All Business Jets articles – Page 696
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Falcon certification
Dassault Aviation has obtained French civil-aviation certification for its Falcon 900EX long-range business-jet. The French manufacturer expects to gain US certification later this month, leading to first customer deliveries in October. Sony's US arm is the launch customer for the aircraft. The 900EX, which is equipped with AlliedSignal TFE731-60 turbofan ...
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Fokker wins a reprieve with big KLM order
FOKKER HAS WON another year's reprieve, after gaining agreement from the Dutch bankruptcy court that it can keep assembly lines open for another year, to produce 15 more aircraft. The agreement removes the immediate threat of closure which has been looming for the bankrupt aircraft maker, but key ...
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Cessna is granted FAA approval for Citation X
Cessna has received US certification for the Citation X Mach 0.92 business jet, after an almost 30-month, 3,000h, flight-test programme involving three aircraft. Deliveries are to begin late this month, and the US manufacturer plans to deliver "11 or 12" aircraft by year-end. European certification is scheduled for July 1997. ...
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Where you train is not always where you end up flying
Sir - As a licensed US Federal Aviation Administration commercial pilot, I support the plea for international standards for flight training in the article "Unique Internationalism" (Flight International, 8-14 May, P3). There are some points which need taking up, however. Firstly, there is the argument that a UK ...
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Cessna
Tom Zimmerman has been named regional sales manager for Cessna Aircraft's Citation business-jet range. He has most recently been selling Learjets in the Western USA and, before that, he held a similar post with Mooney Aircraft. Donald Perry and Michael Kolman have become area sales managers for the CitationJet and ...
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Bravo gets faster
Cessna has increased the maximum cruise-speed of the Citation Bravo light business jet to 401kt (740km/h), from 394kt, after more than 500h of flight-testing. Powered by Pratt & Whitney Canada PW530A turbofans, the improved Citation II was first flown in April 1995 and will be certificated in August. ...
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SIA sells
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has completed the sale of two Boeing 747-200s to United Parcel Service for conversion into freighters. The two form part of SIA's sale of six surplus aircraft. The aircraft, including a fourth 747-200 for an unidentified US carrier, are due for delivery by September. SIA has sold ...
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Lufthansa tests remote maintenance system...
Martin Hindley/LONDON LUFTHANSA SYSTEMS is testing an airport-based remote diagnostic system designed to provide ground engineers with an incoming aircraft's maintenance history and repair requirements. The company has teamed with Berlin-based software house Sietec Systemtechnik to develop the tool, as part of a telecommunications-research programme sponsored ...
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Executive's sixth GIV
Executive Jet has received the sixth Gulfstream IV-SP business jet for its NetJets fractional-ownership scheme since the Gulfstream Shares programme was launched in May 1995. Two additional aircraft and a fifth Gulfstream-owned core-fleet GIV will be delivered soon. Executive Jet now operates more than 70 aircraft on behalf of over ...
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Tupolev reveals cryoplane proposals
RUSSIAN MANUFACTURER TUPOLEV HAS REVEALED new cryoplane concepts on which it is working as part of its joint activities with Germany's Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) in the field of cryogenic fuels. Shown are two proposals for a natural gas-powered Tu-130 LNG convertible cargo/passenger design. The first, known as the "duplane" (above, ...
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Bombardier shakes up Challenger spare-parts distribution
BOMBARDIER IS to re-organise the distribution of spare parts for its Canadair Challenger business jet, citing operator concern about parts availability. The new spares-distribution network, which will be managed independently by third parties, is to be operational in September. A request for proposals from potential distributors in Asia, ...
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Super facilities
DAC IS PROUD OF THE advanced lavatory design developed for the MD-95 in association with Jamco. "Using concurrent design and engineering techniques, we've been able to provide much more lav for the money," comments MD-95 programme management interiors IPT project manager, Terry Watson. "This lavatory looks more like ...
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More pilots for EJA
Executive Jet Aviation (EJA) will hire more than 80 pilots before the end of year to fly the fractional-jet-ownership operator's growing fleet of business aircraft. EJA hired 55 pilots in 1994 and 100 the following year, swelling the roster to 213. An additional 20 pilots work for Executive Jet International. ...
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Boeing re-opens Japan link in regional-jet bid
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE BOEING HAS JOINED with Bombardier and Japan Aircraft Development (JADC) to launch a series of studies into developing a 90- to 110-seat aircraft to compete with Europe and China. The US manufacturer is understood to be conducting three parallel studies into possible development of new or derivative regional ...
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Auxiliary roles
As airliners evolve, so do their auxiliary power units. Andrew Doyle/LONDON AUXILIARY-POWER-UNIT (APU) manufacturers are employing new technology to meet ever-increasing demands from aircraft operators for higher reliability and low cost of ownership. They are also studying radical new roles for the APU, and the ...
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Advanced flightdecks
ALL FUTURE DOUGLAS (DAC) aircraft will share a common display and avionics architecture to be based around Honeywell's Versatile Integrated Avionics concept, VIA 2000. The MD-95 will be the first aircraft to be equipped with the full system, while the MD-90 is set to be changed to ...
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MDC briefs 11 airline customers on MD-XX
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) plans to reveal the first technical details of its MD-XX tri-jet derivative family at a conference being held this week in Long Beach, California, to which up to 60 airlines have been invited to attend. "The schedule has accelerated ...
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Ready to roll
Bombardier is to roll out the first Global Express long-range business jet on 26 August at its de Havilland plant in Toronto, Canada, where the aircraft is now structurally complete. Gulfstream, meanwhile, has flown the third Gulfstream V long-range business jet . Source: Flight International
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JAR-FCL update
THE JAR-FCL COMMITTEE meeting to approve draft five of the regulations was held in Dublin, Ireland, during the week ending 10 May. Draft five, having taken account of all input, is intended to form the JAR-FCL regulation for fixed-wing-aircraft pilots. JAR-FCL Part Two, for helicopter pilots, is not ready yet. ...
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Gulfstream takes EVS lead with GIV
GULFSTREAM PLANS to demonstrate an enhanced-vision system (EVS) on a Gulfstream IV business jet later this year, to meet customer demand for a reduced-visibility landing capability. Flights will involve a GIV-SP demonstrator equipped with a Mitsubishi infra-red (IR) sensor, imagery from which will be projected on to a Honeywell/GEC head-up ...