All Business Jets articles – Page 615
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Supersonic business
It is 7.00pm when the supersonic business jet returns to New York after another normal working day for its passengers. They had left just 12h earlier for a 2h meeting in Moscow and are returning in time to have dinner with their families. Tomorrow it will be Tokyo… Supersonic flight ...
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Cause and effect
The aircraft ghosts in to land, the loudest sound being the squeal of tyres on touchdown. Engine noise, so long the bane of aircraft and airport developers alike, has been banished to the history books. What is more, the only significant emission from this generation of powerplants is completely ...
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China, Japan go regional
NICHOLAS IONIDES ATI/SINGAPORE After their success in the USA and Europe, regional jet aircraft makers have at long last cracked two important, but untapped, markets in Asia - China and Japan. Hainan Airlines has become China's first carrier to operate scheduled regional jet services after receiving the first of at ...
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Germany shapes engine of the future
Germany is easing the way forward for its aero-engine companies to design cleaner, quieter, more efficient powerplants over the next decade Germany's Engine 3E (E3E) programme was launched to ensure that the country's aeroengine companies, BMW Rolls-Royce (now R-R GmbH) and MTU, are prepared for the demands that will ...
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PC-12 enforcement
The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has taken delivery of a Pilatus PC-12 just two months after placing a contract for the 10-passenger single-turboprop utility aircraft. Pilatus expects the DEA to order more PC-12s to replace some of its 20 turboprops. Source: Flight International
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Air Canada secures hold on Canadian's Tokyo slots
Air Canada has achieved one of the main goals in its bid for Canadian Airlines International by buying Canadian's landing slots at Tokyo's Narita Airport, enabling it to launch direct Toronto-Tokyo services. The deal will also provide cash-strapped Canadian with bridging finance until its C$92 million ($62.5 million) takeover ...
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TAS prepares GeoSAR to gather geological data
A Gulfstream II-mounted GeoSAR (geographic synthetic aperture radar) system is being prepared for operations during January by Total Aircraft Services (TAS) of Van Nuys, California. TAS had expected to have US Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certification for the system by November, but this was delayed by electromagnetic interference ...
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Marketplace
Air Seychelles has signed a 10-year lease deal with ILFC for a General Electric CF6-80C2-powered Boeing 767-300ER, for delivery in April 2001. Swiss charter carrier Edelweiss Air has agreed to lease a new Airbus A330-200 from CIT Group from the fourth quarter of 2000. The Rolls-Royce Trent 772B-powered A330-200 is ...
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Safety net
The pressure is on for operators in European airspace to comply with the latest mandatory requirement for air safety systems Emma Kelly/LONDON The safety of Europe's skies is set to improve further from 1 January, when the first phase of the continent's airborne collision avoidance system (ACAS II) mandate is ...
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Fairchild expects first order for Envoy 3
Fairchild Aerospace is hoping to clinch the first order for its Envoy 3 business jet, a derivative of its 328JET regional airliner, by the end of the month. The long-awaited deal comes more than six months after the US company secured a 25-aircraft order from launch customer Flight Options for ...
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BBJ simulator arrives
FlightSafety Boeing Training International plans to provide "comprehensive" flight training for Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) customers from July, after delivery of a Level D next-generation Boeing 737 simulator to its Atlanta base next April. The company has begun building a 3,065m² (33,000ft²) flight training centre at London Luton Airport, where ...
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BBJ hangar
The north-east USA's first new hangar designed specifically to accommodate the Boeing Business Jet and Airbus Corporate Jetliner is set for completion in the first quarter of next year, according to design and engineering company Bascon. The hangar, occupying 10,870m² (117,000ft²) is at Rifton Aviation's fixed-base operation near New York. ...
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Bombardier eyes Continental shift for regional challenge
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Bombardier has held tentative discussions with airlines on the potential for developing a small regional jet version of its recently launched Continental mid-size business aircraft to counter the Embraer ERJ-135/140 and Fairchild 328/428JET. The Canadian manufacturer is understood to have made presentations to ...
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Safire sells out personal business jet
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Safire Aircraft's S-26 twin-engined personal business jet is sold out for the first year of production. The manufacturer has received more than 200 orders in just four months. Safire president Michael Margaritoff says: "We had a tremendous reply, mostly from pilots who put down deposits for the S-26. ...
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Jet opens Love
Jet Aviation has officially inaugurated its new business aircraft service base in Dallas Love Field Airport, Texas. The new facility, which was acquired from Jet East in October, includes 5,760m² (62,000ft²) of hangar space and 9,570m² of ramp area. Jet Aviation Dallas, an authorised Cessna Citation service centre will offer ...
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Aviacor invests to launch An-140 production
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Russian manufacturing plant Aviacor will invest $20 million next year to underwrite the launch of series production of Antonov An-140 twin-turboprop. The 50-seat design has been conceived as a new generation regional airliner to replace the large fleet of ageing Antonov An-24s in service with Russia's ...
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Midway starts to boost its Eastern US network
Midway Airlines plans to bolster frequencies, capacity and reduce seat kilometre costs on its eastern US network with the delivery this month of the first of 17 Boeing 737-700s. It will also receive further smaller, 50-seat, Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs) next year. The carrier, based in Raleigh/ Durham, ...
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Business studies
Embraer's decision to make a concerted effort to enter the business aircraft market with corporate variants of its EMB-135 and EMB-170 regional airliners came as no surprise. It is not enough for the company to build a good aircraft, however. The manufacturer will need to accommodate a type of customer ...
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Dassault and Embraer discuss joint venture light business jet
Andrew Doyle/SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS Dassault Aviation and Embraer are discussing the possible joint development of an all-new light business jet and a long-range corporate version of the Brazilian manufacturer's ERJ-170 regional airliner. Embraer has previously played down potential involvement in a business aircraft venture with Dassault, part ...
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Supersonic business jet 'on the market in the next five years'
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The business aircraft market is ready for a supersonic business jet (SSBJ) and one could be available within the next five years, according to an industry-sponsored study. The research was conducted by the UK's Meridian International for "several" business aircraft manufacturers and potential risk-sharing partners on an ...