Embraer will begin delivering its new Phenom 100 very light jets next week after receiving U.S. certification of the aircraft. The plane was certified by the Federal Aviation Administration.
“U.S. certification validates the jet’s design and its suitability for one of the most important business jet markets,” Embraer executive vice president of its business jet division said in a statement.
Brazil’s Embraer is seen as the biggest threat to Wichita business jetmakers as it continues to build its business jet sector.
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Exiting FAA Acting Administrator Bobby Sturgell: “You’ll notice I’m throwing new runways, equipment, money, jobs, acronyms, programs, certifications, kudos, and concocted self-serving study “results” at communities right before I eject from office. That’s on purpose. The studies make me appear a regulator rather than simple aeromercantile shill. Runways and other rewards? ‘Bribes’. They buy silent cooperation of the recipients. As for others, I’ll just abuse them. I’ll blame Air Traffic Controllers, pilots, Congress, co-workers, community residents, Israel, India, the Philippines, potash miners, unions, Mother Nature, and even my economic co-conspirators the airlines on my way out, for all my own failures. My best strategy is comprised of the bribes, though – providing me private-sector job security for years to come, while making everybody forget those 3,500-and-climbing aviation fatalities occurring on my FAA ‘watch’”.
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Interesting, read about this here too:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/081215/spm001.html