All General aviation articles – Page 579
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Windeagle assembly ready to take off
Canadian Aerospace plans to launch production of the Windeagle all-composite light aircraft by the end of February. The Windeagle is based on the already certificated Windecker Eagle, rights to which were acquired by the Burlington, Ontario-based company. President Phil Nelson says the first four-seat, piston-powered versions of the Windeagle ...
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Bell sets deadline for tiltrotor workshare
Paul Lewis/FORT WORTH Bell Helicopter and Agusta hope to finalise a manufacturing workshare agreement within 12 months to co-produce the new BA609 civil tiltrotor and AB139 medium helicopter in the USA and Europe. The two companies are establishing a joint venture structure, following their tie- up announced at ...
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FlightSafety drops European training
David Learmount/LONDON A major US flight training organisation has dropped courses that offer training for pilots who want the new European commercial pilot's licence. The move comes in the face of continuing European regulatory confusion. Since December, FlightSafety International has been advising applicants for its European pilot licence ...
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Executive Jet nets Zimex Netjets share
Executive Jet has acquired Zimex Aviation's holding in the Netjets Europe fractional ownership programme, for an undisclosed sum. The move is regarded as a further step by Warren Buffett to exercise control of the Netjets operation, since his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, acquired Woodbridge New Jersey-based Executive Jet in ...
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Japan to revise slots policy
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE The Japanese transport ministry plans to revise its policy on domestic airport slot allocation, taking into consideration applicants' load factors and fares. The move could cause concern among the big three Japanese carriers - Japan Airlines (JAL), All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Air System (JAS) ...
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Mergers
-National Jet Systems (NJS), the Australian regional carrier, has purchased a large minority stake in Ireland's CityJet for a sum estimated at between Ir£4 million ($5.8 million) and Ir£6 million. The holding is understood to be in excess of 40%. CityJet will still look to expand its relationship with Air ...
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Training turning point
David Learmount/LONDON Uncertainties about imminent European rules governing pilot training schools have created confusion for the training industry, both in Europe and in the USA. Europe's new joint standards for pilot training and licensing are about to be implemented, yet fundamental aspects of the regulations governing them are still ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...