All Business Jets articles – Page 701
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Gulfstream takes EVS lead with GIV
GULFSTREAM PLANS to demonstrate an enhanced-vision system (EVS) on a Gulfstream IV business jet later this year, to meet customer demand for a reduced-visibility landing capability. Flights will involve a GIV-SP demonstrator equipped with a Mitsubishi infra-red (IR) sensor, imagery from which will be projected on to a Honeywell/GEC head-up ...
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JAR-FCL update
THE JAR-FCL COMMITTEE meeting to approve draft five of the regulations was held in Dublin, Ireland, during the week ending 10 May. Draft five, having taken account of all input, is intended to form the JAR-FCL regulation for fixed-wing-aircraft pilots. JAR-FCL Part Two, for helicopter pilots, is not ready yet. ...
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Ready to roll
Bombardier is to roll out the first Global Express long-range business jet on 26 August at its de Havilland plant in Toronto, Canada, where the aircraft is now structurally complete. Gulfstream, meanwhile, has flown the third Gulfstream V long-range business jet . Source: Flight International
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HUD okay
Flight Visions expects certification of its FV-2000 head-up display in a Canadair Challenger 601-3A in June. FV-2000s have been installed in Cessna Citation IIs, Gulfstream IVs and Learjet 55s, with installation in the Citation III, Dassault Falcon 20, 50 and 900, Gulfstream II and III and Raytheon Hawker 800 under ...
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Boeing schedules September delivery for first F-22 wing
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING IS ON schedule to deliver large sub-assemblies for the first pre-production F-22 air-superiority fighter to its partner Lockheed Martin in September, amid rising confidence that the first flight will take place on time in late May 1997. Boeing's two biggest sections of ...
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DASA prepares 328 cryoplane
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is to go ahead with a programme to convert a Dornier 328 turboprop to a hydrogen-fuelled testbed late this year. "The aim is to use the knowhow gained with the Dornier 328...for Airbus applications at a later date," says DASA. The project, now in ...
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GATX seeks approval for 747F modification
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA GATX/AIRLOG HOPES to gain US Federal Aviation Administration approval for a modification to its Boeing 747 freighter conversion by mid-1996. An initial attempt to obtain relief with an airworthiness directive (AD) limiting gross weight failed, and the company is conducting additional structural analysis. ...
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Regional and utility aircraft directory
Fokker's demise is the most dramatic in a series of upheavals taking place throughout the regional-aircraft industry Compiled by Andrew Doyle and Jennifer Pite/LONDON Graham Warwick/ATLANTA FOKKER IS DOWN, the count almost over, but the winner is far from clear: not the customers left with unfulfilled orders for ...
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Separate expense
Julian Moxon/PARIS BUSINESS-JET OPERATORS are becoming increasingly concerned about the costs of upgrading older aircraft to prepare them for the new reduced vertical-separation minima (RVSM) rules, recommended by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and due for introduction on the North Atlantic in early 1997. Owners ...
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UPS may package passengers
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA UPS Airlines is considering operating weekend passenger-charter services using otherwise-idle cargo aircraft. As a first move, quick-change conversion kits for five Boeing 727-100 freighters are being considered as a way to increase aircraft utilisation. The results of a study into the feasibility of offering passenger-charter services to tour ...
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Winglet gives Gulfstream GII 'hot-and-high' benefit
AVIATION PARTNERS, a Seattle-based company producing a blended-winglet conversion for the Gulfstream II, hopes to attract new sales for the aircraft in 1996 on the back of better-than-expected hot-and-high performance from the modified wing. The company says that "hidden advantages" of the drag-reducing winglet modification are emerging ...
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Bombardier regroups
BOMBARDIER IS TO reorganise, following the resignation of president Raymond Royer. The Canadian company is to split into five operating groups, each headed by a president. Robert Brown, president of Bombardier Aerospace, North America, (Canadair, de Havilland and Learjet) will be president of Bombardier Aerospace Group, which will now include ...
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Testing complete on de-icing boots for Twin Commander
Twin Commander Aircraft (TCAC) has completed flight-testing of Aerazur Permaflex de-icing boots for Model 690 and 695 Twin Commanders. According to Arlington, Washington-based TCAC, the new boots have superior de-icing performance and improved electrical bonding which eliminates the need for conductive sealing around the boot edges and ...
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Chinese Learjets
China's Hainan Airlines has ordered a Learjet 60 for delivery in mid-1996, to join a Model 55 used for corporate charters. The aircraft is the first new business-jet sold to China's private sector, says Learjet. Malaysia's Ministry of Transport, meanwhile, has taken delivery of a second flight-inspection Learjet 60. ...
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GE gives go-ahead for CRJ-X engine
GENERAL ELECTRIC has formally launched development of the CF34-8C turbofan amid growing speculation that Bombardier is to follow suit with the proposed CRJ-X 70-seat stretch of the Canadair Regional Jet. At the same time, GE has signed an -8C collaboration agreement with Japan Aero Engines, a group formed ...
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DASA ready to finalise sale of Dornier unit to Fairchild
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON, DC DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) hopes to complete the sale of of its Dornier Lufthahrt regional-aircraft manufacturing unit to US manufacturer Fairchild Aircraft before the end of the month, according to Manfred Bischoff, DASA's president and chief executive. Speaking in Washington on 30 April, ...
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Learjet
Roger Sperry has been named vice-president for marketing and sales at Bombardier subsidiary Learjet, of Wichita, Kansas. Sperry, previously vice-president for North American sales, replaces Ted Farid, who has resigned. Before joining Learjet, Sperry held senior sales-management positions during a 20-year career with Cessna Aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Tunnel tests prove Premier performance
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT HAS COMPLETED windtunnel testing of its Premier I light business-jet. Stability and control tests of the one-eighth-scale model shown here were conducted in Boeing's transonic tunnel in Seattle. Low-speed tests were performed at Boeing in Philadelphia and at Wichita State University. Source: Flight International
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BA shelves its $1 billion regional-jet purchase
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS has postponed a proposed $1 billion order for up to 60 regional jets. The airline says that it has not finished restructuring its regional operations in time for the purchase to go ahead. BA had invited five manufacturers to tender for ...
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Learjet's second 45
Learjet flew the second Model 45 light business-aircraft on 6 April and says that the first flight of the third of five test aircraft is imminent. Flight-test delays have pushed certification back to January 1996, the end of parent company Bombardier's financial year. Source: Flight International