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Kitplane popularity soars as sales increase
WORLDWIDE Kit sales could total around 7,750 aircraft annually by the end of the decade, according to research published by the US magazine Kitplanes. A survey examined the expected growth in sales of kitplanes and plans-only designs for 95 home-build aircraft manufacturers, around 60% of the industry, from 1990 up ...
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Kestrel funds
Kestrel Aircraft plans a public offering in 1998, to raise $30 million to build a factory able to produce up to 500 of its K-250 all-composite aircraft a year by 2001. Source: Flight International
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Horten flies again
Two aircraft enthusiasts have begun flight tests of a prototype ultra-light flying wing, built from a design by Second World War flying-wing pioneer Professor Reimar Horten, who died in 1993. The two-seat PUL 10 had its 30min maiden flight in May from Breitscheid airÌeld in Germany, under a Provisional Certificate ...
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VisionAire books European orders
VISIONAIRE SAYS that it received orders for four Vantage single-engined business jets at the European Business Air Show in the UK in May. The agreements take the company's orderbook to over 60 aircraft. The orders were placed by buyers in Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK. The ...
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Boeing battles to complete 777-X definition for Paris
Boeing is struggling to get its proposed 777-200X/ 300X growth derivatives off the ground in time for the Paris air show, as the company considers a further increase to the maximum take-off-weight (MTOW) of the aircraft to meet airline range and payload demands. The US manufacturer is discussing ...
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A340 growth engine is stuck in stalemate
Airbus Industrie, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce are locked in a three-way stand-off over the way forward on the growth A340-500 and -600. P&W and R-R are seeking exclusivity on the new variants, while Airbus does not want to offer it.The engine makers expect a final decision by ...
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American chief decries delay in BA deal
AMERICAN AIRLINES has blasted critics of the proposed alliance between the US carrier and British Airways, and assailed the "foot-dragging" in securing regulatory approval for the deal. Bob Crandall, American's chairman and chief executive, has told a congressional panel that the deal, revealed in April 1996, has been ...
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BM chooses V2500 for its A320/A321s
British Midland (BM) has selected the International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500-A5 to power the 20 Airbus A320/A321s it is ordering, thus rejecting the rival CFM International (CFMI) CFM56, which powers the UK carrier's fleet of Boeing 737s. The engine selection, which has a book value of nearly $400 million, will ...
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BA becomes a new-age traveller
British Airways is undertaking a major revamp of its image "for the new millennium", with a move towards what it sees as being a UK-based carrier which is "a citizen of the world". BA has commissioned 50 works of art from around the world for its fleet's tails, replacing the ...
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EC proposes to extend powers
The European Commission (EC) is proposing to give itself sweeping new powers over air-transport competition, including extending its authority to rule on mergers outside the European Union(EU). The proposals, if approved by the Council of Ministers, would give the Commission significant influence over alliances, co-operative joint ventures and ...
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Ruhe uses Eurofighter as budget shield
German defence minister Volker Rühe is trying to use the endangered Eurofighter EF2000 programme to pressure finance minister Theo Waigel to keep his hands off Germany's overstretched defence budget. The defence ministry has confirmed that Rühe will only support an emergency funding plan, which could save the EF2000, ...
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Mitsubishi advances regional ambitions with windtunnel test
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) plans to begin initial windtunnel testing shortly of a scaled-model of a proposed new 90-seat regional jet which it is studying with Bombardier. The Japanese manufacturer is understood to be negotiating with the country's National Aerospace Laboratory to use its windtunnel from August. The ...
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Raytheon launches fractional ownership
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT is to offer fractional ownership of its business aircraft through a new subsidiary. Raytheon Travel Air will begin operations in August and will have an initial company-owned core fleet of nine aircraft - three Beech King Air B200s, three Beechjet 400As and three Hawker 800XPs. The operation already ...
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Socialists may stop French sales
The election of a socialist Government in France has thrown doubts on the privatisation of state-owned aerospace giants Aerospatiale and Thomson-CSF, and raised the possibility that the entire process will be delayed or even cancelled. Further uncertainties have been raised by the appointment of a communist at the transport ministry ...
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Garrett completes F28 upgrade
Garrett Aviation Services' Los Angeles division has recently completed the upgrade of a Colombian air force Fokker F28 Mk1000 executive aircraft, which included the installation of a Rockwell-Collins four-tube electronic flight-instrument system and new flightdeck avionics, upgraded interior and exterior repaint. The avionics upgrade includes the installation of Collins TCAS ...
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Boeing tests F-22 life support
BOEING HAS completed safety-of-flight testing on the life-support system for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22, due to be flown in mid-June. The system includes the "integrated ensemble" of clothing to be worn by pilots during flight testing of the F-22. The US Air Force says the ensemble is the ...
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Orbital will launch hypersonic vehicles
ORBITALSCIENCES IS to produce four modified Pegasus air-launched boosters for NASA's Hyper-X hypersonic test programme. The Hyper-X is a small, unmanned, research vehicle powered by a supersonic-combustion ramjet (scramjet) and designed to reach speeds of up to Mach 10 and altitudes of up to 100,000ft (30,500m) after launch ...
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Oxygen first
Equipements Respiratoires à Oxygene de Secours (EROS) has become the first company to have its emergency-oxygen equipment and masks certificated by Russia and the CIS countries. The CIS Aviation Register and the Federal Aviation Service of Russia issued the certification on 3 June. New Russian aircraft such as the Tupolev ...
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TRW's MMW camera will offer low-visibility landing capability
ATRW-LED team is preparing for flight tests of a passive millimetre-wave camera which could allow low-visibility operations with commercial and military aircraft. System checkout will begin later this month and 60h of flight testing is scheduled to start in September, using the US Air Force's Boeing C-135CSpeckled Trout testbed. ...
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Licences cannot be given away
Sir - In his letter "Should licence rules be adapted?" (Flight International, 28 May-3 June, P66), Mark Crane writes on the subject of the European Joint Aviation Requirement (JAR) 66 Notice of Proposed Amendment and qualification for the issue of an aircraft-maintenance basic licence (AMBL). Currently licensed or ...