All Business Jets articles – Page 703
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Learjet chief quits
LEARJET president Brian Barents has resigned unexpectedly. He has been replaced by Jim Robinson, the former president of AlliedSignal Engines, who joined Learjet in 1995 as executive vice-president, overseeing the business-jet makers operations. Barents had been with Learjet since 1988, when the company was owned by Integrated Resources, ...
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Computers aid GV wing design
APPEARANCES CAN be deceiving, and the GV's outward similarity to the GIV belies the changes wrought to achieve an almost-60% increase in range. The wing is all-new, sized to house the fuel required for a 12,000km (6,500nm) range, but shaped by the desire to maintain the GIV's ...
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US deliveries highest since 1990
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US GENERAL-aviation aircraft industry has unveiled 1995 figures showing that it delivered the highest number of aircraft since 1990 and achieved the best billings since 1981. The figures enabled the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) president Ed Stimpson to report that ...
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JAL expansion
Japan Airlines (JAL) recently unveiled a corporate medium-range plan for 1996 through to 2000, projecting a 3-5% annual pick-up in business,because of the expansion of Tokyo's two main airports and increased use of Kansai International Airport. With completion of Tokyo's Haneda Airport upgrade by the spring of 1997, JAL is ...
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Gulfstream prepares for second GV first flight
GULFSTREAM IS preparing a second Gulfstream V long-range business jet for its first flight in early February. The first GV, aircraft 501, has been flown for some 50h since its first flight on 28 November, 1995, reaching 48,000ft (14,600m) at Mach 0.8 and M0.85 at 45,000ft (43,700m). Flying ...
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Global Express assembly begins
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA ASSEMBLY OF THE first Global Express long-range business jet has begun at Bombardier's partner companies. The forward fuselage, produced by Shorts in the UK, has been joined to Canadair's cockpit section at the Canadian company's Montreal plant, while preliminary mating of the wing and centre fuselage has taken ...
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Learjet 45 reaches Mach 0.81
LEARJET HAS demonstrated the Learjet 45's Mach 0.81 maximum cruise speed during more than 60h of testing accomplished since the business jet's first flight on 7 October, 1995. The second Learjet 45 is now being prepared for flight, and three more aircraft are in final assembly. All five aircraft will ...
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Kenya buys VIP Fokker
FOKKER HAS DELIVERED a corporate version of the Fokker 70 regional jet to the Kenyan Government for VIP transportation. The aircraft, modified with the addition of extra fuels tanks to extend its range to 6,300km (3,400nm) is the third Executive Jet 70 delivered by the Dutch manufacturer. The Dutch Government ...
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Business Express cancels remaining RJ70 orders
BUSINESS EXPRESS IS TO cancel nine remaining firm orders for Avro International Aerospace RJ70s, following its decision to return the three aircraft, which it already operates and to withdraw from jet-powered operations (Flight International, 10-16 January). The orders are being converted into options. Avro says that it and ...
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Final m-55 nears completion
RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT builder Myasischev is trying to complete assembly of a final M-55 high-altitude aircraft, in part to replace the aircraft which was lost at Zhukovsky, near Moscow, in June 1995. The aircraft pictured is in the final stages of assembly, although company officials admit that funding shortages are hampering ...
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IPTN examines AEW option for N-250
INDUSTRI PESAWAT Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) has expanded its study of a possible future airborne early-warning (AEW) role for the new N-250 turboprop. The Indonesian manufacturer has formed a study team to look at AEW applications for the N-250. The study centres on around two AEW configurations proposed by ...
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Burkhart Grob sacks half of its workforce as funding deadlock threatens Strato 2C
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN COMPOSITE-aircraft manufacturer Burkhart Grob has sacked half of its employees because of continuing delays in the release of Government funding for the Strato 2C high-altitude research programme. The whole project now faces cancellation. Grob has made 131 of its staff redundant, shattering ...
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Cessna
Gary Hay is named vice-chairman at light-aircraft manufacturer Cessna Aircraft of Wichita, Kansas. David Assard has become president and chief operating officer and Charles Johnson is promoted to executive vice-president for operations. Hay with Cessna for 29 years, and Assard, the former president of Textron Lycoming's turbine-engine operations, became executive ...
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FAA changes its mind on 747 conversions
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration admits that it has made a mistake in approving modifications by GATX Airlog, which turned ten Boeing 747 passenger aircraft into freighters, and it has proposed an airworthiness directive (AD) severely restricting cargo weights. The FAA is ...
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Learjet
Bob Sundin has been named Learjet/Canadair Challenger maintenance manager at Bombardier Aviation Services, of Tucson, Arizona. Jim Flynn is appointed manager of used-aircraft sales. He was formerly Learjet's manager of aircraft acceptance, also of Tucson. Bob Butcher becomes sales director, having been sales-support administrator. Nita Scrivner becomes manager of public ...
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FMS approval
Universal Avionics Systems' UNS-1C flight-management system (FMS) has been given type certification for use on Israel Aircraft Industries Astra SPX business jet. Source: Flight International
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SJ30 tests make progress
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA SINO SWEARINGEN Aircraft (SSAC) has completed bird-strike testing for the SJ30 light business-jet. Tests were conducted at windshield manufacturer PPG in Huntsville, Alabama, and SSAC says "...the metal cockpit structure required no repairs after the 320kt [590km/h], 4lb [1.8kg] bird strikes." The first US ...
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Mexico goes into a shell
Aeromexico and Mexicana should come under the oversight of a holding company by the end of the month. The search for potential buyers for the single entity could begin once the slow process of putting the two carriers' finances in order is complete. The holding company, called the ...
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Trailblazers
NASA plans a series of low-cost, but ambitious, flights to Mars, starting in 1996. Tim Furniss/WASHINGTON DC A NEW ERA IN Martian exploration will begin in December 1996, when a McDonnell Douglas Delta 2 booster will launch the Mars Pathfinder, to blaze a fresh trail to the ...
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Citation X changes confirmed by Cessna
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA CESSNA AIRCRAFT PLANS to deliver the first Citation X high-speed business jet in June 1996, a delay of two months, following full US certification of the aircraft with an increased payload. The US manufacturer had been aiming for basic US certification of the Mach 0.92 aircraft ...