All Business Jets articles – Page 670
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First Boeing 777-300 is joined together
THE final body join of the first Boeing 777-300 fuselage, the longest airliner built to date, was accomplished at around 1.30am on 21 July at Boeing's Everett, Washington, site. The completed aircraft will be 73.8m in length, or around 3.4m longer than the 747. Despite the structural changes ...
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How far can you go?
There is nothing new about outsourcing (the practice of obtaining components from a third party). No-one expects an airline to make the tyres for its aircraft, and many successful carriers do not undertake their own heavy maintenance. The trend to outsource more work and concentrate on core services has ...
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NASA/MDV X-36 prepared for high-agility flight tests
NASA and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) are upgrading the flight-control software in the X-36 tailless-fighter technology demonstrator before resuming flight tests of the remotely piloted subscale vehicle on 29 July. The team plans to increase angle of attack (AoA) to 35 degrees during the next phase of flights, having achieved 20 ...
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NTSB wants to limit Tomahawk training
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) believes that flight training in the Piper Tomahawk should be restricted pending completion of flight-testing by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The Safety Board recommendation to the FAA follows the crash on 4 March, 1994, of a Piper Tomahawk which killed a ...
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The power of dreams
The V-Jet II, created by Sam Williams and Burt Rutan to boost interest in small turbofans, points to a new way forward. Small-turbofan creator Dr Sam Williams and light-aircraft guru Burt Rutan have teamed up to produce a design which they hope will revolutionise general aviation. Williams' ...
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Boeing leads first-half boom
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Boeing has outstripped Airbus Industrie in the battle for large jet-airliner orders in the first half of this year, re-emphasising its dominance of the market sector. McDonnell Douglas (MDC), which is at the centre of a merger row between Boeing and the European Union, secured just ...
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EC approves state aid for Alitalia
Marco Messalla/ROME European Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock has approved state aid for Italian flag carrier Alitalia, saying that this should bring to an end applications for aid from European airlines. The approval, granted on 15 July, allows the airline's state-holding company IRI to complete the L2,750 ...
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Operators shrug off FAA's 727 payload restrictions
OPERATORS ARE playing down the impact of payload restrictions to be imposed on Boeing 727 freighter conversions under four airworthiness directives (ADs) proposed on 14 July. The ADs, which cover over 300 727s converted from passenger to freighter configuration by third-party modification companies, will require operators to fit strengthened floor ...
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Falcon 50EXs arrive
Dassault has delivered the first two Falcon 50EX business jets to customers. The first aircraft was delivered to a Brazilian customer and the second to a US operator. The third 50EX to be completed is Dassault's demonstrator. Another 14 aircraft are in completion or in final assembly. Source: ...
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Tupolev prepares Tu-144LL for next round of flight testing
THE TUPOLEV Tu-144LL supersonic flying laboratory is being prepared for the next portion of its flight-test programme, now that an initial series of eight flights, three of them supersonic, has been completed. The tests are part of a joint US-Russian programme being undertaken from Zhukovsky, near Moscow. In ...
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Workshop
++ International Aviation Services has completed the interior of a Boeing 737-300 belonging to China. A second 737 will be delivered in August. ++ SOGERMA has been contracted by International Lease Finance to undertake a C check on an Airbus A310-300 previously operated by Belgian flag carrier Sabena. ++ Marshall ...
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Marketplace
++ TWA has concluded an agreement with International Lease Finance, to take a new Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Boeing 767-300ER, on lease. The 233-seat aircraft will be used on routes to the Middle East. ++ Japan Air System has placed orders for two Airbus A300-600Rs powered by Pratt & Whitney ...
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Sabreliner unveils first...Sabreliner
Sabreliner has purchased and refurbished the first Sabreliner business jet for use as its corporate aircraft. The North American-built Sabreliner 40, aircraft 282-001, was introduced in 1963 as a demonstrator before being sold to a customer early in 1964. Now named Sabre One, the aircraft has received avionics and interior ...
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Shell considers using London City Airport
Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell is considering use of London City Airport in the UK as an additional centre for its corporate-jet operations. Shell Aircraft operates two Raytheon Hawker 1000s and a Gulfstream IV from Northolt airfield in Middlesex and from its base at London Heathrow Airport. Now it ...
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AI(R) achieves breakthrough in Central Asia with RJ Avroliners
Ian Sheppard/TASHKENT Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) has delivered the first Western-built regional jet to a CIS carrier. The first of three AI(R) Avro RJ85 Avroliners for national carrier Uzbekistan Airways arrived in Tashkent on 7 July. Buying the aircraft is part of the airline's ...
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FAA wants restrictions on 727 conversions
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC RULEMAKING which could severely restrict the payloads of Boeing 727 freighter conversions was expected to be proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration on 15 July. The much-awaited notice of proposed rulemaking, according to sources, will outline a series of airworthiness directives (ADs) ...
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Learjet 45 nears certification
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC BOMBARDIER SAYS that US certification of the Learjet 45 business jet is now expected in August, with European approval scheduled for October. When the Learjet 45 was launched in 1992, simultaneous US Federal Aviation Administration/European Joint Aviation Authorities certification was planned for 1996. ...
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NASA/MDC complete initial X-36 testing
NASA AND McDONNELL Douglasand NASA have completed the first phase of flight testing of the X-36 tailless-fighter technology demonstrator, achieving a higher angle-of-attack (AoA) than planned during the initial eight flights of the subscale unmanned aircraft. Plans had called for the aircraft to be flown to 15 degree ...
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Tracor flight-tests Learjet 20 hushkit
TRACOR FLIGHT Systems has completed flight-testing of a Stage 3 hushkit for the Learjet 20-series business jet. US certification is expected in August, and marketing partner Ottendorf Aviation holds orders for 32 shipsets, at $110,00 per aircraft. Learjet 20-series aircraft are powered by General Electric CJ610 turbojets, and ...