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Some interesting “real world” aviation news - Aeromarket reports that the Cirrus Jet has made its first flight.
Cirrus Design Corporation recently announced that the most highly anticipated aircraft in the company’s history, hitherto called ‘The-Jet’, made its first flight at approximately 10 AM CDT on July 3rd, 2008. The 45-minute flight was conducted from company worldwide headquarters at the Duluth International Airport, Duluth, MN and the aircraft performed flawlessly.
A few days later the company finally gave its new light jet a name and model number. The single engine VLJ will henceforth be called the SJ50 “Vision”.
“We had to come up with something that fit the idea, image, and dream,” said Alan Klapmeier, Cirrus CEO and cofounder at a meeting of SJ50 customers earlier this week. “The SR in our first two planes - the SR20 and SR22 - stands for “single-engine reciprocating,” Klapmeier said. “So SJ continues the same logic with “single-engine jet.”
You can read the full article on the Aeromarket site.
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