To pay for his living expenses, he has sold his beloved single-engine Cessna 210 plane and his car.
In 2002 the SR22 passed the Cessna 172 as the world's bestselling single-engine plane.
Bearing this in mind, the sudden interest in single-engine jets is an extraordinary development.
The single-engine jet is a departure from the old idea that redundancy equals safety.
You may not know this, but the market has already accepted single-engine jet aircraft.
In the 1980s he took up flying but crashed his single-engine plane and suffered temporary amnesia.
That's the dilemma faced each day by Cirrus Design, the fastest-growing single-engine aircraft maker in the world.
The 63-year-old Fossett disappeared September 3rd after taking off in a single-engine plane from a Nevada airstrip.
All three single turboprops have superb safety records, a sure sign that single-engine jet aircraft can be successful.
Cirrus is considering a single-engine jet aircraft to compete with single turboprops from New Piper and EADS Socata.
The Pilatus PC12 is built in Switzerland and is a single-engine Turbo-Prop with 9 passenger seats, plus one pilot.
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Modern manufacturing processes combined with electronic fuel control and engine diagnostics make a single-engine jet much safer than earlier models.
Dave Rawlins achieved the 45 hours single-engine flying time needed to win a private pilots licence at the beginning of 2012.
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Last month, Brock piloted a single-engine, turbo-prop airplane to California, carrying 20 dental chairs and other supplies for RAM's 663rd mission.
Back in 2010, avionics manufacturer Rockwell Collins successfully demonstrated a fully autonomous landing system in a stock single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza.
The safety record of solo pilots in single-engine planes is not great.
She remembers flying with him in his single-engine plane across the Iowa border to check out crops, even though he didn't own them.
During World War II, America's P51 Mustang fighter, a single-engine prop plane, creamed the first fleet of German combat jets, the Messerschmitt 262.
Buckalew was the registered owner of the single-engine Socata TBM 700 and had more than 1, 400 hours of flight time, according to the report.
Small-jet innovation and sales are booming, but the poor relations, those single-engine Archers, Skyhawks and Bonanzas, sell at a shadow of their 1970s peak.
He called 911 and they followed the police dispatcher's order to get out of the sinking single-engine plane, then "everything went blank, " Smidt said.
He says the tension it relieves by allowing pilots an opt-out of flying in poor conditions makes it a safe alternative to other single-engine planes.
Cirrus said that CAIGA will bring the resources to expedite development of the single-engine Vision jet, which could now achieve FAA certification and initial deliveries in mid-2014.
In December it was disclosed that Iraq would be allowed to acquire 36 single-engine Lockheed Martin F-16s and that Oman would double its fleet of the same plane to 24 aircraft.
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The new planes were supposed to be agile, stealthy and versatile a single-engine airframe produced in three variants that could be sold by the thousands both at home and abroad.
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The Lockheed Martin F-35C that the Navy is officially planning to buy is a stealthy, single-engine strike fighter derived from the same technologies as the Air Force F-35A and Marine Corps F-35B.
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The golf-course plane, a single-engine Cessna 172, was flying west at an altitude of 3, 500 feet when the second plane, also a Cessna 172, approached from the east after leaving Santa Monica Airport for a test flight.
The stealthy, single-engine fighter is being developed in multiple variants to meet the needs of three U.S. military services and nine overseas allies, but this is the first time it has beaten foreign and domestic competitors in a head-to-head competition.
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