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The Learjet 85 aircraft has successfully completed its first flight that marks the start of the aircraft’s flight test program leading up to the first customer delivery. The flight departed from Wichita-Mid Continent International Airport and lasted approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes. Once again the FAA has gone after drone flying as if they actually had regulations to control it. Only last month, an NTSB judge ruled that the FAA did not have control over drone flights because they have not gone through a regulatory process to control them. The Civil Aviation Medical Association (CAMA) representing doctors who perform FAA medical exams, are pushing b

The ‘Little Jet That Could’ Is Coming Back Strong

At Sun ‘n Fun 2014 ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell had the chance to visit an airplane that almost anybody would love to own. He spoke with Mason Holland, the CEO of Eclipse Aerospace and got a look at the Eclipse 550 personal jet. It might be appropriate to call the Eclipse 550 “The little jet that could.” Designed from the ground up as a single-pilot personal-use jet, the Eclipse got off to a rough start because of corporate and management problems; early problems were not the fault of the airplane. Under the new management the airplane that has always been good is now better.