Kirby Harrison is a freelance writer for The Weekly of Business Aviation, Business & Commercial Aviation and others in the Informa publishing chain. Harrison joined the Navy in 1962 and spent 20 years in the service, virtually all of it as a photojournalist, traveling from small islands in the South Pacific to Vietnam to the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon. When Harrison retired from the Navy, he went back to college and graduated in 1971 from Syracuse University with a Bachelor's Degree in Photojournalism. Along the way, he spent two years as a news photographer at the Daily Press & Times Herald in Newport News, Virginia, and three years working for Studio Sebe in Nice, France as a photographer. More recently, before retiring, he worked nearly 20 years for Naval Aviation News.
Embraer’s newly certified Legacy 450 will receive an increase of max range from 2,500 nm to 2,900 nm with four passengers, giving the twinjet New York-Los Angeles nonstop flight capability.
Nextant Aerospace, best known for its fast-growing Nextant 400XTi light-jet remanufacture of the Beechjet 400A or 400XP, is now “studying engineering, costs, certification process and market potential for a super-midsize or large-cabin business jet rebuild project,” said Jay Heublin, Nextant executive vice president of global sales and marketing.
