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Pilatus boosts PC-12 output after IFR approval
Pilatus is stepping up production of its single-turboprop PC-12 in anticipation of increased sales following recent US approval of commercial single-engined operations in instrument-flight-rules (IFR) conditions. Production was increased from three to four a month in August and will reach five aircraft a month by early 1998. ...
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Four-seat Phoenix rises from the Squalus
Alberta Aerospace plans to develop a four-seat version of the former Promavia Jet Squalus jet trainer. The Calgary-based company is now working to certificate the basic two-seat, side-by-side version, renamed the Phoenix FanJet, for the airline-pilot ab initio training market. The follow-on pressurised four-seater would be marketed as ...
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Standard Aero boosts maintenance presence in USA with Alliance
Engine-maintenance specialist StandardAero is expanding support for the Allison AE3007 turbofan following its acquisition of Alliance Engines. Winnipeg-based Standard is now the only North American centre authorised to overhaul the AE3007, which powers the Cessna Citation X business jet and Embraer EMB-145 regional jet. Alliance, based in Maryville, ...
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Raytheon fractional scheme exceeds initial targets
Raytheon Aircraft says that its Travel Air fractional-ownership programme is growing faster than was expected when the scheme was launched in June. The programme will involve 11 aircraft by the end of 1997, two more than originally projected, and subsidiary Raytheon Travel Air plans to add 16 aircraft in 1998. ...
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VisionAire makes plans to follow Vantage
VisionAire is working on plans for a family of small, all-composite, single-engined jet aircraft which would form a follow-on to its Vantage business jet. Tom Stark, president emeritus of VisionAire and senior vice-president of its Future Works subsidiary, says that the initial family of a two-seat trainer and ...
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XMM telescope is ready for testing
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) subsidiary Dornier has completed integration of the development model of the European Space Agency's 11m-long, 4,000kg X-Ray Multi Mirror (XMM) telescope, due for launch on the Ariane 506 in August 1999. The 2m-wide craft, which has three identical mirror assemblies (pictured) containing 58 mirrors, will be tested ...
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Space Station costs soar as delays bite
Work on the International Space Station (ISS) in 1998 is expected to cost NASA and Boeing at least $430 million more than the $2.1 billion proposed in the space agency's 1998 budget. The extra cost includes $100 million set aside to compensate for delays caused by possible difficulties with Russian ...
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Ariane 502 launch is put back
Tim Furniss/LONDON The lift-off of the second Ariane 5 has been put back from the end of September, possibly to November, but the 100th Ariane launch was completed from the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, in French Guiana on 24 September, The Ariane 502 development flight from ...
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Boeing 757-300 takes shape at Renton factory
Major assembly of sub-components for the first Boeing 757-300 will begin at Boeing's Renton, Washington, assembly site in November. Manufacturing has already begun at the plant with the loading of the front left-wing spar into an automated spar-assembly tool. "This is breaking new ground for the aircraft," says ...
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Fuel-pump problem results in 767 AD
Boeing 767s must be operated with at least 450kg of fuel in their centre-wing fuel-tanks to help prevent an explosion caused by the ignition of fuel vapour, according to a new US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive (AD). A centre-wing fuel-tank explosion is suspected as the cause of ...
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Air Malta strategy rethink leads to Avro RJ disposal
Air Malta has abandoned the hub strategy pursued by its previous chairman, and is undertaking a fleet shake-up which will see its Aero International (Regional) Avro RJ70s transferred to Italian subsidiary AZZURRAair, replacing RJ85s. In 1994, under the leadership of the then chief executive Joe Tabone, Air Malta ...
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Alitalia brings A320s into Airbus contract
Marco Massela/ROMEJulian Moxon/PARIS Alitalia is negotiating with Airbus Industrie for the conversion of its 23 outstanding A321 orders to include some smaller A320s, which would be the Italian carrier's first order for the 150-seat member of the Airbus narrowbodied family. The airline is also examining its longer-term strategy ...
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Smog causes air chaos in Asia
Dense smoke from massive forest fires in Borneo and Sumatra is severely disrupting air transport across much of South-East Asia, forcing the closure of some smaller airports and the cancellation or delay of many domestic and regional flights. A thick haze generated by the fires has blanketed Brunei, ...
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Antonov An-140 heads into flight-test
A second prototype Antonov An-140 is due to join the flight-test programme this year following the maiden flight of the first aircraft on 17 September (Flight International, 24-30 September). The first aircraft is being flown from Svyatoshino airfield in Kiev. Series production is being undertaken at the Kharkov plant in ...
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Bournemouth's Scottish express plane
Euroscot Express launched low-fare services to Scotland from its base in Bournemouth in southern England on 29 September, using a BAC One-Eleven 500 leased from European Aviation. The airline will serve Glasgow daily and Edinburgh at weekends, and will compete against British Airways Express (British Regional Airlines), which serves the ...
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American presses case for free-flight
American Airlines is conducting a co-ordinated lobbying campaign to accelerate progress towards US free-flight, based on computer modelling which predicts that the region's hub-and-spoke system will seize up by 2014 if nothing is done. Over the past year, the airline has begun applying pressure at political and technical ...
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Condor prepares for low-cost subsidiary
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Condor Flugdienst, the charter subsidiary of Lufthansa, is expected to found a Berlin-based subsidiary airline within weeks. According to Condor, plans are being finalised for a low-cost airline, to be called Condor Berlin, which will compete against rivals such as Aero Lloyd and Air ...
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Fairchild advances preliminary design work for stretched 528JET
Fairchild Dornier is close to completing the preliminary design of its stretched 50-seat 528JET derivative, with the outstanding issue of engine selection expected to be resolved soon. Earl Robinson, Fairchild Dornier's senior vice-president for product development, says that the company hopes to select a powerplant by early December. ...
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BA waits on Russian approval for FANS go-ahead
British Airways is ready to equip up to 40 Boeing 747-400s with Future Air Navigation System (FANS) avionics to take advantage of new cost-saving routes across Russia - but may walk away from the project if there is no sign of funding for ground infrastructure by the end of this ...