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Sanctions penalise airlines unfairly
Sir - I refer to a Comment page earlier this year ("Strength and Weakness, Flight International, 17-23 January). Airlines are not securing bodies. If a passenger with a valid ticket passed the security and immigration checks, no airline would know anything about that person's identity. Sanctions are to be imposed ...
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Vanguard eliminates
Kansas City, Missouri-based Vanguard Airlines, which began operations in December 1994, has eliminated several unprofitable routes and accelerated maintenance of its eight Boeing 737-200/ 300s in preparation for expanding services in profitable markets early in 1997. Source: Flight International
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Polar freighter
Polar Air Cargo has taken delivery of its first Boeing 747-200F - its fourteenth 747 freighter - following overhaul by Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering. A second -200F will be delivered early in 1997 and Polar plans to add a further two or three 747s a year over the next five ...
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Time to act on pilot
Sir - Your comment "Admit It" and "Report slams world pilot standards" (Flight International, 13-19 November, P3 and 14 respectively) begs a question. It is easy to knock pilot training standards and condemn legal minima for producing inadequately trained pilots. Doing something about it is a different ...
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FedEx launches Ayres Loadmaster
Fred Ayres models his latest development Agricultural-aircraft maker Ayres of Albany, Georgia, has launched its Loadmaster LM200 cargo aircraft with an order for 50 from FedEx. The parcel carrier also has options for 200 additional aircraft over 15 years from first delivery in December 1999. The ...
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Barents takes helm at IAI and Pritzker's Galaxy joint venture
Former Learjet president Brian Barents took centre stage at NBAA, announcing the long-awaited formation of Galaxy Aerospace, the company which will take over manufacturing, marketing and support of Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Astra and Galaxy business jets. Barents is the president of Galaxy, which he describes as a ...
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Global Express and Learjet 45 to join Business JetSolutions
25 Learjet 45s are destined to join Business Jet Solutions fleet With a customer base for the 18-month-old Bombardier/AMR COMBS shared-ownership joint venture "fast approaching 100 customers", two Bombardier Global Express long-range business jets and 25 Learjet 45 will be added to the FlexJet fractional-ownership fleet. ...
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Dassault predicts record deliveries
Dassault Aviation says that it will deliver, a record 56 business jets in 1997, the first year it will deliver four aircraft types - the Falcon 50EX, 2000, 900B and 900EX. The first production Falcon 50EX, newly certificated, was displayed green at the NBAA show, before delivery to Dassault's Little ...
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Cessna gives Citation Excel its first public outing
Cessna says that it will deliver the first Citation Excel widebody light business-jet in November 1997. Two are now being flown, and the aircraft had its public debut at the NBAA show. A third aircraft, the first production Excel, will be flown in July 1997. Cessna says that ...
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Stability modification
Avcon Industries has won a $2.5 million contract from courier AirNet for Avcon Fins stability modifications to more than 20 Learjets. The initial $500,000 deal is to modify three aircraft for completion in the second quarter of 1997. Source: Flight International
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Global-range stakes increase
Improved range for the Global Express will put pressure on Gulfstream Bombardier has increased the range of its Global Express business jet by 370km (200nm), to 12,400km at Mach 0.8, following initial flight-testing of the first aircraft. The move increases pressure on Gulfstream, which admits that its ...
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Universal Avionics offers fivefold improved GPS/Glonass system
A new satellite-navigation system, promising a fivefold improvement in accuracy, has been unveiled by Universal Avionics. The GNSS-2400 uses the US global-positioning system (GPS) and its Russian equivalent, the Glonass. The working prototype was proven during a flight from Switzerland to Florida, and demonstrated at the show. ...
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Dual pac changes
Soloy has renamed its twin-turbine, single-propeller conversion of the Cessna Caravan, the "Pathfinder 21", and has increased the gross weight to 5,700kg to offer additional payload. The revisions have delayed production by 12 months, with US approval now expected in May 1998. Source: Flight International
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Rockwell renaissance
Twin Commander Aircraft has extended its Grand Renaissance refurbishment programme to include piston-powered versions of the Rockwell-built aircraft, beginning with the Shrike 500S. Eight 690A/B/C Twin Commander turbine-powered aircraft have already been scheduled for restoration. Source: Flight International
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Orenda puts off piston approval
Orenda Aerospace has delayed certification of its 370-560kW (500-750hp) piston-engine family after testing was halted by crankshaft manufacturing defects. The Canadian firm now expects to certificate the engine in the second quarter of 1997, rather than by the end of 1996. Orenda says that the final 150h endurance ...
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New part-share scheme is set
A new business-jet fractional-ownership programme has been launched to meet demand for what the founders describe as "the future of corporate aviation". Prime Fleet is a joint venture between US bank-owned leasing company Fleet Capital Leasing and Prime Airborne, an aircraft management and charter firm. Initially, the New ...
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Pilatus heads west for sales
Swiss manufacturer Pilatus Aircraft has established a permanent base at Jeffco Airport in Broomfield, Colorado, for the US sales and support of its PC-12 single turboprop. In addition to marketing and maintenance work, the company plans to begin interior-completion work at Jeffco in January 1997, and avionics fitments ...
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Swearingen SJ30-2 prototype has its first flight
Sino Swearingen SJ30-2 has taken to the air for the first time Sino Swearingen Aircraft's prototype SJ30-2 has been flown for the first time. President Jack Braly says that the aircraft is on course for US certification by the last quarter of 1998. Customer deliveries will follow immediately ...
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Bell Boeing takes the wraps off the BB609 civil tilt-rotor
Bell Boeing are aiming for a mid-1999 first flight of the civil tilt-rotor The six- to nine-passenger civil tilt-rotor (CTR) aircraft which Bell Helicopter Textron (BHT) and Boeing Helicopters have agreed to produce jointly is set to have its maiden flight in mid-1999, says the joint-venture company. ...
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VisionAire kicks off Vantage testing
VisionAire flew its Vantage for the first time on 16 November VisionAire has begun flight-testing its single-engined Vantage business jet with a first flight on 16 November at Scaled Composites in Mojave, California. Test pilot and director of operations at Scaled Composites, Doug Shane, says that the aircraft ...