All Business Jets articles – Page 650
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Growing power
Paul Seidenman/SAN FRANCISCO Through a series of agreements with authorised service centres, AlliedSignal Engines has been expanding its TPE331-10 turboprop upgrade programme to encompass more general aviation (GA) aircraft. These centres, in conjunction with the Phoenix, Arizona-based manufacturer, have developed supplemental type certificates (STCs) for specific aircraft. These involve modification ...
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Hyundai challenges for S Korea lead
Hyundai Space & Aircraft has formally opened its new Seosan aerospace manufacturing plant, in move that is being widely interpreted as a challenge for the leadership of South Korea's fragmented aviation industry. The South Korean conglomerate marked the opening of the 700,000m² (65,000ft²) plant with the completion of its ...
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Bad for the business
David Learmount/LONDON Available statistics from the major national agencies suggest that general aviation is getting safer, even though there were more business aviation accidents last year than in 1996. In the USA, where more than half the world's general aviation activity takes place, the accident rate for general aviation as ...
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New Piper ambitions focus on building a business jet family
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON New Piper Aircraft is examining market needs for a "family" of business jets to add to its line-up of piston and turboprop-powered aircraft. "We feel that this will be a natural progression for our Malibu Meridian customers," says Larry Bardon, New Piper's director of sales. He says ...
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Dassault Electronique prepares to rival AlliedSignal's EGPWS
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Despite delaying certification of its ground collision avoidance system (GCAS) until September, Dassault Electronique is still confident that the system will head off AlliedSignal's market domination with the enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS). The French company, now allied to Thomson-CSF, is flying the GCAS on ...
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Rolls-Royce completes Trent 8104 design and waits for 777-X
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Rolls-Royce is expected to complete design work on the 454kN (102,000lb)-thrust Trent 8104 by the start of June and is still "on track" to run the first engine in December, despite the slowdown of the Boeing 777-200X/300X derivative programme for which the powerplant is being developed. ...
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Boeing warns of further delays to 717
Boeing has confirmed that first flight of the 717-200, to be rolled out at Long Beach on 10 June, will now take place in early September, some three months later than originally scheduled. The flight test delays are also expected to have knock-on effects to the planned delivery of ...
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Aircraft News
United Airlines has ordered 16 Boeing 777-200s, one 747-400 and six 767-300s. Deliveries are scheduled to commence in the first quarter of 1999 through 2002. KLM has ordered four 737-800s for delivery in 2000. Federal Express has confirmed an order for three MD-11 freighters, the first of which will ...
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Soloy plans Pathfinder push
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Soloy plans to start a worldwide marketing campaign for its Pathfinder 21 Cessna 208B Grand Caravan twin engined conversion in about September following a successful first flight on 30 April. The Pathfinder 21 is fitted with two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6D-114A turboprops powering a single propeller ...
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Family planning
The early successes of regional jet upstart Fairchild Dornier are undoubtedly spurring a surge in excitement among the more established regional players. But perhaps before everyone rushes headlong into launching a raft of new aircraft in response to the market upswing, considerable thought needs to be given to the factors ...
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Dassault details supersonic jet
Julian Moxon/PARIS Dassault Aviation has revealed key details of its planned supersonic business jet (SSBJ), which it says could be flying "by 2004". The manufacturer is still hesitant about the size of the potential market for SSBJs, but Dassault Aviation vice-president Bruno Revellin Falcoz insisted when a model of the ...
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New business and investments help to raise Lufthansa Technik profits
Lufthansa maintenance subsidiary Lufthansa Technik (LHT)boosted its profits by 53%during 1997, achieving DM94.1 million ($52.2 million) on sales of DM3.03 billion. According to executive board member George Gallus, the figure is attributable to a huge influx of new business from outside the Lufthansa Group, with 50 new contracts signed ...
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BMW Rolls-Royce finds cure for compressor blade cracks
BMW Rolls-Royce has resolved a compressor blade cracking problem in the BR715 engine. The problem has delayed the start of flight testing of the Boeing 717 regional airliner for several weeks. According to research and development director Günter Kappler, the cracks arose during altitude chamber tests to determine the ...
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P&WC bids to power improved Avro RJ-X
British Aerospace Regional Aircraft is considering an unsolicited proposal from Pratt & Whitney Canada to power the improved Avro RJ-X now under study. P&WC's offer of the PW308 to power the four-jet aircraft came after negotiations had begun with incumbent engine supplier AlliedSignal to power the RJ-X with its new ...
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SR Technics reveals global ambitions
SR Technics, the maintenance subsidiary of Swissair parent SAir Group, is trying to secure joint venture partners in the USA and Asia-Pacific to enable it to offer comprehensive global support to its airline customers. Konrad Wittorf, vice-president of aircraft maintenance and overhaul, says that the company has retained Ernst ...
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Fairchild Dornier aims 428JET at USA
Fairchild Dornier is aiming its new 42/44-seat 428JET primarily at the US regional airline market. President Jim Robinson says the launch of a stretched version of the 32/34-seat 328JET is intended to offset the commonality advantage Embraer enjoys in marketing its 37-seat RJ-135 to 50-seat RJ-145 operators. Continental Express ...
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Fairchild Dornier creates new identity for corporate 328JET
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Fairchild Dornier has renamed its corporate version of the 328JET business jet the Envoy 3, and set up a separate corporate sales department, headed by a former Gulfstream executive, in an effort to boost sales in this burgeoning market sector. The company is also planning to become involved ...
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P&W corrects PW4098 cracks and confirms 777-300 delay
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Paul Lewis/SEATTLE Pratt & Whitney estimates that corrections to cure cracked compressor stators in the PW4098 discovered in April will push deliveries of the first heavyweight Boeing 777-300 to Korean Air (KAL) back by almost three months, to December. "It's a cast part, and we've ...
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Embraer studies market for larger regional jet
Graham Warwick/SAO PAULO Embraer will decide within a year whether to develop a larger member of its regional jet family. Speaking at the roll-out of the 37-seat ERJ-135 on 12 May, president Mauricio Botelho said: "We think there is a market, but we are not sure if it is ...
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Public offering cuts down Forstmann's
Gulfstream Aerospace has announced a $775 million public offering that will reduce investment firm Forstmann Little's remaining stake in the Canadian business aircraft manufacturer to less than 25%. Forstmann, its affiliates and Gulfstream management, hold 43.2% of the company, and will own 25.3% after the stock sale. New ...