Passes All FAA Landing Gear Torture Tests to 'Ultimate Load'

Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation continues advancing the FAA certification process with the successful passing of all testing of nose and main landing gears to FAA required Ultimate Loads.

Dr. Carl L. Chen, CEO and President of Sino Swearingen, said: "Major milestones are being completed at a phenomenal rate in recent months. Employees at SSAC are orchestrating an amazing acceleration for FAA certification of the new ultra-high performance SJ30-2 twinjet. We have accomplished more in recent months than in a previous year." Dr. Chen added, "With critical FAA landing gear testing milestones concluded we are free to turn the aircraft to final phase static testing of additional structures and finalize the FAA certification as soon as possible."

Dr. T.H. Tsiang, Deputy Senior Vice President, Operations, concurred: "During static tests witnessed by the FAA, SSAC provided proof of the substantial Ultimate Load strength that has been engineered into all landing gear systems and components." Dr. Tsiang continued with the testing description: "First the Landing Gear is drop tested and subjected to massive forces in a number of configurations to LIMIT LOADS. These loads are the amount of force exerted on the landing gear in absolute worst case, real life scenarios, such as very hard and high force landings. Then the landing gear is subjected to ULTIMATE LOAD testing. This is the crucial testing of 150% of additional forces and loads over those experienced in the worst case Limit Load tests.

"Included in the massive load testing is essential spin-up, spring-back, drag and side loads that are applied to the main and nose landing gears," continued Dr. Tsiang. "Results validate the critical structural strength of the landing gear and all fuselage support structures to provide customers with an excellent landing gear system that has low maintenance and high use of the aircraft under extreme landing load conditions. The entire test team led by Johnny Doo, John Vieger, Rob Dutton and Paul Romano has done a wonderful job."

Sino Swearingen's SJ30-2 business jet is a high performance, long range, intercontinental, twinjet aircraft with an incredible 2,875 statute mile (2,500 nm) NBAA IFR range and speeds up to Mach .83 (558 mph). The new SJ30-2 will operate at altitudes up to 49,000 feet and maintain a "Sea level cabin" to 41,000 ft with the highest pressurization differential in the business jet world -- 12 psi. It will be certified for single pilot operations. Sino Swearingen's goal is to become the world's leading aircraft producer by creating a family of cost-efficient, high performance, high-quality, superior technology business jets.

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