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Canadian company on target to deliver single-engined GA jet
Alberta Aerospace is on target to become the first manufacturer to certificate and deliver a single-engined general aviation jet. The Canadian company says its two-seat Phoenix Fan Jet will be in full service "by the end of the year", closely followed by a four-seater. "We are now 10 months ...
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Bombardier completes sales team integration
Bombardier has completed the integration of its Canadair and Learjet business aircraft sales teams, eight years after it acquired the US manufacturer. The last organisation to be merged is the North American sales team, which from 1 February will be a single entity headed by senior vice-president Bill Monroe, ...
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IBAC submits new definitions
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The European Business Aircraft Association's (EBAA) bid to raise the status of business aviation flying in Europe has been boosted by news that the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) will accept a revised definition of business aviation in the air transport sector. IBAC, the Washington DC, US-based ...
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Helicopter deliveries predicted to rise over next 10 years
More than 8,000 helicopters worth over $19 billion will be delivered over the next 10 years, according to a study by US-based market analyst Forecast International/ DMS. In its report The World Commercial Rotorcraft Market 1998-2007, Forecast predicts that, in terms of unit production, the market will be led ...
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Grob prepares to roll out first G115E trainer
Grob Aerospace is seeking new customers for the G115E primary trainer after the aircraft was selected by the Royal Air Force. The German manufacturer plans to roll out and fly the first G115Es by the end of January, marking its return to full-scale aircraft production after a dearth of ...
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Execujet grows
ExecuJet is expanding its operation to Scandinavia by opening a new business aircraft sales, maintenance, charter and management company at Copenhagen Airport in Denmark. The Bombardier authorised sales and service centre will initially operate five aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Premier I completes first flight
Raytheon Aircraft completed the first flight of its Premier I light business jet on 22 December from its Beech Field, Kansas, base. The aircraft flew "-general manoeuvres that tested its flying qualities, engine operations and basic systems at altitudes of up to 14,500ft", says the manufacturer. During its 62min ...
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Mikoyan reveals first glimpse of 1.42 multifunction fighter
ANPK MiG has at last released the first photographs of MAPO's next-generation "Object 1.42" MFI (multifunktsionalny instrebitel or multifunction fighter). The photograph shows the MFI's large all-moving canards which have a "dogtooth" on the leading edge; a large mid-mounted delta wing with a straight leading edge; and ...
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Alitalia's Cereti sets out main objective as AEA chairman
Alitalia chairman Fausto Cereti has pledged to place engine emissions and air traffic control (ATC) delays at the top of his agenda when he takes over as the chairman of the Association of European Airlines (AEA) this year. In a speech setting out his objectives as the head of ...
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Jet airliner sales flat for the third year, but shipments are up
Jet airliner sales recorded a third consecutive flat year in 1998, with Airbus Industrie and Boeing together taking 1,100 orders worth $75 billion. Shipments have continued to increase, with the 780 aircraft delivered representing a 40% increase on 1997. Provisional figures compiled by Flight International show orders split roughly ...
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Sikorsky S-92A Helibus completes maiden flight
Flight testing of the Sikorsky S-92A Helibus medium helicopter began on 23 December. With its maiden flight successfully concluded, attention has now switched to a final decision by the company on a production go-ahead later this year. The first General Electric CT7-6D-powered prototype S-92 made its inaugural flight from ...
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USAF to accept first C-130Js as utility tests are concluded
The US Air Force is finalising acceptance paperwork for its first Lockheed Martin C-130J transports, following the successful completion of utility flight tests. Tests included drops of heavy equipment weighing up to 19,000kg (42,000lb), parachute drops of up to 53 jumpers and operations from short and improvised airstrips. ...
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Hostilities resume with Iraqi SAM attacks
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Sporadic hostilities continued after US and UK forces ended four nights of attacks on targets in Iraq under Operation Desert Fox. On 28 December, the US Air Force attacked an SA-3 surface-to-air missile (SAM) site near Mosul which it says fired on aircraft enforcing the ...
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RTIP deal agreed
Northrop Grumman's bid to win the UK's Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) has been strengthened by a contract to begin development of an upgrade for the US Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System. An advanced active-array radar to be developed under the Radar Technology Insertion Programme (RTIP) forms the basis ...
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European restructuring takes off
Julian Moxon/PARIS European restructuring has finally got under way in earnest with the merging of four companies' satellite and space operations to create a $3 billion enterprise that will be third largest of its type in the world behind Lockheed Martin and Hughes Electronics. The wider issue of ...
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Sundstrand boosts Airbus APU life
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Sundstrand's Auxiliary Power International (APIC) plans to boost the in-service life of its APS 3200 auxiliary power unit on the Airbus single-aisle aircraft family with a block upgrade in the next few months. APIC is confident of growing business on the 100-seat A318 after being selected ...
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P&W sketches out PW6000 test plan
Pratt & Whitney plans to run the first engine tests of its PW6000 turbofan in July 1999, and will flight test the initial engine on powerplant manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Canada's Boeing 720 testbed in early 2001. The timescale depends partially on Airbus giving the go-ahead for the formal ...
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Adour 106 begins to scale
The first Rolls-Royce Turboméca Adour Mk106 turbofan for the upgraded Royal Air Force Sepecat Jaguar fleet has been delivered to the French engine test facility at Saclay for altitude trials, following initial tests at Rolls-Royce's Bristol plant. The engine will be run for around 400h, with flight development engines ...
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Alcatel and Loral plan joint
Alcatel and Loral Space and Communications are planning to form a new company, EuropeStar. Initially, it will operate two Alcatel-built communications satellites co-located at 45í in geostationary (GEO) orbit. Launches are scheduled to take place in 2000 and 2002, and the satellites will serve Europe, the Middle East, South ...
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An-124 will be space
The Russian Government has given the go-ahead for a project that will use the Antonov An-124 Ruslan freighter to launch a lightweight booster. The proposal, put forward by a joint team led by the Russian Space Agency and the Ministry of Defence, involves modernising four An-124s. A two-stage ...