All Business Jets articles – Page 700
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Common factors
Should airlines standardise their fleets or not? In today's economic climate, the answer is often based on how long a carrier is willing to wait in order to reap significant financial gains. By Sean Broderick.By New Year's Day 2000, Delta Air Lines will be in a position it has not ...
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Falcon move
Dassault Aviation has moved completion of all Falcon business jets to Dassault Falcon Jet in Little Rock, Arkansas. The centre is expected to complete 32 aircraft this year, up from 24 in 1995, and 42 in 1997. Expansion of the centre to provide two additional hangar positions and a third ...
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UK turns up heat on engine-control study
Andrew Doyle/LONDON AN ADVANCED electronic engine-control (EEC) system, capable of operation in the high-temperature core of a jet engine, rather than being mounted on the fan casing, is under development by a UK consortium. The project could lead to production of more-responsive and reliable EECs ...
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Gulfstream flies second GV business jet
GULFSTREAM V testing has passed the 50-flight mark, with two aircraft now being flown, and the third of four flight-test GV long-range business jets scheduled to take to the air for the first time in mid-April, says Gulfstream. The second GV was flown on 10 March and testing ...
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Latin America looms large
Burgeoning economies and international trade links boost business-aircraft prospects. Graham Warwick/Santiago MOST AEROSPACE ANALYSTS focus their efforts on understanding the US, European and Asian markets, while largely ignoring Latin American potential. When considering business-aircraft sales prospects, that could prove to be a mistake. ...
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Ownership advances
New ways of owning new products are putting the boom back into business aviation Karen Walker/ATLANTA COMFORT, RELIABILITY AND value for money; that is what the customer wants. It is a description long familiar to the motor industry, but it is now an equally well-rehearsed part of ...
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Noise rules could muzzle sales
INCREASINGLY STRINGENT noise regulations are seriously threatening future development and sales of light piston-engined aircraft in Europe, according to Bob Wilson, technical director at Pilatus Britten-Norman. Wilson told delegates at the GAMTA conference that "tremendous pressure" is building up - particularly in France and Germany - for ...
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MDC outlines five-year plan
Guy Norris/LOS ANGFELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS is studying the launch of three new products over the next 18 months, including a stretched MD-95 and two re-winged variants of the MD-11. Douglas Aircraft vice-president and general manager John Feren says that future milestones already include delivery of ...
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FAA forecasts more turbine-engine growth
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is forecasting that the turbine-engined segment of the general-aviation (GA) fleet will continue to make gains at the expense of piston-engined aircraft - at least in the short term. There were about 8,280 turbine-powered aircraft in the USA in 1995, according to ...
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First Global Express nears completion
CANADAIR IS CLOSE TO completing the first Bombardier Global Express long-range business jet following delivery of the horizontal stabiliser - the last major structural subassembly yet to be joined to the aircraft. The all-composite stabiliser is supplied by Bombardier's Shorts subsidiary in Northern Ireland. in late February aboard ...
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Learjet weakens Bombardier results
BOMBARDIER HAS posted a 20% increase in group revenues and a 28% increase in net income, for its financial year to the end of January, but says that "a weaker-than-expected performance" at US business-jet manufacturer Learjet reduced profits from aerospace. The Canadian group had net profits of C$308.8 ...
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Fokker bankrupt
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON ON 15 MARCH Fokker finally admitted defeat in its attempts to stave off bankruptcy, ending 77 years of aircraft manufacturing in the Netherlands when bids from AVIC of China and Samsung of South Korea failed to materialise. The collapse leaves question marks hanging ...
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Citation X has Latin American debut
CESSNA IS demonstrating its Citation X high-speed business jet in Latin America for the first time. The second production aircraft was displayed at the show and is to be demonstrated in Paraguay before being unveiled to prospective customers in Brazil. Growing economies in Argentina, Brazil and Chile are ...
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Learjet modifies 45 tests
LEARJET HAS SHIFTED flutter testing of the Learjet 45 business jet to the second prototype, to avoid grounding the first aircraft. The move has delayed the first flight of the Learjet 45-002, but has allowed flight-testing of aircraft -001 to continue, the company says. Wichita, Kansas-based Learjet ...
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Cessna flies widebody Excel
CESSNA FLEW ITS PROTOTYPE Citation Excel "wide-body" light business jet for the first time on 29 February, two weeks ahead of schedule. Certification and first deliveries are planned for the first quarter of 1998. Cessna says that it has sold 88 Excels and is increasing production in 1999 and 2000 ...
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International customs
International Aviation Services is entering the large-aircraft custom-completion market through its acquisition of Page Avjet's site in Fort Worth, Texas. The US company will focus on VIP/head-of-state aircraft, providing maintenance services. Source: Flight International
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Flying colours
Errol Cossey, founder of Air Europe and Air 2000, has been appointed group chief executive and chairman, of Manchester UK based holiday company, Flying colours. Terry Soult, a former Air 2000 board member, becomes managing director. Geoffrey Dobson joins the company as finance director and Carolyn Quintaba becomes director of ...
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Cessna
Michael Shonka becomes senior vice-president and chief financial officer at light-aircraft manufacturer Cessna Aircraft, of Wichita, Kansas. He replaces Ronnie Crawford, who has resigned. Shonka was most recently executive vice-president and chief financial officer at the Fourth Financial Corporation, also of Wichita. Ron Alberti has become vice-president of manufacturing, succeeding ...
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Combi Saab 2000 nears certification
SAAB AIRCRAFT is hoping to complete development and certification of a passenger/cargo combi version of its Saab 2000 turboprop by the end of 1996, in an effort to boost flagging sales. The Swedish manufacturer is proposing two different basic combi configurations. The aircraft can be configured typically for ...
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EMB-145 'exceeds expectations'
EMBRAER'S EMB-145 regional jet is performing better than predicted, the Brazilian manufacturer says. One prototype and two pre-series aircraft are now in flight-test and a fourth EMB-145, is scheduled to have been flown, by 20 March. Engineering director Luis Affonso says that the performance is exceeding specification because ...