NBAA Convention News 2009
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Maintenance and Modifications
Concorde Battery STC’d for challenger
Bombardier Challenger 300 operators now have a choice of replacing the jet’s original nickel-cadmium main ship battery with a new Concorde RG-441 lead-acid
Aircraft
S/E VLJ programs still face significant hurdles
Almost 27 years after bizjet legend Allen Paulson announced–and then abandoned–the single-engine jet known as the Gulfstream Peregrine, the single-engine v
Engines
New engine programs
The design of new airframes always depends heavily on availability of new engine types.
Study champions bizav’s bottomline advantages
As NBAA and the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) continue to help the general public, politicians and communities understand the benefits
High-end customer base helps BBJ chart path through recession
Boeing Business Jets announced in May at EBACE that its then-president Steve Hill would be retiring in July after 30 years at Boeing and that BBJ chief
Aircraft
Supersonic bizjet designers troll for manufacturing partners
If paper was aluminum, glass and titanium instead of just paper, two Nevada-based groups developing supersonic business jet designs would have revolutionar
Av bloggers bring their best and the worst to the Web
Seems like the buzz about social media is never ending these days–so much so, in fact, that you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who has not heard of a blo
Accidents
10 years on, NBAA notes anniversary of Stewart crash
October 25 marks the 10th anniversary of an event that shocked the worlds of aviation and golf when one of the game’s greats–Payne Stewart–lost his life af
Aircraft
Five-year Euro SSBJ study inconclusive as to engine type
High-Speed AirCraft (Hisac), a European research program studying the feasibility of a supersonic business jet (SSBJ), is coming to a close at the end of t
Embraer envisions a long, slow industry recovery
While there are signs of an economic recovery–often difficult to see and even more difficult to interpret–Embraer president and CEO Frede
