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Monday, February 23rd, 2009 |
Is there more a valuable asset than your time? With check-in, security hold-ups, delayed take-off and taxiing times, and baggage claims, a 4 hour commercial flight could take 75 minutes on a private jet. Drive right on the tarmac and get out of the Maybach aircraft a few steps away from the Learjet’ cabin door. While a Boeing airplane is taxied to its runway in a single file behind a dozen other aircraft, you’ll already be 50,000 ft in the sky on a conference call planning the day’s order of business.
How centered and ready for business will you be worrying about luggage that left on a previous flight which was too booked for you to board? Focus on resolving your company’s obstacles by brainstorming with a colleague in your chartered jet’s cabin lounge flying to a regional meeting.
Your aviation specialist will help you choose a plane that has the range to take you where you want to go nonstop. Even if you have to refuel at a commercial airport, private jet passengers are reserved a General Aviation (GA) lounge where you could see how your stock portfolio is doing online, while sipping a complimentary latte and chewing on a freshly baked croissant. Players do not hustle to make connecting flights or layovers.
The private jet flies on your schedule. You say you got stuck in traffic making it to the fixed based operator - private jet airport? Your airplane for sale will wait until you are good and ready to board. Private jet travelers don’t have to wait hours or sleep in an airport terminal to await the next flight.
Private jet charter flights are also more secure since the only other passengers on your flight are friends, associates, and colleagues with whom you wish to travel. There’s no need for an air marshal to monitor any strangers that can make your flight unpleasant.
In terms of safety, pilots and aircraft employed by private jet charter are certified and rated by the FAA. Private aircraft must meet safety standards set by Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Parts 135 or 91.
Want to get started? You don’t have to own a private jet to fly like you do. Private jet charter open-fleet brokers have access to thousands of jets, helicopters, cargo airplanes, and turboprops that can transport you and/or your cargo in the exclusive comfort, security, and speed private jet travel affords.
Private jet charters eliminate the need to have the millions required to buy a jet. You pay for your charter flights on a per-trip basis. If you don’t fly frequently, or you don’t have to always fly privately, there’s no need to have a plane rusting in a hanger being charged rent. Flying by private jet charter eliminates the full cost of maintenance, certification, and FAA user fees associated with owning a private jet.
Fractional programs that require you to buy a piece of a jet won’t let you fly 10 people if you own a fractional share of a Learjet airplane 45 that holds six people. Private jet charter brokers have access to the heavy jet that’ll fly those 10 passengers to and from any place you demand. Further, fractional programs will use a broker to charter a jet if your jet is unavailable because another owner is using it. There are no five-year fractional purchase rigid commitments to one jet when flying by private jet charter.
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 |
Cessna 550 Citation is a twin-engine business class jet airplanes. It forms part of the Citation series of aircrafts brought out by Cessna which were initially characterized by twin turbo-powered engines and straight wings. The jets of Cessna Citation series have long been the mainstay of corporate air travel in the United States.
The Cessna 550 Citation was another name of the Citation II series developed by Cessna in order to improve upon its Citation I aircrafts. The latter had proved to be successful in the market of business jets with its turbo-fan engines and ability to take off from smaller airfields.
Production of Cessna 550 Citation aircrafts continued from 1978 to 1994 and during this period around 603 aircrafts were manufactured. The production of Citation II S/P aircrafts was thought to replace the Citation 550 as the former had the capability to be flown by a single pilot. However the Citation II continued to be manufactured side by side the Citation II S/P and was finally replaced by the Citation Bravo.
An upgraded version of the Cessna 550 Citation II was the Model 551 which came to be known as the Citation II S/P. the latter was developed to compete in the Turbo-prop segment as most of the aircrafts in this segment were flown by single pilots. Yet another improved variant was the Model S550 Citation S/II which employed a more powerful engine of the JT15D4B class. Other than that it also had an upgraded design which gave it superior aerodynamics.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008 |
The US Navy has asked Boeing to make good on a four-year-old promise to accelerate deliveries of P-8A Poseidon long-range maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft, following last December’s grounding of around a quarter of its Lockheed P-3C Orions.
“We’re working with the navy right now on a capacity analysis to understand what the possible rates out of the factory are,” says Boeing Integrated Defense Systems P-8A programme manager Bob Feldmann. “There’s a gap in capability that needs to be filled.”
Boeing Commercial Airplanes vice-president P-8A Mo Yahyavi says the aircraft manufacturer believes it can build “18-24 airplanes per year” for the USN and international customers. The navy has ordered 108 aircraft for service-entry from 2013, to be delivered at a rate of 13 a year.
Boeing on 9 June achieved the power-on milestone for the first P-8A development aircraft, which is also the first 737 to be assembled on a third, ITAR-controlled moving assembly line set up at the company’s factory in Renton, Washington.
In 2004, the P-8A won the USN’s multi-mission maritime aircraft contract based on Boeing’s lowest-priced bid, and a promise that the manufacturer could accelerate the in-service date by up to one year.
Boeing is for the first time attempting to integrate production of a military airliner derivative with its commercial assembly lines, rather than roll-out a “green” aircraft for modification. The P-8A combines the fuselage of the 737-800 with the wing of the longer -900, but its airframe is strengthened to cope with sustained g-loadings.
“Rather than building a green airplane, flying it someplace, cutting it up and trying to make it into a military aircraft, our approach is radically different on this programme,” says Feldmann. “We decided to build to the navy requirements and design-in from the ground up, so that the aircraft is built with a bomb bay and all the structure, duct work and wiring in it.”
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 |
Business travel can be a grind, But for NASCAR drivers and race teams who are on the road for 36 races per year travel is unavoidable.
If these teams had to rely on commercial airline schedules travel would be a nightmare, if not a logistical impossibility. That’s why most of the top tier drivers own private jets, and race teams operate fleets of small aircraft to transport pit crew members and team executives to the racetrack each week.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. owns a LearJet 60, which is the top of the LearJet line, and their largest jet. It’s a business jet that can seat up to 10 passengers.Thanks to the jet Earnhardt can leave his home in North Carolina and be at the racetrack in Daytona or Texas a couple of hours later — about the time it would take to drive to a major airport and clear security.
NASCAR rookie and former Formula One driver Juan Pablo Montoya also owns a LearJet 60. 2006 champion Jimmie Johnson owns a Learjet 31A, and Jeff Gordon owns a British Aerospace Hawker 800.
Most of the drivers leave the flying to professional pilots, but Mark Martin is a licensed pilot who often pilots his own Cessna Citation. Martin lives in a unique community near Daytona Beach called Spruce Creek. It’s a fly in community with it’s own airport. Residents have aircraft hangars in the yard where most of us have garages. Martin can literally park his jet in the garage.The race teams operate larger planes to ferry the pit crews and team executives to the track. Roush Racing operates a fleet of planes, including a Boeing 737 and several smaller business jets. Dale Earnhardt,, Inc. flies it’s pit crew on an Embraer 120, a mid-size turbo-prop that seats 30 passengers.While cars have vanity license plates, NASCAR teams have vanity aircraft registration numbers. Dale Jr’s Learjet is N8JR, and Jeff Gordon’s Hawker is N24JG. The corporate Embraer at Dale Earnhardt, Inc. is N500DE.NASCAR has come to rely on private jet travel so much that many tracks are located right next to airports. Daytona International Speedway is located right next to Daytona Beach International Airport where private jets and commercial flights arrive daily.While most tracks are not located so close to a major international airport, some tracks have built their own airports. Right next to Atlanta Motor Speedway sits Tara Field, a small general aviation airstrip that sees little traffic until race week, when more than 600 planes descend on this tiny airfield.However, some tracks are not as convenient, but when that happens expect the NASCAR drivers to come up with a solution. When NASCAR descends on a track like Dover Delaware some drivers like Dale Earnhardt bypass race traffic by flying from the airport to the racetrack in a chartered helicopter, landing directly in he infield.Some people consider private air travel a luxury, but with the hectic schedule of today’s drivers it is a necessity. Following a Sunday afternoon race a driver can hop on his jet and be home by Sunday night. This means they can meet with the crew chiefs and team owners Monday morning to review the previous race, and develop a strategy for the following race. During the week drivers are often on the jet again, meeting with sponsors, shooting TV commercials, making public appearances, and testing. Without a jet this schedule would be impossible. Most drivers agree that having a private jet gives them one to two days per week of productive time, or just allows an occasional day off.
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