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Test school appeals
Officials from the US National Test Pilot School (NTPS) in Mojave, California, held talks with State Department officials in Washington on 7 January in attempts to overturn a decision that has effectively closed the school - the world's largest for civilian test pilots. The school is seeking a licence ...
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Century moves to Fort Worth Alliance Airport
Century Aerospace, which is developing the CA-100 entry-level business jet, is to relocate to Alliance Airport in Fort Worth, Texas, from its base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company says the Fort Worth location offers access to a pool of experienced aerospace employees. Bell Agusta and Galaxy Aerospace are ...
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Uncertainties hit NASA's Space Shuttle schedule for 2000
Tim Furniss/LONDON This year's first Space Shuttle mission - the 11-day STS99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission by the orbiter Endeavour (left) - will not be launched before 31 January, according to NASA's preliminary Space Shuttle schedule. This will be followed by STS101 Atlantis on an International Space Station ...
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P&WC Il-114 cleared
The CIS Interstate Aviation Committee issued the type certificate on 27 December for the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127H-powered version of the Ilyushin Il-114 twin turboprop. The 64-seater variant, dubbed the Il-114-100, started flight tests in January last year. It is produced by the Tashkent-based TAPO Chkalov plant in Uzbekistan, ...
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100th Citation X
Cessna delivered its 100th Citation X business jet on 23 December, three years after the aircraft entered service. The twin-engined ultra-long range business jet was handed over to US food processing equipment manufacturer Townsend Engineering. It will be used to transport executives between its sites in the USA, Europe and ...
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Power to the people
Turbines, although easier to operate and more efficient than pistons, have traditionally been too expensive for the grass-roots pilot. But not for much longer NASA administrator Dan Goldin has a vision of "Hertz Renta-Jet" counters at airports all over the USA and, later, around the world. Freeing wide tracts of ...
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Our wacky world
Innovation is alive in Australia but some unusual designs have been confined to the drawing board Australia, the nation which brought you a flying farm-tractor called the Airtruk and a stagger-wing trainer called the Eagle, is at it again. Innovation is alive and well down under, despite market conditions ...
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Mexico's smaller players struggle to compete
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE Mexico's third and fourth largest airlines have both experienced problems that harm their ability to compete against the duopoly of Aeromexico and Mexicana. Taesa, Mexico's number three carrier, remains grounded for safety reasons following a fatal crash on 9 November. Mexico's communications and transport ministry says inspectors ...
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EC vows to clamp down on noise and emissions
ALAN GEORGE BRUSSELS The European Commission (EC) has restated its determination to introduce stricter international standards for aircraft noise and emissions, with or without international agreement. In a policy document on the environment adopted in early December, the EC Transport Directorate "seeks to reconcile competitiveness in the air transport ...
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Cause and effect
The aircraft ghosts in to land, the loudest sound being the squeal of tyres on touchdown. Engine noise, so long the bane of aircraft and airport developers alike, has been banished to the history books. What is more, the only significant emission from this generation of powerplants is completely ...
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Catering - serving in the fast lane
Fast food may not be on the in-flight menu, but as consolidation takes hold of the airline catering business, speed appears to be of the essence. Last year saw a flurry of activity in the in-flight catering industry, including a host of joint ventures and two major acquisition deals. ...
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Business as usual as Macau is returned to China
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE Two and a half years after the UK handed back Hong Kong to China, it was Portugual's turn on 20 December to return a South-East Asian colony, when China resumed rule of Macau. Like Hong Kong, Macau will remain a special administrative region of China for ...
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Built for speed
A resurgence in hypersonics research is being fuelled by growing interest in rapid-reaction strike missiles and reusable launch vehicles A black-coated vehicle the size and shape of a surfboard will carry the hopes for a rebirth of hypersonics technology when it flies later this year. If successful, NASA's X-43 ...
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Free flight and beyond
Increased automation of air traffic management, on the ground and in the air, will be a driving force for future change Like a colossus, the controller walks around her sector, keeping watch on arrivals and departures in the terminal area. Around her a myriad of miniaturised aircraft, holographically replicated ...
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Air Malta prepares for Europe
GÜNTER ENDRES LONDON Increased tourist traffic, a programme of cost reductions and rationalistion of the fleet and route network have significantly improved Air Malta's financial and operating performance as it prepares to join Europe's aviation market. The Air Malta Group recorded a record turnover in the financial year to ...
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Single-engine IFR push hots up in Europe as UK reviews policy
The commercial operation of single-engine instrument flight rules (IFR) in Europe, so far stalled by UK opposition, is back on the agenda again, according to the Single Engine Turbine Alliance (SETA). The Joint Aviation Authorities is about to set up a working group to prepare a notice of proposed ...
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John Taylor dies
Eminent aviation journalist John Taylor has died at the age of 77. He will be best remembered for his editorship of Jane's All the World's Aircraft between 1959 and 1989, when he elevated the yearbook to the status of an industry bible - particularly through his insight into Soviet industry ...
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Wolfsberg-Evektor sets date for prototype Raven first flight
Andrew Doyle/PRAGUE Czech/Belgian joint venture Wolfsberg-Evektor Aircraft aims to fly its prototype eight-passenger Raven in May, in time for the utility aircraft to be exhibited at the Farnborough air show in July. The Raven, powered by two 223kW (300hp) Teledyne Continental IO-550-Ns, is built at Evektor-Aerotechnik's factory in ...
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Call for GA statistics
General aviation (GA) has lost a useful tool for measuring safety performance and industry activity since the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) stopped publishing GA statistics in 1998, says the International Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (IAOPA). ICAO says most of its 185 member states do not file reliable GA ...
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Biggin development
London's Biggin Hill Airport plans to develop its passenger terminal into a dedicated business and private aviation centre if it gets approval to develop a new £15 million ($24 million) terminal. The airport has a VIP terminal for executive aircraft, with a pilots' lounge, VIP lounge and conference and meeting ...