All Business Jets articles – Page 706
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Fokker holds talks with potential buyers
FOKKER CHAIRMAN Ben van Schaik says that the company has spoken to some 30 parties potentially interested in taking over all or part of its operations, but is focusing initial negotiations on the "...six or seven" which may want to take on the entire company. He says that ...
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Enhanced ground-proximity warning
SEVERAL AIRLINES and manufacturers will evaluate AlliedSignal Aerospace's enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS) during 1996. Development units are to be shipped to British Airways, United Airlines, Bombardier, Cessna, Dassault and Gulfstream. Where today's GPWS monitors various aircraft instruments to provide an audible warning of proximity to the ground, ...
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Environment
Winner: PZL-Swidnik Polish Aviation Works Location: Swidnik, Poland Achievement: Taking a lead on safe environmental production in Eastern Europe with the introduction of a new anodising line. At the start of 1995, Polish helicopter maker PXL-Swidnik opened a fully automated line for chromic acid anodising of aluminium ...
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Infrastructure
Winner: Airways Corporation of new Zealand Location: Wellington, New Zealand Achievement: Implementing the first satellite-based oceanic traffic control system, opening up the use of Future Air Navigation Systems in the Pacific. Airways Corporation of new Zealand has become the first air-traffic-control organisation to install a satellite-based oceanic ...
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Raytheon Premier on track
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT has issued performance guarantees to buyers of its new light business-jet, the Premier I, after the latest series of windtunnel tests confirmed initial predictions. Maximum cruise speed at 33,000ft (10,000m) is expected to be around 460kt (850km/h), while range is pegged at 2,775km (1,500nm). Payload with ...
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Training
Winner: Singapore Aviation Academy Achievement: Providing a level and breadth of training unique in Asia-Pacific. The Singapore Aviation Academy, the training arm of the Singapore Civil Aviation Authority has created a training centre with a broad range of services unique in South-East Asia. The capabilities of the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...