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Here's to the next 50
The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) has come a long way since its humble beginnings as the Corporation Aircraft Owners Association, which held its first convention in New York on 24 September, 1947, attracting 19 companies and collecting around $1,900 in revenues. Fifty years later, the contrast could ...
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Persistent ambitions
Unmanned combat-aircraft are coming, but they will not be going into battle any time in the too-near future. Harsh lessons learned developing relatively simple and inexpensive unmanned air-vehicles (UAVs) have made manufacturers and operators alike extremely cautious in planning the introduction of more costly and sophisticated uninhabited combat air-vehicles (UCAVs). ...
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Sabreliner offers speedbrake
Sabreliner is offering to install a speedbrake on the Sabreliner 65 business jet, for $79,000. Previously only available on the Sabreliner 40, 60 and 80 models, the speedbrake helps pilots manage speed on approach and reduces landing roll by 6%. Installation takes around ten days, Sabreliner says. Source: ...
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US racing team picks Jetstream 31 for shuttle
A British Aerospace Jetstream 31 is to be used to shuttle US NASCAR motor-racing teams between events. The 19-seat aircraft has been purchased from BAe Asset Management - Turboprops (AMT) by Southern Pride Trucking, for use by Greensboro, North Carolina-based Petty Enterprises. The aircraft will be delivered in ...
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Operators offered RVSM help
Operators of out-of-production business jets are being offered help in gaining reduced vertical-separation minima (RVSM) approval for their aircraft. Everett, Washington-based AeroMech has joined forces with flight-test specialist Kohlman Systems Research to gain RVSM approval for aircraft types for which manufacturer support is no longer available. ...
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VisionAire selects SimCom to provide training on Vantage
VisionAire has selected SimCom International to provide pilot and maintenance training for the Vantage single-turbofan business jet. St Louis, Missouri-based VisionAire will provide training for one pilot and one maintenance technician within the Vantage's $1.75 million purchase price, and plans to require pilots to gain a type rating ...
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Ministers turn down EC open-skies request
Europe's transport ministers have turned down a request from the European Commission (EC) to broaden the remit of its open-skies talks with the USA to include negotiations on traffic rights. EC transport commissioner Neil Kinnock hopes to raise the issue again at the next meeting, in December. Kinnock ...
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Fairchild Dornier bypasses 50-seat market
Fairchild Dornier is planning to develop a 70-seat regional jet and has abandoned a scheme to compete in the already-crowded 50-seat market sector with a stretched derivative of its 328JET. The US-German manufacturer will roll out the prototype of its Dornier 328 turboprop-derived 32-seat, Pratt & Whitney Canada ...
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Netherlands unbends on Schiphol noise
The Netherlands Government has reached a last-minute compromise which will allow Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport to breach its strict noise regime, which was threatening to cause chaos in operations in the final three months of the year. The airport says that it will still have to rein in its growth in ...
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Air Flandre signs first order for EMB-135
Air Flandre has become the launch customer for Embraer's short-fuselage EMB-145 derivative, the EMB-135, with a deal for up to 20 aircraft. The Brazilian manufacturer has also revealed a clutch of EMB-145 orders, including 20 for a US leasing company and ten for British Regional Airlines (BRAL). ...
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Failed again
Proposed Australian start-up carrier Aussie Air failed to meet a deadline on 10 October by which it was required to deposit A$10.5 million ($7.6 million) with Qantas to secure tenure sub-leases on terminal space at the key airports of Coolangatta, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. Qantas has advised the Australian Stock ...
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Mesa rejects buy-out
US regional Mesa Air Group has rejected a $50 million offer to buy its United Express operations from investor group Barlow Partners II, which has a stake in US Airways Express regional carrier CCAir. Source: Flight International
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JSF demonstrators enter manufacturing stage
Boeing and Lockheed Martin are close to "cutting metal" for their respective Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept-demonstrator aircraft. So far, Boeing has produced trial sections of thermoplastic-composite wing skin, while Lockheed Martin has received a composite inlet-duct test article produced by subcontractor Alliant Techsystems. The wing lay-up mandrel ...
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Siemens tests new parking system
Siemens is testing a new precision-parking system at Munich Airport, Germany, which recognises an aircraft approaching a stand and then gives the pilot parking guidance. Testing of the video-based Siemens Docking Guidance System (SIDOGS) should be completed by the end of the year, says the German company, which ...
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GAMECO poised to build engine-test centre
Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (GAMECO) has been given preliminary board approval to build a $108 million engine-test centre, as part of wider investment in expanded overhaul and repair centres for southern China. The company hopes to have the new factory operational by 2000, provided that it is given ...
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China tackles issue of ATC integration
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is expected to issue a request for proposals (RFP) by the end of the year for the first of three planned area-control centres (ACCs) to provide integrated coverage of the eastern half of the country. Under a national plan drawn up ...
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Atlas 2AS prepared for launch
The first version of the ILS International Launch Services Atlas 2 fleet is being prepared at the refurbished SLC-3E pad at Vandenberg AFB, California. The Atlas 2AS, designated AC-141, will undergo extensive testing to validate all ground systems, leading to the launch in June 1998 of NASA's Earth Observation System, ...
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India abandons Insat 2D after power loss
India's indigenous Insat 2D geostationary-orbiting communications satellite was abandoned on 5 October, three days after suffering a power loss, thought to have been caused by a short circuit which reduced power levels to 30%, making systems inoperable. Another of the country's spacecraft, the Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS ...
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German cabinet approves Eurofighter procurement
The German cabinet has finally cleared procurement documentation for the Eurofighter EF2000, confirming its intention to buy a total of 180 aircraft for the air force. The decision, repeatedly delayed since late 1996, finally came on 8 October. The matter has now been passed on to the parliamentary ...
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Fire destroys Boeing European spares centre
Fire has destroyed the Boeing European Spare Parts Center at Brussels Airport. The 3 October fire is estimated to have destroyed about BFr4 billion ($144 million)-worth of spare parts. The depot, operated under contract by Sabena Technic, stocked parts for all Boeing types except the 777 for airlines ...