All General aviation articles – Page 660
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Exim approves Aeroflot financing
AEROFLOT-RUSSIAN International Airlines (ARIA) is to receive $1 billion financing from the US Export Import Bank (Exim) to help purchase 20 Westernised Ilyushin Il-96M/Ts. The financing covers the US content in the aircraft, including engines and avionics, and will be guaranteed by the Russian Government and by pledges on the ...
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USA reports increase in GA accidents
US GENERAL-AVIATION (GA) accidents increased slightly in 1995, causing concern that efforts to improve safety have reached a plateau. The US National Transportation Safety Board says that there were 408 fatal GA accidents in 1995, compared with 402 in 1994. Safety has been steadily improving since the ...
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Crash leads to Tu-154B groundings
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW THE CIS INTERSTATE Aviation Committee has grounded 15 Russian-operated Tupolev Tu-154Bs because of information emerging about the 7 December 1995, Khabarovsk Air Tu-154B crash in the Russian far east (Flight International, 20 December, 1995-2 January). The aircraft are to remain grounded until the investigation is complete. ...
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China double in five years
Beijing may have put the brakes on its airline's phenomenal expansion rates over the past year but the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is preparing to cope with another 'Great Leap Forward'. The latest Five Year Plan, covering 1996-2000, caters for an annual civil aviation industry growth ...
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Uncertainty wins the casting vote
Some airlines are viewing the spate of elections this year with trepidation.Even in parts of the world where airlines are privately owned and have the commercial freedoms associated with deregulation, they remain uniquely susceptible to the political environment in which they must operate. Small wonder that the prospect of a ...
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Beaming into new system
Our institute has been conducting extensive research on airline revenue management for the past three years, and parts of your article 'A system approach' (Airline Business, January) seem to be based on false assumptions. Our first concern is the quoted 1 per cent increase in airline revenues. While there is ...
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Asia-Pacific
The Asia-Pacific region continues to maintain its flagship role at the sharp end of global air travel recovery. Double-digit growth is again forecast through 1996, bringing further financial gains for regional operators and benefits for major airlines operating into the area from elsewhere. There will, however, be dramatically ...
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Raisbeck
Tom Halvorson has joined Raisbeck Engineering as vice-president marketing. Halvorson's 35-year aviation career has spanned marketing, fixed base operations, aircraft sales and regional-airline management. He joins Raisbeck Engineering after 15 years with Western Aircraft of Idaho where he has held a variety of positions, most recently company president. In the ...
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Seven-league leader
Gulfstream is first into the air with a global-range business jet. Cut away poster by Tim Hall. Graham Warwick/SAVANNAH GULFSTREAM IS NOW officially a two-aircraft company, for the first time in its history. While flight-testing of the 12,000km (6,500nm)-range Gulfstream V gathers pace, production of the 7,800km-range Gulfstream IV-SP ...
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Delta is debut customer for electro-optical ice detector
ROBOTIC VISION Systems (RVSI) has received its first airline order for the ID-1 wide-area aircraft ice-detection system. Delta Air Lines has ordered four of the hand-held electro-optical systems for use this winter at its main US East Coast airports. Hauppauge, New York-based RVSI says that the Delta order ...
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Checking the numbers
There are fears that Hong Kong's new airport is already heading for a capacity problem. Chris Yates/HONG KONG IT IS THE WORLD'S single largest project in civil engineering today and one of the most complex combined excavation and reclamation projects in history, requiring the largest fleet of seaborne dredgers, ...
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Business Express yields to bankruptcy protection
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC BUSINESS EXPRESS, the US regional carrier based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been forced into the federal bankruptcy court by Saab Aircraft. The airline owes Saab more than $20 million - much of it in unpaid lease payments. A major creditor, Saab ...
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Competition hots up for ALH engines
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES COMPETITION TO power the Indian-built military utility Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) is intensifying between Turbomeca and LHTEC, the light helicopter turbine engine company, jointly owned by AlliedSignal and Rolls Royce's, Allison Engine division The companies are negotiating with Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) to ...
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Computers aid GV wing design
APPEARANCES CAN be deceiving, and the GV's outward similarity to the GIV belies the changes wrought to achieve an almost-60% increase in range. The wing is all-new, sized to house the fuel required for a 12,000km (6,500nm) range, but shaped by the desire to maintain the GIV's ...
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Australian firefighters want to test-fly Canadair CL-415s
SOME OF Australia's major fire fighting authorities are to recommend that their state governments approve and fund a three-month operational evaluation of Canadair's CL-415 fire bomber during the country's next fire season, which usually starts in December and extends to March. The decision follows a series of ...
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US deliveries highest since 1990
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US GENERAL-aviation aircraft industry has unveiled 1995 figures showing that it delivered the highest number of aircraft since 1990 and achieved the best billings since 1981. The figures enabled the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) president Ed Stimpson to report that ...
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Gulfstream prepares for second GV first flight
GULFSTREAM IS preparing a second Gulfstream V long-range business jet for its first flight in early February. The first GV, aircraft 501, has been flown for some 50h since its first flight on 28 November, 1995, reaching 48,000ft (14,600m) at Mach 0.8 and M0.85 at 45,000ft (43,700m). Flying ...
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European FAA?
ONE OF THE GREAT ADVANTAGES of belonging to an international club like the European Union (EU) is the harmonisation of rules on matters such as aircraft safety and certification. Right? Wrong - or partly wrong. The problem is that the EU and some of its neighbours do have a common ...
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Eurocopter picks Turkey for cost trimming
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH EUROCOPTER HAS awarded a structures-manufacturing contract to Turkey's Tusas Aerospace Industries (TAI) in a new move to shift elements of its production to low cost suppliers. Ankara-based TAI, which also produces components for Airtech CN-235s and assembles Turkish air force Lockheed Martin F-16s, is ...
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Russian business matters
Western-style maintenance for business aircraft in Russia is beginning to happen. Paul Duffy/MOSCOW ALTHOUGH EXECUTIVE aviation was as widely used in the Soviet Union as it was in other parts of the world, generally the aircraft provided for this work were standard versions of commercial airliners ...