Supersonic Flight
Power Play: Jet Engines Won’t Be The Only GE Tech Powering New Civilian Supersonic Jet
Business jets
Flying High: The Eye-Catching HondaJet Lures Fans Both Famous And Practical
Aerospace
Special Delivery: The World’s Most Powerful Engine One Step Closer to Liftoff In Boeing’s 777X Jet
The GE9X engine, the largest and most powerful commercial jet engine ever built, is a step closer to full liftoff. GE Aviation recently delivered the first four fully compliant GE9X engines to Boeing’s wide-body plant in Everett, Washington. A pair will take the aircraft maker’s new wide-body passenger jet, the Boeing 777X, to the sky for the first time.
Veterans Day
Paying It Forward: University Partnership Helps Veterans Win College Degrees, Jobs
On the fifth floor of Xavier University’s Conaton Learning Commons just outside Cincinnati, Ohio, there’s a place where everyone has one thing in common: they served.
That place is the Xavier University Student Veterans Center. From career counseling, to financial aid, to academic advising, the Student Veterans Center is the heart of student veteran life for Xavier’s more than 300 current veteran and military-connected students. Perhaps its most important resource, though, is community.
Veterans Day
A Man On A Mission: Retired Air Force Navigator Zeroes In On Factory Improvements
Few sights are more terrifying than a surface-to-air missile (SAM) targeting you while flying a B-1B bomber 25,000 feet over a hostile part of Iraq at 600 mph. But retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. William Dobbs surprised himself in 2003 by remaining preternaturally calm when he alerted his crew members that a missile launch tone had sounded. His only concession to anxiety, he acknowledges ruefully: “My voice came out several octaves higher than normal.”
Business jets
A Passport To Fly: This Engine Is Taking The Business Jet Industry To New Heights
Future of Flight
Air Digital: Bombardier’s Record-Breaking Luxury Jet Has The Smarts To Meet Its Price Tag
If you’re shopping for a new business jet and money’s no issue, it’s time to call Bombardier. Starting at almost $73 million, the price on the Canadian aircraft maker’s latest luxury jet, the Global 7500, is a showstopper.
Business jets
Oops, They Did It Again … And Again: Bombardier’s New Luxury Jet Just Keeps Breaking World Records
Future of Flight
Intellectual Air: Long-Haul Qantas Flight Is A Research Lab With Wings
Late in the evening on Friday, Oct. 18, 49 passengers and crew boarded a Qantas flight in New York City. Nineteen hours and 16 minutes later they landed in Sydney. The world’s longest nonstop commercial flight had successfully concluded.
In what Qantas has dubbed Project Sunrise, the Australian airliner covered more than 10,000 miles of land and sea and crossed 15 time zones. And although pilots were flying a 787-9 Dreamliner passenger jet that can seat 236 travelers, the plane was only a third full, as this was not a regular service launch.
Aerospace
The Greatest Program That Never Was: The US’s Answer To The Concorde Never Took Off — But It Helped Shape The Future Of Passenger Travel
First-time visitors arriving for a meeting at GE Aviation’s headquarters should give themselves a few extra minutes: Located in the Cincinnati suburb of Evendale, Ohio, the plant is huge, security is tight — and there are distractions everywhere. Perhaps the largest, a massive jet engine stretching some 27 feet long, collects dust along a wall inside Building 700. Too big to fit in the company’s museum, which is also located on the Evendale campus, the lone surviving GE4 turbojet is a stunning relic from an era when everything in commercial aviation seemed possible.