Business Jet Traveler » October 2008

Stevens Delivers Modernized LJ 35
October 1, 2008
Business aircraft maintenance, modification and completions firm Stevens Aviation recently delivered its first Lear4Ever-an upgraded Learjet 35. For $2 million and six months of downtime, the Lear4Ever program provides upgrades, retrofits and modifications intended to modernize and extend the life of 20- and 30-series Learjets.
Deb Copeland
October 1, 2008
After hitting bottom in her teens and early twenties, Deb Copeland completely
Deb Copeland knows what it's like to fly high. She's doing that now, both on chartered aircraft and in her life. But she also knows how it feels to hit what seems like bottom-and then keep falling.
LaGuardia cuts General Aviation Slots
October 1, 2008
The FAA has reduced from six to three the number of hourly slots available to general aviation at New York LaGuardia Airport. Ed Bolen, president and CEO of the National Business Aviation Association, contends that the FAA is focusing on operational limitations at the airport instead of on ways to increase its capacity.

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“When you get into the larger aircraft it becomes like a hotel, with dozens of staff supporting the plane based in a galley area down below. You have very comprehensive cooking facilities, and on larger aircraft we have looked at theatres, with spiral staircases and a Steinway grand piano. The limitations for what you can put inside a plane are pretty much the limits of physics, and even money cannot always overcome that. Even so, people are still always trying to push [the limits]. ”

-Howard Guy of Design Q, a UK-based consultancy