All General aviation articles – Page 578
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Light shines at end of Greek air traffic tunnel
Julian Moxon/PARIS Additional reporting David Learmount/LONDON Pan European air traffic control (ATC) delays, resulting from traffic logjams over Greece, should be reduced considerably during the summer, following an employment agreement between air traffic controllers and the Greek civil aviation authority. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) infrastructure ...
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FAA may get $300 million bonus in Transport budget
A planned $300 million budget increase for the US Federal Aviation Administration on top of the $9.8 billion it received in the 1998 financial year is in the pipeline from the Department of Transportation (DoT). The DoT's requested total budget of $51 billion this financial year includes $10.1 billion for ...
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An-12 crashes in Luanda
About 30 people are believed dead following the crash of an Antonov An-12 turboprop on 2 February in Angola. The pilot reported technical problems shortly after take off and turned back. The aircraft plunged into a densely populated neighbourhood on the fringes of Luanda about 10km (6 miles) from the ...
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Welsh heliport
Veritair Helicopters has joined forces with the local authority to build a new heliport in the Welsh capital, Cardiff. The heliport is designed to attract scheduled services in an attempt to promote use of the helicopter "-as a method of future inner city travel". Source: Flight International
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European schools face shake-up
David Learmount/LONDON Criteria for the location of flying schools permitted to train pilots for the new joint European pilots licence are to be "restructured", but not dropped, according to the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). In their present form the Joint Aviation Requirements for flight crew licensing (JAR FCL) require ...
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US firm designs Gulfstream hushkit
A new hushkit, designed to achieve Stage 3 noise compliance with less than a 1% aircraft performance loss, is being designed by a US company for the Rolls-Royce Spey-powered Gulfstream GII and GIII business jets. New York-based ReallyQuiet plans to begin certification testing of the hushkit on a GII ...
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China may use Mir for docking
Tim Furniss/LONDON China Aerospace is considering using Russia's Mir space station as a docking base for its planned first manned spacecraft. Two Chinese astronauts, flying on an uprated Long March 2E booster, will be aboard the spacecraft - based on Russian Soyuz technology - for a launch, possibly at ...
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China slashes civil aviation spending
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE China is halving its investment in the civil aviation industry to 11.1 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) this year as its airlines struggle with financial losses, the official Xinhua news agency says. Liu Jianfeng, Minister of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) says that the country ...
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Airports
-American Airlines will build a new $1 billion, 59-gate terminal at New York Kennedy International to replacing its two existing terminals and accommodate expansion into the next century. The new 76,500m² (1.9 million ft²) facility is to open in 2006 with work to begin later this year. The three concourses ...
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India sets date for Light Combat Aircraft engine
Hormuz Mama/MUMBAI A flight-ready production standard Kaveri turbofan (number K-5)for India's Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) will be ready by the middle of this year. Project engineers say engine K-4 is being assembled at India's Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE). GTRE plans to build 17 test engines, with production ...
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Aviat revisits the 1940s for aerobatic expansion
Aviat Aircraft is expanding its aerobatic and utility aircraft capabilities with the introduction of two new tailwheel aircraft, dubbed the Millennium Swift and 110 Special. The Millennium Swift is a re-engined version of the 1940s' Globe Swift GC-1B, a sport aircraft designed to appeal to fighter pilots returning from ...
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BM bullish on Moscow
British Midland hopes to start up its London Heathrow-Moscow route before the beginning of its summer schedule, despite Virgin Atlantic Airways' appeal against the UK Civil Aviation Authority's decision to award the route to British Midland. A British Midland spokesman says that until the appeal is heard in February, ...
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NATA attack
The US National Air Transportation Association (NATA) has attacked a Federal Aviation Administration decision to reopen a 1988 notice of proposed rulemaking requiring all transport category aircraft used in air carrier operations to be equipped with 16g passenger seats. The rule would require air taxi operators to upgrade their aircraft. ...
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Audio Selection
Socata has selected PS Engineering to supply audio panels for its range of TB and TBM 700 single-engined aircraft. The audio panels include a high fidelity intercom system with marker beacon receiver and PS Engineering's solid-state digital recorder and audio warning system. Source: Flight International
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Falcon 900C Flies
Dassault Aviation's Falcon 900C business jet is due for certification in the second quarter of this year, with first customer deliveries following soon after. The aircraft, which made its first flight from the company's Istres, France, test centre on 17 December, "-combines the performance, value and comfort of the Falcon ...
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Sole Supplier
Hartzell Propellers has become the sole propeller supplier for Raytheon Aircraft. Under the terms of a $35 million contract, the company will supply propeller systems for 1,800 aircraft over the next six years. Hartzell will begin shipping propellers for four aircraft models during 1999: the Beech King Air C90B, the ...
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US report plays down fears of GPS navigation signal jamming
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC A study conducted by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory concludes that risks associated with jamming of the global positioning system (GPS) signal can be managed. This can be achieved if steps are taken to minimise the prospects of intentional and unintentional interference, says a ...
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Electrical problems spark Shuttle observatory delay
NASA has delayed its first Space Shuttle launch in 1999 by at least five weeks from 8 April, after discovering potential electrical problems with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The observatory is to be deployed by Space Shuttle STS93 Columbia, the launch of which has already been postponed from last ...
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Cessna breaks delivery records
Cessna has reported a threefold increase in aircraft deliveries for last year, reaching sales of 1,077, compared with 618 in 1997. According to the Wichita, Kansas-based manufacturer, the largest increase came from single piston engined aircraft sales, with 775 deliveries, compared with 360 in 1997. Citation corporate jet deliveries set ...
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Dutch company buys Boeing civil helicopter production line
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Boeing has sold the former McDonnell Douglas (MDC) civil helicopter production line to Dutch holding company MD Helicopters, nearly two years after it snapped up the Mesa, California-based manufacturer in its merger with MDC. The deal is expected to be finalised and signed by 15 February, ...