All General aviation articles – Page 675
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Slow progress
Progress towards achieving a US/Russian bilateral airworthiness agreement remains slow. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE USA AND RUSSIA will break no speed records in their marathon efforts to complete a bilateral airworthiness agreement, say US aviation officials involved in the negotiations. While some progress is reported ...
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Plans for longer-range GIV held up
GULFSTREAM Aircraft has suspended plans to develop a longer-range version of the GIV business-jet. The company says, that market research indicates, that the present 7,800km (4,200nm)-range GIV-SP is regarded as, the "best value" by customers. The decision to put development of the 8,300km-range GIV-B on hold for ...
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Intertechnique targets USA for expansion plans
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FRENCH EQUIPMENT manufacturer Intertechnique believes that it is back on course for expansion and is targeting the US market with two small acquisitions already in prospect. The company, which is known for its oxygen masks and its fuel-management and environmental-control systems, emerged from ...
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Socata to manufacture Cougars
AEROSPATIALE subsidiary Socata has signed with American General Aircraft for the rights to manufacture its Cougar twin-engined piston aircraft. Socata president Jean-Marc de Raffin Dourny says, that the aircraft renamed the TB320 Tangara, will be aimed particularly at the trainer market, complementing the existing range of trainers offered ...
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Raytheon plans new small business-jet launch
RAYTHEON HAS revealed it will launch a new light business-jet later this year - probably at the NBAA show in September. The aircraft will be a competitor to Cessna's entry-level CitationJet, and is expected to offer a large cabin for the class. Compared with the all-composite, ...
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Bright light
A NASA-led initiative may help GA emerge from the doldrums - almost Karen Walker/ATLANTA Once upon a time there was a thriving general-aviation (GA) industry in North America - and you do not have to be especially well informed to know that this story may not end ...
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Piper Back
Piper Aircraft expects to emerge from bankruptcy protection following a confirmation hearing scheduled for 10 July which is expected to confirm a re-organisation plan, under which 50% of Piper will be sold to an investment firm, 25% to engine manufacturer Teledyne and 25% to creditors. Source: Flight International
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Frakes Aviation
FRAKES AVIATION DISPLAYED a Turbo-Mallard amphibian at Paris to gauge demand to place the 17-passenger aircraft back in production. Texas-based Frakes owns the design rights to the Grumman-developed Mallard and has re-engine 12 of 59 aircraft already built with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A turboprops. The company sees a market ...
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Gulfstream V enters final assembly
THE FIRST GULFSTREAM V fuselage was joined in late-May, marking the start of final assembly of the firm's next-generation long-range business aircraft. Fred Breidenbach, Gulfstream Aerospace president and chief operating officer says: "We are on track toward first flight in November." Certification and the beginning of production deliveries ...
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FAA to address rule changes for commuter flights
THE US Federal Aviation Administration is to host a meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada on 21 June to discuss proposed commuter aircraft rule changes, which it estimates could cost the industry $275 million over the next ten years. The proposed rule change will require Part 135 commuter ...
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High-speed ATR 72 tops AIR product agenda
A HIGH-SPEED version of the 74-seat ATR 72 is likely to be the first product developed by the new regional alliance formed by the ATR consortium (Aerospatiale and Alenia) and British Aerospace. ATR says that it is "studying possible engines" for a higher-speed version of the ATR 72. ...
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AlliedSignal cuts down on BAe 146 engine-maintenance costs
ALLIEDSIGNAL HAS pledged to cut LF502 engine maintenance costs for British Aerospace 146 operators to below $40/h over the next five years. The programme is a joint initiative with BAe's Asset Management Organisation (AMO), which handles the manufacturer's 100-strong fleet of leased 146s. AMO managing director Robin Southwell ...
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Eurocopter's new EC120 under test
Andrzej Jeziorski/PARIS Franco-German helicopter manufacturer Eurocopter has successfully completed the first flight of the EC 120 light helicopter. A 20min flight was performed on 9 June from Eurocopter's Marignane site in France, with test pilot Etienne Herrenschmidt and engineer Bernard Cortain at the controls. The EC120 ...
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Now hear this
The risks posed by simultaneous air-traffic-control transmissions will increase with traffic density. David Learmount/LONDON Inadvertent simultaneous transmissions on air-traffic-control frequencies "...can result in messages being misunderstood or lost and have been a factor in some aircraft safety-related incidents". So says a UK Civil Aviation Authority ...
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Police Eye Helicopter
Japan's National Police Agency has issued a requirement for five new light helicopters. The Eurocopter/Kawasaki BK.117, McDonnell Douglas Explorer and Sikorsky S-76, are expected to be considered. Source: Flight International
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Moller plans four-seat VTOL experiment
MOLLER International, manufacturer of the M200X experimental two-seat vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, aims to fly a four-seater, the M400 Skycar, before the end of 1995. Moller is expected to give more details of plans for the Skycar at the Paris air show, which opened on 10 ...
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Safety procedures are efficient
Sir - The article "Confidential safety" (Flight International 24-30 May, P49) makes some controversial statements, which need correcting: it is not only airlines which have to report "those relatively serious events which result in physical harm to people and damage to equipment". UK Civil Aviation Investigation of Air ...
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Honeywell clinches TracLink GPS deal at Minneapolis
HONEYWELL HAS BEEN selected by the Minneapolis/St Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC), Minnesota, to install a Honeywell/Pelorus SLS-2000 satellite-landing system and the company's recently developed vehicle-tracking system, the TracLink. Both systems are based on the global-positioning system (GPS) and will use correctional positioning information from a local-area GPS ...
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Europe's solid biggest boosters
Ten times larger than anything previously built in Europe, the Ariane 5's solid-booster motors each develop 6,367kN (1.44 million lb) of thrust, slightly more than half the thrust of the Shuttle solid boosters, and about the same as the Titan 4. The six test firings to date at Kourou have ...
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Russian consortium proposal approved
RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT manufacturers and airlines are to go ahead with their plans to form a joint financial and industrial group, following president Boris Yeltsin's approval of their proposals. The group, called the Russian Aviation Consortium, is intended to play a major role in financing the development of the ...