pilotweb.aero | Pilot June 2018 | 13Show Report: AERO Friedrichshafen
CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: thanks to
the generosity of distributor for
Pilatus Aircraft in the UK and Ireland
Oriens Aviation, the Pilot team was
allowed a close inspection of the
newly-certified PC-24, which offers
top bizjet comfort, a 440kt TAS
cruise, 2,035nm range... and the
capability of operating from 856m
grass or gravel runways;
yesterday’s ‘executive transport’, in
the form of Rimowa’s Junkers F13, a
replica of the first cantilever-wing
all-metal aircraft made of
duralumin, designed in 1919;
Nicholson McLaren – one of many
companies waving the flag for
Britain, including Adams Aviation
(which was celebrating fifty years of
trading) and Pooleys; there’s always
one of these things at AERO – the
daft Discopter Luftaxi (see ‘PTT’,
p.72); man meets helicopter; and
further objects of desire – a
selection of new and original pilot
watches made by German company
Laco, which has been in the
business since 1925