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Sea King AFCS
The Smiths Industries Aerospace SN500 helicopter automatic flight control system (AFCS) has received a military certificate of airworthiness for the Mk3A Westland Sea Kings of the Royal Air Force. In the Sea King, the SN500 is integrated with the navigation systems. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon R&D
Raytheon Aircraft has set up a new centralised research-and-development centre to house an integrated-product team working on the follow-on aircraft to the Hawker 1000. The Wichita, Kansas-based centre becomes operational in July. Source: Flight International
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N250 nacelle parts
France's Hispano-Suiza has delivered the first shipment of N250 engine-nacelle parts to Indonesia's IPTN. They consist of side-access doors and lower-cowl structural frames. Hispano-Suiza has firm orders covering parts for seven aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Hunting interior slips
Hunting has shed two top executives from its Aviation division after cost overruns on its contract to supply interior kits to Bombardier for the Dash-8. Ian Marsh, chief executive of Hunting Aviation, and John Adkins, who heads the interiors business, have both left. Source: Flight International
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...and Dash-8 sales
Abu Dhabi Aviation has purchased two Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-200s, worth $25 million, for delivery in February/March 1997, for offshore-oil support in the United Arab Emirates. Source: Flight International
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AI(R) hot and high
Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) has received US certification for the "hot-and-high" ATR 42-500 and delivered the first of eight to Continental Express. Bombardier has delivered the first "quiet-cabin" de Havilland Dash 8Q to Mesa Air. Source: Flight International
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IPTN gets go-ahead for STOL-airliner programme
INDONESIA'S IPTN HAS received permission to begin development of a purely commercial short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft, with a capacity of more than 20 seats, to replace machines in the de Havilland Twin Otter class. The project will target a new type, rather than a redevelopment of an existing ...
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Pavement tests aim at new heavyweights airliners
BOEING AND THE US Federal Aviation Administration will fund construction of the world's first full-scale pavement-test site, designed to support research for the next generation of large commercial aircraft. The National Airport Pavement Test Facility is to be established at the FAA's Technical Center in Atlantic City, New ...
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Mielec offers improved M-28 Skytruck
POLISH manufacturer PZL-Mielec is offering an improved version of its M-28 Skytruck high-wing twin turboprop, which it says will have an increased maximum take-off weight. The company has so far produced one aircraft with the optional improvements, which increase take-off weight by 500kg to 7,500kg. The ...
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USA and Indonesia resolve F-16 spat
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE INDONESIA HAS reached agreement with the USA on improvements to be made to nine Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs, originally earmarked for Pakistan, clearing the way for Indonesia's planned purchase of the fighters to proceed. The $25 million modification work is needed to meet Indonesian ...
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Grob awaits ministry verdict on Strato
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN COMPOSITE-aircraft manufacturer Burkhart Grob is awaiting a Government decision on a revised contract with the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) to decide the fate of the Strato 2C. The record-breaking high-altitude research aircraft has been grounded since August, with the manufacturer and ...
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More pilots for EJA
Executive Jet Aviation (EJA) will hire more than 80 pilots before the end of year to fly the fractional-jet-ownership operator's growing fleet of business aircraft. EJA hired 55 pilots in 1994 and 100 the following year, swelling the roster to 213. An additional 20 pilots work for Executive Jet International. ...
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Vacu-Blast to equip RAF centre joint
VACU-BLAST of the UK, part of BTR Industries, has been awarded the contract to equip the Royal Air Force's first "whole-aircraft" plastic-media paint-stripping (PMS) centre, which is being built by prime contractor Birse Construction at RAF St Athan in South Wales, UK. The centre, which is due for ...
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AOM and TAT link to take on Air France Europe
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRENCH INDEPENDENT airline AOM French Airlines has joined forces with British Airways partner TAT to compete with Air France between Paris Orly and Marseilles, the busiest domestic route in France. The move may signal a further rationalisation of French independents, which have been jostling ...
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European bosses accuse pilots on flight-limits issue
PILOTS HAVE "HIJACKED" the issue of joint European flight-time limitations (FTL) as a route to securing improvements in their working conditions, claim the region's airline chiefs. The draft Joint Aviation Regulation on FTL was highlighted as one of the major threats to the airline industry's fledgling recovery as ...
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Frazer takes DRA projects
FRAZER-NASH Consultancy has won a contract to design a large-amplitude-motion, six-degrees-of-freedom, platform for the UK's Defence Research Agency in its Bedford low-speed windtunnel. The aim is to provide data which more accurately reflects the characteristics of a full-size aircraft, according to Frazer-Nash. The control system will be supplied by Cambridge ...
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Mesaba selects ACT for ice protection
MESABA AIRLINES HAS chosen Aerospace Composite Technologies (ACT) engine-inlet ice-protection systems for its recently ordered fleet of Saab 340B turboprops. All of the aircraft, which include 20 used 340As and 30 new 340BPlus, will incorporate improvements engineered by ACT. The system for the used aircraft includes a new ...
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ValuJet halves its network as NTSB probe centres on cargo-fire issue
THE THEORY that the ValuJet McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 accident on 11 May was linked to the unauthorised freighting of oxygen-generator units has been reinforced by the investigator's discovery of pieces of the canisters embedded in a tyre from the forward cargo hold. At the time of going to ...
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RAA wants icing AD extended to cover more than turboprops
SENIOR US OFFICIALS from the Regional Airline Association (RAA) are pressing the US Federal Aviation Administration to extend a new airworthiness directive (AD) on severe icing to all commercial aircraft, rather than singling out turboprops. The RAA feels that the AD, which requires guidance for pilots on how ...
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CFM hits back at IAE claims as V2500 is flown on Airbus A319
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES CFM INTERNATIONAL is challenging the competitive claims of International Aero Engines (IAE), as the manufacturer of V2500 celebrates a successful first flight on the Airbus A319 at Toulouse on 22 May. The planned culmination of the 200h A319 flight-test programme in December, ...