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ST-50 is lined up for February flight tests
The first production prototype of the ST-50 executive aircraft is scheduled to undergo flight tests in February 1997. Israviation, the ST-50 manufacturer, has moved to its permanent production site in Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel and is already working on the two planned production prototypes. Test flights so ...
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IPTN drops certification plans for PA2 prototype
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE I NDUSTRI Pesawat Nusantara Terbang (IPTN) has abandoned plans to use its second N250 regional prototype as an airworthiness-certification vehicle in a bid to avoid any further postponement of the aircraft's maiden flight. The Indonesian manufacturer had intended using prototype PA2 to begin certification, ...
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Visionaire rolls out Vantage
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES VisionAire rolled out its Vantage six-seat, proof-of-concept business jet on 8 November from Scaled Composites' Mojave site in California. Firm orders for "nearly 50 Vantages, representing sales in excess of $75 million", have been booked to date, says VisionAire founder, chairman and chief ...
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Safeguards are needed on reporting
Sir - The leader "No-gain pain" (Flight International, 16-22 October) was interesting reading. It is important to protect the identities of those accused by confidential incident-reporting systems. Most systems make strenuous efforts to protect the identity of accusers, because otherwise the flow of information would dry up. ...
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Russia will privatise Domodedovo
The Russian Government has decided to privatise Domodedovo Commercial Aviation Enterprise, which runs Moscow's main domestic airport and the Domodedovo airline operation. Anew public company, Domodedovo Service, will be set up to run the airport, which handled close to 6 million passengers in 1995, although a majority 51% will stay ...
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Citation certification
Duncan Aviation of Lincoln, Nebraska, has certificated AlliedSignal's GNS-XLS global-positioning/flight-management system for primary- means over-water navigation in a Cessna Citation III. Source: Flight International
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Australia turns up pressure on Papua New Guinea
Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has warned Papua New Guinea 's (PNG) Office of Civil Aviation (OCA) that it will not hesitate to rescind the Australian air-operators' certificates of PNG operators if the OCA cannot meet its regulatory commitments. The warning was issued after the OCA's deputy ...
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Australia accepts AlliedSignal runway monitor
Air Services Australia has accepted the AlliedSignal Aerospace precision runway-monitor (PRM) installed at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport. Sydney is the first airport outside the USA to be equipped with the PRM, an electronically scanned, monopulse, secondary-surveillance radar which, enables simultaneous approaches to multiple parallel runways. The PRM scans ...
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Acceptable errors
The human-factors element in flight safety is now being taken seriously. David Learmount/WARSAW The world's flight-safety specialists have given up trying to eliminate human error. Now, the aim is to understand error and to control, or "manage" it. This strategy holds the key to improving airline flight ...
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Eurocopter leases EC135s to Bavarian police
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Eurocopter has won Government approval for a contract to supply nine EC135 light helicopters on a ten-year lease to police in the south German state of Bavaria. According to Eurocopter, the contract will be signed on 13 November, now that the Bavarian regional government ...
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Hughes WAAS
Hughes Aircraft has signed a contract worth more than $483 million to continue development of the US Federal Aviation Administration's wide-area augmentation system (WAAS). The FAA says that Hughes, unlike original WAAS contractor Wilcox Electric, has the skill to design, develop, test and deliver the system with minimum cost, schedule ...
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Main PNG helicopter operators
Papua New Guinea's (PNG's) two major helicopter operators plan to merge in early 1997 in an effort to combat growing international competition for their established businesses. Hevilift and Pacific Helicopters have a combined fleet of more than 70 aircraft, ranging from Bell 206 Jet Rangers, through light and ...
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Hainan plans float
Hainan Airlines plans to be the first Chinese carrier to go ahead with a public flotation on the Shanghai stock exchange. The rapidly growing domestic airline hopes to proceed with the public offer shortly, following approval from the local Chinese regulatory commission. The airline is one of China's most progressive, ...
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Raytheon begins first Premier I fuselage
Graham Warwick/WICHITA Raytheon Aircraft is to produce the first composite-fuselage section for the Premier I business jet later in November, using fibre-placement technology. The forward-fuselage section is intended as a demonstration article, but could be used in an aircraft if it passes all qualification tests. ...
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FAA approves Duke strakes
Vortex-generator specialist Boundary Layer Research has obtained a US Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type-certificate for fitting a pair of aft-body strakes to Beech Duke models 60, A60 and B60. The two 1.6m-long strakes, weighing a total of 3.4kg, are riveted to the underside of the aft fuselage. They are claimed ...
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AirKenya
The biggest and most prominent of Kenya Airways' domestic competitors is Airkenya Aviation, formed in 1987 by the take-over of Sunbird Aviation by Air Kenya. Today, it carries some 120,000 passengers a year, two-thirds of them scheduled. Roughly one-third are charter, but "-we don't always know exactly ...
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Funding hurdle bars further SW-4 progress
Andrjez Jeziorski/WARSAW Polish helicopter manufacturer PZL-Swidnik successfully completed the much-delayed first flight of its SW-4 light helicopter on 26 October, but now has to fight for Government funding to complete certification. The single turbine five seater is the first new East European aircraft, designed and ...
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Rocky road
Will Canadian Airlines International survive until the weight of its financial liabilities start to lift two years from now? David Knibb weighs up the Calgary-based carrier's chances. Canadian Airlines International is in a race against time. Two years from now its loan and lease obligations will ease, finally giving the ...
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Ramping up the price
Europe's airlines are fighting to cut costs but the second Cranfield University study of user charges at the region's airports suggests carriers can expect little help from their infrastructure and ground handling providers. By Ian Stockman. Since the last assessment of aircraft turnround fees at European airports by Cranfield ...
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Ghana clears FAA hurdle
Ghana has joined South Africa as only the second sub-Saharan African country to secure category one status from the US Federal Aviation Administration. The rapid process of the country's application could help diffuse criticism over the FAA's tough safety oversight policy, particularly towards South America. The approval paved ...