All General aviation articles – Page 634
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C-5 life-extension is 'affordable'
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN HAS completed a study commissioned by the USAir Force into upgrading the C-5 Galaxy transport to extend its service life until at least 2030. The company says that an upgrade costing $35 million or less per aircraft would reduce the C-5's operating cost per ...
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Windeagle peps up Windecker project
Canada's Windeagle Aircraft plans to produce the five-seat Windecker Eagle light aircraft, which became the first all-composite aircraft to win US certification in the 1970s, but which never entered production. The Windeagle is powered by a 210kW (285hp) Teledyne Continental IO-520, but the company plans to install a ...
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New Meyers develops four-seater
M300 flight-testing is scheduled to begin in early 1997 New Meyers Aircraft has begun development of a four-seat light aircraft, with certification flight-testing scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 1997. The new M300 is planned to enter production alongside the company's two-seat SP20, an updated version of ...
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Marines choose MOSLS
Metalite Aviation Lighting of the UK has secured a $600,000 contract from the US Marine Corps for the supply of a MOSLS portable airfield-lighting system. The MOSLS system is designed for use at expeditionary airfields. Source: Flight International
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Cessna offers sales to service stations
Cessna is to give all of its existing authorised piston-single service stations the opportunity to sell new aircraft. The company says that the move will enable customers to obtain service at the same place as they buy their new piston-single aircraft. Cessna plans to form a network of dealers or ...
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Flight engineers call for world drive to improve flight safety
Andrezj Jeziorski/MUNICH The International Flight Engineers Organisation (IFEO) has highlighted six areas in which it considers that action must be taken to counter spiralling air-accident fatalities. At its 1996 general assembly in Munich, the organisation expressed "regret and dismay" at the increasing number of fatalities ...
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Aerospace trade shows
The US Regional Airlines Association Annual Convention is now due to be held on 12-14 May, at Reno, Nevada, rather than on 6-8 May, as listed in the Flight International Aerospace Trade Show Calendar (27 November-3 December). The details for Aerospace India 96 were inadvertently published as being ...
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Oil leak is blamed for Delta accident
The loss of one of Europe's few remaining airworthy Douglas DC-3s off the Netherlands on 25 September was caused by an engine-oil leak, say Dutch aviation authorities. The DC-3 was owned by the Dutch Dakota Association. The pilot was unable to feather the propeller of the failing engine ...
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MD-87 certificated with PATS tanks
MD-87 certificated with PATS tanks US Fuel-tank manufacturer PATS has gained a US Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certificate for its long-range auxiliary fuel system for the McDonnell Douglas MD-87 twinjet. The PATS system consists of ten auxiliary fuel tanks located in the aircraft's lower ...
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What's on
Christmas Show/LMA Winter Exhibition 7-8 December, Yorkshire, UK. Contact: Yorkshire Air Museum, Halifax Way, Elvington, York YO4 5AU, UK; tel: +44 (1904) 608595; fax: +44 (1904) 608246. "Carrying the Torch" Air Show Industry Convention 8-11 December, Riviera, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Contact Rebecca Scullon Eyke:+517 782 2424. ...
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Malaysians plan to start manufacturing Eagle
Composites Technology Research Malaysia (CTRM) will begin manufacturing its Eagle X-TS all-composite sports trainer at its Batu Berendam plant in Malacca, in February 1997. This decision follows the 13 November lifting of certification weight restrictions by Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), which is responsible for oversight ...
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Duncan
Jeff Manion and Tim Klenke have joined Duncan Aviation's Airframe Service Sales groups as service sales representatives. Manion will support Hawker and Falcon operators. Klenke will work with Cessna Citation, Israel Aircraft Industries Astra/ Westwind and turboprop operators. Source: Flight International
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Italy is close to helicopter selection
The Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police are soon to decide whether to buy the Agusta A109 Koala or a licence-built version of the McDonnell Douglas MD500 helicopter, to replace its fleet of Agusta-Bell 206s. At one stage, it looked as though Agusta would have to build the MD500N, after ...
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Fokker reversers need checks
David Learmount/LONDON Fokker has warned airline operators of a potential fault in the engine thrust-reverser systems on its Fokker 70 and 100 regional jets. This may have been a factor in the fatal TAM Brazilian Fokker 100 crash at Sao Paulo (Flight International, 6-12 November, P6). ...
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Flight plan change is over the top
Sir - For the Dutch and Belgian Governments to ask the International Civil Aviation Organisation for changes in flight plan-transmitted data seems a bit over the top (News in Brief, "C-130 crash", Flight International, 30 October-5 November, P18). Assuming that air-traffic control was talking to the Lockheed Martin ...
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MDH cuts helicopter prices to boost sales
McDonnell Douglas Helicopters (MDH) is to introduce aggressive price cuts to stimulate sales of its MD600N and MD902 after admitting that its prices "have been too high". The price of the eight-seat MD600N, which is expected to receive US Federal Aviation Administration certification by early December, is ...
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BFG tests SMART de-icing boot
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BF Goodrich (BFG) is to conduct certification flight-testing of its SMART boot pneumatic de-icer, with an integrated wide-area ice-detection sensor, on New Piper Aircraft's Malibu Mirage high-performance piston single. The company says that the system "-removes the guesswork from pneumatic de-icer operation". The ...
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Raising the singles bar
Cirrus, with its SR20, sets the style for revitalisation of the USGA industry- -while Cessna delivers on its promise to put piston singles back in production New-production piston-singles are being taken off the endangered-species list as designs old and new become available. Graham ...
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Bellanca SkyRocket back on launch pad
AviaBellanca Aircraft hopes to certificate and manufacture a six-seat light aircraft first flown more than 20 years ago, but never produced. The single example of the Bellanca-designed SkyRocket II is expected to be flown this month, having been in storage since 1982. Reston, Virginia-based AviaBellanca plans to produce ...
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Trimble/AirCell top avionics news at NBAA show
Trimble Navigation launched the TrimConnect 3100 flight-telephone system for corporate aircraft at the US National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) convention in Orlando, Florida, in late November. The system is the first product for which AirCell's US telecommunications network is used, which employs cellular-telephone technology. Trimble says that the ...