All General aviation articles – Page 567
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Looking for approval signals
Steve Nichols AlliedSignal is looking for both US and world-wide approval for its new Enhanced TRA 67A Mode S transponder. It has already received Technical Standard Order approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), but it has also been designed to meet the new Change 7 and ...
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Links extended
Dassault Aviation and FlightSafety International are to extend their long-term business relationship, the two companies said yesterday. An agreement, signed at the show, covers the training of Dassault Falcon pilots and maintenance technicians at Le Bourget until the end of 2011. FlightSafety International says advanced flight simulators and ...
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Transponder designed to meet needs of the future
Steve Nichols AlliedSignal is looking for both US and worldwide approval for its new Enhanced TRA 67A Mode S transponder. It has already received Technical Standard Order approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), but it has also been designed to meet the new Change 7 and ...
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LCD displays top billing at Paris
Forget your dials, gauges and clocks, the liquid crystal display panel is king at Le Bourget this year as a trip around the halls will confirm. Once the domain of cheap watches and children's games, the LCD has moved on from its "only available in greeny-black" days to give ...
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Optical fibres are light years ahead of wires
Mark Hannant The lid came off the world's first optically powered aircraft fuel quantity control indicating system at the show yesterday. By eliminating all electrical connections between an aircraft fuel tank and its avionics and power busses, the application, developed by Raytheon and Smiths Industries, will improve reliability. ...
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Falcon 900C earns its French wings
The Dassault Falcon 900C has received certification from the French Direction Generale de L'Aviation Civile (DGAC) during the show week. The 900C business jet, which replaces the 900B version, includes an advanced avionics package taken from the longer-range 900EX. The aircraft has a range of 4,000nm (7,400km) ...
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Landmark delivery for Eurocopter EC135
Paul Derby Eurocopter's EC135 twin-engined helicopter programme reached a landmark at Paris yesterday. The manufacturer delivered the 100th EC135 to the helicopter unit of the Bavarian police force at the show and says that confirmed sales now stand at 160. The force has now received eight of the ...
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Gulfstream first
The first operator to achieve 1,000 flight hours in an ultra-long-range Gulfstream V business jet has been honoured here at Paris. Peter Fried, owner of GV Executive Charter, a Swiss-based transport provider, received the award from Gulfstream. "As the Gulfstream V begins its third year of customer service, ...
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Synthetic vision
Rockwell Collins is to lead a team formed by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop synthetic vision technology. The synthetic vision information system (SVIS) provides cockpit displays to give flight crews clear views of their surroundings in bad weather and darkness. The award will fund advancement ...
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Proof tests
Proof of concept flight tests of the Gulfstream V enhanced vision system (EVS) will begin in July, with final certification expected by the spring of 2000, the manufacturer says. EVS is an infra-red thermal imaging and head-up display system that exactly overlays the real world, greatly improving the visual ...
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Police power
The UK's Sloane Helicopters has sold the first police-configured Agusta A109E to the Wales Dyfed/Powys Police air support unit. The twin-engined helicopter, which will replace the force's ageing Eurocopter AS355N, will be deployed for air ambulance and police support operations. Sywell, Northamptonshire-based Sloane is scheduled to deliver the £2.5 million ...
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STARS passes tests
US Federal Aviation Administration and Raytheon officials say Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) software has completed stringent tests, allowing the delayed project to move ahead. In tests, STARS met display response time and system throughput performance requirements. STARS will replace ageing terminal radar approach control system, which handles aircraft ...
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Russia's Vnukovo and Sibir take merger road
Vnukovo Airlines, Russia's biggest domestic carrier, may be on course for a merger with Sibir - one of the country's few thriving airlines - following the appointment of Sibir chief executive Viacheslav Filiov as general director of the larger carrier. Filiov succeeds Vladimir Rubstov, who was appointed to the ...
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Socata spots niche in freight market
Mark Hannant Socata is to check the viability of the single turboprop TBM 700 as a freight carrier through a partnership agreement with French airline Air Open Sky, it announced at the show. The TBM 700 has previously only been used as a pressurized, six or seven-seat business ...
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Maule picks PZL's Franklin as new engine option
In an effort to keep down prices and improve aircraft performance, tailwheel aircraft manufacturer Maule Air is test flying a new version of its MX-7 Rocket light utility aircraft powered by a PZL-Franklin six-cylinder 150kW (205hp) 6A-350-C1R. The single-engined aircraft had its maiden flight this month, kick-starting the type certification ...
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Discovery paves way for first crew to join the Space Station
Tim Furniss/LONDON The Space Shuttle Discovery landed at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on 6 June after the nine-day, 19h mission STS96 to prepare the International Space Station (ISS) for the first resident crew next March. This date depends on the successful launch in November of Russia's Zvezda ...
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SITA commits to new datalink
Emma Kelly/GENEVA Airline telecommunication giant SITA has committed itself to the next generation of aeronautical datalink services - VHF datalink mode 2 (VDL-2) - by awarding a $23 million contract to Harris for a global network of VHF ground stations (VGS). The VDL-2 aircraft-to-ground datalink protocol will provide a ...
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JAA makes decision on business ETOPS
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The European Joint Aviation Authorities technical operations committee has issued a notice of proposed amendment on extended range twin-engined operations (ETOPS) for business aircraft. The release of the notice draws to a close months of lobbying conducted by the general aviation community, which has been pressing the ...
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Cessna bulletin
Cessna has issued a service bulletin to hundreds of piston-single aircraft customers ordering an airframe logbook check for any one of 30 faulty fuel-selector valves shipped as replacement parts last year and early this year. The US Federal Aviation Administration plans to follow this with an airworthiness directive. The Washington-based ...