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National Defense
June 2013
Insinna & Tadjdeh |
Air Force Making Headway on Fuel Efficiency Goals The Air Force is stuck between a rock and a hard place. The service requires massive amounts of fuel to power its aircraft, but in a budget crunch, officials know they must curb consumption in order to save money and be less susceptible to a volatile oil market.   |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2011
Rich Smith |
United Technologies Loves to Fly On Wednesday, UTC announced that it's taking a minority interest (no word on exactly how minor) in Eclipse Aerospace, maker of the Eclipse 500 "very light" business jet. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2006 |
LaBarge Receives Eclipse Order Totaling $10 Million for Wiring Harnesses LaBarge's wiring harnesses will be incorporated into electronic systems of the VLJ having to do with engine and cockpit functionality, fuel monitoring, and landing gear. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2011
Keki Fatakia |
Delta Goes the Boeing Way Delta plans to order 100 new Boeing 737-900 aircraft valued at $8 billion. |
National Defense
December 2005
Stew Magnuson |
Training Fleet Sees Slow but Steady Progress The U.S. Air Force is about four years away from completing a two decade-long process of revamping its fleet of training aircraft, according to service officials. |
National Defense
May 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Air Force energy-saving plans face technical, financial hurdles The Air Force is proposing new measures to cut aviation fuel consumption by 10 percent within the next six years. Among the initiatives is to conventional fuel with synthetic alternatives. |
Entrepreneur
February 2007
Julie Moline |
Fly the Private Skies Using a private jet is more affordable than you might think. |
Wired
July 2002
Scott Kirsner |
Citizen Plane One of the pioneers of personal computing has a plan to reinvent aviation. Now if he can just get the future of flying off the ground. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
David Noland |
Mini-Jet Revolution, or Dot-Com with Wings? The Adam A700 is just one of a new breed of small, powerful and easy to fly civilian jet planes called Very Light Jets (VLJs). |
BusinessWeek
May 29, 2006
Amy Gunderson |
Arriving On A Jet Plane Plans for sharing private jets aren't cheap, but carriers are offering more options. |
The Motley Fool
June 10, 2004
Brian Gorman |
JetBlue's Flight Plan JetBlue may have a significant long-term advantage in its fuel-efficient strategy. |
The Motley Fool
November 21, 2005
W.D. Crotty |
Boeing Is Coming Up Sevens A busy weekend of orders will lead to an even busier next few years. The stock is up more than 3% -- less than a dollar from its 52-week high. |
Outside
September 2005
Brad Wetzler |
Get Your Props Widen the horizons of adventure by taking the controls and becoming a pilot |
Inc.
November 2003
Robert X. Cringely |
Flight Club Forget the company car. Getting around is faster -- and less expensive than you may think -- in a private plane. |
National Defense
January 2011
Grace V. Jean |
Air Force Tells Biofuels Industry to 'Bring It' The Air Force within the next five years wants to be able to go on a shopping spree to snap up several hundred million gallons of alternative fuels produced within U.S. borders. |
Popular Mechanics
August 1, 2008
Mark Huber |
The 10 Best Planes from the Oshkosh Air Show From Lancair's $1 million turboprop kit to the "verification prototype" of Cirrus Design's single-engine personal jet. |
National Defense
November 2004
Harold Kennedy |
Guard Refueling Mission Proves a Bit Too Exciting To see what really goes on in the day-to-day life of the tanker fleet, a National Defense reporter rode along on a recent training mission flown by the 108th Air Refueling Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard. |
National Defense
November 2013
Valerie Insinna |
Company Takes Risk on New Light Strike Plane Textron Inc. and AirLand Enterprises in September debuted their new Scorpion prototype, a tactical jet aircraft that the companies funded without government dollars. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2010
Bruce Einhorn |
China Takes Aim at Boeing and Airbus With the C919, the Chinese are taking on Western aircraft makers with the help of Western suppliers such as GE and Honeywell. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2007
Ilana Polyak |
High Net Worth: The Jet Set A look at your options for private jet travel: buying a plane, fractional ownership, or chartering a flight. |
The Motley Fool
September 6, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Embraer Gets Big by Going Small A large executive jet order may be just the beginning for the Brazilian plane maker. Investors, take note. |
National Defense
August 2004
Harold Kennedy |
Air Force Strives to Cope With Delayed Tanker Lease U.S. Air Force officials are trying to figure out how to proceed in the aftermath of the Defense Secretary's decision to postpone the leasing 100 Boeing KC-767A tanker transport aircraft as replacements for its aging KC-135 Stratotankers. |
BusinessWeek
June 5, 2006
Christopher Palmeri |
Snarl In The Sky Private jet traffic is creating commercial flight delays, safety concerns, and calls for small planes to pay more into the system. |
Popular Mechanics
April 3, 2008
Brian Lisi |
Boeing Soars With First Fuel-Cell Plane Test, but Don't Count on Hydrogen Flights Soon The first-ever manned aircraft powered by a hydrogen fuel cell successfully completed a flight in Spain this year. |
Popular Mechanics
January 13, 2009
Davin Coburn |
The Next Biofuel Frontier: Jet Engines In a test last Wednesday in Houston, Continental became the first U.S. airline to test synthetic paraffinic kerosenes -- otherwise known as jet biofuels. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2008
David Blanchard |
Fleet Management Solution Saves Land O'Lakes $500,000 in Fuel Costs Combination of technology and new driving technique lead to significant cost reductions. |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
General Dynamics Bucks a Trend -- In Style! General Dynamics is paying approximately $2.25 billion for Swiss-based Jet Aviation in an all-cash transaction. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
David Noland |
Top 6 New Very Light Jets Cessna Mustang... Adam A700... Eclipse 500... Embraer Phenom 100... HondaJet... |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2008
Sandra Upson |
U.S. Air Force Synthetic-Fuel Program in Limbo Latest flight tests demonstrate that synthetic fuels are safe, but the cost and the carbon may not be worth it |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2007
John McHale |
Boeing Prepares Fuel-Cell-Powered Airplane for Ground and Flight Testing Boeing researchers and industry partners plan to flight test a piloted airplane this year powered only by a fuel cell and lightweight batteries in an effort to develop clean technologies for aerospace applications. |
BusinessWeek
May 8, 2006
Dean Foust |
AMR: Making Every Gallon Count American Airline's all-out fuel-efficiency drive may help put it back in the black. |
National Defense
January 2015
Sandra I. Erwin |
Military Challenged to Maintain Decades-Old Aircraft The U.S. military operates fleets of Cold War-era aircraft that will not be replaced any time soon. For the Pentagon, this creates daunting challenges, experts warn. Airplanes will have to fly much longer than planned and, at a time of tight budgets, the cost of maintaining aging equipment is projected to soar. |
National Defense
April 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Navy's Energy Reform Initiatives Raise Concerns Among Shipbuilders The secretary of the Navy's announcement last fall of several initiatives to wean the sea service off fossil fuels has generated excitement but also some trepidation among energy researchers and defense contractors. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2007
Prachi Patel-Predd |
U.S. Military in Hunt for Bio-based Jet Fuel The U.S. Department of Defense is pumping millions of dollars into projects to turn organic matter into jet fuels. If the military projects succeed, they could become a catalyst for planet-friendly commercial aviation technologies. |
The Motley Fool
July 8, 2011
Shubh Datta |
Can American Airlines Afford $15 Billion Worth of New Planes? American Airlines parent AMR Corp looks to spend close to $15 billion in adding 250 new aircraft to its fleet. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Tekla S. Perry |
Airlines: Got Fuel? Airlines are now putting the minimum amount of fuel in planes necessary to reach their destination, but are they underestimating the amount they need? |
National Defense
April 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Seeking $131M For Energy-Saving Projects The Pentagon has asked Congress for $131 million to develop energy-saving technologies during the next five years to fund a mix of fuel cells, generators and engine technologies. |
Science News
August 3, 2002 |
TimeLine: July 30, 1932 Layman takes great interest in viewing total eclipse |
National Defense
February 2009
Sohbet Karbuz |
Defense Department Should Rethink Energy-Saving Tactics It is a pity that most of the Defense Department's efforts are concentrated on electricity, which accounts for less than 12 percent of military energy consumption, and not on oil, which comprises 78 percent. |
Chemistry World
May 18, 2012
Anthony King |
Ultra-low sulfur jet fuel on the radar The costs and benefits of introducing ultra-low sulfur fuel for aviation have been weighed up in a new study, and there are unexpected pros and cons for the environment. |
The Motley Fool
November 8, 2011
John Grgurich |
1 Thing Investors Need to Know About Boeing's 787 Landing Gear Incident New jetliners often experience problems. So long as Boeing hops right on this issue and stays on top of it -- both from an engineering and a public relations perspective -- the company will be fine. |
National Defense
July 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Air Force: To Save Fuel, We Must Change How We Fly The Pentagon in recent years has launched umpteen projects to promote the use of renewable energy and lower consumption of fossil fuels. |
BusinessWeek
June 5, 2006
Christopher Palmeri |
How Safe Are the Chartered Skies? It may seem as if more rented planes are crashing, but in fact they've gotten safer. An expert tells how to choose a charter aircraft outfit. |
InternetNews
June 26, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Eclipse's 'Callisto' Onslaught In keeping with its release record, the Eclipse Foundation this week will release 10 projects right on schedule. It's such a huge undertaking that Eclipse branded it Callisto. |
InternetNews
March 17, 2008
Sean Michael Kerner |
Eclipse Targets Runtime With New Project Open source group aims to improve its runtime project portfolio. |
Inc.
June 1, 2002
Hesh Kestin |
The Plane Truth Vern Raburn is the president and CEO of Eclipse Aviation Corp., which next month is expected to launch a plane that may well change the way we fly... |
Popular Mechanics
July 2006
Jeff Wise |
Flying Off The Drawing Board New technology is poised to transform aviation, finally making Personal Air Vehicles possible. |
InternetNews
June 28, 2010 |
What Keeps Eclipse Foundation Rolling Along? For seven years, the Eclipse Foundation has stuck to a remarkably punctual release schedule, avoiding the delays that so often plague enterprise development projects. So how do they do it? |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Barbara S. Peterson |
End of Flight Delays? FAA's GPS Fix Could Bust Sky Gridlock The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been quietly using Alaska as a testbed for technologies that could radically transform the nation's antiquated air traffic control (ATC) system from ground-based radar to space-based GPS. |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2006
Jeremy MacNealy |
Hedging Trims Alaska Air's Losses The airline gets a boost from a successful hedge on fuel. Investors have a lot to consider before jumping in. |
