All Business Jets articles – Page 695
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Face the facts with...Michael Graff
Michael Graff is the newly appointed president of Bombardier Aerospace's business Aircraft division with responsibility for the global marketing of Canadair and Learjet aircraft and the fractional ownership programme. A graduate of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Graff has worked in London and the USA, with ...
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Sikorsky's mass-transit milestone
Sikorsky announced a $17 million order for three of its new S-76C+ aircraft at the Show yesterday, describing the sale as a watershed event in the helicopter mass transit market. Sikorsky commercial programmes director Mike Moran gave details of the contract for three S-76C+ aircraft to HelikopterService, which will ...
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Gulfstream V stays at home
To the disappointment of many, Gulfstream is saving the public debut of its new ultra long-range corporate jet, the Gulfstream V, for a specialist business aircraft convention later in the year. Instead, Gulfstream is bringing a GIV-SP to the show by way of emphasising the importance of both these ...
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Multi-function cockpit displays on show
American firm AlliedSignal in Hall 4/E3 is showing a number of multi-function displays for an aircraft cockpit on colour matrix Liquid Crystal Displays. These displays can also be found on the US-operated Lockheed C-141 Starlifter and the Spanish-operated Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules. They have been successfully flight-tested and ...
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Bombardier gears up to go Global
Page 35 Global Express is on schedule for its first flight this month. Bombardier executives arrived in Farnborough yesterday flushed with the success of last week's roll-out of what they claim is the world's most advanced business aircraft. Bombardier Aerospace president Robert Brown will be ...
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Flying display
Today's flying display (correct at time of going to press): 14.00-16.45: Airbus A330/A340 combined display; Kamov KA-50; Embraer EMB-145; B2A Spirit; Firefly; Super Tucano Hawk 100; Eurofighter 2000; Tornado GR1; Gripen; Harrier GR7; Aero L59; Grob 115TA; F-18 Hornet; YAK 52; Dassault Rafale; Dassault Falcon 2000; Dassault Falcon 900; ...
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Bell pilots go west in bid to set a double record
If you have already captured the speed record for flying round the world in a helicopter, what might your next challenge be? Texas pilot Ron Bower knows that answer, do it again - this time in the opposite direction. Visitors at Farnborough will know today whether Bower and ...
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Webbed feat
Am-Safe has signed a ‘belting' deal to help improve passenger safety. Phoenix-based Am-Safe, a leading supplier of aviation seat belts and restraints, has purchased the assets of webbing maker Technical Textiles. The acquisition, announced at the Show, improved Am-Safe's capability to respond to a changing market requirements for ...
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Learjet 45 passes 500h mark
FLIGHT-TESTING OF THE BOMBARDIER LEARJET 45 light business jet has passed the 500h mark. By mid-August, Learjet had accumulated almost 540h in some 270 flights with three aircraft. Fuel-system testing is under way on the fourth flight-test aircraft, scheduled to be flown soon, and final assembly of aircraft number 11 ...
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MDHS reveals MD600N design change
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS Helicopter Systems (MDHS) has begun flight testing a series of modifications to the MD600N eight-seat civil helicopter following the crash of a prototype earlier this year. The changes are aimed at increasing the clearance between the main rotor blades and ...
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Alaska spurns MDC for Boeing
ALASKA AIRLINES is negotiating for a fleet of new-generation Boeing 737s, following an apparent decision to sell off its large McDonnell Douglas (MDC) fleet and become all-Boeing by 2000. If confirmed, the move will mean the end of MDC's long-running battle with Boeing to supply Alaska with new ...
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Century ready to build 'full prototype' of single-engined business jet
CENTURY AEROSPACE says that it has funding in place to complete the first prototype of its Century Jet single-engine business jet, which was unveiled at the US Experimental Aircraft Association's Oshkosh show held in early August. The Columbus, Ohio-based company says that it will not build a proof-of-concept ...
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Gulfstream V meets long-range target
Graham Warwick/SAVANNAH THE GULFSTREAM V business jet is meeting its specific-range guarantee, and is "on track" to achieve its 12,000km (6,500nm) designed range, at Mach 0.8, despite being overweight, the manufacturer says. Senior vice-president, GV programme, Pres Henne, says that the aircraft has sufficient margin to accommodate ...
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Rolling together?
The roll-out of the Bombardier Global Express on 26 August marked a significant waypoint in an unusually international programme. Graham Warwick/TORONTO ANY SIMILARITY between the Bombardier Global Express and its Canadair Challenger stablemate, fades as the aircraft's size, becomes apparent on entering the final-assembly building at de ...
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United cargo delays
United Airlines has delayed the start of all-cargo operations between the USA and Asia from the third quarter of 1996 to March 1997, because suitable aircraft were not available. Four United McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s, including one -30CF, will be converted to full freighters by Aeronavali, a division of Alenia, with ...
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Cessna
Cessna Aircraft has made seven new appointments in its Single-Engine Sales and Marketing group. Domestic sales team leaders, are Doug Beary, formerly director of original-equipment-manufacturer sales for Deltec Electronics, who will cover the eastern division; Bret Chilcott, who will cover the western division (including western Canada) and who formerly owned ...
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Learjet
Bombardier subsidiary-business-aircraft manufacturer Learjet has named Rolland ("Rollie") Vincent director of public relations and strategic planning. He was formerly director of international marketing for Bombardier Regional Aircraft division in Toronto. Nita Scrivner has been named director of marketing communications. She was most recently Learjet manager of public relations. ...
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Cessna starts to build Model 172 Skyhawks
Graham Warwick/INDEPENDENCE CESSNA HAS BEGUN assembly of the first Model 172 Skyhawks at its new piston-aircraft plant at Independence, Kansas. Six aircraft are already in assembly, and the first will be completed by mid-November. The first aircraft will undergo US Federal Aviation Administration flight-testing in December ...
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Giant Boeing order paves the way for first United 747-600X
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES UNITED AIRLINES has radically revised its large Boeing order, shifting the emphasis away from more 777s to 747-400s and, at the same time, paving the way for its first 747-600Xs. Negotiations for the long-anticipated order were originally based around an additional 17 777s, ...
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Ageing airliners
AiRLINES DEFINED AS ageing are turbine-powered aircraft with accommodation for at least 30 passengers (or an equivalent freight capacity), and built more than 15 years ago (before 1 January, 1982). The 1996 Flight International Ageing-Airliner Census covers 38 turbine-powered passenger and cargo aircraft types, designs with few examples still flying ...