After flying Piper Aircraft’s new turboprop-single M700 Fury, it’s clear that this is the airplane that customers have been waiting for. A larger engine with 100 more shaft horsepower boosts performance, yet it’s still possible to fly as efficiently as the previous model, the M600 SLS.

I flew the M700 in May with Piper manager of engineering flight test Joel Glunt at Piper’s Vero Beach, Florida headquarters. Coincidentally, Piper had just received FAA flight into known icing approval for the airplane. The remaining certification item is unpaved runway approval, which was received just this week.

U.S. start-up Boom Supersonic is convinced it can bring a 21st century supersonic airliner to market by 2030, shrinking the time it takes to cross oceans.

In this video, former British Airways Concorde chief pilot Mike Bannister and Boom founder and CEO Blake Scholl shared their insights on how the Overture aircraft will move the technology forward, with new engines and a modern flight deck.

Even though sanctions imposed over Moscow’s alleged involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine appear not to immediately threaten airliner sales in Russia, the inclusion of certain Kremlin-controlled financial institutions and airlines on so-called "black lists" appears likely to alarm potential investors from Europe and elsewhere.

The situation casts a shadow over Aeroflot’s rather controversial order for 22 Airbus A350s placed seven years ago. Among other recent Aeroflot fleet renewal programs, plans called for one of the banks under sanction—Vneshtorgbank (VEB)—to fund the A350 transaction under a buy and lease-back arrangement. Should the sanctions continue for long, Airbus might ask Aeroflot for a more suitable financier. Andreas Kramer, Airbus vice president for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, tried to allay any such fears. “A financier is often chosen five to six months before delivery, so it is too early to speak of it,” he insisted.

A wave of GPS jamming and spoofing has sent commercial airliners and business aircraft off-course while flying over the Middle East and northern Europe, raising concerns about the safety of air travel worldwide. Intelligence analysts widely believe the interference originates from hostile states including Iran and Russia and their surrogates.

In airspace where jamming occurs, aircraft operators experience a degradation of their Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) as receivers cannot latch onto satellite signals. Spoofing involves sending out bogus satellite signals to deceive GNSS receivers into computing erroneous position, navigation, and timing information.

Purchasing a business aircraft is nothing like buying an automobile and even more complicated than buying property. An aircraft transaction can take weeks, if not months, to close and involves almost a dozen people to help get it across the finish line.

Thus, there are a lot of pitfalls awaiting unsuspecting buyers. BJT contributor Mark Huber has compiled a list of the top nine mistakes made by aircraft buyers.

The U.S. District Court in Seattle on Wednesday overturned the verdict of a May 2024 jury trial that ordered Boeing to pay damages in excess of $70 million to electric aircraft start-up Zunum. Judge James Robart ruled in favor of all of Boeing’s claims against the earlier verdict over alleged breaches of trade secrets and interference with Zunum’s plans to partner with engine manufacturer Safran to develop the 12-seat ZA10 hybrid-electric regional airliner.

Boeing loaned a total of $9 million to Seattle-based Zunum, which also received $800,000 in grants from the state of Washington. In 2018, both the U.S. aerospace group and JetBlue Airways withdrew support, and the program ground to a halt with the start-up failing to line up other backers.

In all of my years of flying, whether as an instructor/evaluator or simply a member of the crew, I’ve never seen a pilot win a fistfight with the autoflight. As I was nearly done writing this article in early May, the NTSB issued its preliminary report on the fatal accident involving a Daher TBM 700, N960LP, near Truckee, California, on March 30, 2024.

In the headline of his report on the release, Gordon Gilbert wrote for AIN that “the preliminary accident report shows a series of autopilot engagements and disengagements” just prior to the accident.

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