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new BIZJETS newby Mark Huber BIZJETS The new business jet market used to from bloat, with one in four of the offer- be made across multiple parameters. The be predictable. You could correlate ris- ings less than 10 years old. term “game changer” is going to be heav- ing sales to readily recognizable eco- According to the General Aviation ily overused in the next few years. New nomic benchmarks such as country Manufacturers Association, the indus- aircraft coming to market that truly fit gross domestic products and the pro- try delivered just 292 new jets in the that description should do well. liferation of ultra-wealthy people. But first half of 2016 (4.5. percent down on Still, compelling product alone might www.ainonline.com those predictors are no longer of par- 2015). The current new jet sales mar- not be enough to restore the robustness the ticular use. For those schooled in tra- ket is challenging, and competition is business jet market enjoyed in the past. ditional sales and marketing, the new intense. In this environment, OEMs are Embraer Executive Jets CEO Marco Tulio reality must be especially discombobu- looking to create any market advantage, Pellegrini is pushing an initiative intended lating, akin to the awful feeling a pilot any new product niche, they possibly to create non-traditional markets for his gets when he looks at his instruments can. Many of the new product offerings company’s aircraft. The “premium trans- and realizes that they are wrong. The reflect this in terms of new technology, portation” plan is designed to move pro- number of billionaires in the world has longer maintenance intervals, better fessionals off the airlines and into light jets doubled since 2008, the stock market warranties and overall product sup- serving select city pairs and to get leas- continues to bump into record territory port, or more mission flexibility all the ing companies more involved in business and Asian GDP is ripping along. Yet way along the food chain, from the Air- jets. Pellegrini believes it is not merely sales of new jets are on track to be less bus ACJ320neo to the Eclipse Canada. enough for companies to sell technology; than half what they were in 2008 and OEMs realize that in the current market they must also educate consumers about the used jet market continues to suffer the case for new aircraft acquisition must how to use it. © 2016 AIN Publications. All Rights Reserved. For Reprints go to new BIZJETS Supersonic Aerion AS2 In 2014 Aerion revamped its proposed supersonic bizjet as a trijet with more range and a larger cabin. The new AS2— Aerion supersonic second design—retains the supersonic natural laminar-flow wing of its predecessor, but will have a range of at least 5,000 nm and a cabin cross-section nearly the size of a Gulfstream G550. The 30-foot-long cabin, which is 17 feet shorter than Airbus A350 XWB the G550’s, will feature a two- lounge layout, galley and both forward and aft lavatories, plus a baggage compartment acces- sible in flight. Mtow grows to 121,000 pounds and the fuse- lage is lengthened to 170 feet. Balanced field length is 7,500 feet at mtow, but that is reduced to 6,000 at weights of less than HyperMach SonicStar Aerion AS2 100,000 pounds. Flying at the lighter weight reduces range by 20 percent. Maximum speed technology development. is Mach 1.6; however, the air- Aerion says that the deal has craft is designed to cruise effi- already borne fruit. Earlier this ciently at Mach 0.95 to comply year Aerion CEO Doug Nich- with existing supersonic over- ols noted that Airbus had been flight bans. instrumental in helping with Aerion says a variety of the design of an articulating existing engine cores in the landing gear, the fuel system, 15,000-pound-thrust range could the computerized fly-by-wire be applied to the new design, flight control architecture, and including the Pratt & Whitney the carbon-fiber wing, fuselage www.ainonline.com Canada PW800, GE Passport and empennage structures. and Rolls-Royce BR710. Late last year the program got In 2014 it announced an another boost when fractional Spike Aerospace S-512 agreement to collaborate operator Flexjet signed a let- with Airbus on technologies ter of intent for 20 AS2s with H-Magjet 4400 hybrid turbo- cabin with seating for 12 to 18 associated with the future of plans to offer them to Global fan ramjet engines” with sis- passengers, fly-by-wire flight high-performance flight, and Lease customers. ter company SonicBlue. First controls, a range of 4,000 exchange knowledge and capa- flight for the $180 million air- nm and a top speed of Mach bilities in design, manufactur- HyperMach SonicStar craft is estimated in 2022 and 1.6. Engine selection remains ing and certification. Aerion This revised design proposes a certification in 2025. Testing of pending. Spike is looking for said the deal would lead to a top speed of Mach 4.4, a max- a half-scale model could start a low- to medium-bypass-ratio first flight by 2019 and certifi- imum range of 6,500 nm and in 2018. engine producing about 20,000 cation by 2021. Over the lon- seating for up to 32 passengers. pounds of thrust at sea level. ger term, Aerion said it would The company says it has com- Spike Aerospace The company continues to provide proprietary technology pleted several rounds of financ- S-512 search for funding for the $1 and assistance to Airbus Group ing and is continuing to develop Boston-based Spike’s twinjet billion program and estimates a in its high-performance aircraft its “65,000-pound-thrust design features a windowless market for 600 aircraft between © 2016 AIN Publications. All Rights Reserved. For Reprints go to new BIZJETS Airbus ACJ Neo BBJ Max Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) announced in 2013 that it will build the BBJ Max, an exec- utive version of the 737 Max outfitted with CFM Leap 1-B engines. The first 737 Max is scheduled to fly next year. Deliveries of the BBJ Max are expected to begin in 2018, to date in two variants, the Max 8 and Max 9. They are based on the cur- rent BBJ2 and BBJ3, respec- tively, and have the same cabin sizes as their predecessors but significantly more range. The BBJ Max 8 will fly 6,325 nm, a 14-percent improvement over the BBJ2. The BBJ Max 9 will offer 6,255 nm, 16 percent more than the BBJ3. The new aircraft will be 14 percent more fuel efficient 2020 and 2030. Spike’s goal is to the new engines and the addi- called a sharklet, which reduces than current-production sin- bring an aircraft to market by tion of wingtip “sharklets.” drag and boosts top speed to gle-aisle BBJs, thanks to new- 2022. Earlier this year it began This, plus the addition of more Mach 0.89 from Mach 0.85. design winglets and the new working with Spain’s Aern- centerline fuel tanks, trans- The two aircraft feature the engines, which are mounted nova on development of the lates into more range, which same engine technology. farther forward and higher aircraft. Aernnova is provid- rises to 6,750 nm on the 319 Top speed is Mach 0.89. The on the wing and connected ing structural expertise and col- (eight passengers) from 6,000 cabin of the -900 version mea- by aerodynamically cleaner laborating on development and nm and on the 320 to 6,000 nm sures nearly 170 feet long, more pylons. The Max also gets a validation of structural systems (25 passengers) from 4,300 nm than 18 feet wide and eight feet more aerodynamic vertical sta- such as the fuselage, wing and (eight passengers). Both air- tall, yielding almost 2,910 sq ft bilizer. To provide adequate vertical tail. Spike now claims craft also get lower cabin alti- of floor space. Mtow is close to ground clearance for the larger to have 40 aerospace engineers tudes and redesigned luggage 600,000 pounds. Obviously, an engines, the landing gear will working on the project. holds with more capacity. aircraft this big can’t land just be lengthened so the airplane anywhere: it needs 6,100 feet to will stand a little taller on the Airliners Airbus ACJ350 XWB stop. Takeoff distance at maxi- tarmac. The Max will employ Airbus began delivering the mum weight is 8,770 feet. limited fly-by-wire controls, www.ainonline.com Airbus ACJ Neo A350 XWB to the airlines in While the 350’s cabin is mainly to the wing spoilers. Airbus will make its re-engined 2014 and formally announced wider than the 787’s, the Other planned technology “neo” (new engine option) its intent to offer a private vari- windows on the latter are includes the addition of four A319 and A320 available for ant of the aircraft earlier this noticeably larger and feature 15.1-inch Rockwell Collins the Airbus Corporate Jet (ACJ) year. In private configuration electro-chromic dimming, flight displays in the cockpit— program in 2018. For power, the aircraft will be known as while the Airbus relies on old- the same ones that are on the Neo customers have a choice the ACJ350 XWB and with- technology electro-mechanical larger 787 Dreamliner. of either the CFM Leap-X or out an interior will sell for shades. The larger windows on Maintenance on the Max the Pratt & Whitney PurePower north of $250 million.

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