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Kitplane popularity soars as sales increase
WORLDWIDE Kit sales could total around 7,750 aircraft annually by the end of the decade, according to research published by the US magazine Kitplanes. A survey examined the expected growth in sales of kitplanes and plans-only designs for 95 home-build aircraft manufacturers, around 60% of the industry, from 1990 up ...
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Oxygen first
Equipements Respiratoires à Oxygene de Secours (EROS) has become the first company to have its emergency-oxygen equipment and masks certificated by Russia and the CIS countries. The CIS Aviation Register and the Federal Aviation Service of Russia issued the certification on 3 June. New Russian aircraft such as the Tupolev ...
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Licences cannot be given away
Sir - In his letter "Should licence rules be adapted?" (Flight International, 28 May-3 June, P66), Mark Crane writes on the subject of the European Joint Aviation Requirement (JAR) 66 Notice of Proposed Amendment and qualification for the issue of an aircraft-maintenance basic licence (AMBL). Currently licensed or ...
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FAA fine for ARCA
Aerovias Colombianas (ARCA) is to be fined $68,000 for ignoring a US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive (AD). The airline was operating US-registered aircraft and was thus required to comply with FAA ADs. Colombian authorities suspended the airline's operating certificate on 24 January, and it remains grounded. Inspections found that ...
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Duncan Aviation completes Dassault Falcon 900 RVSM update
DUNCAN AVIATION has modiÌed a Dassault Falcon 900 business jet to comply with reduced vertical-separation minimum (RVSM) regulations now in force on North Atlantic routes. The update involved the upgrade of both air-data computers, a visual inspection of skin waviness around the pitot and static ports and a test ßight ...
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Leases set for Tu-204
Sirocco Aerospace International plans to announce its first lease commitments for the Rolls-Royce RB.211-535E4-powered Tupolev Tu-204-120, following the certification of the engine/airframe combination by the Russian Air Registry, and the first delivery later this month. Sirocco was officially launched in Moscow in December 1996 by Egypt's Kato Group ...
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Paperwork holds up Il-103 sales
Russia's new light trainer, the Ilyushin Il-103, will realise its sales potential once outstanding certiÌcation paperwork issues are resolved, according to the aircraft's chief designer, Andrei Pupkov. The four-seat aircraft received Russian certiÌcation to AP-23 standards in February 1996, but to date just two aircraft have been delivered to customers, ...
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Swissair closes on MD-10 conversion work
Swissair's SR Technics maintenance subsidiary has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to fit up to 25 DC-10-10s with an advanced, Honeywell-designed, two-crew flightdeck under Phase II of the FedEx MD-10 programme. MDC confirms that the MoU has been agreed, but adds that "-it ...
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C-S aviation
Jeffrey Erickson has become a member of the board of aircraft-leasing firm C-S Aviation Services, of New York, USA. He was most recently president and chief executive of Trans World Airlines, and started his airline career in 1969 as a senior engineer with Pan American World Airways. ...
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CSE represents
CSE Aviation has become a sales agent for Cessna's single-engined aircraft in the UK following the US firm's return to building the 172 Skyhawk and 182 Skylane. The Oxford Airport-based concern is the second UK sales agent for the range. Source: Flight International
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Change of name
The National Business Aircraft Association is considering changing its name to the National Business Aviation Association to better reflect the scope of the organisation's activities. Source: Flight International
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Noise debate
Belgium's transport ministry has banned Chapter 2 aircraft from night flying between 23.00 and 6.00 at Brussels Airport from 1 June. The move has created concern among environmentalists as the Civil Aviation Agency concedes that the law is a step back from the former restrictions which forbade certain aircraft types. ...
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Lessons from the jump seat
Sir - It may be true that there is no place for the flight engineer on the flightdeck of modern aircraft, but recent history suggests that another pair of eyes and ears in the jump seat might make a contribution to safety. It is interesting to note the ...
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Time to stop dreaming
The general-aviation industry in the USA is putting its money where its mouth has been for a long time. It is sponsoring a television-advertising campaign in an effort to revitalise the US pilot population and to reverse a decade-long decline in the number of people learning to fly for pleasure. ...
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Bearing failures blamed on poor lubrication
The spate of Trent 700 engine shutdowns has been traced to insufficient lubrication of the driving-shaft locator ball-bearing in the Hispano Suiza-manufactured step-aside gearbox. This has resulted in premature fatigue and failure of the bearing, because of overheating. According to R-R, the problem resulted from a weakness in ...
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Russia's Myasishchev aims for Gzhel go-ahead
Russian design bureau Myasishchev is aiming for preliminary certification of its M-101T Gzhel light turboprop before the end of 1997, as it evaluates a Western-engined derivative. Initial production of the single-engined, six-seat, pressurised turboprop is being undertaken at the Sokol production plant in Nizhne Novgorod. The ...
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Africa faces the call to improve ATC
Measures to improve airport, air-traffic-control (ATC) and communications infrastructures in Africa have been agreed at an International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) meeting in Abija, Nigeria. ATC safety standards in Africa were recently condemned by organisations such as the International Federation of Air Line Pilots and the International Air ...
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MDC advances crack checks on MD-90s
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-90s will have to be checked for airframe fatigue cracking earlier than originally estimated, results from the fatigue-test airframe and other structural analysis have revealed. It will be years before the lead airframe in service reaches the newly designated 16,000-cycle point, when the first checks ...
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Collins advances Pro Line 21
ROCKWELL-COLLINS has embarked on the next step in development of its Pro Line 21 integrated avionics for business and regional aircraft. The US company is testing prototypes of an advanced processing architecture and is evaluating new human-computer interface concepts in a working cockpit mock-up. Pro Line ...
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A race to market
When Seiji Fukatsu, president of Japan's All Nippon Airways, called a press conference in mid-April, local scribes could have been forgiven for speculating that a major announcement of international import was in the offing. It was common knowledge that ANA was on the verge of releasing details of ...