All Business Jets articles – Page 702
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Regional-power battle intensifies
THE BATTLE TO power the embryonic AE-100 regional jet and potential stablemates is heating up following Pratt & Whitney's decision to proceed with development of the PW6000, a turbofan in the 67-107kN (15,000-24,000lb)-thrust range. The PW6000 emerged from the Mid-Thrust Family of Engines study and effectively succeeds a ...
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Avcon flight-tests improved Learjet stability fins
AVCON INDUSTRIES IS flight-testing an improved version of its Avcon Fins aerodynamic-stabilisation device on a Learjet 35 business jet. Newton, Kansas-based Avcon says that the fins provide additional lift and stability at lower airspeeds and enhance controllability during approach and landing. The angled vertical surfaces, mounted under the ...
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China plans ATM tests
CHINA WILL conduct trials of a satellite-based air-traffic-management (ATM) system in Xi'an between 17 and 19 March as part of long-term plans to develop a complete communications, navigation, surveillance (CNS)/ATM airspace infrastructure. The Xi'an demonstration will be performed by an international team led by Rockwell's Texas-based Communication Systems division (CSD) ...
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China poised for first executive air charters
CHINA IS TO GET its first Western-style executive air-charter service in a deal which will link Bombardier Aerospace, Global Aviation and China Southern Airlines. Swiss-based Global Aviation is setting up a fixed-base operation (FBO) in Zhuhai using aircraft leased from Bombardier companies Canadair and Learjet. The site, the ...
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Air Transport
Winner: Bombardier Regional Aircraft Location: Ontario, Canada Achievement: Helping carriers to exploit the benefits of open skies, with new low-cost, direct air services using the 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet. FROM THE OUTSET, Bombardier designed its 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet to help airlines open up new ...
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MDC reveals its long-term plan for MD-11 plan
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is in the final stages of defining two new versions of the MD-11, which will enable the company to compete head-to-head with Airbus and Boeing in the Boeing 747-100/200 replacement market and the emerging extra-long-range market. "We got to the point that we had to ...
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Learjet
Jim Robinson has been named president of Learjet after only two months with the US business-jet manufacturer. The resignation of his predecessor, Brian Barents, after six years at Learjet, comes as almost as much of a surprise as Robinson's own departure from AlliedSignal in November 1995. Robinson joined Learjet as ...
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Regional dilemma
Fokker's troubles are only one symptom of turbulent times in the regional-aircraft market. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE THESE ARE interesting times in the regional-aircraft market. Even without the crisis at Fokker, manufacturers were facing some fundamental questions about exactly where their market niche lies. ...
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JPL engineers fit key flight hardware to Cassini craft
NASA JET PROPULSION Laboratory (JPL) engineers at Pasadena, California have completed installation of key flight hardware aboard the Cassini spacecraft, which will be launched towards Saturn, by a Titan 4/Centaur booster in October 1997. The craft's attitude- and articulation-control subsystem was integrated, together with the power and pyrotechnics ...
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Jet Aviation starts innovative version of jetshare scheme
Julian Moxon/GENEVA BUSINESS-AVIATION service provider Jet Aviation has launched its own version of a corporate-jet shared-ownership scheme, aiming to get around some of the problems which have plagued others attempting to enter the field in Europe. The Netherlands-registered Corpavia Club provides members with a part ...
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CAA blocks GIV London City approach
EUROJET AVIATION HAS begun operations at London City Airport, using a Cessna Citation II. The Belfast-based company claims to be the first UK business-jet operator to gain approval for public-transport operations at the airport. Other business jets being operated to London City by non-UK and private operators ...
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Exim approves Aeroflot financing
AEROFLOT-RUSSIAN International Airlines (ARIA) is to receive $1 billion financing from the US Export Import Bank (Exim) to help purchase 20 Westernised Ilyushin Il-96M/Ts. The financing covers the US content in the aircraft, including engines and avionics, and will be guaranteed by the Russian Government and by pledges on the ...
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T-38's sonic boom caught by NASA's movie camera
SCIENTISTS HAVE succeeded in taking what is claimed to be the first clear picture of a sonic boom made by an aircraft in flight. The technique, pioneered at NASA's Langley Research Center, Virginia, could be a vital tool in the development of a future supersonic high-speed civil transport. ...
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3X Jet patents dissimilar-engine twinjet concept
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA A US patent HAS been granted to 3X Jet for an unconventional propulsion-system concept for twin-engine aircraft. The configuration uses two different-sized jet engines mounted on the aircraft centreline and is claimed to offer reduced operating cost, improved climb performance and range, and increased cruise-altitude ...
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Aircraft news
China Airlines has ordered six Boeing 737-800s, with nine options on the aircraft. United Airlines has ordered two Boeing 747-400s to be delivered in 1997. Onur Air has ordered five MD-88s with options on five more. The airline has also ordered one Airbus 321. ...
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Pakistan to boost SIA?
Singapore Airlines could boost its bottom line by an estimated US$500 million in its current financial year through a major sale of aircraft. Discussions are underway with Pakistan International Airlines over eight Boeing 747-300s, which SIA wants to retire from its fleet of 69 aircraft. It is the ...
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Seven-league leader
Gulfstream is first into the air with a global-range business jet. Cut away poster by Tim Hall. Graham Warwick/SAVANNAH GULFSTREAM IS NOW officially a two-aircraft company, for the first time in its history. While flight-testing of the 12,000km (6,500nm)-range Gulfstream V gathers pace, production of the 7,800km-range Gulfstream IV-SP ...
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Through the looking glass
The Honeywell/ GEC-Marconi new-generation head-up display is about to enter flight-testing. Guy Norris/PHOENIX HONEYWELL AND GEC-Marconi Avionics' two-year old teaming arrangement to develop new-generation head-up-displays (HUDs) for business and regional aircraft is about to bear fruit, in the shape of the HUD-2020 destined for the Gulfstream ...
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Tahiti's FANS makes headway
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE'S THOMSON-CSF has completed the second phase of Tahiti's new satellite-based oceanic air-traffic-control system, with delivery of the automated data-link component. When complete in early 1997, the Tahiti system will be one of the main components of the South Pacific Future Air Navigation ...
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A tale of two crises
Could Fokker have performed better if it had followed Avro's lead in cutting quicker and deeper? Kevin O'Toole/LONDON FOKKER MAY NOT appreciate the irony, but its latest crisis has come just as the regional-jet market is showing few signs of life. If a recovery in ...