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AISI PUSHES FOR COMPOSITE AIRCRAFT CERTIFICATION.
Advanced Materials & Composites News, October, 2000
Advanced Aerodynamics & Structures Inc. of Long Beach, Calif. has is developing a new plane with a fuselage of carbon fiber composites. The company has 188 orders, each with a $10,000 deposit. First FAA certification of a new corporate aircraft by a new manufacturer in 30 years. First spin-resistant certification.
Best performance of any single-engine craft on the market. The list price is just under $1.5 million each. The design is a pusher engine with a forward canard wing. Based on engineering projections, AASI president and CEO Carl Chen has been advertising the plane as the world's lowest-priced and fastest executive propjet, with a 345 mph cruise speed. That speed makes the Jetcruzer 500 faster than twin-engine planes like the King Air B-200 and...
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