Gulfstream Aerospace, on 25th announced that its newest business jet and the flagship of its fleet, the ultra-large-cabin, ultra-long-range Gulfstream G650, successfully completed its first flight. Flown by experimental test pilot Jake Howard and senior experimental test pilot Tom Horne, the G650 took off from Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport at 1:41 p.m. local time today [...]

Embraer, General Electric, and Amyris announced the signing, of a Memorandum of Understanding to evaluate the technical and sustainability aspects of Amyris’ No Compromise™ renewable jet fuel. The initiative can culminate in a demo flight, by early 2012, of an Embraer E-Jet using GE engines and belonging to Azul Linhas Aéreas. This collaboration combines industry [...]

Aker Solutions is today officially opening a new subsea facility at its yard in Egersund, west Norway. The new subsea hall will add another capacity to the yard and help further develop Aker Solutions’ leading position within subsea processing technologies. The first project to be undertaken in the subsea hall is the assembly and testing [...]