All General aviation articles – Page 256
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Israel's 'Code Positive' pilot identification system goes operational in April
The first phase of Israel's so-called "Code Positive" smart card system designed to identify that aircraft heading for Israel are not hostile will become...
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Pressure builds on embattled business jet industry
An already bleak outlook for US-based business jet manufacturers has worsened in recent days with a second wave of political attacks and layoffs in as many months.
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Forecasts 2009 - Safety and security are in the doldrums
The next big improvement in air transport safety will not happen in 2009 and will need truly international standards
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Viking Buffalo search and rescue offer may be trumped by Alenia
Attempts by Canada's Viking Air to restart production of the de Havilland DHC-5 Buffalo utility aircraft could be...
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PICTURE: Zest MA60 crashes on landing in Philippines
A busy airport in the Philippines was closed for around 5hr on 11 January after a passenger aircraft landed too short on the runway, skidded out of control and crashed into a concrete barrier, resulting in 22 of the 27 people on board being sent to hospital.
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Lake Aircraft looks for new owners
Lake Aircraft parent company Revo has again put all its assets up for sale, hoping to find a buyer which can restart production of its line of single-engine amphibian aircraft and potentially fund development of a new turbine-powered derivative.
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Tampering appears unlikely in controversial Bush consultant’s crash
Speculation that sabotage caused the crash on 19 December that killed Michael Connell, a top-level information technology consultant for the Bush administration...
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Wildlife encounter probably took down North Dakota pilots
An in-flight collision with at least one Canada Goose damaged the stabilator on a University of North Dakota twin-engined...
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VIDEO: How we produced Flight’s 100th birthday issue
Max Kingsley-Jones, Flight International’s Deputy Editor, talks about how he found iconic stories dating from 1909 using our fully searchable pdf archive.
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General aviation news in brief
AOPA PRESIDENT Craig Fuller has taken the controls as president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association ...
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Flight Safety Foundation's perspectives on 100 years of safer flying
The Flight Safety Foundation's current president Bill Voss puts the history of aviation safety into context: "The modern state...
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The Flight Century - a 100 years of recording aviation
Flight's history is almost as long as aviation itself. This feature - compiled by our journalists past and present - tracks the momentous developments that took us to where we are today
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NTSB: Air Wisconsin Philadelphia gear-up landing followed maintenance
A preliminary report by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reveals that an Air Wisconsin CRJ200 that landed with its left main gear retracted...
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WORLD EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: SpaceShipTwo's mothership maiden flight
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo mothership WhiteKnightTwo made its historic 59min maiden flight at about 08:16 local time on 21 December from Mojave air and...
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US Airways management, pilots union split on finer points of safety reporting
US Airways pilots, seeking to increase industry standard immunity levels guaranteed by the US FAA's Aviation Safety Action Programme (ASAP), have terminated...
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Sky Wings completes Stage 4 hush installation on MD-83
Greek charter operator Sky Wings in partnership with Ukraine-based Khors Aircompany has upgraded the twin Pratt & Whitney JT8D-200 turbofan engines on one...