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Accidents force Czech air force to increase training
Czech's raise flight training hours The Czech air force is to increase flight training from 50h to 60h for front-line pilots, in the wake of several recent accidents. The increase in flying hours has been ordered by Miloslav Vyborny, the Czech Republic defence minister. The air ...
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Excel APU selected
Cessna Aircraft has selected AlliedSignal's new-generation RE100 auxiliary power-unit (APU) as an option for its Excel business jet. The 100kW (135shp) APU takes up 10% less volume than earlier-generation business-aircraft power units, and can be started and operated above 30,000ft (9,100m). The APU weighs almost 36kg - around ...
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Bellanca SkyRocket back on launch pad
AviaBellanca Aircraft hopes to certificate and manufacture a six-seat light aircraft first flown more than 20 years ago, but never produced. The single example of the Bellanca-designed SkyRocket II is expected to be flown this month, having been in storage since 1982. Reston, Virginia-based AviaBellanca plans to produce ...
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Malaysians plan to start manufacturing Eagle
Composites Technology Research Malaysia (CTRM) will begin manufacturing its Eagle X-TS all-composite sports trainer at its Batu Berendam plant in Malacca, in February 1997. This decision follows the 13 November lifting of certification weight restrictions by Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), which is responsible for oversight ...
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MDH cuts helicopter prices to boost sales
McDonnell Douglas Helicopters (MDH) is to introduce aggressive price cuts to stimulate sales of its MD600N and MD902 after admitting that its prices "have been too high". The price of the eight-seat MD600N, which is expected to receive US Federal Aviation Administration certification by early December, is ...
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P&WC details tilt-rotor engine
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney Canada plans to certificate its PT6C-67A turboshaft in mid-2000 for the Bell Boeing 609 civil tilt-rotor, first deliveries of which are scheduled for 2001. "The main differences between this engine and other PT6 series will be in the oil system ...
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Atlantic sells Caravan conversions
Atlantic Aero has received certification for modifications developed to convert the Cessna Caravan single-turboprop utility aircraft from cargo to passenger configuration. The modifications are available in kit form, or can be installed by the Greensboro, North Carolina-based company. The basic passenger conversion kit allows the Caravan to be ...
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Robin updates its Regent four-seater in bid to bolster sales
Julian Moxon/Paris French light aircraft manufacturer Avions Pierre Robin is working on an improved version of its DR400 Regent four-seater in a bid to strengthen sales of the type. "We want to continue making these aircraft," says Robin president Jean-Paul Pellissier of the all-wood DR400. "It ...
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Trimble/AirCell top avionics news at NBAA show
Trimble Navigation launched the TrimConnect 3100 flight-telephone system for corporate aircraft at the US National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) convention in Orlando, Florida, in late November. The system is the first product for which AirCell's US telecommunications network is used, which employs cellular-telephone technology. Trimble says that the ...
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Iran and China negotiate FB-7/F-8IIM fighter deal
Iran is considering the purchase of the Chinese Xian FB-7 strike aircraft, the Shenyang F-8IIM and Chengdu F-7 fighters, as part of a multi-billion dollar arms deal it is negotiating with Beijing. Talks between Beijing and Tehran to cement the $4.5 billion deal have been progressing for several ...
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Tu-144 TEST
The Tupolev Tu-144LL (RA-77114), reactivated for joint US-Russian supersonic test flights, was scheduled to have its first flight on 29 November from the Zhukovsky flight test centre near Moscow. The aircraft (RA-77114) has been restored to flying condition after some ten years in storage. The aircraft will undertake around six ...
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R-R offers Trent/-524 hybrid retrofit option
Rolls-Royce has offered operators of RB.211-524G/ H-powered Boeing 747-400s and 767s the option to retrofit their engines with the core of the Trent 700, in an effort to offset higher-than-expected fuel-consumption degradation and reliability problems in the existing power plants. R-R recently accelerated development work on the so-called ...
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BFG tests SMART de-icing boot
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BF Goodrich (BFG) is to conduct certification flight-testing of its SMART boot pneumatic de-icer, with an integrated wide-area ice-detection sensor, on New Piper Aircraft's Malibu Mirage high-performance piston single. The company says that the system "-removes the guesswork from pneumatic de-icer operation". The ...
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Alliant wins canopy fracturing contract
Alliant Techsystems has won a $2 million contract to qualify its Laser Canopy Fracturing Initiation System for use in the Raytheon Aircraft Beech/ Pilatus PC-9 MkII. Over 700 Beech MkIIs will be built for the US Air Force and Navy under the $4 billion Joint Primary Aircraft Training System programme. ...
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FAA tests IR safety and security device
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is evaluating whether a low-cost infra-red (IR) device can enhance safety and security at US airports. Night Sight IR cameras supplied by Texas Instruments are being tested at the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport and Washington's Dulles International. They are being used ...
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Flight plan change is over the top
Sir - For the Dutch and Belgian Governments to ask the International Civil Aviation Organisation for changes in flight plan-transmitted data seems a bit over the top (News in Brief, "C-130 crash", Flight International, 30 October-5 November, P18). Assuming that air-traffic control was talking to the Lockheed Martin ...
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AI(R)
Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) has made two new appointments. Paolo Revelli-Beaumont, who was a participant in the negotiations leading to the creation of AI(R), becomes general secretary and Francesco Giobbe, who was general secretary, leads a new legal directorate. Both positions are directly attached to chief executive Patrick Gavin. ...
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Atlas launches most powerful civil-communications satellite
Tim Furniss/LONDON The Eutelsat Hot Bird 2, the world's most powerful civilian communications satellite, built by Matra Marconi Space (MMS), is heading for its operating position at 13¹E in geostationary orbit (GEO). It was launched by an ILS International Launch Services, Atlas 2A from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on ...
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Hughes confirms its ten-launch H2 deal
Hughes Space and Communications and Japan's Rocket Systems signed a contract on 25 November for ten launches of the up-rated H2A booster, (Flight International, 17-23 July, P17). The contract also includes an undisclosed number of launch options. The ten launches will begin in 2000 and will continue ...
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India cancels order for Russian launch
India will launch its remote-sensing satellite, the IRS 1D, aboard the country's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in 1997, and has cancelled its $14 million order for a launch by the Russian Molniya rocket. The PSLV had been declared operational after launching the IRS P3 satellite in March. ...