Diamond's aggressive new D-Jet program has been aimed primarily
at the burgeoning owner-pilot market -- with the hopes that a
simple and capable single-engine jet might be more palatable to the
upgrading piston and light turbine pilot than the supposedly more
complex Eclipse 500 and the Cessna Citation Mustang. With an
altitude limit of 25,000 feet, it is Diamond's hope that the
aircraft will prove to be safer if the pressurization goes
tango-uniform -- and of course, being a single, they expect that in
jet-terms, the D-Jet will be a bargain to operate.
In November of 2006, Diamond announced that Airline Transport
Professionals (ATP) placed the first serious fleet order for 20
D-Jets, with the aim that they will become a major provider of
training to D-Jet owners next year.
Just a few months ago, Diamond confirmed that the single-engine
Williams powered hot-rod will be built near the main plant in
London, Ontario -- no doubt encouraged by the Canadian government's
investment of nearly 20 million dollars, as well as the additional
grant of $11 million from Ontario. The plant investment,alone is
expected to expend some $100 million, by the time the project
reaches completion.
In the meantime, D-Jets are flying up a storm. The first bird
took wing on April 18, 2006, and was followed d by public flights
at Oshkosh. Since then, a second bird has been added to the flight
test program and a third is expected shortly. Certification is
expected in the middle of 2009... delayed slightly by the switch to
a more powerful variant of the Williams FJ33, called the
FJ33-19.
Of special note, is Diamond's early development of a very
capable D-Jet flight simulator, built with pretty much the same
font end as a real D-Jet. Though a separate division builds the
Diamond Flight sims, the devices are already getting quite a solid
rep for their realism, capabilities and utility.
Come along as ANN's Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, takes a
(simulated) flight in the D-Jet and gets a feel for Diamond's
hottest new set of wings!
Aero-TV Goes D-Jet
Flying... Via D-Jet Simulator!
About Aero-TV: It's DEFINITELY Show
Time!!!!
OK, folks, here we go... we are NOW initiating the first
feature programming series for Aero-TV... we're going to take it
slow, but we're also going to try and be steady about this. DO
UNDERSTAND that this is the most complex media program we've ever
undertaken and what you're seeing is just the tip of the iceberg...
but from here on out, we will be doing our best to educate,
inform, and entertain YOU about all aspects of the exciting worlds
of aviation and aerospace.
If you've been an observer of the media and associated media
industries over the last few years, it's not hard to mistake the
fact that a massive revolution is taking place. Old sources for
news and information are falling by the wayside, having to change
their modus operandi or risk obsolescence (or extinction).
Electronic media and print media are both under the assault of
progress, and the online world has been a cornerstone for
revolutionary change.
We've been ready to go for a while, but to be honest, there's so
much more to this program than we've alluded to, and so we've been
building and planning a massive new organization within ANN. That
said, we're hiring talented new people as
fast as we can find them (a far more difficult
task than we had imagined -- REALLY good people are hard to find),
and we're brainstorming at speeds that would make a deorbiting
Space Shuttle feel like a slug. Suffice it to say that we wanted to
do this right, rather than right-now, and that the development of
this program has been the most carefully pursued undertaking we've
ever undertaken.
E-I-C Note: The
complete feature shown above is embedded in this
story, with most of the slick and useful functionality
otherwise available on the main Aero-TV site (which will be
upgraded aggressively over the next few weeks). The ability to
embed a video on another web page is but one of the hundreds
of amazing little features that we've worked hard on, for many
months now, to implement in different phases of the initial
release of Aero-TV. It is, BY NO MEANS, the only way to enjoy
unaltered Aero-TV programming on other parts of the web... as we
have extensive plans for future functionality, but this
feature allows those with an interest in a specific Aero-TV News or
Feature program to embed it on a different web site, though we
must note that we reserve the right to forbid such use for those
sites or purposes that we do not feel fit in with the proper
mission of the Aero-News Network, Inc.
Webmasters or Administrators of well-trafficked aviation or
aerospace related sites, are welcome to contact the Publisher to
start conversations on how they may be able to leverage some of the
immense power of Aero-TV programming for their sites and
constituency by clicking the I Want Aero-TV For
MY Website! link.
Coming Soon!
ANN Is Proud to Present An EXTENSIVE Three Part
Series On The College Park Airport Controversy!, Aero-TV Shows You
How To Build A Glasair Sportsman 2+2 in RECORD TIME, Flies The
Piper Matrix, Hears What's Hot At Blue Mountain Avionics, Gets
Some GREAT Rotax Lessons, Gets Updated On ALL Things Lopresti, Has
A FUN Chat With Corkey Fornof, More On Gobosh--This Time, Though,
On the NEW G800!, Checks Out More "HIGH" Tech at I/ITSEC
2007, Hears From AOPA On Critical Aviation Issues, Spills Some
Juicy (and HIGHLY Detailed) Cirrus G3 Info, Catches Up On ALL
Things SkyCatcher, Scores A BUNCH of LSA Reports, and SO MUCH
MORE!!!!! Do NOT Miss Them!
ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (05.06.25)
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