Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.

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A Aviation Partners (API, estande 1018) está expondo pela segunda vez na LABACE, de acordo com Gary Dunn, vice presidente de vendas e marketing. Enquanto a API está destacando todos seus programas de modificação de winglets, no Brasil, o foco é o mercado de atualização de winglets para jatos Falcon. Até o momento, a modificação da API no winglet do Falcon 2000 está aprovada no Brasil, mas a API está tentando acrescentar a série Falcon 900 também – apesar de já haver Falcons 900 mais novos com winglets da API de fábrica voando no Brasil. “Há uma quantia saudável de Falcons 2000 e 900 [no Brasil],” disse Dunn.
Nos modelos Falcon 900, 2000 e 50, que utilizam a mesma asa, os blended winglets High-Mach da API oferecem redução do arrasto e um aumento correspondente do alcance de “5 a 7 por cento numa típica velocidade de cruzeiro de intermediário a longo alcance,” Segundo a API. A maioria dos operadores com aeronaves equipadas com winglets preferem aproveitar a elevada capacidade de subida oferecida pelos winglets, Dunn explica, e depois voar em velocidade normal e aproveitar a elevada capacidade de alcance.
Sobre os Falcons 250 (os modelos 2000, 900 e 50), estes estão agora equipados com winglets; eles incluem em torno de 100 instalações posteriores e 150 instalados pela Dassault durante a fabricação. “Estão se tornando muito comuns,” disse Dunn. No Falcon 900, a API recentemente recebeu aprovação da FAA e da EASA para operações mais próximas nas aeronaves equipadas com blended winglets – uma restrição anterior foi retirada após testes de voo no ano passado.
As winglets da API são de material composto, exceto um subestrutura interna de metal que é acoplada à asa, e são fabricadas pela austríaca FACC. Instalações de winglets são feitas em locais aprovados pela API, e, geralmente, os operadores brasileiros voam para os EUA para fazer a modificação (em um fornecedor de manutenção aprovado pela ANAC). Operadores que desejam economizar uma bela quantia em dinheiro durante a instalação do winglet podem optar para que ela seja feita juntamente com a modificação dry-bay do Falcon, caso seja necessário. Fazer os winglets e o dry-bay ao mesmo tempo, disse Dunn, economiza em torno de 300 horas de trabalho, que custa em torno de US$30.000 (a US$100 por hora). Se for realizado durante o check C, a modificação do winglet não acrescenta nenhuma hora a mais.

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