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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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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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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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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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Found gets go-ahead to build Bush Hawk
Found Aircraft Canada is bringing the Bush Hawk utility aircraft back into production after receiving a production certificate from Transport Canada. Found has moved into a new plant at Perry Sound Airport, near Toronto, and plans to fly the first production aircraft next month. The Bush Hawk is a ...
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Gulfstream centre
Gulfstream is expanding its business aircraft completions centre at Brunswick, Georgia, USA. The project, valued at around $3 million, will include the construction of a 2,140m² (23,000ft²) completion hangar and the upgrade and lease of a 1,860m2 storage and maintenance building. The new facility will provide additional capacity to support ...
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Flight test delays hit Raytheon Premier I certification plans
Raytheon Aircraft has postponed certification of its Premier I entry-level business jet to the second quarter of this year. Flight-test delays prevented the company meeting its target of certificating the aircraft by the end of last year - a year later than originally planned. Three aircraft had accumulated over ...
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UPS to fit freighter fleet with satellite navigation systems
United Parcel Service (UPS) is to equip its 229 freighters with next-generation satellite navigation systems using the global positioning system (GPS)-based wide-area augmentation system (WAAS). The equipment will be made by the US express parcels specialist's subsidiary UPS Aviation Technologies (UPSAT). Development of the GPS/WAAS combination is expected ...
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Kitted for flight
UK kit-maker Europa Aircraft is revolutionising personal aircraft Kate Sarsfield/KIRKBYMOORSIDE In little over a decade, Europa has evolved from an airline pilot's ambitious dream and has become arguably the most successful kit aircraft manufacturer in the world. In its short history, the internationally acclaimed aerospace company has chalked up more ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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PC-12 enforcement
The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has taken delivery of a Pilatus PC-12 just two months after placing a contract for the 10-passenger single-turboprop utility aircraft. Pilatus expects the DEA to order more PC-12s to replace some of its 20 turboprops. Source: Flight International