All Business Jets articles – Page 667
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Honeywell demonstrates first Epic elements
Honeywell has started pilot demonstrations of the control-display system (CDS) designed for its recently launched Primus Epic next-generation integrated avionics. The CDS incorporates large flat-panel liquid-crystal displays developed in co-operation with Mitsubishi Electric, as well as a cursor-control device (CCD). The Primus Epic has been selected by Raytheon ...
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Late design change delays HUD project for small business jets
A development programme being undertaken by GEC-Marconi Avionics and Honeywell to produce a head-up-display (HUD) for small and medium-sized business jets, based on its recently certificated HUD 2020, has been delayed following a last-minute revision to the design. The HUD 2022 effort began in January with delivery of ...
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Little big fan
AlliedSignal's new version of TFE731 updates an engine which has been around since 1969 Guy Norris/PHOENIX In 1969, Garrett-AirResearch began development of a purpose-designed business-jet engine, the TFE731. Twenty-eight years later, with almost 30 million operating hours accumulated and nearly 8,000 engines produced, Garrett's successor, ...
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Fairchild Dornier reveals plans for corporate 328JET model
Fairchild Dornier has unveiled plans to offer a corporate version of the 328JET regional airliner now under development, but declines to comment officially in the lead-up to the US National Business Aviation Association show, on 23-25 September. The company is already believed to have reserved "several" early-delivery slots ...
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Sogerma/DA Airbus sign deal for A300B4 conversions work
Julian Moxon/Paris Andrzej Jeziorski/Munich Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus (DAAirbus) and French maintenance group Sogerma have signed a long-term agreement for the conversion of Airbus A300B4s from passenger to freighter configuration. The move follows an 18-aircraft order from a new US leasing company. The initial Franco/German deal covers ...
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Uprated SJ-30-2 flies
Sino Swearingen Aircraft has begun flight testing its prototype SJ30-2 light business jet re-engined with uprated Williams-Rolls FJ44-2A turbofans. The first flight with the 10kN (2,300lb)-thrust engines was completed on 4 September. The prototype SJ30-2 will be at the US National Business Aviation Association show at Dallas, Texas, on 22-25 ...
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Learjet's latest
Bombardier's new Learjet 45 business jet proves pleasant and easy to fly Peter Henley/Wichita In the late 1950s, William Lear designed a small twinjet aircraft for business use with performance comparable to that of the jet-powered airliners of the day. Lear established a modest production plant at ...
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Falcon with frills
With its Falcon 900EX newly certificated, Dassault is in a strong position to resist its rivals. Julian Moxon With four years of strong sales, and 1997 figures looking as if they will set a record, Dassault Aviation had good reason to celebrate when its latest business-jet offering received its ...
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Dasa tests flight management
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa)is beginning a six-month flight-test campaign for a new flight-management system (FMS), the NFS-5000, developed by its Ulm, Germany-based subsidiary Navigation and Flight Guidance Systems (NFS). The system creates flight plans for pilots, who simply have to enter their point of departure and ...
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Dallas hosts No 50
Graham Warwick/Washington DC The US National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) begins its 50th anniversary year with a revamped name intended to reflect more accurately its role in enhancing the safety, efficiency and acceptance of business aviation. The NBAA also completes its first half-century of advocacy, with many major ...
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Workshop
++ Air UK Engineering has signed a five-year deal with Skyways to undertake heavy maintenance on the Swedish carrier's fleet of eight Fokker F50s after the UK company successfully completed a year-long contract. ++ Dee Howard has begun heavy maintenance of an Airborne Express Douglas DC-8-63 under an agreement covering ...
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Flight-test express
Lessons learned from flight testing the Learjet 45 are beneÌting the Global Express Graham Warwick/MONTREAL Bombardier's Wichita, Kansas, flight-test centre is busy, with certification testing of the Global Express gathering pace as that for the Learjet 45 light business-jet winds down. Testing of ...
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AlliedSignal solves problem of 'lean blowout'
The US Federal Aviation Administration has certificated new engine-control software for the AlliedSignal TFE731-60 which has been developed to correct an auto-ignition, or "lean blowout"-problem identified during early operations on the Dassault Falcon 900EX. Problems were first reported when Falcon 900EX operators experienced difficulty starting the -60 engine ...
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Airbus and Boeing benefit as ILFC orders new aircraft
International Lease Finance (ILFC) has placed orders for 126 new aircraft, shared almost equally between the Airbus Industrie consortium and Boeing. The orders from the world's largest aircraft-leasing company are for 61 Boeings, worth $4.5 billion, and 65 Airbuses, worth around $3.9 billion. ILFC has 112 airline customers ...
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Bombardier aims to fly by wire
Graham Warwick/MONTREAL Bombardier is close to selecting a partner for a programme to demonstrate fly-by-wire flight-control technology for use in future business and regional aircraft. Four unidentified companies have been shortlisted for the role of prime vendor in the Canadian company's four-year active-control-technology (ACT) demonstration programme. ...
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AI(R) holds talks on 70-seater plans
Aero International (Regional) (AI(R) is in last-minute talks with potential partners on its planned Airjet family of regional jets as it nears a decision on whether to go ahead with the 70-seat aircraft. Embraer, Saab and Aerostructures are all competing to supply the wing, although the US firm ...
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Jetcruzer 500P first flight is completed
Advanced Aerodynamics & Structures' (AASI) Jetcruzer 500P business turboprop had its maiden fight on 22 August. The 500P, which is an upgraded, higher-speed version of the Jetcruzer 450, had a 45min flight from the US manufacturer's base at Long Beach, California. AASI plans to synchronise amended US Federal ...
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Learjet 45
Bombardier Aerospace has received US Federal Aviation Authority provisional type certification for its $8 million Learjet 45 business jet. According to the Canadian manufacturer, final certification for the nine-seat, AlliedSignal TFE731-20 powered aircraft is expected "in the coming weeks". Source: Flight International
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Simcom
Tracy Brannon has become vice-president for training at US simulator-training firm Simcom International, of Orlando, Florida. She is succeeded by Thomas Evans as Orlando training-centre manager. He was formerly Pilatus PC-12 programme manager and Piper Navajo programme manager . Source: Flight International