Buenas noticias desde Tamarack – Se han estado llevando a cabo pruebas de rendimiento en vuelo crucero para el modelo CitationJet, y los resultados se ven bien. La compañía aeroespacial Tamarack recientemente compartió datos preliminares de consumo de combustible en vuelos de prueba del CitationJet con aletas en comparación a la velocidad verdadera (véase más […]
Tamarack Aerospace recibió un contrato esta semana para un máximo de 10 kits de CitationJet con aleta activa (un pedido firme de tres y con opciones para siete más adicionales) de parte del corredor de aviación ejecutiva Premier Jet Aviation con base en Fort Myers, FL. Los kits, que se entregarán el próximo año, serán […]
WICHITA, Kan., May 22, 2013 — Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announces the first production flight of its Turbo Skylane 182 JT-A took place yesterday at the company’s facility in Independence, Kan. The aircraft has the distinction of being the first modern single engine aircraft powered by a piston engine specifically […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 20, 2013 — Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, is making progress on two key lineup additions for their family of Citation business jets. The Citation Latitude and Citation Longitude programs are both meeting performance and technical objectives, with both programs bringing new performance and innovation to two different […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 20, 2013 — Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, said today that despite eurozone economic challenges, the company remains confident of the region’s prospects for business aviation and is investing in readiness for a return to growth. Speaking today at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, […]
More good news from Tamarack – they have been conducting cruise performance flight tests, and the results are looking good. Tamarack recently shared a preliminary scatter plot of their flight test CitationJet’s fuel burn versus true airspeed (see below). For those of you who aren’t used to data presented in this way. On the X-axis, true airspeed (KTAS) is shown, […]
WICHITA, Kan., May 8, 2013 — Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, today announced that the first production unit of the new Citation M2 has reached the significant milestone of wing and fuselage mating. Certification is expected in the second half of 2013. “The M2 program is progressing well, and we are all […]
Citation CJ Plus Update – Tamarack Active Winglets Provide Significant Performance Improvements The engineers at Tamarack are fairly accustomed to seeing their modified CitationJet show significant performance improvements during our flight testing, in terms of both climb performance and cruise performance. A recent example – During a series of flights they made around different parts of the western and southwestern United […]
Tamarack has working to optimize the design of their Active Winglets over the last several weeks, and they have collected a vast amount of flight test data in the process. Tamarack has been predicting that their prototype Active Winglet™installation for their CitationJet would reduce the time to climb to maximum altitude by about ten minutes, and all of […]
WICHITA, Kan., April 30, 2013 — Cessna’s new Citation Sovereign recently made its first production flight. Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, announced the program last year. The flight of the new Sovereign lasted a little more than two and a half hours and included tests of the Garmin G5000 avionics with auto […]