Gentlemen,
Although the Embraer web site does indeed employ the marketing
designations ERJ 135, ERJ 140, ERJ 145 and Embraer 170, I do wish to make
clear that the company designation for these airplanes is EMB-135, EMB-140,
EMB-145 and EMB-170. It's a pity that I can't attach a page from the pdf.
file versions of the EMB-135BJ, EMB-145LR and EMB-170 Aircraft Operations
Manual or Aircraft Flight Manual. But I guess that a visit to the FAA TC
page might proveenlightening....
Moreover, I also wish to point out that Embraer's marketing department is
somewhat finnicky when it comes to designating the company's products. I
remember quite well for being mildly chastised for writing 'ERJ-145" when
the correct form is "ERJ 145" as of September of 1999. It's a pity that
marketing and press relations forgot to issue a circular memo...
The 70-seat aircraft's situation is even worse insamuch as it was designated
by the marketing department as ERJ-170, then ERJ 170 and now the current
Embraer 170. However, despite polite entreaties (that later developed into
dire warnings of coming fire and brimstone), the company's operational
engineering division and flight test department flipped the proverbial
finger to the marketing department on the EMB- vs ERJ issue. After all, who
is going to foot the bill to change all the Aircraft Flight Manuals,
Aircraft Operations Manual, Standard Operational Procedures Manuals,
CD-ROMs, Type Certificates and what have you?
But I suppose that the entire situation is somewhat analagous to the correct
spelling of the word raccoon. It can be spelled "raccoon" or "racoon" - but
I suppose that for that small, tree-climbing, carnivorous mammal it won't
make the slightest difference if its name carries a "c" or a double "c". It
will still remain a small, tree-climbing, carnivorous mammal of the genus
Procyon lotor.
Hence, I guess that using ERJ or EMB is very much a question of preference.
Jackson Flores