State of the industry: Canadian airframer plans ‘Super Global’
The buzz, as these words are written, is that Bombardier planned to unveil a “Super Global” here at the NBAA Convention, and in the end the ­company was no

The buzz, as these words are written, is that Bombardier planned to unveil a “Super Global” here at the NBAA Convention, and in the end the ­company was not able to maintain complete radio silence. Possibly alarmed at the prospect of too much substantial chatter erupting ahead of time, the company chose to confirm the basic premise of its planned announcement on September 30.

The pre-convention speculation represents something of a turning of the tables. For years, this same variety of scuttlebutt had been scrutinizing the fuselage diameter of the Gulfstream large-cabin business jets, which, while growing dramatically longer in both feet of cabin length and nautical miles of range over the decades, had remained unchanged in cabin width since the marque was introduced in 1958 as a twin turboprop.