Aircraft
Cirrus sketches jet details in broad strokes
“From our point of view it’s not as big a jump from piston aircraft to a jet as you might think,” Alan Klapmeier, chairman, CEO and cofounder of Cirrus Des

“From our point of view it’s not as big a jump from piston aircraft to a jet as you might think,” Alan Klapmeier, chairman, CEO and cofounder of Cirrus Designs, told AIN.

Klapmeier explained that the key to making jets more accessible is recognizing that high performance is not necessarily linked to complexity. “It used to be that to get a high-performance airplane it had to be complex. We saw a link among jets, complexity and performance, but the three are actually unrelated. You can have any combination [of two] without the other.”

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