All General aviation articles – Page 638
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Dallach provides Fascination
GERMAN KITPLANE MANUFACTURER Dallach is selling a new side-by-side two-seat aircraft, known as the Fascination D.4, in France and Germany. Previous Dallach designs have been open-cockpit mono and biplanes, such as the Sunrise II, in the ultralight and microlight classes. The Fascination is a sleek steel-tube-fuselage airframe with a bolt-on ...
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Safety delegates warned on Third World issues
David Learmount/DUBAI EFFORTS TO IMPROVE the world's air-transport safety will fail while the industry continues to ignore the needs of developing countries and the Third World, where most accidents happen, according to Pakistan International Airlines' Capt Amjad Faizi. Delegates from 40 nations attended the combined Dubai ...
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Kiwi International rescue is in doubt, while ValuJet sees red
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The future of Kiwi International Airlines remains in doubt and liquidation of the low-fare US airline entrant is a distinct possibility as a rescue effort turns sour. Kiwi, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 30 September and suspended its scheduled flight ...
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FAA improves US fire and rescue services
Technology designed to assist airport rescue and firefighting crews at night and in bad weather has been deployed by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The Driver's Enhanced Vision System (DEVS), developed at the FAA's research-and-development centre, combines satellite navigation, digital datalink and infra-red (IR) technologies. Using the DEVS, ...
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Pedigree preserved
Peter Henley/LUTON By the time British Aerospace sold its corporate-jets business to Raytheon in 1993, the BAe 125 8-14 passenger twinjet had gained a formidable reputation. Since 1962, when the original de Havilland DH 125 was first flown, 850 customers from more than 40 countries had purchased various ...
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Vanguard Variations
The Merchantman's origins lay with the 100- to 140-seat Vickers Vanguard of the early 1960s. The four-engined turboprop was first flown from the Vickers-Armstrongs factory at Brooklands on 20 January 1959, and entered service with British European Airways (BEA) in December 1960. Although very economical to operate, the design was ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...