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Fly Faster, Smarter, Better And Safer

On June 28, Cirrus Design Corporation finally lifted the veil on “the-jet,” the much-anticipated clean-sheet design for its “personal jet.” “We’re calling it a ‘personal jet’ not because of its size, but because it’s a natural extension of our SR22 line,” said Cirrus cofounder and CEO Alan Klapmeier. “Like the SR22, the-jet is designed to be owner flown, and it will be loaded with innovative features, including the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System. While it’s technologically advanced, it’s also designed to be exceptionally easy to fly, offering customers the opportunity to grow into yet another lifestyle change with Cirrus.”

Dangerous Past by A.F. Ebbers (Silverhawk Books, 2007, ISBN: 9780978948238). Unknown assassins are stalking airline captain Frank Baden, and they’ve got a deadline by which point they must make his death look like an accident, or a suicide. In their first attempt, an airliner piloted by Braden undergoes a decompression explosion that the FBI believes […]

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2007 Piper 6X Base price: $454, 500 Engine make/model: Lycoming IO-540-K1G5 TBO (hrs.): 2000 Horsepower@altitude: 300@SL Horsepower on takeoff: 300 Fuel type: 100/100LL Propeller type: CD/3-blade Landing gear type: Tri./Fixed Max ramp weight (lbs.): 3615 Gross weight (lbs.): 3600 Landing weight (lbs.): 3600 Empty weight, std. (lbs.): 2222 Useful load (lbs.): 1344 Useful fuel (gals.): […]

It feels great. It looks sexy. You catch yourself daydreaming about it in boring meetings. People come up and look at it wherever you go.

A turbocharged manifestation of desire

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Fly Now: The Poster Collection Of The Smithsonian National Air And Space Museum by Joanne Gerstein London (National Geographic, 2007, ISBN: 9781426200885). This is the companion book to the Smithsonian National Air And Space Museum’s Fly Now! exhibition. Spanning a century and a half, the prints reflect the fascinating visual history of flight as it […]

2007 Columbia 400 Base price: $485,900 Engine make/model: Continental TSIO-550 Horsepower@altitude: 310@SL Fuel type: 100LL Landing gear type: Fixed/Tri. Max ramp weight (lbs.): 3612 Gross weight (lbs.): 3600 Landing weight (lbs.): 3420 Empty weight, std. (lbs.): 2500 Baggage weight (lbs.): 120 Useful load, std. (lbs.): 1100 Usable fuel (gals.): 98 Wing loading (lbs./sq. ft.): 25.5 […]