All General aviation articles – Page 621
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Clinton nominates new FAA administrator and deputy
THE WHITE HOUSE has nominated Jane Garvey as the next US Federal Aviation Administration administrator and George Donohue as deputy administrator. The announcement comes six months after David Hinson quit the top FAA post shortly after US President Bill Clinton's re-election. Garvey is now acting head of the ...
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Finalist: Cessna Aircraft
Finalist: Cessna Aircraft Location Wichita, Kansas, USA Achievement Spearheading the revitalisation of general aviation in the USA and resuming piston-single production. When the first 172 Skyhawk was rolled out of Cessna's new piston singles plant in Kansas on 6 November, 1996, it marked a milestone in ...
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NASA Ames to lead capacity-expansion effort
NASA Ames Research Center in California is to lead a $450 million programme aimed at tripling the all-weather capacity of the US aviation system within the next decade. NASA's new Aviation System Capacity programme will integrate three existing research programmes (into terminal-area productivity, advanced air-transportation technology and short-haul ...
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Redesigned part puts MDHS Explorer back on the trail
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) Explorer helicopters, grounded on 29 May after discovery of a broken drive-link, have been cleared to resume flying after the US Federal Aviation Administration approved a redesigned part. MDHS originally discovered the problem on 8 May when a US operator found a broken ...
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UK challenges on single-engined ban
The UK Civil Aviation Authority may attempt to rush through Parliament an amendment to the Air Navigation Order prohibiting the use of single-engined aircraft at night for commercial-transport operations. The decision hangs on a court case being brought by UK-based Martini Airfreight Services after its operations using a chartered Norwegian-registered ...
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Easy does it
The complex world of aircraft maintenance made easier - that's the boast of Intentia. Intentia is promoting its Movex Aviation business application system at the show this week. The system is designed to make sure that a company's processes are fully integrated and operating with optimum efficiency. ...
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Eurocopter notches up new sales
Norway-based operator Helicopter Services Group has ordered six Eurocopter AAS 365-N4 helicopters, the latest version of the Dauphin 2 family, with an option on another six machines. The first two are due for delivery in November and December 1998, followed by the others at regular intervals. ...
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Helicopters
Winner: Eurocopter Location Marignane, France Achievement Co-operative development of the advanced EC120 light helicopter with emphasis on very low levels of noise emission. Eurocopter's use of new technologies to create an advanced light helicopter with very low noise emissions, came to fruition in the first half ...
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Infrastructure
Joint Winner: Luftfartsverket Location Norrkoping, Sweden Joint Winner: SAS Location Stockholm, Sweden Achievement Pioneering work within the NEAN project to demonstrate the potential of ADS-B to modernise Europe's overburdened air traffic control (ATC)infrastructure is already constraining air-transport growth in the region ...
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Tecstar puts tiny wheels into motion
A new tiny Reaction Wheel designed to stabilise small satellites is one of a number of products that can be seen for the first time in Europe in Hall 4/A11. US manufacturer Tecstar is making its Paris debut as it moves into the civil aviation market. ...
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Free flight solution launch by Honeywell
Honeywell has launched what officials claim to be the world's first "total system solution" to the challenges of free flight. WorldNav is here at the show. "We are excited to offer our customers a total system solution to the technology breakthrough we call free flight," says Don Schwanz, president ...
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Quick conversions
Disaster, rescue or intensive care? Whatever customers' needs, air ambulance technology specialist Air Ambulance Technology Gesmbh says it can provide a solution the design and manufacture of tailormade quick conversion rescue and ambulance equipment for a variety of helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. Find out more in Hall 4/D6, F4. ...
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Avic interest
Pratt & Whitney has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) for the Chinese company to take a stake in the new PW6000 engine. Talks are underway between P&W and AVIC over which components could be built in the People's ...
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Ferrari rubs shoulders with aircraft
It's appropriate that the Ferrari should be here at Le Bourget, as against the odds, Schumacher won Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix after Frenchman Olivier Panis crashed his Prost Mugen-Honda, breaking his legs. The race was stopped - and the result declared official - when Schumacher was in the ...
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Zenair finds Czech mate for STOL sport aircraft
A joint venture has been created by the Canadian light aircraft manufacturer Zenair and the Czech Aircraft Works to produce sport aircraft in the Czech Republic. The Czech Aircraft Works is now shipping the two most popular Zenair aircraft - the Stol CH 701 and Zodiac CH 601 ...
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Eurofighter range impresses Australians
Australia could be a big prospect for the Eurofighter EF2000 early next century, say British Aerospace executives at Paris. The controversial European multi-role aircraft emerged as a replacement for the country's 71 F/A-18 Hornet fighter bombers and 36 F-111 strike aircraft after the Australians asked British Aerospace to ...
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Aviation shining bright in
Florida is flying the flag for its already sizeable aviation sector which boasts more than 2,600 companies employing 63,000 people. The effort is being engineered at Paris by Enterprise Florida, a pioneer organisation set up to replace the previous public-sector Department of Commerce in the state. ...
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Noratlas travels back to the future
A once-familiar sight in the skies of France - where its distinctive shape was well-known - is visiting Le Bourget, bringing an attractive and historic dimension to the 1997 Show. The last-remaining airworthy Nord 2501 Noratlas transport aircraft in the world (from more than 400 originally built between ...
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Candid camera
British firm Octec has unveiled its Compact Airborne Automatic Video Tracking System (CAATS) to Paris Show visitors. The system is already in operation with police in Sussex, England. Octec also produces the ADEPT range of automatic video trackers which includes everything from single target versions through to multiple ...
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New flight displays improve safety
The company turns the common expression around to promote the role of its large-format flight displays for high-performance aircraft manoeuvring through heavily-congested airspace. Collins Pro Line 21 avionics systems, created for the new Bell-Boeing 609 civil tiltrotor and Raytheon's new Premier I business jet, offer displays nearly 30% ...