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 ...ed under the immense canopy,
followed by the jolt of the airframe
settling onto the mesquite shrubs. Safely
on the ground, he climbed from the
intact aircraft to await help.
CAPS was born out of Cirrus Design's
determination to make small aircraft
safer. When the decision to make the
safety system standard equipment was
announced, many in the industry
scoffed, some even suggesting it was...
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 ...INALIST
CIRRUS
DESIGN
ACHIEVEMENT:
Advances in light aircraft
control panels
Cirrus Design was established in an era
of decline in enthusiasm for flight, with
the GA sector in particular, in the
doldrums. The company's co-founders,
Alan and Dale Klapemeier, believed that
...
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 ...st Cirrus SR22
Cirrus' second production
model is stronger, heavier and
faster than its sibling, but the
SR22 is more than just a
power upgrade
WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS DAVE HIGDON / TAMPA
•lying Cirrus Design's new SR22
light aircraft above the south-east
edge of the Tampa, Florida, air
space, my eyes scanned for traffic
while my mind scanned for
something about the aircraft that was elu...
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 ...EOPLE
Cecil Miller
• CIRRUS DESIGN
Cirrus Design, of Duluth,
Minnesota, has named Cecil
Miller vice-president of manu
facturing. He will take charge of
developing Cirrus CR20 pro
duction. He comes from Ray
theon Ai...
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 ...offer better performance,
safety and value.
Usefulness has replaced excitement as the cri
terion against which the success of a GA aircraft
will be judged, believes Alan Klapmeier, presi
dent of Cirrus Design. This company and its air
craft, the SR20, are promoted as models of what
the revitalisation act was intended to achieve —
a new manufacturer with an advanced product,
re-invigoratin...
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 ...or reporting system won the training and safety category.
Finalists were Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems for its
Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System for fighter aircraft, and
the Cirrus Design Corporation for FAA certification of the first general
aviation aircraft - the Cirrus SR20 - to be fitted with an airframe para
chute system as standard.
Flight International Publishe...
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 ...
PLAYING BY
DIFFERENT
RULES
The USA and Europe are moving towards a
harmonised certification programme for
aircraft, but there is still a long way to go
KATE SARSFIELD / LONDON
among tlpm the Cirrus Design SR20 and
CAP Aviation CAP 222 piston singles and
Sino Swearingen SJ30-2 business jet - have
applied. Airworthiness requirements for
larger aircraft, over 5,700kg, under the
FAR/JAR ...
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 ...nally established a foothold as production machines in die last decade, and no fewer dian diree new
designs have come to market widiin a two-year
period. The aircraft leading this new wave
include Cirrus Design's SR20, Lancair's
Columbia 300 and Diamond Aircraft's DA40
Star. And diere are more to come.
Fortunately for pilots, each member of diis
trio of tricycle-gear machines occupies a dis...
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 ...EGY
China Southern Airlines
SARS strategy
Rolls-Royce
Development of TotalCare
Volga-Dnepr
Growth of outsize cargo business
GENERAL AVIATION
L-3
SmartDeck flight control and
display system
Cirrus Design
Primary flight display
Liberty Aerospace
Liberty XL2
INFRASTRUCTURE &
ENVIRONMENT
East Line Group
Growth of Domodedovo
International Airport
UnitPool
Pooled Unit Load Device
m...
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 ...S & CORPORATE
AVIATION
Rockwell Collins
Pro Line 21 Continuum
lAI/Elta Systems
Flight Guard
Honeywell
AS907
CORPORATE STRATEGY
Virgin Blue Airways
GENERAL AVIATION
Sikorsky Aircraft
S-92
Cirrus Design
Cirrus Airframe Parachute System
Diamond Aircraft Industries
DA42 Twin Star
INFRASTRUCTURE &
ENVIRONMENT
Boeing
Checked baggage security
programme
East Line Group
Domodedovo In...
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 ...built aircraft yet
developed. Kit price is estimated at $350,000, excluding engines, avion
ics and interior. Initial production will be 12 kits a year.
SR20 is billed to "re-vitalise" GA industry
Cirrus Design unveils
mock-up of SR20
Cirrus Design has revealed a mock-up of its long-antici
pated new production aircraft,
billing it as part of the "re-vital-
isation of the general-aviation
[...
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 ...the "base" 7E7, which is
now defined with a design range of
15,700km (8,500nm), an increase
of almost 1,300km.
The SR22 is the best-selling aircraft in the Cirrus product range
GENERAL AVIATION
Cirrus Design takes first steps
to upgrade piston single line
Cirrus Design has replaced its SR22 piston single with an enhanced new
generation version called the SR22 G2. The launch of the G2 mark...
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 ...way more than 20kt in speed despite
having retractable gear. This puts the SR22
at the bottom of its class, price-wise, but
near the top in performance, sophistica
tion and user-friendliness.
If Cirrus Design became a threat to
established general-aviation aircraft manu
facturers when the SR20 came along -
offering an aircraft with more speed on less
power for less money in its power class...
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 ...USINESS & GENERAL AVIATION
DELIVERIES GRAHAM WARWICK / WASHINGTON DC
Cessna and Cirrus Design
buck downward trend
Other manufacturers see deliveries slide, with turboprop market collapse most severe
General aviation manufacturers
have reported a steep decline in air
craft de...
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 ...because someone has
made a mistake so human factors investigation is vital,
they noted. "We need this type of reporting system across
the industry - a true open system," says one judge.
FINALIST: Cirrus Design Corporation
ACHIEVEMENT: FAA certification for the first GA aircraft to
be feature an airframe parachute system as standard
When Cirrus Design received US FAA certification for its
C...
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 ...
Lynton gains Premier's US
Federal Aviation Administration
certificate for fixed-wing and heli
copter operations. •
Cirrus resumes SR20 assembly
despite demonstrator crash
DAVE HIGDON/WICHITA
CIRRUS DESIGN has re sumed production of the SR20
single-engined four-seat business
aircraft, as the investigation con
tinues into the crash of the first
demonstrator. The first produc
tion SR20 ...
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 ...
companies increasing or restarting produc
tion of existing piston singles. It has taken
new firms longer to bring their clean-sheet
designs to market - but the production
lines are now rolling.
Cirrus Design delivered 183 of its SR20
and SR22 all-composite four-seaters last
year, up from 97 in 2000, and the com
pany plans to produce "double or better"
that number this year. "We are still...
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 ...re unquestionably
picking up.
That said, the structure of the market may
be changing. Fractional ownership has
mushroomed in the USA and similar enthu
siasm is emerging in Europe. The punishing
Cirrus Design is developing the all-composite
pusher-propeller STSOfor Israviation of Israel,
•with certification planned for 1996
legislative and tax environment in Europe
and much of the Far Eas...
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 ...rcraft Man
ufacturers' Association (GAMA), Paul Fiducia
of the Small Aircraft Manufacturers' As
sociation (SAMA) and AGATE executive-coun
cil members representing Arnav Systems,
Cessna Aircraft, Cirrus Design, Raytheon
Aircraft and Teledyne Continental.
Dr Bruce Holmes, AGATE director and
head of NASAs GA office at Langley Research
Center, Virginia, believes that the next five to
ten yea...
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 ...ver-optimistic, too many
manufacturers may be chasing the market.
As well as Adam, Avocet, Cessna, Dia
mond, Eclipse and Satire, there are others -
serious and speculative - waiting in the
wings. Cirrus Design, which recently
became the first GA start-up to deliver
1,000 aircraft - has a single-engined jet on
the drawing board, but says development is
at least two years away. New Piper Air...
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