Aircraft
Pilot Report: Sino Swearingen
A sage old pilot once neatly captured the purpose of business aviation: “People buy airplanes because they want to go places…fast.”

A sage old pilot once neatly captured the purpose of business aviation: “People buy airplanes because they want to go places…fast.”

Sino Swearingen, the company originally started by self-taught aeronautical engineer Ed Swearingen, now 81 and a consultant to the San Antonio-based group, is working on producing the SJ30, an airplane it hopes will capture a significant slice of the light jet market by being different enough to appeal to a particular customer base, yet not so different that it will end up on the fringe of the industry.

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