All General aviation articles – Page 654
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Europa hails US sales success of two-seater
EUROPA AVIATION of the UK has sold more than 50 of its Europa two-seat kitplanes to US customers since introducing the aircraft to the North American market 12 months ago at the 1995 Sun 'n Fun exhibition. The company has set up a US distributors' office in Lakeland, ...
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Toyota/Hamilton Standard examine engine potential
HAMILTON STANDARD and Toyota are studying potential applications for a jointly developed piston aero-engine. The FV2400-2TC is a 4litre, twin-turbocharged Vee-8 based, on Toyota's Lexus car engine and equipped with a Hamilton Standard full-authority digital engine-control (FADEC). Hamilton Standard received US Federal Aviation Administration type certification for the ...
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Diamond Launch
Diamond Aircraft will launch the Speed Katana light aircraft and Super Dimona TTS motor glider at the ILA show in Berlin, Germany, in mid-May. Both all-composite two-seat aircraft, are powered by the turbocharged Rotax 914 piston, engine. The uprated Speed Katana is aimed at the personal-aircraft market, while the Super ...
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Gulfstream completes GV static testing
GULFSTREAM HAS completed static testing of the Gulfstream V long-range business jet. The test airframe, is now being refurbished for use as a demonstrator aircraft and is scheduled to be displayed at the US National Business Aircraft Association convention in Orlando, Florida, in November, equipped with a full interior. ...
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IATA chief proposes culture/ safety relationship study
David Learmount/LONDON THE EFFECT OF culture on airline safety should be studied, to determine whether it has any significance, according to International Air Transport Association (IATA) director-general Pierre Jeanniot. He says that improved incident-data collection and sharing by airlines is essential if aircraft hull-loss accident rates are to ...
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Kitplanes rev up for air-racing market
TWO KITPLANE manufacturers believe that they have identified a potential market for high-performance racing aircraft as low-cost alternatives to the "warbirds", such as the North American P-51 Mustang, now widely used. Both companies cite the high cost of buying and racing aircraft such as the P-51, and the outcry caused ...
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USA extends ban on airline gambling
THE US DEPARTMENT of Transportation (DoT) is to retain its ban on gambling on commercial-airline flights to and from the USA by all carriers at least until a national commission has considered the wider issue of gambling legislation in the USA. The policy re-affirmation came with release ...
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Aerotiga delay
Tallahassee, Florida-based SME Aero says that North American sales of the Malaysian-produced AeroTiga light aircraft have been hit by production start-up delays. Source: Flight International
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Socata spreads
Aerospatiale General Aviation in the USA has changed its name to Socata Aircraft as part of a strategic plan to establish the Socata name worldwide. Socata Group Aerospatiale, the light-aircraft subsidiary of the French aerospace company, produces the TB series of piston singles, the TB320 piston-twin and the single-turboprop TBM700. ...
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Smooth stretch
Bell's 430 twin-engined helicopter looks sleek and provided a smooth flight in our test Peter Gray/SINGAPORE FIRST CAME THE Bell 222 intermediate weight, twin-engined, two-bladed, commercial helicopter in 1979, with a maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of 3,570kg, rising to 3,750kg, and the first aircraft to be certificated ...
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Piper tunes up
New Piper Aircraft has appointed Hanagr Uno in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and ITC-Aerospace in Tokyo, Japan, as authorised distributors for its line of piston-engined light aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Hawker milestone
Raytheon Aircraft has delivered the 900th Hawker business jet with the hand-over of the 17th Hawker 1000 for Executive Jet Aviation's NetJets fractional-ownership programme. The Hawker series started as the de Havilland DH.125, becoming the Hawker Siddeley HS.125, then the British Aerospace 125, before its sale to Raytheon. ...
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FAA
The US Federal Aviation Administration has appointed John Stenbit, executive vice-president and general manager of TRW Systems Integration Group, as chairman of its research, engineering and development advisory committee. Dr Wesley Harris, Dr Aaron Gellman and Brian Rowe have also joined the committee. Harris is a visiting professor of aeronautics ...
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ValuJet tempers growth as FAA watches watch
VALUJET AIRLINES is to slow its rapid growth for the next few months, citing increased US Federal Aviation Administration safety scrutiny following recent incidents. The low-cost carrier, based in Atlanta, Georgia, will add 13-14 aircraft during 1996, instead of the previously planned 18-24 aircraft. The FAA conducted a ...
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FlightSafety expands Falcon training
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) is expanding its Falcon Jet training centre at Teterboro, New Jersey, to house additional simulators for Dassault business jets. The expansion will provide room for three new simulators, plus flight-training devices and classrooms. FSI's Simulation Systems division is already building a Falcon 2000 full-flight simulator ...
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Dassault
Charles Nicol has been named vice-president of worldwide spares at Dassault Aviation in New Jersey. He has nearly 30 years' experience in the industry, most recently with Messier-Bugatti. Mark Verdesco becomes sales manager for pre-owned aircraft. He joined Dassault in 1989 as a technical marketing analyst and was promoted in ...
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Eagle makes changes to XT-S sports trainer
EAGLE AIRCRAFT International has made aerodynamic modifications to its all-composite XT-S two-seat sports trainer, and will now fly a full re-certification programme in Perth, Western Australia, to prove conformity with European joint airworthiness regulations for very-light aircraft (JAR/VLA). Having failed by 2kt, to limit stall speed to the ...
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New Atlantic separation rules catch out corporate fliers
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA CORPORATE-AIRCRAFT operators are hoping for a significant delay to the scheduled 1 January 1997, introduction of reduced vertical-separation minima (RVSM) on routes over the North Atlantic. The move to increase the capacity of Atlantic airspace by halving the vertical separation between aircraft to 1,000ft (300m) ...
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Novator arrest
A man has been arrested by the Russian police and charged with the contract murder of Valentin Smirnov, the head of the Novator strategic cruise missile design bureau. Yuri Pinzhenin a colleague from Novator, is accused by legal officials, of orchestrating the murder. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon slims services arm
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT Services is to sell six of its 18 US fixed-base operations (FBOs) to Mercury Air Group, a national provider of aircraft-fuelling and ground-handling services. The sale of the FBOs includes real-estate assets, plus aircraft-fuelling and line-service operations at Atlanta's Hartsfield and Peachtree airports; Ontario, California; Bedford, ...