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Romania's Romaero attracts Canadian manufacturers
ROMANIAN STATE-owned aircraft manufacturer Romaero is to supply parts for Bombardier's Canadair CL-415 amphibious aircraft. The deal follows the sale of 24 Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets and de Havilland Dash 8s to Romanian airline DAC Air. The two are not connected, the Canadian company claims, adding: "We have ...
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CAE signs for Pakistan maintenance
CANADA'S CAE AVIATION has signed a joint-venture agreement with the Pakistan air force's Shaheen Foundation to establish an aircraft-maintenance centre in Islamabad. The centre is scheduled to be opened in November, initially offering routine maintenance of Lockheed Martin C-130 transports. The initial investment is $3-4 million and annual ...
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Resource tuning
General aviation is learning to make use of crew-resource-management training. David Learmount/LONDON WHEN A CREW CONSISTS of a single pilot, a training system designed to enhance flightdeck efficiency through better intra-crew co-operation looks irrelevant. Crew-resource management (CRM) has proved to be a flexible concept, however, able to deliver ...
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Quality vs capacity
Paul Phelan/ADELAIDE STUDENT NUMBERS at the Australian Aviation College (AAC) in Adelaide are approaching maximum capacity, but expansion is out of the question, says general manager Harry Bradford. Although the BTR-owned school has over 200 students, it will not expand because quality would suffer, he says. ...
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The tests
SEVERAL OF THE FIVE formats or "batteries" used in RAF pilot-aptitude tests will still be familiar to old hands: ncompensatory tracking and co-ordination: a dot is driven, by stick and rudder pedals, to follow a cross moved to a standard computer-controlled schedule. A relevant civil/transport scenario might be ...
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Self-improvement route
IT IS POSSIBLE TO CLIMB well up a self-improving ladder by learning on the job. Many such pilots are potentially as able as the professionally selected and trained, but their quality varies more widely Past Master of GAPAN, training-captain Clive Elton, says that the lower end of the ...
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Cessna is granted FAA approval for Citation X
Cessna has received US certification for the Citation X Mach 0.92 business jet, after an almost 30-month, 3,000h, flight-test programme involving three aircraft. Deliveries are to begin late this month, and the US manufacturer plans to deliver "11 or 12" aircraft by year-end. European certification is scheduled for July 1997. ...
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Gulfstream offers GIV-SP cost guarantee
GULFSTREAM HAS introduced an operating-cost guarantee programme for its GIV-SP business jet, which will cover all scheduled and unscheduled airframe, engine and avionics maintenance for an hourly usage fee. The Gulfstream ServiceCare guaranteed direct-operating-cost guarantee programme is described by the manufacturer as "...the most comprehensive of its kind ...
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Falcon certification
Dassault Aviation has obtained French civil-aviation certification for its Falcon 900EX long-range business-jet. The French manufacturer expects to gain US certification later this month, leading to first customer deliveries in October. Sony's US arm is the launch customer for the aircraft. The 900EX, which is equipped with AlliedSignal TFE731-60 turbofan ...
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Turbocharged Pulsar model is introduced...
AERO DESIGNS HAS introduced a turbocharged version of its Pulsar entry-level kitplane. The Turbo Pulsar is powered by a turbocharged Rotax 914, giving a cruise speed of 150kt (280km/h) at 7,500ft (2,300m), rising to 160kt at 17,500ft. The normally aspirated, Rotax 912-powered Pulsar XP has a cruise speed of 130kt. ...
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MD600N lost to blade strike
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA The second McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems' (MDHS) MD600N prototype was destroyed by fire on 28 May after a crash-landing during flight-testing. The pilot was uninjured. MDHS says that certification of the eight-seat helicopter, scheduled for September, will be delayed, but believes that first deliveries ...
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Smiths set for RAF Chinook HUMS contract
David Learmount/LONDON HEALTH AND USAGE monitoring systems (HUMS) are to be fitted to all Royal Air Force Boeing Chinook helicopters during the next three years, and "progressively" to the entire UK military helicopter fleet, according to the winning equipment supplier, Smiths Industries Aerospace. The UK contract ...
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UK industry to launch research effort
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AFTER YEARS of failing to win new Government funding for civil research-and-technology programmes, the UK's aerospace companies have taken matters into their own hands and launched a programme of industry-funded technology-demonstrator pilots. They hope that the UK Government will now help build the project ...
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UK targets export rise
THE UK Defence Export Services Organisation (DESO) has set a target of increasing the UK's share of world defence markets by 3% over the next five years. Charles Masefield, head of the UK Ministry of Defence-run organisation, says that the UK won a 19% share in 1995, but is aiming ...
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Speckled Trout on the menu for Boeing
BOEING HAS completed flight-testing of a full-scale prototype of its phased-array communication-antenna system, aimed at demonstrating the technology's suitability for use in commercial and military aircraft. The Satellite Telemetry Airborne Receiving System (STARS) will be installed on the US Air Force chief of staff's Boeing C-135, known as ...
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P&W secures NASA engine deal
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES PRATT & WHITNEY has won a $27 million five-year engine-technology contract from the NASA Lewis Research Center as part of the agency's advanced subsonic-technology (AST) project. The AST project, which was launched in 1992, is designed to keep the US aerospace industry competitive by ...
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Italy powers ahead with its latest A109
AGUSTA HELICOPTERS has achieved Italian certification of the latest member of its A109 family, the Power, just one year after it was first revealed at the 1995 Paris air show. The first of six helicopters is due to be delivered to launch customer Omniflight in September. Agusta claims to have ...
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US NTSB pushes for Sukhoi checks
Checks on the flight controls of Sukhoi Su-29 and Su-31 aerobatic aircraft are being urged after the fatal crash of an Su-29 near New Orleans on 21 March was blamed on an incorrectly assembled elevator-control system. The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has called on the US Federal Aviation ...
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Pentagon studies UAV shake-up schedule
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC SENIOR officials in the US Department of Defense are expected to decide soon how best to revamp management of its unmanned-air-vehicle (UAV) programmes. Although maintaining the status quo is one option, Paul Kaminski, the Pentagon's acquisition chief, is expected to make changes in ...