Fri, Jan 17, 2003
Passes All FAA Landing Gear Torture Tests to 'Ultimate
Load'
Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation
continues advancing the FAA certification process with the
successful passing of all testing of nose and main landing gears to
FAA required Ultimate Loads.
Dr. Carl L. Chen, CEO and President of Sino Swearingen, said:
"Major milestones are being completed at a phenomenal rate in
recent months. Employees at SSAC are orchestrating an amazing
acceleration for FAA certification of the new ultra-high
performance SJ30-2 twinjet. We have accomplished more in recent
months than in a previous year." Dr. Chen added, "With critical FAA
landing gear testing milestones concluded we are free to turn the
aircraft to final phase static testing of additional structures and
finalize the FAA certification as soon as possible."
Dr. T.H. Tsiang, Deputy Senior Vice President, Operations,
concurred: "During static tests witnessed by the FAA, SSAC provided
proof of the substantial Ultimate Load strength that has been
engineered into all landing gear systems and components." Dr.
Tsiang continued with the testing description: "First the Landing
Gear is drop tested and subjected to massive forces in a number of
configurations to LIMIT LOADS. These loads are the amount of force
exerted on the landing gear in absolute worst case, real life
scenarios, such as very hard and high force landings. Then the
landing gear is subjected to ULTIMATE LOAD testing. This is the
crucial testing of 150% of additional forces and loads over those
experienced in the worst case Limit Load tests.
"Included in the massive load testing is essential spin-up,
spring-back, drag and side loads that are applied to the main and
nose landing gears," continued Dr. Tsiang. "Results validate the
critical structural strength of the landing gear and all fuselage
support structures to provide customers with an excellent landing
gear system that has low maintenance and high use of the aircraft
under extreme landing load conditions. The entire test team led by
Johnny Doo, John Vieger, Rob Dutton and Paul Romano has done a
wonderful job."
Sino Swearingen's SJ30-2 business jet is a high performance,
long range, intercontinental, twinjet aircraft with an incredible
2,875 statute mile (2,500 nm) NBAA IFR range and speeds up to Mach
.83 (558 mph). The new SJ30-2 will operate at altitudes up to 49,000 feet and
maintain a "Sea level cabin" to 41,000 ft with the highest
pressurization differential in the business jet world -- 12 psi. It
will be certified for single pilot operations. Sino Swearingen's
goal is to become the world's leading aircraft producer by creating
a family of cost-efficient, high performance, high-quality,
superior technology business jets.
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