All General aviation articles – Page 604
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AOPA criticises FAA wing-spar mandate
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) says that a proposed wing-spar airworthiness directive (AD) affecting 8,300 Aeronca and American Champion aircraft is unnecessary. The private pilots' group seeks exemptions for all non-aerobatic, lower-gross-weight aircraft such as the original Aeronca Champ and Chief and derivative aircraft such as the ...
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Insurers threaten to withdraw cover unless airlines tackle computer bug
Aviation insurers have challenged airlines to prove that their fleet avionics are free of the "millennium bug" which threatens to disrupt computer software, or lose their cover for any incidents which result from it. The issue, says a major Lloyds insurance-market underwriter, is what may happen to embedded computer ...
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Mesa is no longer united
Karen Walker A parting of the ways between codeshare partners United Airlines and Mesa Air Group is posing questionmarks over Mesa's future and possible new partners for United. Regional independent Mesa, which operates as America West Express, United Express, US Airways Express, WestAir and Mesa Airlines, has been ...
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Taiwan demob
Taiwan's parliament has passed a law allowing police to board aircraft to break up demonstrations by travellers. Airline customers in Taiwan regularly stage cabin protests on both domestic and international flights when they are delayed, demanding free tickets or cash compensation for the inconvenience. Source: Airline Business
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Don't bank on Japan
Richard Whitaker Japanese banks have withdrawn from aircraft financing due to Asia's economic crisis and the forthcoming demise of the Japanese leveraged lease may deter them from returning. Japanese institutions have accounted for some one-third of aircraft financing. In late 1997, however, most of them ceased approving new ...
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Asia's crisis: a rude awakening
Asia's financial crisis is now threatening to start another global airline recession. What goes up must come down. Of all people, participants in the aviation business should understand this most basic phenomenon. After all, the one certainty of every flight is that gravity will bring it down eventually. All that ...
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Islands apart
A grand plan for Air Jamaica to be the focus of closer cooperation in the Caribbean region has failed to materialise, and instead would-be partners like BWIA continue to pursue their own separate strategies. Karen Walker reports. According to a joke that circulates in the Caribbean, St Peter allows newly ...
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India airlines in doldrums
T Ballantyne/R Prasad India's hard pressed domestics are facing a double challenge to their shaky balance sheets: the renewed threat of a Tata Industries local startup and massive hikes in airport landing charges. The Tata group had earlier plans for a joint venture with Singapore Airlines, backed by ...
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The right way
John King/TEKAPO IN common with other countries with deregulated aviation industries, New Zealand has seen a proliferation of small airlines in recent years. Also in line with experience in many countries, some of those carriers have met problems. It is the old story of enthusiasm attracting under-capitalised players into setting ...
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GE Xiamen could involve HAECO
General Electric has signed a memorandum of understanding with Xiamen Aviation Industries of China to set up an on-wing engine-support centre at Xiamen's Gaoqi International Airport, in the southern coastal province of Fujian, in a move which could bring it closer to nearby Taikoo Aircraft Engineering (TAECO). GE confirms ...
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Western Michigan University trains Europeans
Student pilots from Irish carrier Aer Lingus have begun ab initio training at Western Michigan University's (WMU) School of Aviation Sciences at Battle Creek. British Airways students will begin training at WMU in March. The University is negotiating an ab initio contract with a third airline, which would take ...
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Maverick develops new business jet
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Maverick Air is developing a six-seat twin-engined business aircraft called the Twinjet 1200, which will be available in kit and factory-built versions. Robert Bornhofen, president and owner of the Pueblo, Colorado-based manufacturer, is building the Twinjet 1200 with assistance from engineering company Airboss Aerospace of Stockton, California. The ...
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Agusta power
Peter Gray/CASCINA COSTA DE SAMARATE Although it has been said before, the statement that "if it looks good, it flies good" certainly applies to the Agusta A109 - and particularly to the Power version. The outside shell has changed little since the first-prototype days of 1971, but as I ...
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India's Taneja rolls out first locally produced P.68
India's Taneja Aerospace and Aviation (TAAL) rolled out the first indigenously produced Partenavia P.68 on 20 January and hopes to receive Indian civil-aviation authority certification by the end of the month. The light twin's roll-out, which took place at TAAL's plant in Hosur, near Bangalore, had originally been planned ...
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Fairchild Dornier flies 328JET
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Fairchild Dornier flew its prototype 328JET for the first time on 20 January, bringing it a step closer to entering the emerging 30-seat regional-jet market. The aircraft took off at 11:16 local time from the company's Oberpfaffenhofen site near Munich, and was flown for nearly 2h over the ...
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Namibia school study
Nambia's Directorate of Civil Aviation and Dornier International Logistics are conducting a feasibility study into creating an aviation-training school at Keetmanshoop. Source: Flight International
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Travel Air expands
Raytheon plans to add up to 24 aircraft to its Travel Air fractional-ownership programme in 1998: six Beech King Air B200s, 12 Beechjet 400As and six Hawker 800XPs. By the end of 1997, the fleet consisted of four King Airs, five Beechjets and four Hawkers. Source: Flight International
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Cox develops hybrid de-icer for Premier I
Ice-protection specialist Cox is testing the ice-protection system for the horizontal stabiliser of Raytheon's Premier I business jet at its newly established LeClerc icing research laboratory in New York. The hybrid de-icing system, now under test, combines an electro-thermal leading-edge parting strip and electro-mechanical actuators to throw off ice, ...
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Out of control ?
Yet again, too many passengers and crew who died in airline accidents in the last year died in aircraft which, until the moment at which they hit the ground or water, were functioning perfectly - but whose crews were not. These accidents are classed as Controlled Flight Into Terrain, or ...
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Air Methods eyes EMS franchises
Emergency-medical-service specialist Air Methods is discussing establishing franchise operations in Israel and Turkey. The US company already has a franchise partner, Flamingo Unimed Air Taxi Aereo, in Brazil. Air Methods is not predicting when the Israeli and Turkish medical-transport programmes could get under way, but says that discussions are ...