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Grizzly delivery
Kaman has delivered a K-MAX external-lift helicopter to Grizzly Mountain Aviation, of Prineville, Oregon. The company has now sold 13 of the intermeshing-rotor helicopters, and two are on lease to operators. Grizzly Mountain will use the single-seat, single-engined aircraft for logging operations. An aircraft was also recently handed over to ...
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MDHS promises first MD 600N delivery
McDONNELL Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) will deliver its first MD 600N in early June, to Grand Canyon tour operator AirStar Helicopters, following delayed US certification. The company has seven aircraft ready for hand over, and hopes to deliver up to 30 of the tailrotor-less MD 600Ns this year. ...
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Raytheon Premier II is on the horizon
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT is a year away from launching the Premier II business jet, according to Art Wegner, the firm's chairman and chief executive. "Clearly, we would like to stretch the Premier I and give it a modified wing and bigger thrust engines. It would probably be an eight-seat ...
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Aeronautique Services will run Avions Mudry
In what may prove to be a landmark decision for the French general-aviation industry, a French commercial court has decided that bankrupt Avions Mudry will be taken over by the Avions Robin holding company, Aeronautique Services. Aeronautique Services owner Jean-Paul Pellissier says that he plans to re-establish the ...
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NTSB urges action on 747 fuel-tank safety
THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has added safety enhancements to commercial passenger-aircraft fuel tanks to its list of "most wanted" transportation-safety improvements. In late 1996, the NTSB urged the US Federal Aviation Administration to require air carriers to reduce the possibility of build-ups of explosive vapours ...
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Boeing accelerates 747 growth project again
Boeing is stepping up work on its revamped 747-400IGW (increased gross weight) and IGW Stretch plan, and is pushing Rolls-Royce and the General Electric /Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance to firm up plans for new 289kN (65,000lb)-thrust engines to make the proposed aircraft more attractive to airlines. "You'll ...
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Consortium bids to link Schiphol with Belgian airports
An Irish-Dutch consortium has offered to form an alliance with the Belgian Government to operate the airports of Amsterdam, Brussels and Charleroi as a single entity. The consortium involves Amsterdam Schiphol of the Netherlands and Aer Rianta of Ireland - each with a 50% share. The ...
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Baltics negotiate for Swedish trainers
Swedish Defence minister Björn von Sydow is in talks with the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania over a donation of surplus Saab SK60 trainers to a joint Baltic training wing. The Swedish defence ministry says that the "Baltwing" talks are part of broader negotiations about donations ...
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Bell signs up for majority stake in Romania's IAR
Bell Helicopter Textron has signed an agreement with the Romanian State Ownership Fund to buy the Romanian Government's 70% stake in Brasov-based helicopter manufacturer IAR. The agreement, signed on 21 May, comes together with the award of a Romanian Government contract to Bell for the purchase of 96 ...
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Kai Tak engine strike
A Nippon Cargo Airlines Boeing 747-200 was damaged when its No 1 engine hit the ground during a 17 May attempted landing at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport. After the captain had elected to go-around, the aircraft returned for a safe landing 17min later, according to Kai Tak air traffic ...
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EC threatens to ban Boeing/MDC imports
The European Commission (EC)has told Boeing that its proposed merger with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) will lead to the resulting company holding a "dominant" position in global markets, and has threatened to ban imports of Boeing/MDC aircraft to European Union markets if its objections are not satisfied. A letter ...
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Tension rises over Eurofighter
German defence minister Volker Rühe has admitted that Bonn could pull out of the Eurofighter programme, raising tensions among the European partners to their highest level since the German-led funding fiasco of 1992 which led to lengthy programme delays. In an interview with the German newspaper Westdeutsche Allgemeine ...
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ICAO pushes for new enforcement powers
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is to push for powers to enforce safety and security standards for its 185 member states. President Assad Kotaite will ask the ICAO Council in June for powers to conduct compulsory safety and security audits and enforce implementation of standards. The ICAO ...
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UK industry makes funds appeal to new Labour Government
UK INDUSTRY representatives have made a fresh appeal to the UK Government for direct aerospace-research funding, following the Labour Party's general election victory on 1 May. Similar approaches to the previous Conservative Administration had been repeatedly rejected. Mike Turner, president of the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC), ...
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Shuttle heads home after Mir crew swap
The Space Shuttle STS 84/Atlantis undocked from the Russian Mir 1 space station on 21 May, ending the sixth joint flight in the successful Shuttle Mir Mission (SMM) programme. The Atlantis, which was used to deliver a new oxygen generator and repair gear to the Mir among 1,800kg of equipment, ...
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Apollo sale
United Airlines, US Airways and Air Canada are to sell Apollo Travel Services (ATS) to Galileo International for $700 million. ATS already markets Galileo's Apollo computer-reservation system in North America. Galileo will also buy Galileo Nederland from KLM and Traviswiss from Swissair. Source: Flight International
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Delta opts for fire-protection
Delta Air Lines has decided to fit its entire narrowbody fleet with cargo-bay fire-protection systems well ahead of an expected US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive. Walter Kidde Aerospace, a division of Kidde Technologies, is Delta's chosen supplier of cargo-hold smoke-detectors which, together with Kidde's central cargo electronic-monitoring unit and ...
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Danish planning
Danish flight-planning software manufacturer Air Support has linked with Deutsche Flug Sicherung (DFS), the operations division of the German civil-aviation authority, to provide on-demand flight plans to operators which need to make changes to routes at short notice. Air Support's Pre-flight Planning System software, which is designed to be able ...
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'Multi mirrors' make an appearance
Finavicomp has delivered the first X-Ray Multi-Mirror satellite telescope tube to Dornier Satellite Systeme. The Finnish firm - the manufacturing arm of Finavitec - is building two tubes. The first is to be used for test purposes and as a spare, while the second will be used for the actual ...
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BFGoodrich plans to expand Skywatch
BFGOODRICH PLANS to begin shipping its Skywatch traffic-advisory system in June, following USFederal Aviation Administration approval of the system. The company says that it has taken 65 orders since launching the Skywatch, which is aimed at the general-aviation market, at the beginning of April. Flight International was given ...