| He said the flight crew didn't ask that the aircraft be de-iced, and that the last time he saw the airplane, there still was ice on the airframe. |
| A new streamlined windscreen was added along with modified airframe fillets. |
| Well, the landing gear came through just fine but the airframe was badly bent! |
| Even construction is now mostly metal, although the airframe retains some prepreg carbon-fiber materials. |
| He said the design is basically a 9,000-lb-thrust engine, heavily derated to specific airframe power requirements. |
| I decided to leave the engines on the plane and if a buyer was interested, we would sell the engines and dispose of the airframe. |
