All Business Jets articles – Page 701
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Aircraft news
GE Capital Services has ordered 102 B737s, including 82 next generation models, and five B777s. The company has options on a further 76 B737s in a $4 billion deal. Vietnam Airlines will take 10 A320s on operating leases from Regionair and 3 B767-300s from Gecas. KLM ...
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Order doubts slay dragons
China's smaller carriers are in a life or death struggle to gain Beijing's approval for what they expect will be a limited number of aircraft orders this year. The outcome of the battle looks likely to settle which airlines survive and which are swallowed by others. And the ...
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Fokker's future hangs in balance
Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker is fighting for survival as a split emerges between the two main partners in the proposed Asian Express 100-seat aircraft project. Richard Whitaker reports from the Asian Aerospace show in Singapore.The 30 companies considering bids for all or part of crisis-torn regional aircraft manufacturer Fokker face ...
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Jumbo threat spurs Airbus
Boeing's recent sales successes in Asia with the B777 and B747 are forcing Airbus to consider an early launch for its A3XX project, as the US manufacturer prepares to stretch its largest jet. While Airbus and its partners ponder the viability of their $8 billion programme, Boeing is ...
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NetJets
Executive Jet International has named Richard Schwartz, formerly of Eastman Kodak, chief pilot for its NetJets Gulfstream IV-SP shared-ownership programme. Schwartz has been an aviation consultant for the past two years and, before that, was captain of Kodak's Gulfstream and Challenger fleet. Source: Flight International
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Ozone production is of greater concern
Sir - The two recent, and excellent, articles, "A340 findings indicate ozone is 'not being destroyed'" and "Emission control" (Flight International, 17-23 January, P20, and 31 January-6 February, P69), contain some misinterpretations on the MOZAIC (Measurement of Ozone by Airbus In-service Aircraft) programme. Both mention ozone depletion, but, ...
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LOT looks to purchase jets for speedy regional boost
Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW LOT POLISH AIRLINES is planning to acquire a fleet of 50- to 70-seat regional jets, and spin off its regional operations into a separate company, according to vice-president Andrzej Slodownik. The regional-jet purchase is part of a company fleet-strategy plan being drawn up to ...
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European laminar-flow project accelerates
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE EUROPEAN Commission is extending a key programme investigating the benefits of hybrid laminar-flow technologies for a further 12 months, after the original project showed that it could yield significant reductions in fuel consumption, while avoiding reliability problems. Berhard Dziomba, the European Laminar ...
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Helipro flies shortened S-61
HELIPRO, a Washington-based helicopter repair-and-support company, has flown a shortened version of the Sikorsky S-61, dubbed the "Shortsky". The modification involves the removal of a 1.3m section from the fuselage forward of the engine intakes and aft of the cockpit. The reduced structural weight increases the helicopter's ...
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Statistics reflect the effects
Sir - I have lectured for 25 years on flight safety and, with reference to the Viscount article (Flight International, 20 December-2 January, P30), the hot-air anti-ice system does not necessarily supply sufficient heat to the tail-section leading edges in severe icing conditions, unless the fuel flow to engines two ...
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IPTN speeds up N-2130 regional-jet programme
Paul Lewis/BANDUNG INDUSTRI PESAWAT Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) has advanced the planned entry-into-service date of the proposed N-2130 regional jet by two years, in response to domestic demand and forthcoming foreign competition. With Japan trying to revive its YS-X programme and talks on the Chinese/South Korean ...
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SJ30 certification set for March 1998
SINO SWEARINGEN Aircraft (SSAC) has scheduled US certification of the SJ30-2 light business- jet for March 1998. Plans to certificate the original (SJ30-1) version of the aircraft have been shelved in favour of developing the higher-performance -2, powered by up-rated Williams-Rolls FJ44-2C turbofans (Flight International, 4-10 October, 1995, P18). ...
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Training
Winner: Singapore Aviation Academy Achievement: Providing a level and breadth of training unique in Asia-Pacific. The Singapore Aviation Academy, the training arm of the Singapore Civil Aviation Authority has created a training centre with a broad range of services unique in South-East Asia. The capabilities of the ...
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Raytheon Premier on track
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT has issued performance guarantees to buyers of its new light business-jet, the Premier I, after the latest series of windtunnel tests confirmed initial predictions. Maximum cruise speed at 33,000ft (10,000m) is expected to be around 460kt (850km/h), while range is pegged at 2,775km (1,500nm). Payload with ...
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Infrastructure
Winner: Airways Corporation of new Zealand Location: Wellington, New Zealand Achievement: Implementing the first satellite-based oceanic traffic control system, opening up the use of Future Air Navigation Systems in the Pacific. Airways Corporation of new Zealand has become the first air-traffic-control organisation to install a satellite-based oceanic ...
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Environment
Winner: PZL-Swidnik Polish Aviation Works Location: Swidnik, Poland Achievement: Taking a lead on safe environmental production in Eastern Europe with the introduction of a new anodising line. At the start of 1995, Polish helicopter maker PXL-Swidnik opened a fully automated line for chromic acid anodising of aluminium ...
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Enhanced ground-proximity warning
SEVERAL AIRLINES and manufacturers will evaluate AlliedSignal Aerospace's enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS) during 1996. Development units are to be shipped to British Airways, United Airlines, Bombardier, Cessna, Dassault and Gulfstream. Where today's GPWS monitors various aircraft instruments to provide an audible warning of proximity to the ground, ...
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Fokker holds talks with potential buyers
FOKKER CHAIRMAN Ben van Schaik says that the company has spoken to some 30 parties potentially interested in taking over all or part of its operations, but is focusing initial negotiations on the "...six or seven" which may want to take on the entire company. He says that ...
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BMW Rolls-Royce revises Gulfstream V powerplant
BMW ROLLS-ROYCE is reconfiguring the high-pressure turbine of the BR710 to reduce fuel consumption and cut maintenance costs. The company plans to supply modified engines to power the third prototype of the Gulfstream V long-range business jet. Despite the late change, which reflects performance-guarantee concerns discovered during early ...
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Regional-power battle intensifies
THE BATTLE TO power the embryonic AE-100 regional jet and potential stablemates is heating up following Pratt & Whitney's decision to proceed with development of the PW6000, a turbofan in the 67-107kN (15,000-24,000lb)-thrust range. The PW6000 emerged from the Mid-Thrust Family of Engines study and effectively succeeds a ...