All General aviation articles – Page 678
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Go-ahead for Caravan conversion fully funded
SOLOY HAS TAKEN delivery of the Cessna 208 Grand Caravan, which will serve as the prototype for its Dual Pac-re-engineing programme. The Olympia, Washington based company also says that it now has sufficient funding for the project, courtesy of local businessman Keith McCaw. Soloy's plan is ...
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Starships go to NASA for advanced GA programme
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT has donated two Beech Starship twin-turboprop business aircraft to NASA for studies related to the US Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) programme. The AGATE programme is intended to combine the resources of NASA, the US Federal Aviation Administration, industry and universities to develop new technologies, ...
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MDHS speeds up 600N programme programme
McDONNELL DOUGLAS Helicopter Systems (MDHS) has accelerated development of the MD600N (formerly the MD630N) to bring forward US certification to the third quarter of 1996. Several design changes have been announced by the Mesa, Arizona-based company,, including a switch to a more powerful, digitally controlled, version of the Allison 250 ...
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ST50 heads for Paris
Cirrus Design, has completed US flight-testing of the ST50 single-turboprop business-aircraft and shipped the engineering prototype to Israviation in Israel. Duluth, Minnesota-based Cirrus developed the all-composite ST50 under contract to Israviation. The prototype will be re-assembled in Israel, where flight-testing is scheduled in preparation for the aircraft's first ...
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Gulfstream V on schedule for first flight
The long-range Gulfstream V business aircraft is on schedule to be flown in November. Certification and the beginning of production deliveries by Gulfstream Aerospace are still scheduled for late 1996. Northrop Grumman will deliver the first wing for the Gulfstream V in July. The risk-sharing GV partner will ...
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UK gives option to cut take-off separation
SOME AIRCRAFT departing from London Heathrow Airport will be operated at half the present take-off separation minima during a UK Civil Aviation Authority-sanctioned trial scheduled to start in June. The current separation for a narrow-body following a wide-body is 2min, and the proposal would reduce this to 60s. ...
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Competition conference
Europe is less than two years away from completing the single European air market, yet bitter disputes continue to rage over issues ranging from airport access and slot allocation, through to state aid and US open-skies deals. To help address these crucial issues, Flight International has been invited ...
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Cessna decision drives move to unleaded fuelfuel move
Efforts to develop unleaded aviation-gasoline (avgas) have been boosted by Cessna's decision that, when it restarts production of piston singles in 1996, it will use engines which can be run on low-octane unleaded fuel. New Cessna 172s and 182s will be powered by Textron Lycoming low-compression-ratio engines, able ...
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Bombardier and AMR reveal plans for jet-share venture
Bombardier and fixed-base operator AMR Combs are to begin operating a joint- venture fractional-ownership programme in June, following the official launch of the scheme in New York on 3 May. Business JetSolutions, in which customers participate in a shared- ownership programme, will eventually involve the Canadian manufacturer's full ...
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UK companies combine for American initiative
Five UK aerospace companies are to form a joint venture, to market their products to North American airframe manufacturers, as part of an UK Government initiative to boost exports by smaller concerns in the aviation sector. Aerospace Systems and Technologies, the Aircraft Research Association, BP Chemicals Advanced Materials ...
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Bombardier tests CL-415 modifications for France
BOMBARDIER HAS completed flight-testing of modifications to the Canadair CL-415 water-bomber and is preparing to present the results to France's Securite Civile, which had refused to take delivery of the aircraft (Flight International, 9 March-4 April, P17). Scooping tests were conducted off North Carolina in early April, ...
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Harsh reality
The civil-aviation industries of Russia and the CIS complain that a lack of state funding, and difficulties in certificating their products in the West, lie at the root of their massive problems. They are wrong, in that those difficulties are only the symptoms of a far worse malaise. The harsh ...
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Shannon rescue faces EC query
UK aircraft-maintenance interests are to complain to the European Commission about the Irish Government's plan to bail out troubled Shannon Aerospace (SAL). SAL airline shareholders Swissair and Lufthansa concede that the overhaul concern faces collapse without the proposed injection of Ir£12 million (£11.9 million). They blame ruinous pricing ...
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Gulfstream soon to decide on IV-B launch
Gulfstream Aerospace will continue building the Gulfstream IV business jet "for the foreseeable future" but may decide to end production of the Gulfstream IV-SP in favour of the proposed longer-range Gulfstream IV-B. Last September, the US aircraft maker disclosed that it was undertaking a major study to develop ...
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FAA changes pilot pairing regulations...
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has tightened its rules on air-transport pilot pairing to prevent low-time pilots being rostered together. The rule changes, which take effect in four months for major airlines and at the end of the year for regional carriers, result from several accident investigations in ...
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Cessna flies piston and jet on same day
Cessna accomplished two first flights on 19 April, flying the Citation Bravo business-jet and Model 172 piston-single prototypes from different airports in Wichita, Kansas, within 45min of each other on the same day. Certification of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW530A-powered Citation Bravo is scheduled for April 1996. ...
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JAA is still cautious over Russian types
RUSSIAN AEROSPACE officials are voicing concern at the lack of progress with the European Joint Airworthiness Authorities (JAA) over agreement on certification procedures for Russian aircraft, despite progress with the US Federal Aviation Administration on the same issue. Tupolev, which is working on having a Rolls-Royce-powered variant of the Tu-204 ...
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US and Australia change single-turbine rules
Australia and the USA are set to amend rules to allow the carriage of revenue passengers in single-engine turbine-powered aircraft under instrument flight rules and at night. The concession is certain to boost sales of single-turbine types and is particularly important to Cessna with its Caravan and ...
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AlliedSignal launches GPS receiver
ALLIEDSIGNAL Aerospace has introduced the world's first hand-held combined global-positioning-system (GPS) receiver and VHF communications transceiver. The company booked orders for more than 1,000 Bendix/King KLX 100s within days of launching the $1,400 GPS/comm. unit at the Experimental Aircraft Association's Sun 'n Fun fly-in at Lakeland, Florida, ...
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AlliedSignal wins key SAS deal for MD-80 anti-icing
SCANDINAVIAN Airlines System (SAS) has selected AlliedSignal's overwing anti-icing system for its McDonnell Douglas MD-80s. The airline lost an MD-80 in 1991 when ice shed from its wings caused the rear-mounted engines to flame out. Its selection of AlliedSignal's Electro-Thermal Ice Protection System (ETIPS) for its 69 MD-80s ...