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Meanwhile, Dassault Aviation says its forthcoming Falcon 7X model is the first aircraft in industry history to be entirely developed in a virtual environment, from design to manufacturing to maintenance. The jet’s development is revolving around an automation suite that enables Dassault Aviation and its 27 partners in seven countries to work on a common […]

Attempting to fill a niche between its Falcon 2000EX and 900 EX models, Dassault Aviation this week announced the Falcon 900DX, a large cabin tri-jet powered by three Honeywell TFE-731-60 turbofan engines. The engines, rated at 5,000 pounds of thrust at sea level, will give Falcon 900DX operators 1,120 pounds of cruise thrust at 40,000 […]

The A700 AdamJet made its inaugural flight in July 2003 and joined an increasingly crowded field of manufacturers in the light-light jet category. Adam says that the A700 AdamJet “is to date the only flying aircraft in the next-generation jet category,” yet the flying example is far from a production prototype. Put it another way […]

It doesn’t get much better than this, especially for a small company that has yet to deliver its first aircraft, or even receive FAA certification, for that matter. Still, the word “deliver” looms large in the background. In this case, however, Adam Aircraft’s entire sales department should be on a well-deserved junket to somewhere featuring […]

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Safire Aircraft Company last month announced a series of restructuring steps aimed at ensuring the completion and development of its Safire Jet prototype. The Miami, Fla.-based company said that it will reassign comes of the company’s staff to new functions and create a new five-person sales organization. “We wish to focus on refining our sales […]

Gulfstream Aerospace late last month said development of its G450 business jet is “on schedule and on budget,” one year after its first flight. The company added that its own flight test was complete and that tests leading to FAA certification — scheduled for the third quarter of 2004 — were well underway. Customer deliveries […]

A new three-year contract between Dassault Falcon Jet — Wilmington (Del.) and a local unit of the United Auto Workers labor union was ratified late last month, enabling both the company and its employees to get back to work. The settlement of a dispute resulting in the new contract ends a strike at the facility […]

Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (P&WC) completed on May 4 the first run of its new PW610F turbine engine selected by Eclipse Aviation Corp. to power the twin-engine Eclipse 500 Very Light Jet (VLJ). The smallest member of P&WC’s PW600 engine series achieved rated takeoff thrust (900 pounds) after only five hours of the test […]

Meanwhile, Raytheon Aircraft announced late last month that the fourth example of the forthcoming Hawker Horizon entered the company’s certification test program. The latest Hawker Horizon flew for 90 minutes during the initial hop. At the controls were senior test pilot Tim Miller, co-pilot Ken Sasine and flight test engineer Amin Gulamhussein. The three conducted […]