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Reaching for free flight
Forecasts of extraordinary growth in civil air traffic have become commonplace. The details vary, but a projected doubling of traffic by 2010 and a tripling by 2020 are widely accepted. There is just one problem - those numbers are not feasible, given the existing operational infrastructure. The problem is worst ...
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Building for the future
In the race to WIN what promises to be one of the world's largest air-transport markets in the 21st century, aircraft manufacturers in recent years have been busy beating a path to Beijing bearing all manner of industrial and infrastructural inducements. Airbus Industrie is about to take the wraps of ...
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Auxiliary Power International (APIC)
Auxiliary Power International (APIC) is now wholly-owned by Sundstrand, after the company acquired Labinal's 50% stake in the company late in 1996. APIC, which is to be integrated into Sundstrand's San Diego, California-based Power Systems division, was formed by the US company and France's Labinal in 1989, to produce APUs ...
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Infracstructure deterrent to growth
Lack of infrastructure could be an important deterrent to growth unless a rapid and comprehensive expansion of airports and air-traffic- control equipment is put in place. Air Transport Action Group director Thomas Windmuller, speaking recently at a conference in Bangalore on infrastructure, said that at least $5 billion is expected ...
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Microturbo
Saphir 4-2/4-5 The Saphir 4-2 and 4-5 models are fitted to some Dassault Falcon 20 business jets, rated at around 50kW. The variants differ mainly in that the 4-5 has additional noise insulation around the APU. Saphir 20 The Saphir 20, originally certificated in 1975, is ...
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Pratt & Whitney Canada
PW901A The two-shaft PW901A is fitted as standard to the Boeing 747-400, and is now Pratt & Whitney Canada's (P&WC)only APU product. A development of this model is expected to be offered for the new-generation airliners being planned by Airbus and Boeing, the A3XX and 747-500/600X respectively. This ...
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Sundstrand
APS500 The APS500 is used on the Embraer EMB-145 regional jet, Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-100/200/300 and EMB-120 turboprops, and the Hawker 800 business jet. APS1000 The APS1000 is fitted to the British Aerospace 146/Avro RJ, Fokker 50 and Saab 2000. ...
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Cessna expects Bravo approval
Cessna has received basic US certification for the Citation Bravo light business jet. Full certification, for flight into known icing and clearance of the flight-management system and autopilot, is expected by the end of this month, and first deliveries are scheduled to begin in February. Cessna says that ...
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Airbus withdraws USAir's future delivery positions
Airbus Industrie has withdrawn all of USAir's 1998 and 1999 firm delivery positions, as well as support for a planned aircraft lease, because the US air carrier "-has not demonstrated that it will be able to affirm its Airbus aircraft purchase". USAir has told its employees that it ...
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Engine tie-up
Pratt & Whitney Canada has signed a joint venture agreement with China National South Aeroengine and Machinery Company on a partnership in small gas turbine engines assembly. Source: Flight International
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Royal Air Forcesteps up C-17 transporter studies
The Royal Air Force is stepping up studies into leasing the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) C-17 as a strategic transport, with indications that it is trying to get approval in principle for the deal before a UK general election has to be called by mid-year. The Ministry of Defence ...
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HAESL poised to open its doors
Rolls-Royce and Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering (HAECO) are planning to open their new joint-venture engine-test and overhaul site at Tseung Kwan O at the end of February. Phase one of the new $120 million Hong Kong Aero Engine Services (HAESL) centre is now virtually complete. Its 580kN (130,000lb)-thrust ...
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PATS replaces VIP 737 generating canisters
PATS has received US Federal Aviation Administration certification for a central, high-pressure oxygen system to replace oxygen-generating canisters in Boeing 737s. The first system has been installed in a 737 operated by ITT as a 50-passenger transport for two sports teams. Columbia, Maryland-based PATS says the system is ...
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Rockwell-Collins wins tilt-rotor avionics
BELL BOEING HAS selected Rockwell-Collins to supply avionics for its Model 609 civil tilt-rotor. The team has chosen Collins' Pro Line 21 integrated digital avionics, already selected for Raytheon's Premier 1 business jet. The cockpit of the six- to nine-passenger 609 will have three 250 x 200mm, liquid-crystal ...
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PPI finishes plating shop
Pacific Propeller (PPI) is close to completing a new plating shop at its Kent, Washington, site, which is aimed at expanding its propeller and control-assembly servicing and refurbishing capabilities. The shop will be used for zinc, chromium, hard chrome, cadmium and nickel plating and anodising of major propeller components, providing ...
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Delta detection
Robotic Vision Systems (RVSI) has received an order from Delta Air Lines for additional ID-1H wide-area ice-detection systems to complete equipment of its Delta Shuttle aircraft. The ID-1H combines a hand-held sensor with a video display to enable de-icing truck operators to locate contamination of critical surfaces. Source: ...
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Is the SST a viable solution?
Sir-In your article "Supersonic Resurrection" (Flight International, 18-25 December 1996, P26), you reported the Tupolev officials' belief that sustained air-traffic growth would lead to the need for a larger, second-generation, supersonic transport (SST). This is illogical, as continuing air-traffic growth is already causing a shortage of "slots" at major airports. ...
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UK CAA insists on stick-shaker for Falcon 2000
Dassault has delivered the first UK-registered Falcon 2000 business jet, but has been forced to equip the aircraft with a "stick-shaker" stall-warning device to meet the UK Civil Aviation Authority's "additional requirements for import". These come despite the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) declaring that such a device is unnecessary. ...
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Mitsubishi tests second MH2000
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) began flight-testing the second prototype of its MH2000 helicopter in late 1996, and says that the helicopter remains on track to receive airworthiness certification from the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau by the end of March. The company has begun marketing the 4.5t-class machine domestically in Japan, ...
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Swiss FBO expansion
UK company BBA Group, which owns the Signature Flight Support chain of US fixed-base operators (FBO), has formed a joint venture with Zimex Aviation of Switzerland to set up a new "Signature-type" FBO in Zurich. The international engineering group hopes that the deal marks the beginning of an expansion of ...