Sport Aviation and Jet Aircraft
To our knowledge, the Eclipse 500 [pre-delivery] order book is greater than that of any single civilian jet in the history of aviation. Eclipse Aviation expects to deliver approximately 140 aircraft in 2004, 500 aircraft in 2005, and 900 aircraft in 2006. Fleet customer aircraft delivery commitments extend through 2008. An order placed today will be granted a mid-2006 delivery position. To date, approximately the first two-and-a-half years of production aircraft have been sold out.
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Young Men Trying to Imitate the 9-11 Scenario, Part I
When the luxury tax law was enacted 30 years ago the aviation market tanked and never really recovered. Read Airport Business, Flying, AOPA, Sport Aviation or Private Pilot, you will see. This caused more aircraft to be sold and Piper, Cessna, Mooney, Beechcraft, Rockwell, Aeronica, Robinson, Grumman all did well in aviation. That was wonderful for general aviation, aircraft sales prices and the entire general aviation industry. Others in his peer group and older people who understood his dreams to fly.
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Young Men Trying to Imitate the 9-11 Scenario, Part III
We made airport restrictions on general aviation hurting the boy's chances to get another free airplane ride in now and again. I am not saying that Teen Challenge, DARE or any of another dozen programs are not totally worthy efforts both in our time spent and the results yielded. Only different in that they try harder or dream more. But I do point out here and forever that we are simultaneously rewarding those who act out and are not following the program. Those who go beyond what normal kids do and try to exceed the normal realm of their social structure.
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Common Cockpit Concepts and Convenient Configurations
Now then I am not criticizing the lack of cranial capacity in the modern day human, rather simply suggesting a reality check is needed. We spend too much time in training of soldiers, drivers, pilots, operators with increasingly more complicated equipment. If we borrow a friend's car we are constantly looking for where stuff is, where is the hood release, fuel hatch release and how the hell do I turn off this G-Dang windshield wiper? As machines get more complicated and humans become more brain dead due to bad use of natural selection, we will need counter these issues with better designed standardization such is being done in the CCI. If you gain or lose weight you can then adjust manually the Common Cockpit you are in and it will imprint on your SmartCard the new position. Humans do not have the patients for that really and the potential loss of equipment and life is the resultant.
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China is Starting to Build Military Fighter Trainers
The JL-19 or FTC 2000 aircraft is a tandem two-seat, single engine jet fighter aircraft developed by Guizhou Aviation Industry. This would be one terrific little fighter plane to own for personal use and fly around as a sport plane too. And if you have the money, they would sell you one too. The JL-19 Mountain Eagle or the FTC-2000 it's NATO number will use the Chinese built WP-13 jet engine. Since it is both a fighter and trainer, some small countries, lacking a large fleet of fighter planes, could use the Mountain Eagle to train their fighter pilots in peace time, arming it for use as a fighter in war time.
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Inflatable Slots for STOL
Short Take Off and Landing Aircraft are extremely valuable in commercial, private, government and military aviation. For standard landings if desired the system would be filled with ram air rather than a cartridge. Each system would contain ten rechargeable cartridges. Cartridges only used for extreme take off performance safety factors or emergency landings. Additionally a secondary cartridge could be deployed on touch down, which would act as an airbrake causing the aircraft to come to an almost immediate stop.
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Young Men Trying to Imitate the 9-11 Scenario, Part IV
We do not need any more rules in general aviation. Why don't they stick up for what is right here and say something? If it were not for our victories in the air in previous wars we would not be able to maintain our countries freedom. On a mission that most did not come back from. Do you honestly think they would vote for more laws in aviation? Certainly not, yet they are the ones who know about such, who are able to change policy. Are we to say that our Presidents experience could never have existed in today's times? The answer is YES, that is what we are saying.
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Fighter Jet Trainers Sport Planes
Aviation Week had some interesting things to say about this project. Many countries still are not exactly feeling good about buying the Korean T-50s. The US is now taking delivery of Raytheon's T-6A Texan 2 has the security of U. Now as a matter of fact I talked to a training pilot in San Antonio who said they were getting their first ones in last June. Many Aerospace consultants in Europe believe this aircraft may take the lead around the world as the trainer of place.
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Is your air traffic control person real?
Think about this and the virtual reality simulators used in aviation. You can also stay up on this information by subscribing the newsletter. It will not be long now before many aircraft are flying themselves and the air traffic control personal in the control towers do not even have windows to look outside, as the whole thing will be in a video game like augmented reality which will be recorded for later use in virtual reality training of new controllers in air traffic control simulators. Did you know that air traffic professionals are now training in virtual reality simulators hooked up to pilots in aircraft simulators and the whole thing does not even exist? Talk about working in a dream world. Generally these controllers have many things going on at once which you cannot possibly know and what looks like a pipe dream or wishful thinking on their part is part of a larger plan.
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Flying As A Hobby
She operates a web site that is devoted to flying and aviation resources. Then you need (or want) the unnecessary (but fun) goodies that we all need to pursue our passion. Let's see, do we pay the mortgage this month, or get that (fill in the blank) that you just have to have. If your flying hobby is doing more harm than good, if it's dipping into the family budget and time allocation, more than you can or should be spending, it's time to reevaluate. You start out with trying to budget for the weekly flying lessons.
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The History of the Aircraft Wash Guys, Part One
This was when the ITC-Investment tax credit was taken away, America was still in the energy crisis with high fuel prices and luxury tax law went into affect the next year and killed General Aviation. Andrew and Lance were also in the Boy Scout Aviation Explorers. As part of this business he started the first Aircraft Multi-Listing Service, which was online. Although the Internet was not really being used yet and TRS 80's were just hitting the market. He sold approximately 40 or so aircraft back then and assisted other brokers in doing the same.
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Airline Fuel Costs Mount
Think of the military aviation, jets, helicopters, UAVs, AWACs, bombers and even flying gas stations in the sky for aerial re-fueling. The airline industry is under extreme pressure now. If they keep raising their fees to passengers then the passenger per plane ratios drop off, meaning flight are unprofitable. Generally Airlines too are a 24-hour business. It is like running several airlines non-stop 24/7.
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A Look at Fractional Jet Ownership
An exciting concept in private aviation, however, is allowing private jet travel to make more sense for those who have seriously considered it as a possibility. Nothing says success like the ability to roll out of bed, take a shower, eat a nice breakfast - all while you cut through the air at 528 mph. Fractional shares start at 1/16 of a share, which can be as low as $369,875 in a Hawker 400XP. The Marquis Jet Card starts at $109,900 for 25 hours in a Cessna Citation V. In fact, the BBJ is even available with a boardroom, bedrooms, and a shower.
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American Airlines; Crash: Nov. 12, 2001
Some industry analysts say that Airbus builders are working for the laziest Union in the World selling to mostly government subsidized airlines. The aircraft involved in that crash was an old Eastern Airlines plane, which was probably not too sturdy anyway for lack of maintenance back when that airline was falling apart. Three pilots sitting in a cockpit who make way over the average standard of living and negated the reason they are so highly paid. If you jeopardize or disavow these known quantities you will get to visit Murphy much more often than originally anticipated. We have performance and strict engineering principles mandated by natural laws governed by Mother Nature who could really give a darn what you do.
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Airlines, Price Wars, and Branding
An Industry that takes wartime aviation advances and a few years after to allow for the new technology to reach the private sector with new and efficient aerodynamics and electronic positioning and fuel allocation devices. HAVE CAPACITY RADY TO TAKE ON NEW CUSTOMER BASES AS COMPETITORS LEAVE THE MARKET. CREATE A MASSIVE DIVERSION RIGHT BEFORE YOU START SO THEY WILL NOT SEE IT COMING. LOWER PRICES BY ONLY 60% OF WHAT YOU CAN, SAVING FORTY FOR LATER, WHEN THE REAL WAR BEGINS. HAVE INSIDER INFORMATION ON YOUR COMPETITION AND KNOW THEIR NEXT MOVE.
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