Fred George

Chief Aircraft Evaluation Editor

San Diego, CA

Summary

Fred is a senior editor and chief pilot with Business & Commercial Aviation and Aviation Week's chief aircraft evaluation pilot. He has flown left seat in virtually every turbine-powered business jet produced in the past three decades.

He has flown more than 195 makes, models and variants, ranging from the Piper J-3 Cub through the latest Boeing and Airbus large twins, logging more than 7,000 hours of flight time. He has earned an Airline Transport Pilot certificate and six jet aircraft type ratings, and he remains an active pilot. Fred also specializes in avionics, aircraft systems and pilot technique reports.

Fred was the first aviation journalist to fly the Boeing 787, Airbus A350 and Gulfstream G650, among other new turbofan aircraft. He’s also flown the Airbus A400M, Howard 500, Airship 600, Dassault Rafale, Grumman HU-16 Albatross and Lockheed Constellation.

Prior to joining Aviation Week, he was an FAA designated pilot examiner [CE-500], instrument flight instructor and jet charter pilot and former U.S. Naval Aviator who made three cruises to the western Pacific while flying the McDonnell-Douglas F-4J Phantom II.

Fred has won numerous aviation journalism awards, including NBAA’s David W. Ewald Platinum Wing Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Articles

Fred George
These graphs are designed to illustrate the performance of the Dassault Falcon 900LX under a variety of range, payload, speed and density altitude conditions. Dassault Falcon Jet’s sales engineers provided the data for the Range/Payload Profile. Data for the specific range chart were extracted from the Dassault Falcon 900LX Performance Manual.
Business Aviation

Fred George
Dassault Aviation and Aviation Partners Inc., have an agreement that allows the French firm to fit new Falcon 900EX EASy aircraft on its production line with API winglets, thereby transforming them into Falcon 900LX models. Meanwhile, API has the rights to the retrofit market. The Seattle company expects to have STC approval for fitting the same blended winglets to older Falcon 900 aircraft, including existing Falcon 900EX EASy models, by the first quarter of this year.

By Fred George fred_george@aviationweek.com
The super-midsize class has been one of the hottest selling segments of business aircraft in recent years. These versatile aircraft can fly eight passengers nonstop between East Coast and West Coast North American cities at true jetliner speeds. They also can fly nonstop across the North Atlantic eastbound. Almost all can fly westbound from England or Ireland to the U.S. East Coast. To fly from virtually any city in Europe to any destination in North America, they need no more than one refueling stop.