Cadillac-Gage
08-05-2005, 03:35
2000 hours local time, 7 June, 2005...
The sun broke through the almost-constant summer overcast, shining brightly down on the Detrojtja International Aerodrome, lending a kind of near-acknowledgement of something good in Cadillac Gage.
Director of Aviation Safety Larah Mjelniki sighed, as the Volvo-Boeing hangar opened. Ten years of hard work, three more of Aviation-Safety and Department of Defense examination, all for this...)
A band played as cameramen and reporters adjusted their equipment, and director Mjelniki waited for the big, widescreen announcer board to light up.
it did.
"Good Evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this occasion to all the international guests in the stands, and viewing this event in your homes. it's taken thirteen years to do it, but what you are about to see, is something we're [i]all very proud of." Her speech was one she'd been practicing for six months since finally signing off the type-certificates.
"If the cameras will direct their attention to the hangar?" she added. The big-board shifted from the Aviation Safety Director, to the maw of the Volvo-Boeing hangar.
It slowly crawled out, towed by a single airport tug vehicle, and escorted by a selected group of Aviation Journeymen, machinists, and engineers from the programme.
Broad, thick, almost a single-piece shape, the craft was over a hundered and ten yards from wingtip to wingtip, engines podded along the leading edge of the blended body lent a kind of futuristic look, accentuated by the upswept wingtip tailplanes.
One hundered twenty yards wide, and ninety Yards long. It wasn't quite a flying wing, but it wasn't quite a normal airplane, either. the tiny winglets at the nose were actually not-very-tiny, and the whole assembly rolled out, the men and women walking alongside and before it were almost tiny by comparison.
"Folks, THIS is the Volvo-Boeing JAS-110 Liftcruiser Airframe. In this civilian version, it has seating for five hundered passengers in relative comfort, and fifteen-thousand miles of fuel range. The military version will be out momentarily, but I thought you might want to see a jumbo-jet that can take off in under fifteen hundered feet, and cruise at .8 mach. this, is the future of Commercial Aviation. The JAS-110 is built as a Lifting body structure, which gives it good short-field takeoff and landing, excellent fuel economy, and lots of internal space. Space, which..."
A second aircraft rolled out, almost identical to the first-save the lowered cargo ramp and lack of windows along the flanks.
"...is shown here in the Military version, the JAS-111. The same outstanding range and speed as the Airliner, the military and cargo transport version is able to handle up to four seventy-ton main battle tanks, making it comparable to two C-5B heavy lift transports. We've tested the hell out of these aircraft over the last few years before unveiling them. Now, we're releasing them not only to the use of our domestic airlines and military, but for export sales."
The sun broke through the almost-constant summer overcast, shining brightly down on the Detrojtja International Aerodrome, lending a kind of near-acknowledgement of something good in Cadillac Gage.
Director of Aviation Safety Larah Mjelniki sighed, as the Volvo-Boeing hangar opened. Ten years of hard work, three more of Aviation-Safety and Department of Defense examination, all for this...)
A band played as cameramen and reporters adjusted their equipment, and director Mjelniki waited for the big, widescreen announcer board to light up.
it did.
"Good Evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this occasion to all the international guests in the stands, and viewing this event in your homes. it's taken thirteen years to do it, but what you are about to see, is something we're [i]all very proud of." Her speech was one she'd been practicing for six months since finally signing off the type-certificates.
"If the cameras will direct their attention to the hangar?" she added. The big-board shifted from the Aviation Safety Director, to the maw of the Volvo-Boeing hangar.
It slowly crawled out, towed by a single airport tug vehicle, and escorted by a selected group of Aviation Journeymen, machinists, and engineers from the programme.
Broad, thick, almost a single-piece shape, the craft was over a hundered and ten yards from wingtip to wingtip, engines podded along the leading edge of the blended body lent a kind of futuristic look, accentuated by the upswept wingtip tailplanes.
One hundered twenty yards wide, and ninety Yards long. It wasn't quite a flying wing, but it wasn't quite a normal airplane, either. the tiny winglets at the nose were actually not-very-tiny, and the whole assembly rolled out, the men and women walking alongside and before it were almost tiny by comparison.
"Folks, THIS is the Volvo-Boeing JAS-110 Liftcruiser Airframe. In this civilian version, it has seating for five hundered passengers in relative comfort, and fifteen-thousand miles of fuel range. The military version will be out momentarily, but I thought you might want to see a jumbo-jet that can take off in under fifteen hundered feet, and cruise at .8 mach. this, is the future of Commercial Aviation. The JAS-110 is built as a Lifting body structure, which gives it good short-field takeoff and landing, excellent fuel economy, and lots of internal space. Space, which..."
A second aircraft rolled out, almost identical to the first-save the lowered cargo ramp and lack of windows along the flanks.
"...is shown here in the Military version, the JAS-111. The same outstanding range and speed as the Airliner, the military and cargo transport version is able to handle up to four seventy-ton main battle tanks, making it comparable to two C-5B heavy lift transports. We've tested the hell out of these aircraft over the last few years before unveiling them. Now, we're releasing them not only to the use of our domestic airlines and military, but for export sales."