All General aviation articles – Page 605
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US airport introduces firefighting advances
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Connecticut's Bradley International has fielded the "Snozzle", a firefighting device manufactured by Crash Rescue Equipment Service of Dallas, Texas, and mounted on one of the airport's two new fire trucks . The Snozzle's adjustable boom can apply fire retardants on hard-to-reach aircraft areas, concentrating firefighting ...
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LEA adds Citation II
UK London Executive Aviation (LEA) has taken delivery of a Cessna Citation II business jet, to be used for air-ambulance operations, bringing to 13 the number of aircraft in the London City Airport-based firm's private charter aircraft fleet. Source: Flight International
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AASI predicts a sales boom for its Jetcruzer 500
Advanced Aerodynamics & Structures (AASI) has announced a further ten sales of its Jetcruzer 500 turboprop business aircraft, bringing the total backlog to 86, worth around $103 million. The Long Beach, California-based manufacturer hopes that sales will exceed 220 by the end of 1998, based on the current interest ...
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FedEx accepts TCAS 2 and awaits ADS solution
Federal Express has accepted the need to equip its fleet of jet-powered freighters with the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS 2) to meet pending international regulations, but is still backing the US Cargo Airlines Association (CAA) effort to develop an automatic dependent surveillance - broadcast (ADS-B)-based system. The airline, ...
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Cessna misses its target for first-year production of piston singles
Cessna fell well short of the 1,000 aircraft planned for the first full year since it resumed piston-single production. The company says that it delivered "300-350" aircraft in 1997, and blames unforeseen difficulties in restarting production at an all-new plant in Independence, Kansas. The year-end total is below the ...
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Raytheon teams with Jaguar to market special-edition King Air
Graham Warwick/DETROIT Raytheon and luxury-car manufacturer Jaguar have signed a marketing agreement under which the company is to produce a special edition of its Beech King Air twin-turboprop. The US manufacturer plans to produce a dozen Jaguar Special Edition King Air C90Bs in 1998. The first four have ...
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Mixing fire and water
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Most of the world's aviation industry abandoned development of flying boats in the 1940s, when the increased range of land-based aircraft, plus the birth of turbine engines, seemed to indicate the end of an era. A few manufacturers stayed with the flying boat - Canadair has continued to ...
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BAe buys Australian Aviation College
British Aerospace Training Services has acquired the Adelaide-based Australian Aviation College from BTR-owned Hawker de Havilland. The purchase, for an undisclosed sum, places Australia's two biggest training organisations under full BAe control, following the UK company's acquisition of Ansett's 50% stake in the Tamworth, New South Wales-based Australian Air ...
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Pilatus Britten-Norman will adopt Islander silencer
Pilatus Britten-Norman (PBN) is planning to offer as an option a silencer developed by German Islander operator Luftverkehr Friesland of Harle (LFH) and designer Hermann Liese to meet stringent 85dB noise regulations in the the country, cutting noise signatures by up to 11dB. LFH president and chief pilot Jan ...
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Revived Luscombe 8F production heads east
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Two US companies have agreed to resume the manufacture of the Luscombe 8 light aircraft, 36 years after production of the piston single was halted. Renaissance Aircraft of Monkton, Maryland, will build the aircraft for US certification, while the Don Luscombe Aviation History Foundation (DLAHF) will ...
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Third of a SALE
Two Singapore government investment groups are to offer a combined US$125 million for a 29 per cent stake in the lessor, Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise. Boullioun Aviation and Singapore Airlines will also invest $125 million each in SALE. Source: Airline Business
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Taiwan not ready to talk
Now you're talking. Or are they? Politically sparring partners, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China, may be nearing the negotiating table, but they're still skirting around aviation issues. Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui and Prime Minister Vincent Siew have both declared that talks on direct transport, trade, and postal ...
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Icao soothes safety fears
Icao has salvaged a role as a global aviation safety watchdog after hammering out an agreement at its safety convention. However, critics fear that the International Civil Aviation Organisation will not clamp down on countries which ignore safety standards. The 145 member states attending Icao's November safety conference in ...
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A matter of faith
By definition, a shock always originates where you least expect it. Early in 1997, as the global economic boom continued, the nature and timing of the next downturn were far from most people's minds. Then came economic turmoil in the region where experts least expected it - Asia. Now, Asia's ...
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Cashback time in Brazil
Carnival time has come early for Transbrasil. The carrier is set to receive a massive compensation settlement following Brazilian government fare freezes. But Varig, Vasp and TAM may be shortchanged. Brazil's supreme court ruled in early December that Transbrasil will receive US$500 million in damages from the Brazilian government. ...
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Hidden baggage cause for concern
Americans and their baggage are not easily parted. For the average US airline passenger, travelling 'light' has little to do with restraint at the packing stage and much to do with how much he or she can haul past the flight attendant and hurl into an overhead bin. For maximum ...
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Restrictions put KLM all out at sea
'The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea in a beautiful, pea-green boat'. Unlikely, yes, but a lot more realistic than millions of passengers, an airport and all Dutch airlines shifting to the middle of the North Sea. Yet a new airport to be built on an artificial island ...
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Cessna prop
Hartzell Propeller has certificated Top Prop two-bladed, aluminium-hub, replacement propellers for early-model Cessna 310 piston twins, eliminating the inspection requirements of an airworthiness directive on older steel-hub propellers. Source: Flight International
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GPS options
US manufacturers Aviat and American Champion are to include Northstar Avionics global-positioning-system receivers as recommended options on their line of general-aviation aircraft. Aviat produces the utility Husky A-1 and aerobatic Pitts Special, while American Champion builds five light-aircraft models. Northstar is a subsidiary of Canadian Marconi. Source: Flight ...
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Precision/Unison in control link
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Unison Industries and Precision Airmotive have teamed to develop electronic mixture-control (EMC) for piston aircraft. It combines electronic ignition-control with automatic mixture-leaning to increase engine fuel-efficiency and power while reducing pilot workload. The development is based on Unison's LASAR engine-control system and Precision's RSA fuel ...