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EH101 engines
Fiat Avio has delivered the first General Electric T700/T6A turboshaft engines for the Italian navy's EH101 helicopters. The powerplant, which is also the choice of the Canadian Forces for its Cormorant search and rescue variant, the EH101 is produced jointly by Fiat Avio and GE. Source: Flight International
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Lycoming reprieve
The US Federal Aviation Adminstration will not issue an airworthiness directive against Textron Lycoming, saying the problem with excessive piston-plug wear on IO-360 pistons is under control. Source: Flight International
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Horizon wing
Risk-sharing supplier Fuji Heavy Industries has delivered the first Hawker Horizon wing to Raytheon in Wichita, Kansas. All three sections of the first Horizon all-composite fuselage have been completed by Raytheon. The fuselage and wing will be mated this year. Source: Flight International
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Gulfstream sales
Gulfstream booked orders for 12 aircraft (seven GIV-SPs and five GVs) in the first quarter, down from 13 in the same period last year. The company delivered 17 aircraft ( 10 GIV-SPs and seven GVs) in the first three months of the year, compared with 13 in the first quarter ...
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Soaring sales
Sales of the Falco kit aircraft have soared by more than 76% in the past year, according to supplier Sequoia Aircraft. The Falco, originally designed by Stelio Frati of Italy and first flown in 1955, was re-introduced by Sequoia in 1979 as a kit aircraft. Sequoia attributes the sales increase ...
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Quake sats
NPO Mashinostroyeniya of St Petersburg plans to develop four 130kg (290lb) earthquake prediction satellites and launch them on converted SS-18 Strela missiles from 2001. Instruments carried on the satellites could forecast earthquakes from 2h to two days before they occur. Source: Flight International
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Hubble gyro fails
The third of six gyroscopes on the Hubble Space Telescope has failed. One more failure would put the telescope in a protective safe mode, preventing further observations. The accelerated third Space Shuttle servicing mission, which will replace the gyroscopes, is due in October. The mission has been brought forward from ...
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Chinese order
China Eastern Airlines has ordered an Airbus A320 full flight simulator from Thomson Training &Simulation. The Level D device will be delivered in December to the airline's new flight training centre at Pudong, Shanghai. Source: Flight International
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German cadets
FlightSafety International's Academy at Vero Beach, Florida, has graduated the first cadet pilots to have German air transport pilot licence training in the USA under an agreement with RWL/Flightschool. A second class has begun training. Austrian Airlines and Emirates are also training cadets at the Academy. Source: Flight International
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AFEWES Certification
The US Air Force Electronic Warfare Evaluation Simulator has become the first USAF flight simulation facility to be certificated as compliant with the Department of Defense's new High Level Architecture protocol for distributed interactive simulation systems. Source: Flight International
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China Eastern order
China Eastern Airlines has ordered an Airbus A320 full flight simulator from Thomson Training &Simulation. The Level D device will be delivered in December. Source: Flight International
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FAA approves modified Kitty Hawk 727 floors
The US Federal Aviation Administration has approved Kitty Hawk's alternative means of compliance for an airworthiness directive (AD) that imposes severe payloads limits on Boeing 727-200 freighter conversions for use by Pemco World Air Services and Aeronautical Engineers (AEI). The kit, which costs $75,000 and involves side restraints, terminates ...
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BA turbulence
Twenty-nine passengers and crew were treated for shock and injuries, including broken limbs, when a British Airways Boeing 747-400 flying from Brisbane to Singapore encountered clear air turbulence about 1h out of Singapore on 13 April. Five crew and two of the 253 passengers were hospitalised in Singapore. Source: Flight ...
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Boeing flies first MD-10 freighter
The first FedEx McDonnell Douglas DC-10 modified by Boeing to MD-10 specification made its first flight from Long Beach on 14 April. Modifications include a two-crew advanced common flightdeck, based on the MD-11 deck. Passenger versions of the DC-10 are being converted to freighters. Two other MD-10s will join the ...
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Alliances force pace on safety
David Learmount/SANTIAGO DE CHILE Airline alliances are on course to form professional standards councils to ensure that their less safe members meet acceptable performance levels. Prof Graham Hunt, head of the School of Aviation at Massey University, New Zealand, gave the news to delegates at the International Civil Aviation Organisation's ...
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Pilot squabble forces Delta to defer 777s
Lack of progress in negotiations between Delta Air Lines and the Air Line Pilots Association has forced the US major to defer indefinitely deliveries of four Boeing 777-200s. The aircraft, which are part of the airline's firm orders for 13 Rolls-Royce Trent 800-powered 777s, had been due for delivery ...
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FAA switches Y2K focus abroad after ATC passes test
The US Federal Aviation Administration is focusing its year 2000 (Y2K) compliance efforts on the international arena after a live test of its renovated air traffic control (ATC) system revealed no date-related problems. The test, conducted in the Denver, Colorado area on 10-11 April, involved all the major elements ...
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China Eastern rolls over MD-82 fleet
China Eastern Airlines has sold its 13 Boeing MD-82s to GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) as part of a deal to lease 10 Airbus A320s. GECAS has arranged to lease six of the MD-82s to Spanair and to sell four to US carrier Spirit Airlines, while the other three aircraft ...
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Air India plans to sell 747-200s in effort to improve revenues
Air India is offering three ageing Boeing 747-200s for sale as the airline attempts to revamp operations and routes to boost revenue. The move means that the airline has backed away from plans to lease two 747-200s to UK aircraft broker Air Charters. Air India had signed a ...
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FAA gives go-ahead for ADS-B trials
The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued a supplemental type certificate (STC) clearing the trial use of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) systems on four United Parcel Service Boeing 727-100 freighters. The system, developed by the US Cargo Airline Association and avionics specialist II Morrow, uses satellite-based positioning information to ...