All General aviation articles – Page 622
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Kit gives tools to restrain louts in flights
A disturbing rise in the number of unruly passengers on commercial aircraft has opened a window of opportunity for British firm Percival Aviation (Hall 2/J14). The company is coming to the aid of airlines with a specially-designed passenger restraint pack. As well as 'quickcuffs', to gain ...
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Linda succeeds where Amelia Earhart failed
Sixty years after trail-blazing aviatrix Amelia Earhart's round-the-world flight ended in disaster, Linda Finch completed a commemorative circumnavigation in an identical 1935 Lockheed Electra 10E. The aircraft, powered by Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines, is the centrepiece of a special Pratt & Whitney display pavilion in the static park ...
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Research supports ST-50 small size
"A flying Mercedes, not a minibus", is how Israviation president Stephane Juffa describes his company's ST-50 turboprop executive aircraft. Making its debut at the Paris Show, the ST-50 can be found in the static park between the Eurofighter and the Israeli pavilion. It's also flying in the daily ...
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Is it a microlight ...or an aerocane?
Parisian Michel Abadie is a man with a passion... for bamboo. And he has patented a design for a new microlight using little but the natural material. Abadie, who is president of the European Bamboo Society, believes that the substance has an ecological role to play ...
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First aid
Tyrolean Jet Service of Innsbruck, Austria, has brought to the show what it claims is Europe's largest and most modern air ambulance, a Fairchild Dornier 328 with capacity for four intensive care patients. Operated by Tyrolean Jet service's subsidiary, Tyrolean Air Ambulance, it will be on static display ...
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Aviation art gets boost from industry
One of the many things that Paris is famous for is its art, so it is appropriate that Messier-Dowty has used the show to exhibit, for the first time, an Anglo-French exhibition of aviation art. The paintings, more than 30 in total, all feature British and French aircraft ...
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Eurocopter Colibri to take on market giants
Gilbert Sedbon Eurocopter and its Chinese and Singaporean partners have high hopes for their EC120B Colibri new-generation high-technology helicopter, on display at Paris in the static park and in the daily flight demonstrations. With a worldwide fleet of about 5,000 civil and public-service helicopters in the 1.6-tonne five-seat category due ...
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Herpa's models of perfection
The stand of Herpa, a German manufacturer of miniature aircraft (Hall 5/D11) is the closest thing to paradise for the collector of scale models. The company, which started life more than 35 years ago as a manufacturer of scale cars, turned its eyes and expertise on the aviation ...
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Patch working
Textron Systems reports that the US Federal Aviation Authority has approved the company's new boron aircraft patch, which it describes as the first of its kind on commercial aircraft. The patch, a boron/epoxy composite doubler, is designed for use on L-1011 TriStar aircraft. An alternative to ...
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Safety systems
American firm Safe Flight Instrument, which specialises in in-flight safety systems, has many new things on show in Hall 4/B8. The N1 has been certified in the last six weeks for both the Citation 560/Ultra and the Raytheon Beechjet 400A. Developed over the last three years, ...
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Cyberspace
Dassault Aviation is exhibiting the cyber plane - a worldwide premiere. A dedicated bit of cyberspace has been set up to allow show-goers to navigate freely, in real-time 3D, inside of a complete Dassault Aviation-designed aircraft. The navigation features are provided by the databases of the ...
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Avrotec double
Avrotec, the maintenance and refurbishment arm of British Aerospace Regional Aircraft, comes to Paris '97 on the back of two new contract wins. The first deal involves undertaking four-year structural checks, repainting work and the retrofit of engine life computer systems on seven China Northwest BAe 146-300 aircraft. ...
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Mica on target
Dassault Aviation's Rafale B01, naval version of the fourth generation multirole combat aircraft, has for the first time successfully fired, by ejection release, a Matra BAe Dynamics Mica missile, with inertial guidance, at a supersonic target. The firing, carried out on 26 May at the Centre d'essais des ...
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Cessna on a roll
Cessna comes to Paris with its single-engine-aircraft production line about to complete its first year of operations. Sales of the 172R Skyhawk and 182S Skylane continue to rise, following the first Skyhawk delivery in January. Source: Flight Daily News
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Caravanserai
TACA Group of El Salvador announces that it will operate eight more Cessna Grand Caravans for use in subsidiary airlines. This order brings TACA's fleet to 12 Caravans. TACA Group comprises five airlines operating throuhgout Central America. Source: Flight Daily News
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Dowty shows benefits of Eurobonding
European Union members currently struggling to achieve closer economic and financial 'harmonisation' might usefully look for lessons from Franco-British landing gear specialist Messier-Dowty. At the last Paris show, the British and French sections of the then-newly formed joint venture were just beginning the same type of process. ...
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September flight on the cards for Renault-powered Socata
Gleaming white, and proudly sporting its Renault Sport compression ignition turbocharged diesel engine, Socata's new generation Trinidad TB 20 trainer hopes to capture a share of contracts for light aircraft of 180hp to 300hp class. Flight tests begin in late summer or early autumn at Tarbes, south-west France, ...
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Kings for Cessna
Cessna has chosen King Schools as its partner to develop the next generation of private pilot instructional material. The Cessna pilot centre will offer computer-based training with a high level of interactivity with other training aids including CD ROM based material, video and computer graphics. Source: ...
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Quiet signs hush deal
European Aviation Air Charter has confirmed a contract with Quiet Nacelle Corporation of Miami for the American company to develop a stage 3 hush kit suitable for its fleet, currently powered by Rolls Royce Spey engines complying with the stage two criteria. The kit will comprise an engine ...
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Unison's harmony nets double sales
Unison Industries has doubled its annual sales to $125 million with its takeover of the engine electrical systems division of BFGoodrich. The acquisition, which the US aircraft ignition systems company announces today, sees the addition of Forth Worth in Texas and Norwich, New York, to Unison's two existing ...