All General aviation articles – Page 655
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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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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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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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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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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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Forbidden Factor
THE INTERNATIONAL AIR Transport Association's Pierre Jeanniot has dared to link, in public, the two subjects of safety and culture. The inference is that, beyond straight human error as a factor in some accidents, there may be culturally induced human error. He is right to raise the question, because the ...
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Mooney makes financing move
MOONEY AIRCRAFT HAS established a financing division in a bid to make it easier to purchase its high-performance piston-singles. Mooney, which sells aircraft at prices beginning at $200,000, says that the move to set up a financing arm recognises that customers want purchase agreements similar to those they ...
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GROB first
Grob has delivered the first 115C1 Acro aerobatic light aircraft to North American lead customers AG Aviation of Palo Alto, California, Canada's Ottawa Aviation Services and Ronson Aviation of Trenton, New Jersey. Source: Flight International
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Spars flotation
Aviation Sales, which claims to be the world's largest aircraft-spares redistributor, has announced that it is to become a public company, with the sales of 3.25 million shares. The public offering is expected to raise nearly $76. The business had sales of $114 million in 1995. ...
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Piper researches future products
NEW PIPER AIRCRAFT is conducting a major market-research project during 1996, with a view to launching new aircraft types beginning in 1997. The company, which has recently undergone a major re-organisation to emerge from bankruptcy protection, says that it realises the need to introduce new products to meet ...
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Italy's Tecnam targets US school market
A CERTIFICATED LIGHT aircraft produced in Italy has been introduced into the US market, aimed at flying schools. The Tecnam P92-J will sell at prices starting from $80,000 and will be in head-on competition with aircraft such as the Canadian-produced Diamond Katana, says the Naples based company. ...
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Zenith launches kitplane twin
A TWIN-ENGINE kit-built aircraft costing under $20,000 is expected to be available for sale from August. Zenith, US producer of the Zodiac family of kitplanes has launched the CH620 Gemini twin-engine kit, in anticipation of opening a new market, aimed at second-time kit builders. The Gemini will share ...
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Ilyushin gets Russian approval for Il-103
ILYUSHIN HAS received Russian certification for its Il-103 four-seat light aircraft. US certification of the aircraft, powered by a Teledyne Continental engine driving a Hartzell propeller, is expected this month. This would make the Il-103 the first Russian aircraft to receive US certification. Ilyushin forecasts a Russian market ...
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PC-12 receives cold soak
PILATUS AIRCRAFT is hoping to pick up Canadian sales of its PC-12 single-turboprop utility aircraft, following the completion of low-temperature operational tests in the UK. The two-day cold soak was carried-out at the UK Defence Test and Evaluation Organisation's environmental chamber at Boscombe Down, and was observed by representatives from ...
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Extra flies EA 400 tourer
GERMAN manufacturer, Extra Flugzeugbau has flown its all-composite, EA 400 tourer for the first time. The first flight took place on 4 April at Extra's Dinslaken base, with company managing director Walter Extra at the controls. The company says that the first impressions of the aircraft's handling were ...
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German Government advisors push for domestic fuel tax
GERMANY'S Government-appointed environmental advisory panel has recommended a tax on aviation fuel on domestic routes. It is estimated that a kerosene tax equivalent to that already paid on diesel fuel would raise the cost of flying in Germany by 20%. In the long term, Ewers supports a tax ...
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JAA set to overturn night-time single-engine aircraft ban
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS THE EUROPEAN Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) has "tentatively agreed" to overturn its previous position of banning the operation of single-engined turbine-powered aircraft commercially in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) and at night. Pilatus Aircraft and Aerospatiale's Socata subsidiary, respectively manufacturers of the PC-12 and ...
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Why a precision approach is safer
Sir - There are parts of the world where it is impossible to install a precision approach (Flight International, 6-12 March, P5 and 20-26 March, P100) because it does not meet International Civil Aviation Organisation standards, so a non-precision approach is used, in most cases without terminal-approach radar at the ...
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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, ...
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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