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FAA to increase limit for ageing aircraft checks
The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would extend the mandate for "ageing" aircraft inspections to newer transport category aircraft. The inspection programme was created after a 1988 accident in which the top of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 ripped off during ...
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Cirrus resumes SR20 assembly despite demonstrator crash
Dave Higdon/WICHITA Cirrus Design has resumed production of the SR20 single-engined four-seat business aircraft, as the investigation continues into the crash of the first demonstrator. The first production SR20 crashed on 23 March, killing Cirrus Design's chief test pilot, Scott Anderson (Flight International, 31 March-6 April). Despite the crash, ...
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LoPresti's SwiftFury prototype makes first flight
The prototype SwiftFury made its first flight earlier this month, after LoPresti Speed Merchants founder and president Roy LoPresti secured the rights to the design of the two-seat sports aircraft earlier this year. The SwiftFury is based on Globe Aircraft's Globe Swift design of the 1940s. In the late ...
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Cessna tackles 172R and 172S stabilisers
Cessna Aircraft has issued its third mandatory service bulletin in less than a month, requiring a new round of inspections of 172R Skyhawks and 172S Skyhawk SP singles delivered during the past two years. The latest bulletin requires the inspection of the aircraft's vertical stabiliser aft spar, and rivets ...
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Lynton plans revamp
Lynton Group aims to have restructuring plans in place next month, following its latest acquisition in the general aviation market. It has become "a major equity partner" in Stratford, Connecticut-based corporate jet charter and management company Premier Aviation. Lynton has not released purchase details. Premier is the fourth acquisition ...
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Embraer revels in record year
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Brazilian regional aircraft manufacturer Embraer says 1998 was the most successful year in its history, after a record net profit of $103 million for the 12 months, compared with a loss of $29.6 million in 1997. Embraer says the improvement stemmed from a 75% increase in ...
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Telescope tested for Shuttle launch
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory, formerly the Advanced X-Ray AstroPhysics Facility, is in final testing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in preparation for its launch aboard the Space Shuttle STS93/Columbia on 9 July. The Chandra is the third of NASA's "great observatories", after the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory ...
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Airports
Abu Dhabi Airport has started an extension that will increase passenger capacity to 7.2 million per year. The work is to be completed in 2007. Bordeaux Airport is being expanded to enable annual passenger throughput to rise from the current 1.5 million a year to around five million. Work has ...
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Air Foyle consortium takes controlling stake in CityJet
Chris Jasper/LONDON A consortium led by UK cargo carrier Air Foyle has purchased a controlling stake in Irish independent airline CityJet for a sum in excess of Ir£5 million ($6.8 million). Sources close to the deal say that it should stabilise Dublin-based CityJet and allow it develop its ...
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Air Namibia to slash workforce
Air Namibia plans to lay off between 100 and 150 employees - up to 30% of its workforce - by the end of this month as part of a restructuring plan that will cost up to N$10 million ($1.6 million), but which should ultimately reverse the downward trend in its ...
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Big profits at FiatAvio
FiatAvio, the aerospace division of the Italian conglomerate, saw net profits more than quadruple to L152 billion ($85 million) last year against L34 billion 1997, with turnover rising 8% to L2,635 billion. Overall, says Turin-based Fiat, the division "performed exceptionally well" last year, with its operating margin up from ...
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Surrey Satellite wins E-SAT contract
Tim Furniss/LONDON Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) is to build the spacecraft buses for six E-SAT low earth orbiting data messaging satellites under a contract with California-based DBS Industries. The contract is part of a $47 million deal, which includes two launches of three E-SAT satellites each by the German-Russian ...
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Stringent technology export rules may leave Loral with $130m bill
Space Systems Loral has been forced to delay shipment of the Chinasat 8 communications satellite for launch aboard a Chinese Long March 3B because of new rules on the export of US space technology. China's state satellite operator could go elsewhere for the satellite, with European companies Matra Marconi ...
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New date set for launch of Delta III
The launch of the Boeing Delta III has been rescheduled for 14 April following two launch cancellations on 6 and 7 April. The first cancellation was because of higher than acceptable winds, which, in the event of a launch failure, could have blown toxic gases into populated areas. The ...
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BA to Tripoli
British Airways is planning to launch a three times weekly service between London and Tripoli following the lifting of a United Nations ban on flights to Libya imposed after the Lockerbie bombing. Terrorist suspects have now been handed over, and BA will begin flights this month subject to government approval. ...
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O'Hare near-collision
Two Boeing 747s avoided a collision at Chicago O'Hare Airport, USA, by about 8m (26ft), according to an initial assessment by the US National Transportation Safety Board. At 02:08 on 1 April an Air China 747 freighter, taxiing to the cargo terminal after landing on runway 14R, took a wrong ...
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US Air Force buy
The USAF has purchased two more C-37A VIP transports for $77 million, bringing the USAF fleet to six. The C-37A is the military variant of the civil Gulfstream V executive jet. The new aircraft will be used for counter terrorism and disaster response missions. Source: Flight International
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Malaysia pact
Russia and Malaysia have signed a bilateral defence co-operation agreement, which includes training and manufacture of unspecified Russian-designed military equipment. The agreement, signed in Kuala Lumpur on 6 April by Malaysian and Russian defence ministers, follows a similar agreement, signed when Malaysia purchased 18 MiG-29 fighters in 1994. Source: Flight ...
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Singapore T-700
Singapore has selected the General Electric T-700-701C turboshaft, over the Rolls Royce RTM 322, to power its planned eight Boeing AH-64D Apache helicopters. The weapons package ordered includes three Lockheed Martin Longbow millimetre wave radars. Singapore has to decide shortly between basing the machines for training at its existing Grand ...
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Fuel approval
The US Federal Aviation Administration has approved the use of a new aviation gas for use in thousands of piston aircraft, already approved to burn unleaded car fuel. The approval should help to spur the introduction of the 82-octane lead-free aviation gas, 82UL, as a replacement for 80-octane leaded avgas. ...