All General aviation articles – Page 587
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Scenic sale
SkyWest, the parent of US regional SkyWest Airlines, has agreed to sell the Las Vegas assets of Scenic Airlines to air tour operator Eagle Canyon Airlines for a reported $14 million. The purchase will be completed as soon as Eagle Canyon receives the US Federal Aviation Administration's permission to operate ...
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Single minded
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The economic shackles are steadily being removed from the single-engined turboprop market as international aviation authorities reverse their longstanding prohibition on single-engined instrument flight rules (IFR) operations for commercial flights. The impressive safety record of Pratt &Whitney Canada PT6 turbine-powered aircraft has contributed a great deal to the ...
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Industry watchdogs
David Learmount/LONDON Religion, especially in medieval times, used the fear of hell as its most potent weapon to make people believe and behave. The promise of heaven never had quite the same power of persuasion. Those who wish to persuade industry to believe in the Y2K "bug", and ...
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Pair make light work of travel from India
Geoff Thomas Two intrepid adventurers yesterday become the first people to fly from India to the UK - by microlight. They arrived at Farnborough on Tuesday morning having taken 39 days and 135 flying hours. Flying a pair of weight-shift Pegasus Quantum 912s powered by 80hp (60kW) ...
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Franco-Italian team to produce nacelles
Potential European alliances are big news in aviation but two companies, one French and one Italian, have jumped the gun and stolen some of the expected thunder from their larger brethren. Hurel-Dubois from France and Italian company Aermacchi have set up a new joint venture company to produce engine ...
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PZL-Okecie flies P&WC-powered Kruk variant
Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL-Okecie has begun test flights of a new variant of its PZL-106 Kruk agricultural aircraft, powered by a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34AG turboprop engine. According to the company, the modified aircraft is aimed at the export market, with particular emphasis of sales to South America, ...
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Satnav test flights are Euro milestone
Steve Nichols As visitors were leaving the show on Monday evening a BAe one-eleven took off from Farnborough - and made European aviation history. In a joint venture between UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS), Racal, British Telecom and Inmarsat, the aircraft flew the first wide-area augmentation satellite-based ...
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Nightmare scenario puts crash crews to the test
Mark Hannant A mid-air collision of two aircraft during a flying display was the nightmare scenario that faced the site Emergency Services Control unit two days before the show opened. All relevant emergency services were scrambled as the scale of the disaster became clear. Operational control of the ...
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GLS to debut on Continental flight
Steve Nichols Honeywell will claim a world first later this month when a Continental Airlines MD-83 flight becomes the first revenue service to land using a GPS landing system (GLS). On 21 September, the aircraft will fly two approaches into New York Newark and Minneapolis-St Paul using the ...
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UK company seeks funds to work on radical seaplane design
A UK aviation company is searching for financing to continue work on a six-seat light amphibious aircraft which it has under development. Warrior (Aero Marine) claims that its Centaur composite aircraft offers better performance and reduced costs compared with those of rival seaplane designs. Warrior has flown the first of ...
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Groen wins new gyroplane order from China
Groen Brothers Aviation (GBA) says it has secured a further large order for its gyroplanes from Shanghai Energy and Chemicals (SECC) of China . The order is on top of an existing contract for 200 of the Utah-based company's Hawk III gyroplanes, and covers purchase options on further Hawk ...
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Chek Lap Kok inquiry highlights computer fiasco
Surprise details have begun to emerge from a public inquiry set up to investigate the controversial opening of Hong Kong's new airport at Chek Lap Kok. A select committee set up by the Legislative Council to probe the handling of the airport yesterday heard director of civil aviation Richard ...
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Service centre
Lucas Aerospace has appointed API Technologies as an authorised service centre for its products. API Technologies, the component overhaul division of Memphis, Tennessee-based Aircraft Parts International (API) will overhaul starter-generators for regional airlines and corporate operators. API is a subsidiary of Westport, Connecticut-based First Aviation Services. Source: ...
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Tata consigns plans for new Indian carrier to scrapheap
The Tata Group has finally thrown in the towel and abandoned plans to launch a privately owned domestic Indian airline in the face of more than three and half years of government procrastination, as well as repeated changes to its aviation policy. Tata dropped plans to launch the new ...
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Explorer range poised to make switch to Belgium's Heli Fly
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Heli Fly is close to completing negotiations with Boeing over the Belgian company's purchase of the twin-engined MD-902 Explorer product line. An announcement is imminent. Talks have been under way for several months and, although the Halen-based company will not disclose the reasons for the ...
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Courses grapple with worsening image of avionics
Steve Nichols Aviation industry sources say there is a shortage of qualified and licensed avionics engineers and it appears to be getting worse. Appearing at Farnborough are three organisations hoping to change that, but they admit it is an uphill struggle. Allan Keevil of the Association of ...
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Mongolia takes Raytheon Autotrac system
Steve Nichols Raytheon has announced that its Autotrac 2100 system has passed site acceptance tests for the Civil Aviation Authority of Mongolia. The system provides communications, navigation, surveillance/air traffic management (CNS/ATM) services. The total contract, worth $12 million, is for a satellite-based, en-route, air traffic control system ...
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Strikes ground North American airlines
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Brian Dunn/MONTREAL The first week of strikes by pilots at Northwest Airlines and Air Canada have crippled the two carriers' operations. Estimates put the revenue losses in the two unconnected labour disputes at over $150 million by 5 September. Northwest was the first to be ...
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Export Gripen to undergo UK air refuelling trials
Tim Ripley Sweden's Gripen is to be refuelled in flight for the first time in the autumn when the fourth generation combat aircraft undergoes trials from the UK's Boscombe Down aviation test centre. The trials are part of the ongoing effort by Saab and British Aerospace to field ...