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Equipping & Supporting Rapid Reaction Forces 13-14 June, London, UK. Contact: HSA/RRMLC, H Silver & Associates (UK), 2nd Floor, Africa House, 64-78 Kingsway, London WC2B 6BD, UK; tel: +44 (171) 413 0936; fax: +44 (171) 413 0937. Second European Aircraft Valuation Seminar 13-14 June, London, UK. Contact: Commercial ...
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Indonesian navcal
Hunting Aviation is to supply two NAVCAL flight-inspection systems to the Indonesian civil-aviation authority. The equipment is used to inspect the accuracy of VHF omnidirectional-radio-range/instrument-landing-system navigation aids. It will be interchangeable between Socata TBM700 and Beech King Air inspection aircraft used locally. Source: Flight International
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Gulfstream offers GIV-SP cost guarantee
GULFSTREAM HAS introduced an operating-cost guarantee programme for its GIV-SP business jet, which will cover all scheduled and unscheduled airframe, engine and avionics maintenance for an hourly usage fee. The Gulfstream ServiceCare guaranteed direct-operating-cost guarantee programme is described by the manufacturer as "...the most comprehensive of its kind ...
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Falcon certification
Dassault Aviation has obtained French civil-aviation certification for its Falcon 900EX long-range business-jet. The French manufacturer expects to gain US certification later this month, leading to first customer deliveries in October. Sony's US arm is the launch customer for the aircraft. The 900EX, which is equipped with AlliedSignal TFE731-60 turbofan ...
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Quality vs capacity
Paul Phelan/ADELAIDE STUDENT NUMBERS at the Australian Aviation College (AAC) in Adelaide are approaching maximum capacity, but expansion is out of the question, says general manager Harry Bradford. Although the BTR-owned school has over 200 students, it will not expand because quality would suffer, he says. ...
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FAA forced ValuJet cut in growth before crash
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US FEDERAL AVIATION Administration concern over the effect on ValuJet's safety of its rapid expansion forced the carrier to rein back planned growth almost four months before the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 crash in Florida on 11 May, documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act ...
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Cessna is granted FAA approval for Citation X
Cessna has received US certification for the Citation X Mach 0.92 business jet, after an almost 30-month, 3,000h, flight-test programme involving three aircraft. Deliveries are to begin late this month, and the US manufacturer plans to deliver "11 or 12" aircraft by year-end. European certification is scheduled for July 1997. ...
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Where you train is not always where you end up flying
Sir - As a licensed US Federal Aviation Administration commercial pilot, I support the plea for international standards for flight training in the article "Unique Internationalism" (Flight International, 8-14 May, P3). There are some points which need taking up, however. Firstly, there is the argument that a UK ...
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Pemco
Vince DiSciullo has been named general manager at the Pemco nacelle-services division of aircraft maintainer and modifier Precision Standard, of Denver, Colorado. He was formerly vice-president for operations at the EDM division of Chromalloy Gas Turbine. Martyn Craig becomes sales manager of Pemco World Air Services. He has had 20 ...
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Cessna
Tom Zimmerman has been named regional sales manager for Cessna Aircraft's Citation business-jet range. He has most recently been selling Learjets in the Western USA and, before that, he held a similar post with Mooney Aircraft. Donald Perry and Michael Kolman have become area sales managers for the CitationJet and ...
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Bravo gets faster
Cessna has increased the maximum cruise-speed of the Citation Bravo light business jet to 401kt (740km/h), from 394kt, after more than 500h of flight-testing. Powered by Pratt & Whitney Canada PW530A turbofans, the improved Citation II was first flown in April 1995 and will be certificated in August. ...
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Make-up of VPK MAPO
- MAPO MIG - Moscow Aircraft Production Organisation into which the Mikoyan design bureau and MAPO production plant merged a year ago - Joint stock company Kamov - the helicopter-design bureau - Ryazan state instrument plant - the series-production manufacturer of the N-019 radar for the ...
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Why not use the safer Halon gas?
Sir - During the 1980s, I campaigned (unsuccessfully) for the withdrawal of highly toxic Halon 1211 portable extinguishers from flightdecks and cabins, suggesting their replacement by five-times-safer Halon 1301. My fear was - and remains - that 1211, in the confined space of a flightdeck, could cause the ...
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Wilcox makes formal WAAS protest to FAA
WILCOX ELECTRIC has issued a formal protest against the award of the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) contract to Hughes Aircraft, its former subcontractor on the $475 million programme. Wilcox says that the protest follows discovery that the US Federal Aviation Administration "-had given Hughes more time to ...
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Ametek introduces monitor to keep track of regional-turboprop balances
AMETEK AEROSPACE Products has introduced a system to give fast, accurate propeller balancing, allowing regional-turboprop operators to keep down damaging vibration levels throughout an aircraft's life. The Balance Monitoring System automatically stores vibration data in flight. These data are then downloaded to a ground-based lap-top computer which calculates ...
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Hong Kong's new airport secures second runway
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON CHINA AND THE UK have agreed to build a second runway for Hong Kong's new airport at Chek Lap Kok (CLK), to cater for faster-than-expected traffic growth. The agreement, signed by the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group, clears the way for a northern ...
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Anti-collision system aims at light aircraft
SMITH SYSTEM Engineering is to design and test a low-cost anti-collision system for light aircraft, under contract to the UK Civil Aviation Authority Safety Regulation Group. The CAA has already funded Smith to carry out research into the low-cost proximity-warning system, which works by detecting automatically the strobe ...
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Appointments
McDonnell Douglas has named Michael M Sears president of Douglas Aircraft Company. Sir Malcolm Field has succeeded Sir Christopher Chataway as chairman of the British Civil Aviation Authority. Cees van Woudenberg is to become a member of KLM's board of managing directors with responsibility for human ...
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Marketing a package
Abu Dhabi, host city for Routes '97, has its own unique approach to airport marketing. Mark Blacklock reportsShortly before landing at Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, Britannia Airways screens a video about the city, its airport and the duty free shopping complex. Provided free of charge by ...
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CNAC enters with Dragon
Hong Kong's handover has come a year early for Dragonair. Yielding to Chinese pressure, Cathay Pacific and the Swire group have agreed to cut their holdings in Dragonair and allow China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) to take control. Peter Sutch, Cathay's chairman, describes this as 'an accommodation of PRC aviation ...