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Overhaul and Hot Section
As someone wise once said, it is the *&^%$ little things that kill you. With airplanes… it isn’t so much the big bills you get. It is the thousand here and there you didn’t see coming and have a...
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Turboprop Evolution and Amortization
Perhaps no one has a true sense of what amortization means more than Pratt and Whitney did once upon a time. When it comes to turboprop aircraft sales, someone was betting long at Pratt. Sure your...
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The 2012 Hawker Review
Well, it’s that time again. The Hawker Review gets some love every couple of years and we’re making it available for a while at no charge for the benefit of Hawker 800XP owners (as well as older and...
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Hawker Beechcraft Filing Rumors
Well, it happens to the best of us. Planning and growth turn out to be two separate things. In the case of Hawker Beechcraft you can likely point to the declining cachet of having your own jet....
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Do Glass Cockpits Make Us Safer?
The topic of “does glass make us safer?” caught my eye while reading this month’s BCA magazine. (A related podcast here.) In the intelligence section there was a blurb on how the NTSB can’t correlate...
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Boeing’s 787, Batteries and Growing Up Fast
The problem with new technology is that …. well… just so damn new all the time. New, as in, you don’t recognize that battery running down the street. Even though you thought you knew what a battery...
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Fly Your Dog?
A key consideration for your next Cessna 140 modified bush plane: Can you fit the hound? Image care of Aaron Bartels So you purchased a 1947 Cessna 140, put some bush tires on it, and your therapist...
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Hawker Series Aircraft Review Update 2012
The 2012 version of the Hawker review is just about done. We don’t have too many major changes to report this year other than the pending Netjets dumping of their series and which serial numbers this...
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Makin’ Love to Learjets
This thirsty little Lear 25 is hooking up to tanker because, well … it has short legs. But let’s not forget it’s offspring – the Lear 35. Now old enough to be your somewhat annoying son in law, like...
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How to buy a Skywagon
Congratulations. You’ve decided to buy a Skywagon. You imagine, very soon, how you will look next to your outback magic carpet ride: Camping, float flying, ski fly-ins, and fishing at a lake that few...
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