Small Passenger Jets

This greater span was powered by the fact that it was a very flat blade, in contrast to the more curved rear blade typical of a specially constructed aircraft.

Embraer 135 wings. Wasn' like a 727 but still, not exactly a 328J. Due to its origins as a turbo-prop aircraft, it was engineered for a much lower cruising rate, which means that the jet was as slowly as molasses. Embraers could reach 450 kt, and the 328 jet was fortunate enough to reach 400.

The most interesting experience in my aeronautical carrier was a journey from Oberpfaffenhoffen, Germany (home of the Dornier factory) to Washington DC in the Summer of 2001 with a 328Jet transfer-plane.

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An RJ is a category of small to mid-size turbofan-powered local jets.... Among others, these planes are used by companies such as the SkyWest and American Eagle commuters. Its low propellant usage, which results in low operating costs, makes local jets perfect for use as shuttle planes or to link low volume airport operations with large or mid-size hubs.

The Essential Air Service programme makes heavy use of local jets. A " local jets " is a set of small to mid-size turbofan-powered airplanes that were used worldwide after the airlines were deregulated in the United States in 1978. In the aeronautics industry, however, there is no new approach to the use of planes for jetliners.

For example, from the end of the sixties, Aeroflot used the Yakolev Yak-40 when its carrier acted as a state-controlled domestic policy. The smaller Aerospatiale Corvette was used as a local aircraft in the west from the seventies on. A number of large corporate jets such as the British Aerospace 125 and Dassault Falcon 20 were also used by smaller carriers in the sixties and seventies.

Big 70-100 passengers short-haul planes in the West have been around for years. Flag carriers began ordering the first real short-haul plane, the Sud Aviation Caravelle, a twin-engine turbo jet for use on inter-European airways. After the war, many of the planes of the post-war era were often used by the world's large carriers on prestigious flights such as London-Paris or New York-Chicago, which were often less long and important from an economic point of view.

The introduction of economies of scale, which flourished in the years after the Second World War, saw the non-jet jets of the major carriers migrating to the "home airlines", "small airlines", "feeder airlines" and "commuter airlines" on board our flights and Skyways. Those former 50 large passenger planes had started to seep to the bigger fuselage and small airline companies used on lower reach regions that had become their strength, especially in the USA. Smaller "mini airliners" soon found local alcoves in the 1960' as airplane makers such as the British Shorts Skyvan, Brazilians Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante and French Nord 262 tried to conquer the lower end of the DC-3 aftermarket.

US travellers who were used to fly bigger jets, and even the smaller "soaked" short-range propellers fitted with functions such as toilets and flight attendants, were amazed when they flew with "puddle jumpers" on board that had neither. Because of the growth of shuttle route access market, carriers and airframe builders quickly substituted these "puddle jumpers" with bigger, comfortably fitted turbo-prop mini-airliners, usually operated by smaller regional carriers to serve the hubs of bigger carriers.

With the same strong demand, these "mini airliners" were quickly replaced by fast speed local turbo jets of the first gen (as the first-generation Bombardier CRJ became known) and distinguished from previous-generation aircraft. A further factor behind the decline in the turbo prop segment was the launch of the first local jets.

Though a number of small jets were put into use in the 1950' and 60', in particular the Sud Aviation Caravelle, the Fokker F28 Fellowship, the British Aircraft Corporation BAC One-Eleven and the Yak-40, they were unable to rival the turbo-prop constructions in operating costs and were suited for low passenger lines as compared to shorter ones where the focus was on consumption.

As with the Dash 7, the gap for this type of construction turned out to be quite small, and its four motors resulted in higher service cost than twin-engine constructions. It was later built as the Avro Regional Jet (ARJ). As a result, Bombardier designed a bigger plane, the CSeries. Graphic compare between airplanes on the basis of the number of seating places.

Initially designed for use from one airfield to another without the use of bypasses, these planes generated industry-wide discussion about the reduction in the hub-and-spoke design. Though not as economic as the turbo prop, they reduce the need for low-cost local jets through the use of non-stop air travel to and from smaller aerodromes. 2 ] The passengers prefered jets for both actual and perceptual purposes.

CRJ and ERJ victories also play a subordinate role in the failures of Fokker, whose Fokker 100 was constricted on both sides by new Boeing 737 and Airbus 319 engines on the "big" side and Fokker 100 on the "small" side. The majority of orders come from post-Soviet and Middle Eastern countries, as Europe is still reluctant to accept planes from the former USSR.

To date, the Boeing 747-Short Range (SR) has been the biggest ever single-seater in the region and is used extensively in Japan. It had a reinforced landing gear and a reinforced cell to handle the extra landing and take-offs of local services. Air Lines Japan was the first carrier in the whole wide range to launch this 747 in 1974.

Coincidentally, it was this short-haul Boeing 747 that was implicated in the plane crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 and caused the greatest human casualty on an airplane of any magnitude. "Yak-40 passenger plane."