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Print Associated Press Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit is walked to be groomed after a morning exercise at Pimlico Race Course ahead of the Preakness Stakes horse race, Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in Baltimore. Credit: (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) For five years, a bill that would place the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in charge of fighting illicit drug use in horse racing went nowhere in Congress. In 2...

An airplane project that Bill Lear began nearly half a century ago has been refined into a design that’s now considered a classic.

By Murdo Morrison2021-04-22T10:56:00+01:00 The early to mid-1960s were arguably aerospace’s most creative age, outside wartime. From the first manned space missions to the genesis of vertical take-off fighters, supersonic transports, and jumbo jets, engineers were dreaming big. The period also saw the birth of the business jet, an invention that fused glamour, security, and time machine for those Tom Wolfe would term the Masters of the Universe in booming corporate America. Source: Bombardi...

BBC News By Justin Harper image copyrightGetty Images Learjet, once synonymous with private jet travel for the super-rich and famous, will stop production this year. Its owner Bombardier has seen sales decline among its wealthy customers who are now demanding bigger, more comfortable private aircraft to carry them around the world. The Learjet, created by US inventor Bill Lear, allows up to eight people to travel in relative luxury, and was championed by the likes of Frank Sinatra, James Brown ...

Share Your browser does not support iframes, but you can use the following link: Link Don Grommesh, Bill Lear’s employee No. 8, served as chief engineer, vice president of Learjet engineering and vice president and general manager of customer service. Al Higdon, Joined Lear Jet in 1964 and helped make Learjet a household name. Higdon, now retired, is co-founder of Sullivan, Higdon & Sink, now Signal Theory. Dave Franson, joined Learjet as director of public affairs from 1997 and served for se...

It was recently announced that Learjet, a name synonymous with business jets, the image of success and the symbol of sleek personal transportation, would be no more.

Courtesy Wichita has turned out tens of thousands of planes over the years, but nothing the Air Capital of the World produced could match the aura of the Learjet. "Theres no denying that theres simply never been any business jet before, or since, that has had quite the cool status of a Learjet," said aviation historian Richard Harris. The Learjet helped create the market for corporate jets, making it affordable for business executives to use a private plane. Credit Courtesy Beginning in the m...

Learjet, the private plane synonymous with the jet-set, nears end of runway Reuters 2/15/2021 MONTREAL, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Learjet, the sleek private jet used by celebrities for decades, is ending production this year, following a slump in demand due to competition from newer and less-expensive rivals. Long before COVID-19 hit demand in 2020, the arrival of less-expensive similar-sized models from Embraer SA and Textron Incs Cessna eroded Learjet demand. Created by American entrepreneur Bill ...

This week's letters brought comments from readers about the coming end of Learjet production, the Bell X-1 and plans to attend Sun 'n Fun.

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