Today, we'll hear US Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, and Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, from the opening of this week's NBAA convention in Atlanta.
Embraer performed the maiden flight of its second Phenom 100
jet, registration PP-XOM, Wednesday. Captain Marcio Brisolla
Jordão, Captain Antonio Bragança Silva, and flight
engineer Carlos Roberto Silveira Filho.
ANN Daily Touch N Go: 09.27.07 (ANN's
Short-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 09.27.07
(ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Special Feature: XOJET, Part II --
09.27.07 (ANN Special Feature, with CEO Paul Touw and Chief
Strategist Nick Solinger on XOJET's big Challenger 300 order.)
Brings Graphic Data-Link Weather To Integrated Avionics For
GA
WSI Corporation announced this week its WSI InFlight broadcast
cockpit weather service was selected by L-3 Communications Avionics
Systems to depict North American weather information on the new SmartDeck Integrated Flight
Controls and Display System.
AgustaWestland told ANN Thursday that Synergy Aerospace has
signed a contract for 12 more helicopters including AW109 Power,
Grand and AW139 models. This latest contract is part of the
framework of the multi-year contract and distribution agreement
signed in July 2006 which agreed the acquisition of 56
helicopters.
Epic Aircraft gets 200-million dollars and a big-name consultant. Embraer shows prospective customers its new executive jets at NBAA. And Piaggio Aero celebrates one of its biggest sales ever.
Epic Aircraft gets 200-million dollars and a big-name consultant. Embraer shows prospective customers its new executive jets at NBAA. And Piaggio Aero celebrates one of its biggest sales ever
Today, CEO Paul Touw and Chief Strategist Nick Solinger from XOJET return to talk with ANN's Paul Plack about their $1.9 billion order for up to 80 Bombardier Challenger 300 jets, announced immedia
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Charter Sales, Airport Development... Maybe Even An SSBJ
Day two of the 60th Annual National Business Aviation
Association Convention settled into a steady state with fewer press
announcements, but no lack of news. Thanks to continued buying by
the on-demand market, some diverse developments in airport
development and a trickle of aircraft development news, the
business-aviation news at the convention retained its sense of an
evolutionary trend.
This one made us shudder... and it has nothing to do with snakes
on a plane. A China Airlines maintenance crew reportedly discovered
a 28-inch crack in the fuselage of a Boeing 737-800 last week.
ANN Thanks One Of Our
Favorite NBAA 2007 Special Coverage Sponsors:
Cirrus Design (Display Areas #5001, Static Display)
It is tremendously difficult to raise the bar each year in
regards to our special events coverage, but thanks to sponsors like
Cirrus Design, we get the chance to try.
It's a cause-and-effect relationship as old as time itself: if
you want to earn more money... you'll have to work more. Executives
at the world's largest airline have taken that attitude to
heart.
United Kingdom-based airport Operator TBI-Abertis Airports
announced Wednesday the resignation of Jon Horne as Managing
Director of Cardiff International Airport. Horne has been MD at
Cardiff since November 2001.
Regional Express (Rex), Australia’s largest independent
regional airline, tells ANN it will provide more drought aid for
affected-communities as low rainfall in several parts of Australia
continues one of Australia’s worst droughts.
Visit Diamond Aircraft At NBAA
Display #4039!
ANN is proud to have friends like Diamond Aircraft to help us
bring you coverage of the 2007 NBAA Convention. Each Diamond
Aircraft is a testimony to efficiency in design. Not a line is
wasted; not a curve is out of place. From the elegant DA20, and its
roots in gliders... to the larger DA40 four-place birds... to the
ALL-NEW DA50... and the gorgeous, Thielert diesel-powered DA42,
these planes live up to their 'Diamond' moniker.
The Airbus Corporate Jetliner (ACJ) Family has reached the
milestone of 100 sales, worth $5.5 billion based on list
prices, 10 years after program launch in 1997.
The Lindbergh Foundation announced at a Wednesday press
conference at NBAA 2007 that Linden Blue, Chairman of Spectrum
Aeronautical, LLC, has joined its board of directors.
NASA reports the Space shuttle Discovery is targeted to roll out
to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, FL on Saturday,
September 29, as preparations for the STS-120 mission move
forward.
See Eclipse at their display in Booth 2248, as well as the
Static Display!
Eclipse Aviation, manufacturer of the world's first very
light jet (VLJ), returns to NBAA for 2007 with a full FAA Type
certificate and production certificate in hand -- as well as the
exciting ECJ POC aircraft. More important; the company is
delivering Eclipse 500s and has opened two Eclipse Service Centers
(ESCs).
"The hold up isn't money, though; there's plenty of
money available."
Source: Brian Barents, long-time
business-aviation executive and vice chairman of Aerion, which is
now seeking an OEM manufacturer for its supersonic business jet.
Aerion recently froze the design of the aircraft, with the next
step edging ever close.
NOTAM Number: FDC 7/8267
Issue Date: September 26, 2007 at 1200 UTC
Location: Miami Center, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Beginning Date and Time: September 27, 2007 at 1050 UTC
Ending Date and Time: September 27, 2007 at 1236 UTC
Reason for NOTAM: Space Operations Area
Type: Space Operations
Replaced NOTAM(s): N/A
Pilots May Contact: Miami (ZMA) Center, 305-716-1589
NOTAM Number: FDC 7/8251
Issue Date: September 25, 2007 at 2355 UTC
Location: Jackson, Wyoming
Beginning Date and Time: September 28, 2007 at 0230 UTC
Ending Date and Time: September 30, 2007 at 1520 UTC
Reason for NOTAM: Temporary flight restrictions for VIP (Very
Important Person) Movement
Type: VIP
Replaced NOTAM(s): N/A