On The Fly
Piaggio promises style, performance in jet design to launch next year…Bell/Agusta flew the second prototype of its BA609 tilt-rotor aircraft…A 172 pilot made a safe emergency landing in a riverside park in Brooklyn…Pilots, environmentalists join in suit opposing “airport to nowhere” in Fla…A Manitoba man was badly hurt when he was struck by the propeller of a Cessna 150…Swiss company Aviace on Monday dropped its lawsuit against Eclipse…A 1978 Cessna T210M Centurion II, N6991B, has been reported stolen from El Gallito, Mexico.
Piaggio promises both style and performance in its new jet design, but is revealing no details. The new jet is expected to launch sometime next year, Flight Global reports...
Bell/Agusta flew the second prototype of its BA609 tilt-rotor aircraft for the first time last week in Cameri, Italy. The aircraft flew for 52 minutes and successfully changed nacelle positions...
A Cessna 172 pilot made a safe emergency landing in a riverside park in Brooklyn on Tuesday. The pilot said the engine failed and he did as he was trained to do. The landing was a "walk in the park," he told reporters...
A pilots' group joined two environmental organizations in a lawsuit filed Tuesday opposing the construction of an "airport to nowhere" in Panama City, Fla...
A Manitoba man was badly hurt when he was struck by the propeller of a Cessna 150 while helping the pilot to taxi his airplane across a road...
Swiss start-up company Aviace has dropped its lawsuit against Eclipse Aviation. Aviace said Eclipse improperly cancelled its orders, but a judge said Aviace indeed owed over a half million dollars to Eclipse...
A 1978 Cessna T210M Centurion II has been reported stolen from El Gallito, Mexico. The aircraft, N6991B, went missing early Monday morning. For more info or to report a sighting, contact ACPI Intl: 011-386-341-7270 or U.S. 800-969-5473, e-mail: acpiusa@aol.com. $10,000 reward.
