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Safety suite set to make Atlanta NBAA debut
AlliedSignal's new flight information service (FIS) is the centrepiece of a general aviation (GA) safety avionics suite to be unveiled at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) convention in Atlanta, Georgia, in October. The system will combine colour weather graphics received via the FIS datalink with the enhanced ground ...
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FAA selects Arinc to develop datalink
ARINC has been awarded a five-year contract by the US Federal Aviation Administration to support the development and initial operational capability of controller-pilot datalink communications (CPDLC) in the US national airspace system (NAS). The aeronautical communications specialist will develop a prototype CPDLC system in conjunction with the FAA's William ...
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Namibia's QuickJet heads for South African start in BA livery
Hilka Birns/WINDHOEK New Namibian airline QuickJet Aviation has confirmed it is negotiating with South Africa's Comair to launch a joint operation between Namibian capital Windhoek and South Africa on 1 November, using a British Aerospace 146. QuickJet's chief executive Frank Aldridge, formerly the commercial manager at Air Namibia, says ...
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Stormy weather
Carole Shifrin WASHINGTON DC Air traffic delays are not unique to Europe. The USA is also being forced to look hard at upgrading services After some fierce attacks by several top airline officials on the Federal Aviation Administration's running of the US air traffic control system, airline and FAA ...
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Price slashed
MD Helicopters has cut the price of the seven/eight-place MD 600N tail rotorless single-turbine helicopter by $50,000 - to $1.2 million. The company plans to deliver 56 helicopters this year, including 20 MD 600Ns, up from the 36 delivered by Boeing last year. Source: Flight International
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Piper singles
New Piper Aircraft has begun delivering 15Archer IIs, two Arrows and two Seminoles to Deer Valley, Arizona-based Westwind Aviation Academy, to replace Cessna 172s used for ab initio training. Source: Flight International
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Management teams
Carriers in need of change are looking to new boardroom teams for results. Analysis is by Michael Bell, who leads the Global Aviation Practice for senior-executive search firm Spencer Stuart The past few months have brought into focus a new form of leadership at troubled carriers around the world: management ...
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Mind games
Twenty months into one of the most controversial accident investigations of the decade, SilkAir has told the world that a pilot who apparently intended to kill himself and 103 others was "by the best standards of the industry-fit to fly". To put it charitably, this demonstrates a disturbing readiness ...
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A crowded market
Lois Jones BEIJING & SHANGHAI Still shuddering from Asia's economic crisis, China's aviation industry is restructuring with domestic tie-ups and the home market high on the agenda. The Hainan Airlines aircraft took off and spread its wings over the sprawling mass of Guangzhou, south China - one of the most ...
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United offers more business legroom
Jane Levere NEW YORK Battling, like every other carrier, for the higher-yield market, United Airlines is installing improved seating at the back of the cabin in its domestic fleet in order to reward its most frequent or full-fare economy passengers. The carrier is reconfiguring the first six to 11 rows ...
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AOPA plea
The US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has called on the US Federal Aviation Administration to reconsider its airworthiness directive (AD) on turbocharged twin-engined Cessnas, claiming that the requirements are too costly, too complex and not necessary. "While the FAA estimates that the inspection mandated by the AD would ...
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TAG acquisition
Global aviation services company TAG Aviation Group is to acquire New York-based business aircraft management and charter firm Wayfarer Aviation. The combined company will have over 125 aircraft and a presence in more than 50 locations worldwide. Last year, Switzerland-based TAG acquired Aeroleasing of Geneva, San Francisco-based Aviation Methods and ...
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AAIC calls police in SilkAir 'suicide' crash
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Indonesian accident investigators say they have contacted police after formally confirming that a SilkAir Boeing 737-300 may have been deliberately crashed by one of the crew in December 1997, near Palembang, Sumatra. All 104 passengers and crew on board the 737, which was operating flight MI185 ...
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PC-12 sharing plan takes off in Switzerland
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The first European shared ownership programme operating single-engined Pilatus PC-12 turboprops has started up in Zurich, Switzerland. Share Plane, which operates under private Swiss civil aviation authority regulations, is aimed at three "key" market segments within Switzerland, southern Germany, northern Italy and western Austria, which have had ...
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FAA grounds Eurocopter BK117s and BO105s
The US Federal Aviation Administration has followed the recommendations of the German airworthiness authority and issued emergency airworthiness directives (ADs) grounding Eurocopter BK117 and BO105 helicopters until tension-torsion (TT) straps contained in the main rotor head are inspected and replaced as required. The US aviation agency says that 130 ...
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EH101 Landmark
EH Industries' EH101 multirole utility helicopters have clocked up more than 10,000 flying hours since the long-range machine's first flight in October 1987. The European consortium, which includes GKN Westland of the UK and Italy's Agusta, has orders for about 100 military EH101s and is targeting the Heliliner at civilian ...
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Russia takes programmed route to restructure
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW The Russian Aerospace Agency (RASA), which recently took over responsibility for more than 350 aircraft industry enterprises, is planning a programme-oriented - rather than merger-led - approach to industry restructuring. RASA's newly appointed industry deputy general-director, Yuriy Bardin, defends Moscow's reluctance to force mergers of aircraft ...
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Fire fighting role
Turkey's first fire-fighting aircraft has successfully completed its launch mission after conversion to the role by Tusas Aerospace Industries (TAI). The former Grumman S-2E Tracker maritime patrol aircraft was converted by TAI to carry 4.5t of water and chemicals. It is being operated by the Turkish ministry of forestry in ...
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Cessna and Dassault expect slow CIS sales
Business jet manufacturers Cessna Aircraft and Dassault Aviation expect the current trickle of sales to customers in Russia and the CIS to continue, but rule out any significant pick-up until the region's economies improve. The two were the only Western firms to exhibit aircraft at MAKS '99. Cessna says ...
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COMESA states agree open skies
Airline operations across a swathe of eastern and southern Africa are poised for a major shake-up following the adoption of a new open skies policy by 21 countries spanning the continent. Aviation authority representatives from Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) states agreed the regional pact at ...