All General aviation articles – Page 269
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Feedback: Italy's airport barriers
Italy's obsession with its troubled flag carrier Alitalia has hampered the country's airports sector, argues David Jarach, professor of marketing at Milan's...
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Comment - Business Aviation could get a helping hand in Japan
The mere mention of Japan to those involved in business aviation results in a sigh, a roll of the eyes and a shrug of the shoulder. The world's second largest...
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Epic Elite very light jet stranded in Georgia
Epic Aircraft's Elite very light jet is trapped in a hangar in the outskirts of Tbilisi, Georgia after...
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Honeywell patents wake turbulence visualisation tool
Honeywell has received a US patent for a system it claims to be the first to visually show pilots whether their aircraft...
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Japan business aviation industry aims to build on strong growth
The Japan Business Aviation Association is pressing for further liberalisation of the rules governing...
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Spectrum agrees 'nine-digit' deal with start-up Starfish
Spectrum Aeronautical says it has sold a combination of its S-33 Independence and S-40 Freedom composite twinjets...
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Satsair to buy five Vision SJ50 personal jets
US air taxi company Satsair has signed an agreement with Cirrus to purchase five Vision...
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Carter almost ready to fly slowed rotor/compound helicopter
A second slowed rotor/compound helicopter prototype could be flown for the first time in December, according to its developer, Texas based- Carter...
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Australian strategists address general aviation problems
Secondary airport privatisation, the skills shortage, regulation and the ageing fleet are the four recurring issues affecting the Australian general aviation...
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Jet Aviation opens fixed-base operation at Beijing Capital
Jet Aviation has opened its new fixed-base operation at Beijing Capital International airport as the 2008 Olympic...
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Economic flotsam
Global business slowdown has prompted a traditionally panicky airline reaction as strategy is abandoned and survival becomes the aim. But there is a human price to pay
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NTSB: no obvious malfunctions in Eclipse 500 crash
US National Transportation Safety Board investigators say the Eclipse 500 that overran a runway when landing at a Pennsylvania general aviation airport on 30 July showed no signs of pre-impact issues with the airframe, mechanical subsystems, engine or braking controls.
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Downturn throws MPL pilots on scrapheap
Multi-crew pilot licence pioneer Sterling Airlines has dismissed the world's first nine MPL first officers to have reached line flying as part of cutbacks...
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CASA sets up group to study cabin air quality
Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority has appointed a chair to lead a new group to study the issue of cabin air quality. Dr Michael Bollen, a...
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Business Aviation in brief
CLUB 328 WOUND UP UK charter company Club 328 was wound up in July by a county court and the UK government-run Insolvency Service has been appointed...
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Indonesia's grounded Riau Airlines changes management
Indonesia's grounded Riau Airlines changes management
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Gippsland to stretch Airvan
Gippsland Aeronautics is planning to offer a more powerful, stretched version of the eight-seat single-engined...
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Cirrus prepares personal jet for test campaign
Having amassed 25 flight test hours since its first flight on 3 July, the Cirrus Vision SJ50 V1 personal...
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FAA gives go-ahead for amphibian revival
A North Carolina-based firm owning the type certificate for the Grumman G-21 amphibian has received an initial US Federal Aviation Administration go-ahead...