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Honda exhibit: Rocking and rolling HondaJet
The Honda exhibit at NBAA 2012 in Orlando features a HondaJet flying above a sea of lights, animated and moving side to side, banking, and dipping gently.
Cessna exhibit: Virtual reality
You are standing on a virtual reality platform in the Cessna exhibit at NBAA2012 in Orlando. By drawing your left hand from left to right, you can select the model of aircraft you would like. By raising your right arm, you can control a cursor. Pumping a fist in the air allows you to change the paint scheme or interior, depending on which way you pump.
Cessna static display at Orlando Executive Airport
The Cessna exhibit features aircraft big and small, from the Corvalis to a Citation X.
Up close at the NBAA2012 static display
AOPA brings you a slildeshow of the aircraft and happenings at the NBAA2012 static display.
NBAA2012 by the numbers
Which jet can go 6,000 nautical miles at Mach 0.90? How many Hawker Beechcraft jets could lose warranty coverage, and how much debt is the company shedding in bankruptcy?
New Beechcraft hints at reengined Bonanza, Baron for jet fuel
While Hawker jet owners may end up the losers, owners of Beechcraft products may be winners as Hawker Beechcraft emerges from bankruptcy in early 2013. Shawn Vick, executive vice president for customers, said the company has been working on a five-year plan of product developments that include four new products.
Aerial view of business aviation convention
Based on square footage of exhibit space, the National Business Aviation Association Convention is the fifth largest trade show in the country.
Joint venture to put Williams engines on Citations
Sierra Industries is joining forces with Clifford Development to develop and market Williams International FJ44 engine upgrades for the Cessna Citation business fleet.
Heard at NBAA2012
Find out which manufacturing company's chairman apologized to customers, which Congressman said there is a "cease fire" on business aviation, and what it will take for the business jet industry to recover - all this heard at NBAA2012.
Nextant has something new in the works
Nextant Aerospace has a new modification project in the works, but can’t say just what it is until January. The company now offers modifications to the Hawker 400, dubbed the 400XT, in competition to one approaching certification by Hawker Beechcraft called the Hawker 400XPR.
