All Business Jets articles – Page 647
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Bombardier bursts into 90-seat regional market
Alan Peaford Bombardier is taking on the 90-seat regional jet market. At Farnborough yesterday the Canadian firm revealed its new 90-seat BRJ-X. The aircraft will have five-abreast seating, which will allow the series to range from 80 to 110 passengers. Laurent Beaudoin, the Canadian aircraft manufacturer's chairman ...
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S Korean aerospace businesses to merge
Three of South Korea's largest aerospace manufacturers, Daewoo Heavy Industries (DHI), Hyundai Space & Aircraft and Samsung Aerospace, have agreed in principle to merge their businesses into a single entity as part of wider corporate consolidation move. South Korea's five major corporate conglomerates, or chaebols, have announced plans to ...
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Hush kit specialists keep older types in air
Mark Hannant With the 1999 deadline for Stage 3 noise level reductions bearing down on the industry, it is no surprise to see hush kits on prominent display at the show. In the case of both Boeing 707s and BAe 1-11s, the statutory requirements will put out of ...
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Astra SPX impresses in debut at Farnborough
Karen Walker Pilots nickname it the Porsche of the business jet world. The Galaxy Aerospace Astra SPX, which is making its debut appearance at Farnborough, has a maximum speed of Mach 0.875 and typical cruise of M0.82, making it the fastest in its category. More than 20 SPX ...
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Explorer range poised to make switch to Belgium's Heli Fly
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Heli Fly is close to completing negotiations with Boeing over the Belgian company's purchase of the twin-engined MD-902 Explorer product line. An announcement is imminent. Talks have been under way for several months and, although the Halen-based company will not disclose the reasons for the ...
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BMW R-R celebrates new engine's first flight
The first flight of a new engine is always a good excuse for some serious celebrating and this is certainly the case with BMW Rolls-Royce, where the champagne corks are popping to mark the successful first flight of their BR715 engines on Boeing's 717-200. The BR715 is the second ...
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UK plans to break new ground with easyJet HUD certification
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES The UK Civil Aviation Authority is planning its first ever commercial head-up display (HUD) certification following the decision by local low-cost carrier easyJet to order Flight Dynamics head-up guidance (HGS) systems for its fleet of Boeing 737s. SAS is also equipping its 737-600 fleet with ...
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Groen wins new gyroplane order from China
Groen Brothers Aviation (GBA) says it has secured a further large order for its gyroplanes from Shanghai Energy and Chemicals (SECC) of China . The order is on top of an existing contract for 200 of the Utah-based company's Hawk III gyroplanes, and covers purchase options on further Hawk ...
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Face the facts with Tig Krekel
AlliedSignal has completed its acquisition of a controlling interest in UK-based Normalair-Garrett from GKN. Tig Krekel, president and chief executive officer of AlliedSignal's Aerospace Equipment Systems (AES), explains to Karen Walker why he welcomes this even closer relationship with a UK company that has been associated with AlliedSignal for more ...
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Franco-Italian team to produce nacelles
Potential European alliances are big news in aviation but two companies, one French and one Italian, have jumped the gun and stolen some of the expected thunder from their larger brethren. Hurel-Dubois from France and Italian company Aermacchi have set up a new joint venture company to produce engine ...
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Single minded
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The economic shackles are steadily being removed from the single-engined turboprop market as international aviation authorities reverse their longstanding prohibition on single-engined instrument flight rules (IFR) operations for commercial flights. The impressive safety record of Pratt &Whitney Canada PT6 turbine-powered aircraft has contributed a great deal to the ...
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Workshop
-Hawker Pacific Aerospace's Sun Valley, California, unit will service and repair the landing gear of nine Canadian Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s under a three-year contract. -Boeing is to invest $34 million in spare parts inventory to stock a new customer services centre, due to open in late 1999 at Amsterdam's ...
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Gulfstream set for a supersonic race
Karen Walker Gulfstream has raised the stakes of the business jet sound barrier race by teaming with Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to embark on the first phase of a technical feasibility and marketing study for a supersonic aircraft. Gulfstream president and chief operating officer Bill Boisture yesterday revealed the concept ...
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Flying Display
1400 BAe Hawk BAe Harrier Saab Gripen Eurofighter EF2000 "Typhoon" 1430 Airbus A330 1437 EHI EH101 Merlin 1443 Boeing C-17 ...
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Fairchild trio
Fairchild Aerospace has announced the appointments of Ian Ewing, David Doucette and Salo Roth as directors of corporate aircraft sales. The three will handle sales of the Envoy 3, Envoy 4, Envoy 7 and the 328 turboprop to corporate operators. Ewing, who will handle sales in the west of ...
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Converts to A300 freighter conversions
Andrew Douse CS Aviation Services has silenced critics who said they were crazy to convert Airbus A300s into freighters. Under the international spotlight of Farnborough, the company has proudly delivered of the first of seven Airbus A300 freighters to Costa Rican operator JHM Cargo Express. Earlier this ...
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SAS orders first 737-700/800s
Scandinavian carrier SAS has converted recently ordered Boeing 737-600s into orders for "at least 12" 737-700s and 737-800s. This is the first time that the carrier has ordered the larger members of the twinjet family. In July, SAS converted 14 737-600 options into firm orders. Following that order, SAS' ...
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Turboprop and jet lease fleets all set to merge
Karen Walker British Aerospace Asset Management has completed its three-year strategy programme to stabilise its turboprop portfolio and will now move forward rapidly to merge the company's turboprop and jet operations. Stephen O'Sullivan, the company's executive vice-president, turboprops, says that by the end of 1998 his group will ...
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Airshow debut is milestone for new Galaxy
Karen Walker Galaxy Aerospace's president and chief executive officer, Brian Barents, was witness to a major milestone in his company's history on Friday. Barents arrived in time to see the new Galaxy business jet touch down at Farnborough to make its debut appearance at an airshow. "This ...
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Gulfstream grows with acquisition of K-C Aviation
Gulfstream Aerospace has completed the purchase of K-C Aviation for $250 million. The acquisition allows the company to expand its aircraft completions, maintenance and parts business, and establishes Gulfstream as a major player in the aircraft engine service market. K-C has facilities in Texas, Wisconsin and Massachusetts, which ...