All General aviation articles – Page 569
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Batchelor remains firmly married to aviation industry
Mark Hannant He may be one of the oldest swingers in town but veteran pilot and aviation magnate George Batchelor has lost none of the drive that has underpinned his 62-year love affair with the flying business. Having first flown at the age of 16 while a student ...
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Ireland blocks Ryan's plan for fixed base at military site
Gerry Byrne/DUBLIN Ireland's Minister for Defence has halted plans by Ryanair chairman Tony Ryan to establish a commercial fixed base operation (FBO)at the Irish Air Corps' Casement Aerodrome in Baldonnel, West Dublin. Ryan's company, Tara Aerospace, which is separate from the airline company, had planned to construct a business ...
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Latest orders boost MD Helicopters
MD Helicopters has announced orders for 23 MD500/600 series and Explorer helicopters for European and Latin American government agencies and private operators. Dutch-owned MD Helicopters, recently sold by Boeing, plans to almost double its output of civil machines over the next two years. The Mesa, Arizona-based company says it ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Armour coated
Comtas is targeting the aviation industry with its armour parts, designed to protect electronic equipment, pilot seats and other sensitive areas of the aircraft. The composition of the material used by the company is a closely guarded secret but has already proved successful in the automotive field. More ...
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Complemntary business addition
Montreal's Innotech-Execaire Aviation Group has added operator Air Atlantic to its portfolio. Based in Newfoundland, Air Atlantic operated a regional airline until October last year. Since then it has begun specialising in maintenance, service, parts supply and aircraft leasing. At present it has third-party maintenance contracts for several ...
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Japanese Piper
Osaka Aviation has been appointed authorised distributor of New Piper Aircraft products in Japan, and will provide customer service to new and existing Piper owners. The company will also handle new aircraft sales, provide technical assistance, perform warranty work and supply spare parts. Founded in 1968 as a ...
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EH sales target
EH Industries is aiming to boost sales of its EH101 Heliliner, the civil variant of the Anglo-Italian medium lift helicopter, following successful completion of a trial with operator British International Helicopters (Brintel). Just one civil version has been delivered so far, to Japan's Tokyo police, compared with almost 100 ...
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Jean-Loup and Nigel, the voices of Paris 99
Andrew Douse Meet the men who talk you through the daily flying display - Nigel Stevens and Jean-Loup Cardey. It's their job to provide the running commentary on the flight presentation for 4h every afternoon. More than 70 aircraft are expected to grace the sky above Le Bourget ...
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Grenade attack in Guyana
A rocket-propelled grenade rocked a shop owned by a supporter of Guyana's leader Janet Jagan, whose presidency has been shaken by seven weeks of labour unrest. Another grenade was hurled at a newspaper office. Police and army troops blocked main coastal roads in Georgetown, Guyana's capital, for several hours ...