Honda Aircraft Company announced that the first production HondaJet achieved its initial flight, marking another milestone toward aircraft certification and entry into service in 2015. The event took place at the company’s world headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina. The HondaJet is the world’s most advanced light business jet aircraft, with best-in-class advantages in performance, comfort, […]

Industrial design studio Priestmangoode drew inspiration from domestic interiors to design a first-class cabin with sofas and wardrobes for Brazilian airline TAM. The TAM First Class Cabin is based around the theme “home away from home,” and Priestmangoode’s designers describe how they wanted to bring “the comfort of home” onto an aircraft. Sofas take the […]

The aluminum frame and gyro technology make the Eye Copter a beginner-friendly remote controlled helicopter. The built-in camera remotely shoots 640 x 480 resolution video and pictures via the two respective controller-mounted “video record” and “photo” buttons. The media can then be transferred to a computer through the included 2GB mini SD memory card or […]

It is a great challenge to airlines around the world to offer passengers a comfortable way of traveling, yet staying profitable at the same time. The Basic Line 3520 seat model was developed specifically for short-range and medium-range flights. These new seats were intended to offer higher passenger comfort in economy class than previous seat […]

The Solar Impulse HB-SIA experimental solar-powered aircraft completed the first ever solar-powered intercontinental roundtrip journey between Europe and Africa today. The roughly 6,000 km (3,728 mile) trip commenced on May 24 and consisted of a total of eight legs averaging 800 km (497 miles) before reaching its conclusion with a landing back where it all […]

The Boomerang 8 has a speed range on the bar in excess of 30km/h, stable across the whole range. Gin has applied his many years of experience of making wings stable at speed to this new generation of 2 liners. You can stay on the bar for longer and the wing gives feedback that makes […]

France-based Lisa Airplanes has released its single engine ski-plane named Akoya, which features a unique fuselage/hull design that includes “Seafoils.” The Akoya can operate from land, water and snow. The Rotax-powered aircraft will carry 18.5 gallons within a range of 680 miles. A mid-2012 LSA certification has been planned by Lisa. Lisa Airplanes also offers […]

Yuneec International are proud to introduce the e430 the world’s first commercially produced ‘Electric Aircraft’. The e430 is a twin seat, single engine, LSA class aircraft designed to be simple to use, easy to fly and with virtually zero vibration, it’s very smooth. Low noise, no emissions, no fuel, extremely low maintenance and best of […]