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US Coast Guard ups Schweizer order
THE FIRST OF three Schweizer special-reconnaissance aircraft for the US Coast Guard (USCG) will undergo flight tests this month, six months later than previously planned, according to company officials. Unofficially known as the SA 2-38/RG-8A Twin, the aircraft is a heavily modified version of Schweizer's SA 2-37A/RG-8A single-piston, ...
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HK's woe of two Chinas
The transfer of Hong Kong to Chinese control continues to overshadow the UK colony's role in regional aviation. Despite November's Sino-British accord over funding for Chek Lap Kok, talks are dragging on over the language of debt guarantee agreements, while Hong Kong's future as a Taiwan-China hub appears tenuous as ...
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Cessna spells out plans for single-engine revival
CESSNA AIRCRAFT has revealed new details of its plan to re-enter the single-engine piston aircraft market. Cessna chairman Russ Meyer says that his firm will build 2,000 model 172s, 182s and 206s in 1998 - the first full year of production. The initial 25-30 aircraft, to be ...
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ARINCand Magellan sign with GlobaLink customer
ARINC and Magellan Systems have signed a memorandum of agreement with a launch customer, an unnamed regional airline, for the GlobaLink/CNS integrated satellite-navigation and data-link-communication systems. The agreement includes $2.4 million-worth of Magellan CNS-10 avionics units, which sell for under $10,000 each. San Dimas, California-based Magellan ...
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Airlines put Nordam's window to the test
NORDAM HAS introduced a new airliner cabin-window designed to counter crazing - the thousands of scratches on airliner windows - which has reached epidemic proportions, according to airlines. The Tulsa, Oklahoma-based company's new Nordex EL cabin windows are being flight tested by 15 airlines. "Nordex EL has ...
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Africa's new note of hope
Africa's newest carrier, Alliance, starts operations in March heralding a new era of cooperation in the continent's aviation industry. A joint venture between South African Airways and the national airlines and governments of Tanzania and Uganda, Alliance will start by operating charters for SAA. On 1 July it ...
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Jetstream aims for J41 backlog
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON JETSTREAM AIRCRAFT aims to build a three-year backlog for its J41 30-seat turboprop to take into the alliance with ATR when the merger is completed by the end of this year. Marketing director Nick Godwin estimates that orders for the J41 earned it ...
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Bidders line up for $300 million UK ATC centre
Kieran Daly/MAASTRICHT HUGHES AIRCRAFT has become the first company to detail its planned consortium to bid to develop and build the UK's proposed Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre. The UK Civil Aviation Authority's National Air Traffic Services (NATS) is expected to release a request for ...
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FLS Disposals
Maintenance group FLS Aerospace has continued its programme of disposals, with the sale of its Lovaux military-spares operation. The business, which holds 600,000 line items at its base at Bournemouth Airport in the UK, is being bought by Militair aviation. FLS is also negotiating sales for the Lovaux Sprint trainer ...
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Frank Costin
Frank Costin, aerodynamicist and structural engineer, has died. Following a career, which started with General Aircraft in Hanworth, London, and moved to sports-car design, he had returned to aviation and had recently test-flown his Dragonfly ultra-light glider. Source: Flight International
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Chess master moves in
AAI keeps up with the weather There is little doubt that Russia's occasionally chaotic aviation industry could benefit from the application of a fine strategic mind. It is about to get one. World chess champion Gary Kasparov has now formally launched a consultancy, aimed at helping ...
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GAMA encouraged by law change and output figures
The easing of general-aviation product-liability legislation in 1994 has left the US light-aircraft industry "...at the threshold of a new era and stands poised for recovery", according to David Burner, chairman of the US General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA). Burner, president of BFGoodrich Aerospace, notes that piston-powered production ...
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US ATC plan given a lukewarm reaction
THE CLINTON Administration has received a cool reception from US lawmakers over renewed efforts to create a quasi-Governmental corporation responsible for the nation's air traffic control (ATC). In 1994, the White House failed to win support on Capitol Hill for the so-called United States Air Traffic Services (USATS) ...
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Altair makes light work of HUMS
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES ALTAIR, a Massachusetts-based avionics company, has introduced the first health and usage monitoring system for light turbine and piston helicopters. The Altair HUMS, weighing less than 1kg, has already been fitted to Enstrom 480 and Bell 206 helicopters and is scheduled for ...
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UND accepts Beechjets
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA'S UND Aerospace flight-training school has accepted two Raytheon Aircraft Beechjet 400As to launch its Jet Spectrum course for China Airlines of Taiwan. UND is a long-standing Beech customer and has previously trained China Airlines students. r Source: Flight International
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Shadin plans to certificate and produce 1940s German trainer
A TWO-SEAT light aircraft designed in Germany in 1942 and produced in Egypt since 1950 is to be certificated and produced in the USA for the training and recreation markets. Shadin Aircraft plans to build the Bucker Bestman Bu.181D (produced by Heliopolis Aircraft Factory as the M.1 Gomhouria) ...
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Peregrine to press on with BD-10 despite accident
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA PEREGRINE FLIGHT International (PFI) is proceeding with plans to certificate the Bede BD-10 jet-powered light aircraft after determining the cause of the crash on 30 December 1994, in which the company's founder was killed. Investigators have concluded that the in-flight break-up of the aircraft ...
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AAR
Aircraft-equipment supplier AAR, of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, has named James Bacon vice-president for airline programmes. Bacon, most recently an airline consultant, has also served with Continental Airlines and Air California. Michael Hughes is appointed general manager for AAR Pacific, the company's sales and maintenance base in Singapore. He was ...