Another use for composite materials has been discovered that I’d like for my personal automobile — the NeverFlat tire. LoPresti Aviation Engineering is introducing a new tire technology for general aviation aircraft – with a 10 year guarantee against flats.…
[UPDATE – Podcast with Scott Hamilton and Jon Ostrower] We undertook an analysis based on the data available and have to say the Boeing 737MAX looks pretty good. Indeed, by digging around the 2010 DoT data we were able to…
With certification of the Boeing 787 Friday, the countdown to delivery–now slated for September 26–is finally underway. Aspire Aviation has a piece that for the first time anywhere as far as we know has the actual number of airplanes to…
Possibly the airplane most qualified to go by this moniker is the Boeing 717. It started life as the MD95 – and with it went much of the hopes of McDonnell Douglas. It made an early and crucial win at…
Hybrid Air Vehicles, based in Cranfield, England, has received a launch customer order from Discovery Air in Canada to develop an airship with a 50 tonne payload that can land without an airport, or even on water. Discovery Air serves…
ATR has delivered its first new model ATR-72-600 to Royal Air Maroc. The new aircraft are more efficient that prior models, and compete with the Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 in the turboprop sector. Perhaps the biggest change for ATR is the…