All Business Jets articles – Page 706
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NASA F-16 tests SLFC wing panel
NASA HAS begun test-flying its Supersonic Laminar Flow Control (SLFC) wing panel on the Lockheed Martin F-16XL test aircraft. The SLFC project, managed by the Langley Research Center, will investigate methods of maintaining laminar airflow over the wing of a supersonic aircraft, as part of NASA's High Speed Research Program, ...
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Refined simplicity
Cessna's Ultra has all of its family's virtues, and more. Harry Hopkins/WICHITA FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, over the years, has flown several members of Cessna's family of straight-winged business jets, including the Citation II, IIS and V. The latest member of that family is the Ultra, a ...
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SIA shifts 'Y-aircraft' goalposts
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) has changed the requirements for its "Y-aircraft" competition and increased the number of aircraft required, to cover a wider range of weight and size options. Rival airframe and engine manufacturers have all resubmitted their tenders to meet SIA's new requirement for a larger family of ...
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Latest Galileo failure threatens the Cassini
Tim Furniss/WASHINGTON DC A FAULTY TAPE recorder aboard NASA's $1.4 billion Galileo spacecraft could prevent much of its data and images being returned from the planet Jupiter this December, after its protracted six-year journey across the solar system. Should it prove impossible to correct the ...
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FlightSafety boosts business training
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) is to build and operate 14 additional business-aircraft flight simulators in a major initiative to expand and upgrade its fleet. Rival SimuFlite Training International is also acquiring additional business-aircraft simulators. FSI cites the number of new business-aircraft programmes, coupled with advances in simulation technology, ...
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Lord quietens Cessna and Beech
LORD, THE Pennsylvania-based noise-control specialists has confirmed major contracts received from Cessna for its Citation X, and from Stevens Aviation, which will act as US distributor for its NVX active noise system, on the Raytheon Beech King Air 200 and 300. Lord has worked with Cessna for some ...
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Jet Aviation
Jack Brooks, has become sales manager for maintenance and modifications, at service company Jet Aviation of West Palm Beach, Florida. He was most recently manager of corporate sales for aircraft maintenance and modifications at Page Avjet. Source: Flight International
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Taiwan's domestic airlines jockey for position
FORMOSA AIRLINES with 23 aircraft, has the largest fleet of Taiwan's domestic airlines. It has two Saab 340As, six Saab 340Bs, three Fokker 50s, seven Dornier 228s and two Pilatus Britten-Norman BN-2 Islanders. Another Fokker 50 will be delivered in November. Two Fokker 100s will be delivered, one in December ...
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UPS expects instant ETOPS for 767
Guy Norris/LOUISVILLE UPS Airlines has "tentative approval" from the US Federal Aviation Administration for instant 180min extended-range twinjet operations (ETOPS) with its new General Electric CF6-80C2-powered Boeing 767-300ER freighter. If approved, the UPS 767 will become the second twinjet after the United Airlines 777-200 to ...
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Austrian receives Fokker 70 amid revamp
IN TANDEM WITH TAKING DELIVERY of its first Fokker 70 regional jet (christened the X-Large Fokker-Jet), Austrian Airlines has introduced a revised corporate image. The new design, created by GGK Vienna and UK consultancy Davies & Baron, features Austrian Airlines titles in anthracite grey on the winter-white fuselage, preceded by ...
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P&WC makes plans to offer growth variant of PW500
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES PRATT & WHITNEY Canada, is studying a new growth variant of its PW500 engine family, aimed at the Cessna Citation VII and potential business aircraft in planning or under study. The engine maker is helping to unseat the AlliedSignal TFE731 on the Citation ...
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No need to jump the gun on JAR 65
Sir - Andreas Georgiades, president of Aircraft Engineers International, wrote on the Joint Aviation Authorities' (JAA) requirement JAR 65 (Flight International, 6-12 September, Letters, P43). I would like to point out that the views and facts in David Learmount's original article (Flight International, 26 July - 1 August) ...
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Jet Aviation
Following the acquisition of DHP Aviation, a maintenance fixed-base operator at Seletar Airport in Singapore, Jet Aviation of Zurich has appointed Ruedi Kraft to head the operation. Kraft joined Jet Aviation Zurich as general manager in 1989. Before that he was with Global-Wulfsberg Systems. Source: Flight International
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Long-range rivals compete
Gulfstream has an aircraft; Bombardier has major pieces of one - the long-range business-jet market enters a new phase. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA THE MAIDEN FLIGHT of the Gulfstream V is less than one month away; the first flight of the Bombardier Global Express is less than a ...
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Brazil's budget jet
Delivering on its promises for the EMB-145 regional jet is the first challenge for newly privatised Embraer. Graham Warwick/SAO JOSE DOS EMBRAER HAS YET to capitalise on the success of its EMB-120 Brasilia 30-seat regional airliner by bringing a second product to the market. Its first ...
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Lear Model 45 has first flight
LEARJET FLEW the prototype Model 45 business jet for the first time on 7 October, and is hoping to accelerate flight-testing after a "flawless" first flight. The aircraft was flown from Wichita Mid-Continent Airport, in Kansas, on the 32nd anniversary of the first flight of the original Learjet 23 light ...
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Sextant Avionique wins Dash 8-400 avionics contract
BOMBARDIER HAS selected French firm Sextant Avionique as the risk-sharing supplier of avionics for the de Havilland Dash 8-400 70-seat, high-speed, regional turboprop. The integrated avionics suite, Sextant's first for a regional airliner, will include flat-panel cockpit displays, flight controls, instrumentation, radio communications and navigation, sensors, weather radar ...
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Deutsche BA negotiates to acquire more Saab 2000s
DEUTSCHE BA is negotiating to convert two of its five options for Saab 2000 turboprops into firm orders. The company expects to convert the other three options in 1996. The current talks on the exchange of two smaller Saab 340s for the Saab 2000s are expected to be ...
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Pakistan nears FC-1 avionics decision
COMPETING WESTERN manufacturers expect Pakistan to select radar, an avionics suite and a systems integrator before the end of the year for its planned FC-1 (MiG-21) fighter now being developed by Chengdu Aircraft. The FC-1 is a successor to the now-defunct Super 7 project, and it is intended ...
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HUDS gain ground
HEAD-UP DISPLAYS (HUDs) for business aircraft are finally catching on says Flight Visions. The Sugar Grove, Illinois-based company says, that its FV-2000 low-cost HUD is now certificated on the Cessna Citation II, Learjet 55 and Gulfstream IV. By the end of the year, says President Robert Atac, the ...