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Concern on Shuttle safety as ISS gathers pace
The NASA Kennedy Space Centre's Shuttle safety chief, Tommy Holloway, has warned staff to be on the alert for breaches in safety as the pace of orbiting International Space Station (ISS) components increases over the next few years. The warning to be extra vigilant about quality control and safety ...
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Premier I completes first flight
Raytheon Aircraft completed the first flight of its Premier I light business jet on 22 December from its Beech Field, Kansas, base. The aircraft flew "-general manoeuvres that tested its flying qualities, engine operations and basic systems at altitudes of up to 14,500ft", says the manufacturer. During its 62min ...
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Asian crisis will continue 'well into next decade'
The Australian Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation predicts that the crisis affecting Asia's airline industry will continue "well into the next decade". "The original shock was sharp and painful, but the bleeding will continue well beyond 1999," says Peter Harbison, managing director of the Sydney-based airport and aviation research ...
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Production CN-295 makes first flight
The first flight of a series production CASA C-295 light tactical transport was due as Flight International went to press. The C-295 is a stretched version of the CN-235. This is the second C-295 to fly, the original prototype taking to the air in November 1997, just months after ...
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Airport planning delays hit China as finances falter
Airport planning delays are becoming common in Hong Kong and China due to financing and other difficulties. The chaos caused by Chek Lap Kok's premature opening has led to the postponement of its second runway. Hong Kong's airport authority has pushed back opening the parallel runway by six months, ...
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Citation landmark
The 2,500th Honeywell-equipped Citation business jet has rolled off the assembly line at Cessna's Wichita, Kansas, plant, marking a 20-year association between the avionics supplier and the aircraft manufacturer. Source: Flight International
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Embry order
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has become the largest user of Cessna's new 172R Skyhawk, with delivery of 10 aircraft taking its fleet to 61 - 53 based at its Daytona Beach, Florida, campus and eight at Prescott, Arizona. Source: Flight International
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Robin reorganises manufacturing to tackle backlog
Avions Pierre Robin is reorganising its manufacturing capability in an attempt to step-up production rates and reduce the growing order backlog. The process began in October when the carbonfibre, high performance CAP 202 and CAP 222 aerobatic aircraft were relocated to a new production site at its Darios, Dijon, ...
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Galaxy shines for Israeli and US certification authorities
The US Federal Aviation Administration and the Israeli Civil Aviation Authority certified the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI)-built Galaxy business jet on 16 December. The first Galaxy prototype made its maiden flight on 25 December, 1997. Two prototypes have performed 260 test flights and accumulated 750 flying hours. "We have an ...
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VisionAire looks again at Vantage design
Visionaire has pushed back certification and first deliveries of its Vantage single- engined business jet while it undertakes a design review of the aircraft. "We conducted a critical design review on the aircraft in mid-1998 and realised that it was too heavy. In our haste to get the aircraft ...
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Safety changes
The US National Transportation Safety Board is urging the US Federal Aviation Administration to require safety-related changes for German-made Glaser-Dirks gliders. The recommendations, which result from a fatal accident in 1997 involving a DG-300 glider in Nevada, call for design changes to the aircraft which will enable "reliable jettison of ...
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Cirrus selects Garmin as Trimble leaves market
Cirrus Design has selected Garmin International to replace Trimble as avionics supplier for its newly certificated SR20 light aircraft. The last-minute change was forced when Trimble announced in September that it planned to exit the general aviation avionics market. Cirrus, based in Duluth, Minnesota, has selected the company's Trimline ...
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The best yet ?
Dave Higdon/WITCHITA Could ITBE third time lucky for Cessna Aircraft? Might the 206 Stationair be the model that avoids the post-certification problems that plagued the reintroduction of the company's 172 and 182? Flight International was invited to evaluate the revamped, updated and upgraded 206 and given access to ...
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Bond responds to demand for UK air ambulance helicopters
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Bond Air Services is expanding its emergency medical services (EMS) activities with an order for two Instrument Flight Rules-equipped Eurocopter EC135helicopters. The company, a division of the UK's Bond Helicopters, is considering buying up to five new helicopters. The EC 135 purchase follows its award of ...
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NetJets gears up for charter expansion after FAA approval
Executive Jet's charter arm is gearing up to support the international expansion of the company's NetJets business aircraft fractional ownership programme. Executive Jet Management (EJM) has received Federal Aviation Administration approval to conduct charter operations from the USA to Europe and across the Pacific. EJM says the approvals "-are ...
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More Australian sales beckon for Exec 162F
RotorWay International is hoping to boost sales of its Exec 162F in Australia following approval of the kit-built helicopter by the country's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). Approval of the Exec 162F in Australia, under rules that are more restrictive than the experimental category regulations applied in the USA, ...
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Re-engined firefighting TurboTracker delivered
The first of eight re-engined Grumman S-2F3T TurboTracker firebombers has been formally delivered by Arizona-based conversion specialist Marsh Aviation, to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF). Four aircraft, all of them ex-USNavy operated S-2E Trackers, will be delivered to the CDF by the start of the ...
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FAA reassures over data use as it launches quality programme
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC With the launch of a long-awaited airline flight operations quality assurance (FOQA) programme, the US Federal Aviation Administration has guaranteed that data obtained from aircraft flight data recorders (FDRs) will not be used against carriers or pilots. So far the programme has been limited to ...
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New Piper boosts light aircraft production
New Piper Aircraft is to increase production by almost 10% next year, as its recovery continues to track that of the overall US general aviation industry. The company is scheduled to produce 329 light aircraft in 1999, up from 303 this year. The company plans to build 25 Warrior ...
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African dawn
Lois Jones/DAKAR David Learmount/CAPE TOWN Air traffic services (ATS) in many parts of Africa are already unable to cope with current traffic levels, never mind increased demand. Meanwhile, wars and political instability raging in parts of the continent mean that basic air traffic control (ATC) is often neglected and ...