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Dale Klapmeier CEO & Co-Founder, Cirrus Design Corporation |
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This industry has always followed the engine development. We design airplanes around engines. We tell our engine suppliers we want an engine that will do this mission because of market need. Without an engine you can't have an aircraft. We now have small, light and efficient jet engines for the first time ever, so that's why there's so many airplanes coming out in this arena.
They want to carry more, faster, and farther than what you now can with the current airplane. We're not looking at, "How do you take a jet and do what jets have done in the past?" but, "How do you create the product that our customers want next, and it will have a jet engine?" Or - it's the propeller driven airplane that just has a whole bunch of short little propellers.
Thank you for your time and participation in Very light Jet Magazine. How can our readers go on the web and find you guys to find out more?
Dale, we're all looking forward to the Cirrus Jet. Thank you! |
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VLJM: Very Light Jet Magazine is here with Dale Klapmeier, Co-founder and Vice Chairman of Cirrus Design. Dale, tell us about building on the incredible success of the SR-22 and your decision to go into the VLJ arena.
We see our airplane not as a VLJ - we're calling it a personal jet or The-Jet by Cirrus because we're looking at it completely differently. We're not going to build a small jet - we're going to build a bigger, more comfortable, faster, farther range, greater distance and power airplane that just happens to have a jet engine. We're building on the SR-22 and we're building what our customers now want and that is to move up to the next level.| < Prev | Next > |
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VLJ Views
The Very Light Jet era has arrived with several aircraft manufacturers in the competition! What exactly is a VLJ? These new planes have also been known as microjets and personal jets. The name Very Light Jets, or VLJs, is now official!
The NBAA Training Guidelines for Single Pilot Operations of Very Light Jets and Technically Advanced Aircraft defines Very Light Jet as: "Jet aircraft weighing 10,000 pounds or less maximum certificated takeoff weight and certificated for single pilot operations. These aircraft will possess at least some of the following features: (1) advanced cockpit automation, such as moving map GPS and multi-function displays; (2) automated engine and systems management; and (3) integrated autoflight, autopilot and flight-guidance systems."
What's in it for us? Very Light Jet travel technology offers us a revolution in the way we travel for business and pleasure. The price of these sleek rockets is from $1.0M to $3.0 million and change, placing them well within the reach of many businesses and individuals.
Very Light Jets can operate from shorter runways than commercial airliners and this means that they can utilize the 5000+ satellite airports around the US.
Our days of having to endure the obsolete hub-and-spoke system to get anywhere by plane may finally be numbered. Affordable jet ownership and private jet charter is soon to be available to a massive number of travelers!
