Content Archive: October 2007
Aircraft
Gulfstream Begins Customer Deliveries of G500s
Venture capitalist Danny Pettit last month received the first Gulfstream 500, a less expensive (approximately $37.5 million), shorter-range (5,800-nm nonst
Charter & Fractional
Fractional Operator Plans To Go Part 135
Flight Options CEO Kenn Ricci plans to obtain Part 135 approval for the Cleveland-based fractional provider.
Gulfstream Patent Confirms SSBJ Still Has a Pulse
After a flurry of interest late in the last decade that appeared to lose momentum in the wake of 9/11, there is evidence that progress toward defining a su
Engines
Cessna launches Mustang engine flight-testing
Flight testing of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW615F–the engine Cessna selected for the Citation Mustang–got under way in Wichita on April 27.
Regulations and Government
Bush moves to deflate GA relief bill
The General Aviation Industry Reparations Act (H.R.3347) encountered rough air when the Bush Administration asked lawmakers to put off a vote on the measur
Maintenance and Modifications
Heading off aircraft part failures at the pass
How much would it be worth to be able to reliably predict the structural failure of any part or component of an aircraft long before any flaw becomes visib
Not business as usual at Farnborough 2004
Organizers of the UK’s biennial Farnborough International Air Show (to be held July 19 to 25) have signed up several major exhibitors for the event’s new B
The all-American business jet and its European partners
Despite the large-cabin Gulfstream’s aura of being the all-American business jet, it has significant European content.
Grand China Takes First ERJ 145
The Harbin-Embraer Aircraft joint manufacturing venture on September 28 delivered the first of 100 airplanes to its biggest Chinese customer, Hainan Airlin
