All General aviation articles – Page 666
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Aerospatiale
Aerospatiale General Aviation of Grand Prairie, Texas, a subsidiary of Socata, Groupe Aerospatiale, has acquired three new staff for its sales and marketing team. William Johnson, who comes from a similar post with TBM North America, is appointed a director of sales. Douglas Smith, most recently with the ESI (Electrosystems) ...
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Dutch report criticises pilots
PILOT IGNORANCE of technical systems, poor asymmetric-power handling skills and inadequate cockpit-resource management (CRM) training have been cited in the official report into the 4 April, 1994, KLM CityHopper Saab 340B accident at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. The captain and two passengers were killed and nine ...
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Regional traffic leads European airline growth
EUROPEAN regional passenger traffic grew by 15% in the first half of 1995, says European Regional Airlines (ERA) director-general Mike Ambrose at the association's annual convention at Baveno, Italy, on 12-13 October. The convention itself attracted 35 airlines and 30 companies, reflecting the ERA's contention that regional aviation ...
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Orenda aims at King Air re-engineing
THE FIRST FLIGHT of two aircraft types re-fitted with Orenda 600 piston engines made by Hawker Siddeley Canada will take place by the end of 1995, says Orenda. Orenda plans to deliver two development engines in November to Merlin Products, which will be working on a Beech King ...
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Grob fears for Strato future funds
GERMAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Burkhart Grob says that its Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft programme is being threatened by the refusal of the Government to hand over outstanding funding for the project. The Federal Ministry of Research and Technology has still not paid the DM46.75 million ($31 million) ...
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Explorer in Germany
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) has sold its first MD Explorer in Germany, to IBCOL Group, its Munich-based distributor. The eight-place, twin-turbine helicopter will enter service with Bonn-based Air Lloyd early in 1996, for customer demonstrations and short-term charters. MDHS' African distributor, Comair, has delivered three MD 500Es to the ...
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FBOS expand presence
SIGNATURE FLIGHT Support's new Las Vegas general-aviation terminal, at McCarran Airport, was host to the 130-aircraft NBAA static display. The flight-support organisation (FSO) opened for business in early August and is the second of Signature's "new-generation" FSOs, modeled on the two-story terminal at Bradley International Airport in Hartford, Connecticut. ...
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Piper eyes corporate market for Malibu
NEW PIPER Aircraft is offering the Malibu Mirage high-performance piston single as an economical alternative to turboprops and light business jets for companies considering moving to smaller corporate aircraft. Piper president Chuck Suma says that, on a 300nm (550km) mission with four passengers, the 250kt (460km/h)-cruising speed Malibu ...
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Meggitt in Citation deal
Meggitt Avionics has won a production contract for its solid-state secondary flight-display system from Cessna Aircraft, for incorporation in the Citation family of business jets. Meggitt Avionics, based in Fareham, UK, claims that the product is the first system integrating conventional instruments indicating attitude, altitude and airspeed into a single ...
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Cirrus on tour
Cirrus Design has begun a 20-city US demonstration tour with the SR20 light aircraft. The prototype has been flown for 200h since its first flight in March, and a second SR20 will be flown later this year. Certification is planned for early 1997. Source: Flight International
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Shuttles mean business
CORPORATE SHUTTLES are becoming more commonplace, with the NBAA debut of a corporate version of the Saab 2000 high-speed regional turboprop. The aircraft was one of three ordered by General Motors to replace its aging Convair 580 shuttles. Inside, the aircraft is outfitted with 36 passenger seats instead of the ...
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Ayres considers Dual Pac power for new types
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES FRED AYRES, developer of the Ayres Turbo Thrush agricultural aircraft, is designing a series of new types - ranging from a fire fighting tanker to a utility freighter - using the Soloy Dual Pac with two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6As as the power plant. ...
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Czech bank offers Let funding to certificate GE-powered L-610G
CZECH REGIONAL manufacturer Let Kunovice has been offered funding to complete certification of its General Electric-powered L-610G turboprop. The money - understood to be CKr450 million ($17 million) - is being provided by Czech bank Komercni Banka as a long-term loan. Let now believes that it can complete ...
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Ethiopian Airlines signs understanding for Fokker 50s
NATIONAL FLAG carrier Ethiopian Airlines has signed a memorandum of understanding for the acquisition of five Fokker 50 turboprops to replace its two 46-seat ATR 42-300s and some 18-seat de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters. Delivery of the new aircraft, which will be acquired on a ten-year finance ...
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Midway Beech 1900DS
Great Lakes Aviation subsidiary, Midway Connection, has taken delivery of two Raytheon Aircraft Beech 1900D regional airliners for use in a new code-sharing arrangement with Midway Airlines. The two aircraft will fly from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, to Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Source: Flight ...
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Raytheon modifies its plans for advanced Hawker 1000
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT has slashed the development budget of a proposed stretched Hawker 1000 upgrade, and is now considering a more modest improvement to the aircraft than originally planned. The next-generation Hawker could be unveiled at the 1996 National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) ...
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DC-10 misses Frankfurt runway - by 300km
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS David Learmount/LONDON A NORTHWEST AIRLINES McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40 carrying 241 passengers from Detroit to Frankfurt missed its intended destination by 300km (160nm), landing at Brussels Airport by mistake on 5 September. The pilots of Flight 52 only realised their error when they ...
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Star Kraft prepares team for launch
STAR KRAFT IS confident of launching full-development of its eight-seat twin-engine aircraft with a team of investors and aerospace companies which is now being formed. Company president Roger Kraft says: "We will know within 90 days whether we will have that team pulled together." The involvement of ...
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Raytheon's first
Raytheon Aircraft is claiming a breakthrough in business-jet design with the launch of its Premier I. Graham Warwick/WICHITA RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT'S new Premier I light business-jet is not a Beech, nor a Hawker. It is the first all-new aircraft to carry the Raytheon name and, for the year-old ...
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Fibre-placement fuselage
PREMIER I FUSELAGES will be produced in two sections, which will be bonded together at the aft pressure-bulkhead. The skins are a sandwich of Nomex-honeycomb core between carbonfibre-reinforced plastic layers, formed on a wooden mandrel using automatic fibre-placement. First a bladder is slipped over the mandrel, then ...