All Business Jets articles – Page 678
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GV certification
Gulfstream Aerospace has received full US certification for the Gulfstream V long-range business jet. Provisional certification was granted in December 1996, pending completion of flight testing, allowing deliveries of "green" GVs to begin. The first completed GVs are due to enter service in the second quarter of 1997. Gulfstream had ...
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Gulfstream takes GV on whistle-stop world tour
Gulfstream Aerospace is taking its GV business jet on a "whistle-stop" world tour to introduce the ultra-long-range aircraft to potential international customers, and has claimed in the process a series of non-stop distance records for a corporate jet. The first leg of the tour, which takes in Europe ...
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Delta shows off its new.colour scheme
Delta Air Lines has unveiled a new colour scheme, the first major change in the US company's livery in 35 years. The new scheme, which will extend to the aircraft interiors, was first seen on a Boeing 767 and will be applied to the remainder of the airline's 550-strong fleet ...
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Virgin Executive Aviation takes off
The Virgin Group has joined forces with the McCarthy leisure-investment group to form Virgin Executive Aviation, a corporate-jet and helicopter charter company aimed at exploiting European business and leisure-travel markets. The new company also plans to offer feeder services into London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports for Virgin Atlantic's ...
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Atlas closes on freighter order decision-
Atlas Air, the world's largest Boeing 747 freighter operator, is close to deciding whether to order an unspecified number of 747-400 freighters. According to Michael Chowdry, chairman and chief executive officer, the 747-400F is seen as "the next step" for the US contract cargo operator. Atlas Air is ...
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DHL signs MoU with Airbus for A300 freighters
DHL Airways has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Airbus Industrie for the acquisition of seven used A300B4 freighters for its US express-parcels network, and could later add additional aircraft for its European operations. The airline will take delivery of the seven aircraft, which are General Electric ...
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Common modules take control
ADVANCING THE STATE of the art in system design and integration has enabled the F-22 team to meet demanding weight and cost budgets "flowed down" to the subsystem level by the integrated product-team structure. Many of the traditional boundaries between systems have be blurred in a bid to ...
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Garrett Aviation teams up to offer RVSM approval project
Garrett Aviation Services of Arizona has teamed up with Atlanta-based Aviation Services Group to develop an operator RVSM (reduced vertical-separation-minima) approval programme, which will allow business-aircraft users a "quick and effortless" way to obtain approval to fly in RVSM airspace. Garrett says that the programme, which is specifically ...
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EJI adds to Gulfstream IV-SP order
Executive Jet Inter-national (EJI), the US business aircraft fractional ownership organisation, has contracted for 11 more Gulfstream IV-SPs, taking its orders for the model to 27. The new agreement, which includes one additional aircraft for delivery in 1997, accelerates the exercising of five GIV-SP options due in 1999, ...
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MDC talks up MD-80 freighter for China
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) remains optimistic that its MD-80 cargo conversion plan proposed to Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) earlier this year will receive the go-ahead before the end of 1997, despite uncertainty caused by the planned merger with Boeing. A key aspect of the plan is the supply ...
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Gulf Air reactivates TriStars following disposal of 767s
Gulf Air is planning to return up to three of its five stored L-1011 TriStar 200s to service, for operation on services within the Gulf, and to the Indian sub-continent. The move comes in the wake of the sale of six Boeing 767-300ERs to Delta Air Lines. One ...
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BGTlooks to pilot low-cost fly-by-wire for Tu-204
German systems house Bodenseewerk Gerätetech-nik (BGT)has launched a feasibility study with Tupolev over fitting future versions of the Tu-204 twinjet with its low-cost, advanced, digital fly-by-wire (FBW)flight-control-system (FCS) technology. The contract with Tupolev comes as BGT steps up efforts to secure applications for its FBW technology, which it plans to ...
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United drives hard to gain a place in the training market
UAL Services is about to install the first of up to 15 new full-flight and fixed-base simulators at its Denver-based Flight Training Center, in a determined attack on the burgeoning US third-party aircrew-training market. The installation, on 15 April, will set a milestone in a $130 million expansion, scheduled to ...
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Sogerma renegotiates IAI Galaxy deal
French aircraft-maintenance company Sogerma says that it is close to completing re-negotiation of its contract with Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) on risk-sharing supply of the fuselage and empennage for the Galaxy business jet. Talks were re-opened following the decision by Sogerma's new president, Henri-Paul Puel, to "-honour, but ...
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Finnair order contest warms up
Finnair has invited final bids from Airbus and Boeing to replace its fleet of 12 ageing 121-seat McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51s, after completing technical evaluations of the A320 family and next-generation 737. The carrier also plans to eventually replace its 25 142-seat MD-80s with whichever type is selected. The ...
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BA plans for 'shell company'face opposition from USA
PLANS BY British Airways to use Airline Management (AML), a start-up company, to take on tourist routes from London Gatwick to San Juan, Puerto Rico and Tampa, Florida, have run into opposition in the USA, with claims that AML is being set up as a "shell" company without its own ...
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First MD-95 wing sections go to Tracor
The first wing halves for the initial McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-95 test aircraft, T-1, have been shipped to Tracor Flight Systems in Palmdale, California, for joining. The shipset was made by MDC Canada, but the second and subsequent wings are being built by Hyundai Space and Aircraft of South Korea. ...
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Bombardier adds to Learjet 45...
BOMBARDIER HAS added the fifth,and final, aircraft to Learjet 45 flight-testing. The Canadian company reports a "dramatic improvement" in the performance of the flight-test programme, which has now exceeded the 1,100h mark. Delayed US certification of the AlliedSignal TFE732-20 turbofan powered light business-jet is now scheduled to take ...
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Happy families?
The debate in the aerospace industry over future product lines is sharply focused on the two extremes - the regional jet and the 'superjumbo'. Karen Walker looks ahead as the manufacturers vie to fill the gaps in the market, and Mark Odell presents a summary of current and planned jets. ...
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City Falcon Jet
The Dassault Falcon 50 tri-jet has received approval from the airport authorities to operate at London City Airport. Approval has already been granted for the Falcon 10/100 to use London City, while approval is pending for the twinjet Falcon 2000 and tri-jet 900. Source: Flight International