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Global Express is certificated
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Bombardier received Canadian certification for the Global Express long-range business jet on 31 July. European and US approvals are expected "within a couple of months" as a result of an integrated certification programme involving four flying prototypes and 2,200h of flight testing. The Canadian company ...
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Doubling up
Elliott Aviation is almost doubling the size of its Moline, Illinois maintenance and modification centre to accommodate business jets as large as the Bombardier Global Express. Source: Flight International
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Boeing aims at TrunkLiner gap
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Boeing is in talks with China over a wide range of potential ventures, including possible involvement in the 717-200, as the company seeks to fill the void left by China's recent decision to scrap the MD-90 TrunkLiner effort. Boeing Commercial Airplane Group president Ron Woodard says: ...
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Bell plans to assemble tiltrotor at Amarillo site
After evaluating 1,200 locations across the USA, and shortlisting eight sites, all in its home state of Texas, Bell Helicopter Textron is to build its new tiltrotor assembly centre in Amarillo. The plant will assemble both the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey military tiltrotor transport and the Bell 609 six/nine-seat ...
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China Airlines aligns with SIA as it ponders 777 acquisitions
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE China Airlines (CAL) has reached an internal decision to order a fleet of Boeing 777s, but final board approval remains pending as it weighs the full scope of potential co-operation with newly announced strategic partner Singapore Airlines (SIA). The Taiwanese carrier has in principle selected the 777-200 as ...
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More 328JET orders emerge as 228 line closes
Fairchild Dornier has booked an order for 10 328JETs from German start-up Modern Air and received letters of intent covering seven more from Italy's Minerva Airlines and an unnamed Swiss customer. The manufacturer has also confirmed it is winding up German production of its 19-seat 228 turboprop. Modern Air ...
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KAL suffers new blow as 747 skids off runway
Korean Air's (KAL) safety record was dealt a further blow when a Boeing 747-400 suffered major damage and passenger injuries on landing at Seoul's Kimpo Airport on 5 August. The incident occurred only days after a high-level flight operations shake-up and as KAL considers a $21.5 million flight operations reform ...
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Advertisement director appointed
Reed Aerospace has appointed Richard Thiele as advertisement director of Flight International and Airline Business. Thiele joins Reed Aerospace on 1 September from Penton Publications, where he is now managing director, Europe. Source: Flight International
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UK welcomes EC alliance proposals despite misgivings
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The European Commission's (EC) alliance proposals have been given a broad welcome by the UK, despite concern over some "significant" gaps, but they have met fierce criticism in Germany, where the conditions have been dismissed as "unacceptable". John Bridgeman, director of the UK's the Office of ...
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Turkish team wins control of Piaggio
A team led by the Tushav Turkish state-holding company has emerged as the winning bidder to take control of struggling Italian aerospace company Piaggio, with the promise of new overhaul work and aircraft orders from Turkey. Tushav, which co-ordinates Turkey's aerospace and defence industry, will emerge with a 51% ...
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Trigat rival
Israeli weapons producer Rafael has agreed a deal with German companies Diehl, Rheinmetall and STN Atlas to market the helicopter-launched NT-D anti-tank missile. The Eurospike consortium is primarily aiming its efforts at selling the weapon to the German army to equip its Tiger attack helicopter. Germany remains committed to buying ...
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Eurocontrol wants ACAS delay
Julian Moxon/PARIS Eurocontrol is calling for the complusory implementation of airborne collision avoidance systems (ACAS) in passenger aircraft to be delayed by up to 15 months, from the existing January 2000 deadline. Introduction of the ACAS 2 standard has already been agreed by the European Civil Aviation Conference ...
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Windshear alert goes on trial in Hong Kong
Pilots flying into Hong Kong's new Chep Lap Kok Airport are being urged to familiarise themselves with a new windshear alerting system, installed after a meteorological investigation revealed that severe turbulence would be encountered for a total of 20h each year. Chep Lap Kok is adjacent to Lantau Island, ...
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NG737 HUD goes to American
Following American Airlines' order for GEC-Marconi's HUD 2020 head-up display for 75 new Boeing 737-800s in January (Flight International, 4-10 February), the UK company has delivered the first production-standard examples to the American Airlines Flight Academy in Dallas, Texas. It will be installed in a simulator, and has integrated another ...
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New tools give Grid-Lock the edge
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Boeing has started to produce F-15 ailerons based on a new structural design concept which was pioneered by BFGoodrich's Tolo division. The Grid-Lock process reduces such assemblies down to two machined parts bonded together. The design replaces the multi-piece, honeycomb panel construction on the fighter, which ...
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Howmet on AS900
Howmet has won a contract from AlliedSignal Aerospace to supply castings for its new 18-40kN (4,000-9,000lb) AS900 turbofan, proposed for aircraft such as the British Aerospace Avro regional jet. The contract could be worth $120 million, says the Greenwich, Connecticut-based company, the wholly owned subsidiary of which, Cercast, of Montreal, ...
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Two-seat trainer planned
Ultravia Aero International plans to certificate a two-seat trainer, the Pelican 2-100 Tutor, based on its Pelican line of kitplanes. Canadian and US certification is due in mid-1999. Quebec-based Ultravia plans to build four aircraft a month initially. The Tutor, powered by a 75kW (100hp) Bombardier Rotax 912S, will ...
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Diesel engine launched
Textron Lycoming and Detroit Diesel have launched development of a diesel aero-engine for general aviation aircraft. A prototype 150kW(200hp) turbocharged engine is under test at Lycoming, but a timescale for development and certification has yet to be determined. Both companies say they are pursuing the aero-diesel programme "with full ...
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Lycoming and Unison harmonise for digital system
Textron Lycoming and Unison Industries are collaborating on development of a digital control system for piston aeroengines. Unison president Fred Sontag says the Electronic Propulsion Integrated Control (EPiC) system will control propeller, fuel, manifold pressure and ignition settings through one panel-mounted lever and a digital controller that activates the ...
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Navigation database heads for Internet
Jeppesen plans to put its vast navigation database on the Internet for access by pilots using instrument flight rules global positioning system receivers with the company's data cartridges. Customers will be able to download the 56-day cycle updates without the expense of exchanging the data cards. Even after ...