Category: Safety
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The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Convention 2006 was held recently. Here is a summary of new articles related to the convention that may be of interest: jobwerx, bizjournal, orlandosentinel, and Honeywell search at flightglobal.
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CIRRUS offers a unique safety feature as a standard for all their aircraft models — an airframe parachute recovery system. Their site has more detailed information and a FLASH movie you can watch of the parachute being actually deployed on an aircraft in-flight.
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Joe Shareky @ NY Times tells his story of "Colliding With Death at 37,000 Feet, And Living". Joe was on a free lance assignment for Business Jet Traveler magazine, and in the Embraer Legacy 600 that had a collision with a Boeing 737 over Brazil were 155 people on the…
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Raytheon’s Flight Options has the following personal portfolio view of themselves: Large dedicated maintenance network Offering either fractional, lease, or JetPass service plan options Over 150 aircraft available from light jets to legacy executive platforms They also seem to be building around the following motto: Safety, Service, Stability.
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A new FAA report shows "air taxi" safety improving in 2005 vs. 2004.
Steve Holden's Blog 