Hot-Rod Corporate Jet Achieves Promised Performance Goals
Sino Swearingen Aircraft
Corporation (SSAC) tells ANN that their SJ30-2 is meeting or
exceeding a series of promised performance specifications on the
eve of an impending Type Certificate award by the FAA.
The new SJ30-2 jet aircraft is now about to enter the aviation
world with FAA certification due by the end of the year.
Sino-Swearingen boasts that, "everything about (the SJ30-2) spells
futuristic; with jet speeds and range years ahead of its time,
fighter aircraft looks, an ultra high speed of Mach .83 (486 kts,
560 mph), faster than all light business jets in production, and
currently announced, coupled with a range of 2,888 sm (2,512 nm)
also places the SJ30-2 as the longest range light business jet on
the planet."
Bob Kromer, Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporations Senior Manager
of Flight Operations and Flight Test, commented, "It's wonderful to
see the achievement of all our performance goals. The entire Flight
Test team worked very hard to make this announcement possible. We
have developed an airplane that will give our customers the
ultimate in speed, range, altitude capability and endurance. Saving
time is what corporate aviation is all about. With all superb
performance numbers now verified for the SJ30-2, customers will be
able to travel quickly, comfortably and more efficiently than ever
before in any other business jet in our price range. We've
delivered to our customers what we promised. We hope they enjoy the
wonderful ride the SJ30-2 delivers."
John Siemens, Senior Engineering Test Pilot for the SJ30-2
commented, "It is good to know that our extensive flight test
program has resulted in validation of our design goals. The SSAC
test team has performed numerous tests to determine optimized
performance. We know that the SJ30-2 will outperform the
competition and give our customers what they expect in range, speed
and field length performance -- exactly what we promised!"
Mario Asselin, Manager Flight Sciences, Weight, and Future
Programs added, "The SJ30-2 has met its design goals because of the
hard work of a dedicated team that combined the knowledge and
expertise from every discipline of the aerospace industry. The
SJ30-2 represents the best combination of airframe and engines from
a performance standpoint. It achieves the best takeoff speed and
distance, climb, cruise, and landing performance for a given
payload-range. It has been demonstrated to be safe in all corners
of the flight envelope by company and FAA pilots. I am proud to be
part of the team that has worked on this aircraft."
Something To Brag About
Among the promises made (and kept) by the SJ30-2, the
jet claims...
- World's Longest Range Light Business Jet - 2,888 SM
- World's Fastest Light Business Jet - Mach .83 (560 MPH)
- World's Highest Altitude Light Business Jet - 49,000 FT
- World's Best Pressurization - 12 PSI
- Stall Speed - 91 Kts
- Typical Landing, Vref - 105 Kts
- Balanced Field Typical 3,585 FT
Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation is finalizing the FAA
certification of the new SJ30-2 twinjet aircraft at its
international headquarters and manufacturing facilities in San
Antonio Texas, with over 600 employees in four facilities totaling
over 220,000 sq ft in the USA Coast to Coast. SSAC continued
spectacular acceleration toward the FAA certification, when it
received the FAA final TIA recently, and is projected to obtain the
FAA TC (Type Certification) on time, during the fourth quarter of
2005.