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Canada special: Pioneer spirits
Canadian aerospace has long benefited from its proximity to the world's largest defence market, making up for Canada's own modest military budget. Yet the country is very much a force in its own right, with Bombardier and CAE leading companies in regional and business aircraft as well as simulation and ...
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The ultimate jet set - 10 business aircraft that changed the world
In the past half century or more, business aviation has grown from a US-dominated, corporate travel club into a global financial and technological force. Along the way it has produced some of the aviation industry's most innovative products, and contributed more than its fair share of flops. We list the ...
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Canada special: Bombardier's great gamble
Despite its history of successful innovation, the CSeries is the riskiest venture yet from Canada's aerospace champion
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Business aircraft that changed the world - Best of the rest
Assembling a list of the 10 greatest business aircraft means leaving out some extremely influential and commercially successful types. Here is our best of the rest.
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Presagis takes the off-the-shelf route to creating virtual reality
TECHNOLOGY murdo morrison montreal Presagis OFFERS off-the-shelf virtual reality From an unassuming building on the edge of Montreal, Presagis...
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Canada special: Canada's avionics leader CMC looks to potential of retrofit and emerging markets
Long-established avionics specialist CMC sees potential to grow its business in niche sectors and emerging aviation markets
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The business aircraft that changed the world - heroic failures
Many promises have been made for business aircraft, but not all have succeeded. Here is our list of the most memorable flops - although, for some, their time may come.
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The business aircraft that changed the world: No. 10
Designed in the heyday of the famed Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, the JetStar inadvertently invented the market for the dedicated business jet when it appeared...
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The business aircraft that changed the world: No. 9
It claimed a whole collection of "firsts" in business aviation - first all-composite aircraft, first glass cockpit, first certificated tandem-wing, including...
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The business aircraft that changed the world: No. 8
It says something extraordinary about an aircraft's longevity in the aviation business when at least five companies have owned production rights, and derivatives...
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The business aircraft that changed the world: No. 7
Launched at perhaps the darkest moment in Canadair's history, the Challenger 600 proved much more than a lifeline for a struggling company in the late 1970s....
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The business aircraft that changed the world: No. 6
Would the very light jet revolution have happened without the Eclipse 500? We think not. True, it was not the first of its type. That distinction...
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The business aircraft that changed the world: No. 5
An opening had appeared in the business aviation market by the late 1960s. Between the ranks of high-end turboprops flying at 260kt (480km/h) and low-end...
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The business aircraft that changed the world: No. 4
Described in a 1964 flight test report by Flight International as the "Rolls-Royce of the propeller-driven fleet", the Beechcraft King Air is that rare...
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The business aircraft that changed the world: No. 3
If anyone doubts the sophistication of business aircraft technology, Gulfstream always seems to have the rebuttal. Whether it was the $2 million...
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The business aircraft that changed the world: No. 2
The first to conquer the westbound route across the North Atlantic, the Dassault Falcon 50 defined a new standard for long range in business aviation when...
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The 10 business aircraft that changed the world: No. 1
Neither the largest nor the fastest, the Learjet Model 23/24 series is the most important business aircraft in history.
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Canada special: Flying Colours looks to burgeoning business jet completions market in Asia
Completions house Flying Colours has its eyes fixed firmly on business aviation's lucrative frontiers of China and India
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Sandra Pupatello, Ontario’s aerospace champion
politics DAN THISDELL toronto flying the aerospace flag for ontario There can be few more energetic champions of Canada's aerospace industry...
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Canada special: Clusters of success
Quebec and Montreal are more than an industrial cluster. Aerospace is in the province's genes, say those who work there