]

Jack Real, aviation pioneer and confidante of Howard Hughes, died Sept. 6 in Los Angeles from heart failure. He was 90. Real, who earned a mechanical engineering degree from Michigan College of Mining and Technology, began his aviation career in 1939 at the Lockheed Aircraft Co., where he worked on several designs, including the Lodestar […]