Some hopeful news for private aircraft suppliers.
“AVWeb’s Russ Niles is reporting on analyst Brian Foley’s prediction that business jet sales will increase 2.7% over the next 10 years. As part of the prediction, Foley thinks 8900 jets will be built during that same time (worth $170 billion).
Foley is using an interesting sports-based method to obtain his numbers:
“[He] tossed out the results of bizav’s best year in recent memory (2008) and one of it’s worst (2009) to come up with figures he thinks will stand up and actually mean something for those making plans for the next decade. ‘2009 was too unsettled and 2008 was a clear anomaly, an unsustainable peak,’ Foley said. ‘Our same numbers would yield a minus growth -2.6 percent if measured against 2008, but that’s not really useful information.”
More at BigBusinessJet.com
More at Aviation Suppliers:
“Foley predicts 8900 business jets worth $170 billion will be built between now and 2020. Foley has also tried to forecast bizjet fuel consumption and, if he’s correct, there will be a significant increase in the use of private aviation.”

Product: Handtufted wool carpet
Image 1589: PWV Studios texture “BAFFIN BAY”
Origin: Designed and hand built in Grand Rapids, Michigan
October 6th, 2008
posted by PWV at 1:48 pm

Product: Handtufted wool carpet • 24″ x 22′ 1″ aircraft aisle
PWV Studios custom texture EA-7480
Origin: Designed and hand built in Grand Rapids, Michigan
June 19th, 2007
posted by PWV at 9:59 am

Product: Handtufted wool carpet • 18″ x 18″ sample
Image 1685: PWV Studios texture “MIES” EA-7923
Origin: Designed and hand built in Grand Rapids, Michigan
January 28th, 2010
posted by PWV at 10:34 am

Product: Handtufted wool carpet • 14″ x 14″ sample
Image 1689: PWV Studios texture “BELLABORA” EA-7928
Origin: Designed and hand built in Grand Rapids, Michigan
February 9th, 2010
posted by PWV at 2:06 pm

Project: Corporate lobby area rug, 20′ x 25’9″
Image 1682: PWV Studios texture “PAURAQUE” with cut-pile design
Origin: Designed and hand built in Grand Rapids, Michigan
November 6th, 2009

Image 1679: PWV Studios texture “PAURAQUE” with cut-pile design (detail)
posted by PWV at 11:20 am

Product: Handtufted wool carpet • 12″ x 12″ sample
Image 1688: PWV Studios texture “CHINA SEA” EA-7933
Origin: Designed and hand built in Grand Rapids, Michigan
February 4th, 2010
posted by PWV at 5:01 pm

8′ x 65′ Vertical Installation
“A hand-tufted and carved wool textile for the banquette wall in the atrium
of a major US corporation, Chattanooga, Tennessee – 1986
Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Architects, St. Louis, Missouri
and PWV Studios, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Published in A History of Tennessee Arts,
University of Tennessee Press, 2004”
designed by:
arlyn ende deepwoods studio
posted by PWV at 2:06 pm

Product: Handtufted wool carpet • 18″ x 18″ sample
Image 1683b: PWV Studios texture “MIES” EA-7922
Origin: Designed and hand built in Grand Rapids, Michigan
January 27th, 2010
posted by PWV at 9:30 am

Product: Handtufted wool carpet • 18″ x 18″ sample
Image 1683a: PWV Studios texture “MORGAN” EA-7921
Origin: Designed and hand built in Grand Rapids, Michigan
January 27th, 2010
posted by PWV at 4:47 pm

Product: Handtufted wool carpet • 24″ x 36″ sample
Image 1681: PWV Studios custom texture EA-7920
Origin: Designed and hand built in Grand Rapids, Michigan
January 22nd, 2010
posted by PWV at 12:49 pm