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Lockheed Martin gears up F-22 fuselage line
Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems is gearing up production of the F-22 mid-fuselage manufacturing line - the largest and most complex of the new fighter assemblies. Five mid-fuselages are now in production at Fort Worth, Texas - only one of which is not for delivery this year - as the ...
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Certification near
Elliott Aviation of Moline, Illinois is close to supplemental type certification of AlliedSignal's Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System on the Raytheon Beechjet 400 and Beech King Air 200/300/350 aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Mirage propelled
New Piper Aircraft has introduced a Hartzell composite bladed propeller on its Malibu Mirage high performance piston single. Compared with the original two- blade metal propeller, the new design, with three swept Kevlar blades, improves low speed performance and reduces noise with only a small weight penalty. Source: Flight ...
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Chile flight
Kitchener Aero Avionics and Mid-Canada Mod Center are installing a flight inspection system in a Cessna Citation for the Chilean Government. The Ontario, Canada based companies are also equipping a Cessna 337 for news gathering and a de Havilland Dash 7 for geophysical survey, for other customers. Source: Flight International
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Landmark delivery
BMW Rolls-Royce has delivered the 100th production BR710 turbofan to Gulfstream Aerospace for installation on the 42nd production GV business jet. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon offers King sized deal with Beechjet
Raytheon Aircraft has unveiled a novel alternative to rival Cessna's Citation light business jets. The company's new SmartFlight programme offers buyers a Beech King Air B200 business turboprop and a one-eighth share in a Beechjet 400A business jet for $4.65 million - "less than the price of competing straight-wing jets", ...
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General aviation flying hours rise in USA for third consecutive year
Hours flown on US-registered private aircraft increased from 26.1 million in 1996 to 26.5 million in 1997, according to the US Federal Aviation Administration. The agency is forecasting an average annual growth rate of 1.4% to 31.3 million hours in 2009. The FAA uses the number of flying hours ...
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Garvey gets ready to announce safety agenda
David Learmount/London US Federal Aviation Administration chief Jane Garvey is to make her first major policy announcement on 16 April with the unveiling of her "safety agenda". Although Garvey declines to give details of the speech in advance, she says controlled flight into terrain and "human factors issues" will ...
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Go confirms routes and May launch
Go, the UK low fare spin-off of British Airways, has revealed its initial route network and confirmed plans to launch in late May with a simple fare pricing structure. Sales and marketing director David Magliano says that services will be launched on 22 May from London Stansted with three ...
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Edelweiss to replace MD-80s with A320s
Swiss charter operator Edelweiss Air has ordered three new Airbus A320s to replace its Boeing MD-80 fleet. The Zurich-based carrier, which operates three 162-seat MD-83s, two on operating lease from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) and the third on financial lease from Credit Agricole, will take delivery of the ...
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Air Lanka orders A330-200s following Emirates stake
Air Lanka has placed orders for six Airbus A330-200s, after Emirates Airlines agreed to take a 40% stake in the Sri Lankan flag carrier. The Dubai based airline will manage Air Lanka for 10 years, says the Sri Lankan Public Enterprises Reform Commission (PERC). Emirates has also agreed to ...
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Let wins L- 420 certification
Let Kunovice has received type certification for its 19-seat L-420 from both the US Federal Aviation Administration and the Czech Civil Aviation Authority. Czech manufacturer Let claims that the certification will open doors to markets previously inaccessible to the company. The L-420, a derivative of the L-410 turboprop, features more ...
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Harbin agrees North American Y-12 sales deal
Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing (HAMC) of China has concluded a joint venture agreement to supply Y-12(IV) turboprop airframes to the Canadian Aerospace Group for modification, final completion, certification and sale to the North American market. The deal concluded in Beijing covers the supply of to 50 Y-12s over the next ...
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KLM flies first 747F with stretched deck
The first Boeing 747 freighter equipped with a stretched upper deck (SUD) has been put into service by KLM Cargo, between Amsterdam and Chicago. The 747-200 SUD is one of two combis being converted to full freight configuration for KLM. The second is due for completion in July.Source: Flight International
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Cebu restart
Cebu Pacific Air of the Philippines has been given permission to resume limited operations after being grounded for almost two months in the wake of the 2 February crash of a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 which killed 104 people. A preliminary report into the accident has pointed to pilot error. The ...
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Alenia Spazio weighs up rival bidders
Alenia Spazio is considering rivals bids from Matra Marconi Space and the new French grouping of Alcatel/Aerospatiale and Thomson to form an alliance. The Italian space company is expected to decide and complete the deal by the end of the year. With the French grouping in place and Matra-Marconi ...
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NASA gives go ahead for new telescope
NASA administrator Daniel Goldin has authorised the start of work on the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), which is to be launched aboard a Delta II booster in December 2001 as the fourth in a series of Great Observatories. SIRTF will follow the Hubble Space Telescope (1990), the Compton ...
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Cassini heads for Venus fly-by
NASA's Cassini Saturn Orbiter and its European Space Agency Huygens Titan lander, launched on a Titan 4 Centaur in November 1997, will pass to within 300km of the planet Venus on 26 April on its flightpath towards the ringed planet which it will reach in July 2004. The Huygens probe ...
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Hughes wins contract to build first Canadian Anik F satellite
Tim Furniss/LONDON Hughes Space and Communications has received a contract to build the first Anik F series communications satellite for Telesat Canada. The contract brings to 38 the number of geostationary orbit (GEO) communications spacecraft on Hughes' orderbook, with a further two craft on order for meteorological applications. ...