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||| |—|—| | | | In mid-September, Nimbus Group announced that it had ordered 1,000 Eclipse 500 very light jets. Nimbus also made an investment in Eclipse; financial details of that deal have not been disclosed. Under the terms of the agreement, Eclipse will deliver the jets to Nimbus over a five-year period beginning in […]

||| |—|—| | | | | Advanced new models, like Dassault’s Falcon 2000EX, are expected to fuel future bizjet sales.| Honeywell intended to release its 10-year forecast of business jet aviation sales at the 2001 NBAA Convention in New Orleans. Shortly after the attacks on September 11th, the convention was postponed. Despite the shock waves […]

||| |—|—| | | | In October, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum opened its “Aerobatic Champions” exhibit, which features the newly restored Pitts S-1C Little Stinker and the Loudenslager Laser 200. Little Stinker (shown), hand built by designer Curtis Pitts, was small and lightweight, with a short wingspan allowing for extreme agility. […]

||| |—|—| | | | If you inadvertently stumble VFR into IMC, or lose your primary flight instruments while flying IFR in the clouds, don’t expect the controller to be of much help, at least according to the case presented in a recommendation made by the NTSB. From 1997 to 2000, there were 220 fatalities […]

||| |—|—| | | | Cirrus Design, maker of the SR20 and SR22 piston singles, got the investment it has been seeking for the past couple of years. Crescent Capital, the U.S. arm of a Middle Eastern investment company, has funneled $100 million into Cirrus, a stake that gives it around 60 percent ownership of […]

||| |—|—| | | | On the last day of August, Gulfstream made the first flight of its G-V-SP four weeks ahead of schedule. During the two-hour, six-minute flight, the flight test crew (John O’Meara, captain; Tom Horne, copilot; and Bill Osborne, flight test engineer) took the airplane to its ultra-long-range cruise speed of Mach […]