Almost 25 years after 9/11, there are still major security risks on airplanes without secondary cockpit barriers. That’s the urgent message from a former FAA special agent, the widow of a pilot who ...

CityAirbus is one of two eVTOL aircraft currently under development at Airbus. Courtesy: Airbus Thales and Diehl Aerospace will develop separate flight control computers for the CityAirbus NextGen ...

Diehl, the Germany-based aircraft systems supplier and Thales, the Toulouse-based avionics maker, will each supply the flight control computers for the CityAirbus NextGen electric vertical takeoff and ...

A Bay State man accused of attacking a flight attendant while on a plane to Boston last week, the latest in a long list of unruly passenger incidents, shows the continued need for a secondary cockpit ...

Business jets operate over an impressively wide speed range. High-performance models typically can cruise at 450 KTAS to 480 KTAS, enabling them to dash from coast to coast in the United States in ...

Fly-by-wire controls have brought a quiet but sweeping evolution into business aviation since the Dassault Falcon 7X entered into service in 2007. They have enabled higher-performance business jet ...

The FAA says requiring a secondary cockpit door on new aircraft and a minimum flight attendant rest period of 10 hours between flights are regulatory priorities for the coming year. The agency and its ...