All Business Jets articles – Page 709
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Core avionics
The Collins Proline 4 flight tests are in final completion. This system has evolved, too, and is installed in various forms on business jets such as the Beech 400, Learjet 60 and Dassault 2000; it is specified too for the Israel Aircraft Industries Galaxy. The system is much ...
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AlliedSignal develops GPWS for GA aircraft
Guy Norris/WICHITA A LOW-COST TERRAIN-warning system for single-engine general-aviation (GA) aircraft is being developed by AlliedSignal and will be available from around April 1996. The development of the terrain-warning system (TWS) was prompted by the re-emergence of Cessna's light-single product line. "Cessna's going back into ...
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Two-man 727 flightdeck offer
AEROWORKS AND Gull Electronic Systems have teamed to offer a two-man Boeing 727 cockpit, eliminating the flight-engineer's position. The "DuoDeck" conversion is "largely based on the proven design reliability of the two-position Boeing 737-200 cockpit", says Incline Village, Nevada-based AeroWorks. Gull, a division of Parker Bertea Aerospace, based ...
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Learjet 45 first flight delayed
HOPES OF FLYING THE FIRST prototype Learjet 45 light business-jet, before the opening of the NBAA convention in Las Vegas on 26 September, faded when the emergency-egress system on the first aircraft had to be removed, retested, and re-installed, delaying the start of high-speed-taxi tests to 22 September at the ...
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Thai plans A300 update renewal
Paul Lewis/BANGKOK THAI AIRWAYS International is negotiating to purchase five additional Airbus Industrie A300-600Rs and two Boeing 747-400s as part of a long-term plan to rationalise and modernise its fleet. The A300-600Rs are needed as replacements for Thai's elderly A300B4s, now used on domestic and ...
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Learjet renaissance
Bill Lear created a market when he designed the first Learjet. Now Learjet is seeking to revitalise that market with the all-new Model 45. Graham Warwick/WICHITA ...
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Gamblingon growth
The US National Business Aircraft Association annual convention and exhibition comes to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the first time on 26-28 September. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA NEWS AT THIS year's National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) convention will come from an unusual source. Raytheon Aircraft is not accustomed ...
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Uneven distribution
A country-by-country breakdown of the world fleet of turbine business aircraft provides a few surprises for manufacturers looking for expanding markets. Forbes Mutch/LONDON NORTH AMERICA dominates the business aircraft market, both in terms of manufacturing and operation. Fact. South America continues to emerge as the market most ...
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NASA tests hypersonic design
Andrew Doyle/LONDON A HYPERSONIC-aircraft concept, known as the "wave-rider", which would be capable of speeds ranging from Mach 4 to M6, is undergoing wind-tunnel tests at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia. The wave-rider series, powered by air-breathing hypersonic engines, would be particularly suitable as ...
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Datalink deal
Universal Avionics Systems and Teledyne Controls have teamed to develop a low-cost datalink service, which will be able to communicate via VHF, satellite, Mode S and airphone systems. Universal's two-way datalink will provide the basis for the new unit. Source: Flight International
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Uprated Hawker nears completion
COMPLETION OF THE FIRST PRODUCTION Hawker 800XP business jets is under way at Raytheon Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas. The XP is a Hawker 800 upgrade, with increased design weights, aerodynamic improvements, system upgrades and up-rated AlliedSignal TFE731 engines. Source: Flight International
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World turbine helicopter accidents and incidents
Compiled by David Learmount/LONDON ACCIDENT DATA have been drawn from Flight International's own research, and extensively from the databases of Airclaims and Lloyds Aviation. Airclaims now researches and publishes the World Airline Accident Summary on behalf of the UK Civil Aviation Authority, and it has an exclusive ...
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Learjet 45 roll-out heralds renaissance
Guy Norris/WICHITA ANNUAL PRODUCTION of Learjet business-jet models could reach 100 by 1999 as the company plans an all-out attempt to regain its market-leadership position from Cessna. Speaking at the rollout ceremony, of the Model 45 light business jet on 14 September, Learjet president Brian ...
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Piper
Larry Bardon, formerly with Lockheed's "Skunk Works" and Pilatus Aircraft, has been appointed director for marketing and sales at light piston-aircraft manufacturer New Piper Aircraft, of Vero Beach, Florida. Dan Elliott becomes manager for manufacturing. Elliott, who previously spent 13 years with Piper, returns having served as chief tool engineer ...
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Contracting the inside out
Bombardier is the latest to contract out interiors Kevin O'Toole/BIGGIN HILL IN AN ERA OF standardisation, the cabin interior remains one of the few parts of an aircraft where the airline customer still has a chance make its mark. For the customer, it ...
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Cessna
Arbrey Barrett has been named vice-president for aircraft completions at Cessna Aircraft, of Wichita, Kansas. Barrett joined Cessna as a manufacturing supervisor in 1965, having held similar positions at airframe manufacturer Boeing, of Seattle, Washington. Five new executives are appointed for the company's single-engine-aircraft interests. They are H D Cartwright, ...
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Cabin comforts
Trends in aircraft-interior design are being dominated by the increasing need for passenger comfort and entertainment Gunter Endres/LONDON THE CABIN-INTERIORS market has undergone significant changes in the past few years, prompted largely by the recession in the air transport industry. The inability of airlines to finance ...
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Cessna boosts training
Cessna has introduced an improved private-pilot course for authorised Cessna Pilot Centers (CPCs), developed jointly with Jeppesen Sanderson. There were once more than 1,100 CPCs worldwide, of which some 360 survive in the USA and Canada, but Cessna plans to expand its training-centre network with the delivery of new piston ...
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Boeing revises Chinese training plans
BOEING HAS SHELVED immediate plans to equip its proposed China headquarters site in Beijing with flight simulators and will instead concentrate on other training initiatives. The company had been considering establishing an integrated pilot- and technical-training centre, fitted with simulators. The proposal was revealed in 1994, by Boeing ...
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Air France and BA aim to please passengers
TWO OF EUROPE'S largest airlines have committed huge sums of money to woo the high-yield passengers with new concepts in first-class cabins. Air France launched its new L'Espace service on long-haul routes to the Americas and Asia on 11 September, while British Airways is expected to reveal its ...