All General aviation articles – Page 649
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Aces high
In-flight gambling is about to make its long-awaited debut, as three of the world's leading carriers plan to test the software over the coming months. Mead Jennings reports on the potential of what proponents claim is the airline industry's next major revenue stream and looks at some of the possible ...
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Stork eyes Fokker
Dutch industrial group Stork says that, by mid-July, it could have completed a take-over of Fokker Aviation, the continuing aircraft-services and components-manufacturing operation of the bankrupt aircraft-manufacturer. Stork is carrying out due diligence on the aviation company, and says that it is not expecting any surprises. Fokker Aviation includes the ...
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Turkish triumph
After its first profit in nine years, Turkish Airlines is ready for global expansion. Gunter Endres/ISTANBUL ATTILA _ELEBI, president and chief executive of Turkish Airlines (THY), may have the imposing stature of his conquering namesake, but there the comparison ends. His demeanour is one of gentleness and he ...
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Rising sun
An awareness of concerted safety action dawns in the Far East and Asia/Pacific. Paul Phelan/JAKARTA OPERATORS IN ASIA/PACIFIC regions, are having to monitor carefully, the stresses on almost every aspect of air safety, caused by the rapid growth of airlines and air traffic in the region. ...
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ValuJet fallout hits FAA
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE FALL-OUT from the 11 May crash of ValuJet Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades has spread across the USA, from Long Beach, California, to the inner circle of the US Federal Aviation Administration. The unprecedented commercial-airline safety probe and subsequent grounding ...
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Crash casualties
THE CRASH of a ValuJet McDonnell Douglas DC-9 in Florida in May is turning out to have an impact far beyond the regrettable loss of 110 lives and an aircraft. That is not because the crash itself was extraordinary (although the coincidence of circumstances which add up to the likely ...
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UK study shows advantage of combined GPS/Glonass
COMBINED GLOBAL-positioning-system (GPS)/Russian Glonass receivers can significantly boost the integrity of real-time satellite-based differential-navigation systems in aircraft, says a UK team which recently completed what are believed to be the world's first flight trials of such a system. The UK Civil Aviation Authority's Institute of Satellite Navigation (ISN), ...
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Arabasco
Arabasco of Saudi Arabia, responsible for the maintenance, operation and handling of the kingdom's corporate and private aircraft has appointed engineer Abdulrahman Ali-Suleiman Al-Hamdan as director-general. Graham Stephenson joins Arabasco as technical director. He was previously with national airline Saudia and Jet Aviation Saudi Arabia. Source: Flight International
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Uncritical operators
General aviation's hardware - the aeroplane - is rarely examined for safety shortcomings. David Learmount/LONDON ACCEPTANCE OF LOWER levels of safety in private general aviation (GA) than in airline operations would seem almost logical: airline professionals ought to do it better. There seems to be ...
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Who's in control
AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL OPERATOR Dan Kennedy, recently returned from a Churchill Fellowship world study on GA safety, believes that insurance payouts of up to A$1 million ($806,500) on turbine agricultural aircraft, more than 60 of which are operated in Australia, may price his industry out of business if accident trends cannot ...
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ValuJet to reduce maintenance contractors
Karen Walker/ATLANTA VALUJET AIRLINES, in response to criticism from the US Federal Aviation Administration is to cut the number of outside maintenance contractors it uses. An interim report, by the FAA on ValuJet's maintenance and safety procedures, highlights discovered since the Atlanta, Georgia-based airline came ...
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New study identifies high-risk CFIT categories of operation
David Learmount/LONDON An accident involving controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), is most likely to happen to a single-crew operation in Africa flying a non- precision approach without a ground-proximity warning system (GPWS) says a so-far-unreleased report which quantifies CFIT risks. ...
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Atlanta Olympics will host Free Flight
DEMONSTRATION OF A helicopter-transportation system at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia in July and August has been extended to include fixed-wing aircraft. Two general-aviation aircraft, a Cirrus SR20 and a Mooney 201, will be used as airborne platforms to test signal strengths of the global-positioning system ...
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Jet plans acquisitions to boost core-business resources
JET AVIATION IS in talks to acquire K-C Aviation's Transportation Services (KCTS) and Jet Professionals subsidiaries. Agreement is expected in the next 60 days, with the two companies about to enter due-diligence investigations. K-C Aviation says that it is selling the transportation-services companies to free up resources to ...
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Narita access
The Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB) has moved to increase slots for business aircraft at Narita Airport. Under new procedures effective from 1 July, business aircraft flying international routes can use two dedicated slots at the airfield out of 355 slots per day for scheduled operations. Source: ...
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-IPTN's N250
-IPTN's N250 will be a winner, if performance figures match the aircraft's characteristics IF THERE IS any lingering cynicism, over the destiny of IPTN's N250 programme, a visit to the company's design, manufacturing and flight-testing site at Bandung, Indonesia, would be likely to put it to rest. The site ...
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PW206 to power Bell 427
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The PRATT & WHITNEY Canada PW206D turbo-shaft engine has been selected by Bell Helicopter Textron to power its new light twin, the Bell 427. The 450kW (600shp) PW206D was chosen over the Allison Model 250-C22+ and the Turbomeca Arrius 2 to power ...
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IAS
Custom-completions specialist International Aviation Services, of Forth Worth, Texas, has named Kristin Martin general counsel. Patrick Browne becomes manager of technical sales, having held flight-officer positions with South African Airways, People's Express, Continental Airlines and Air Micronesia. Jeff Conrad has been appointed director of business development, having held management positions ...
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Malaysian bilateral
Malaysia and the USA have signed a bilateral airworthiness agreement and are now working towards US acceptance of Malaysian certification standards for the locally produced SME Aviation MD3-160 light aircraft. Approval will require a final technical assessment to be made in September or October, and would clear the way for ...