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Pilot worries force FAA action over runway aid
Kieran Daly/LONDON A KEY ELEMENT of the USA's airport-capacity enhancement programme is being held up following unexpected difficulties in using it operationally. The precision runway monitor (PRM) has an electronically scanned (E-scan) radar, with a high update-rate, to permit independent approaches to closely spaced parallel runways. ...
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Pilot worries force FAA action over runway aid
Kieran Daly/LONDON A KEY ELEMENT of the USA's airport-capacity enhancement programme is being held up following unexpected difficulties in using it operationally. The precision runway monitor (PRM), has an electronically scanned (E-scan) radar, with a high update rate, to permit independent approaches to closely spaced, ...
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Falcon sales boost Dassault
DASSAULT AVIATION has clocked up ten orders for its Falcon 900EX business jet since its launch in October 1994. The company hopes to fly the aircraft at the Paris air show in June. Delivery to first customer Sony is due in April 1996. "It's started well, and we ...
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Falcon sales boost Dassault
DASSAULT AVIATION, has clocked up ten orders for its Falcon 900EX business jet, since its launch in October 1994. The company hopes to fly the aircraft at the Paris air show in June. Delivery to first customer Sony is due in April 1996. "It's started well, and we ...
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Second production Citation X flies
A SECOND PRODUCTION aircraft has joined Cessna's flight-test programme for the Citation X high-speed business-jet. By the end of January, the Wichita, US, manufacturer had logged some 535h on 355 flights of the prototype and first two production aircraft. The second production Citation X was flown for the ...
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Second production Citation X flies
A SECOND PRODUCTION aircraft has joined Cessna's flight-test programme for the Citation X high-speed business-jet. By the end of January, the Wichita, US, manufacturer had logged some 535h on 355 flights of the prototype and first two production aircraft. The second production Citation X was flown for the ...
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UAE weighs up its counter to Kilos
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE UNITED ARAB Emirates (UAE) has modified the mission requirement for its planned fleet of maritime-patrol aircraft to include an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability. Competing manufacturers were briefed to supply four aircraft configured primarily for anti-surface-vessel (ASV) strike, armed with McDonnell Douglas AGM-84 Harpoon ...
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UAE weighs up its counter to Kilos
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE UNITED ARAB Emirates (UAE), has modified the mission requirement for its planned fleet of maritime-patrol aircraft, to include, an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability. Competing manufacturers were briefed to supply four aircraft configured primarily for anti-surface-vessel (ASV) strike, armed with McDonnell Douglas AGM-84 ...
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Engine family enters market
MICHAEL ZOCHE Antriebstechnik of Munich is preparing to begin production of its family of radial aero-diesel engines, with the first flight on an aircraft due to take place within six months. Launch customer is Westinghouse Airships (WAI), which will fly the eight-cylinder, 220kW (300hp) ZO 02A engine on ...
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Sikorsky tries out variable tilt-rotor
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES SIKORSKY HAS tested a scaled version of a variable-diameter tilt-rotor (VDTR). The configuration is "extremely stable" in hover, says the company. The VDTR differs from the traditional tilt-rotor concept in that the rotor blades can be extended during hover and then retracted to ...
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Sikorsky tries out variable tilt-rotor
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES SIKORSKY HAS tested a scaled version of a variable-diameter tilt-rotor (VDTR). The configuration is "extremely stable" in hover, says the company. The VDTR differs from the traditional tilt-rotor concept in that the rotor blades can be extended during hover and then retracted ...
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Handling trouble
The ground handling debate is underlining the challenges facing the European Commission in policing Europe's single market. The trouble with the European Commission is that it has too many difficulties putting its laudable objectives into action. Ground handling offers the latest example of this. A year after ...
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Dornier expects 328-120 approval
DORNIER EXPECTS to receive Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) certification for its improved 328-120 regional turboprop in May and to deliver the first aircraft shortly afterwards to launch customer Formosa Airlines. The Dornier 328-120 is a further development of the recently certificated -110, offering improved runway performance. The ...
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Piper expands 1995 output
PIPER AIRCRAFT has markedly increased its 1995 production plan from the 134 aircraft promised last September to a new figure of 173. That compares with 132 in 1994 and 99 in 1993. The Super Cub tail-dragger has been dropped for 1995 - 24 were built in 1994 - ...
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Cirrus SR20 First Flight
Cirrus Design plans to fly its SR20 all-composite, four-seat aircraft later this month. Duluth, Minnesota-based Cirrus, is aiming for US certification of the fixed-gear SR20 in 1996. Source: Flight International
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MD-80 operators prepare for ice
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US OPERATORS OF the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-80 are gearing up for fleet-wide installation of systems designed to prevent the formation of over-wing icing. Two systems have now been approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration as alternative means of compliance with an ...
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Air Macau chiefs resign after row
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE START-UP CARRIER Air Macau has suffered a major setback with the resignation of its chief executive David Young and two other senior managers, following a row over control and direction of the company. Young has quit the joint venture Sino-Portuguese airline only four months ...
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Arabasco Inauguration
Arabian Aircraft Services (Arabasco) has inaugurated a fixed-base operation at King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Aranasbco, in partnership with Switzerland's Zimex Aviation, is also enhancing its airframe, engine and avionics maintenance capability. Source: Flight International
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Asia's revival
Most Asian carriers should return to healthy profits, if they can contain costs. After four years of belt tightening, Asia-Pacific airlines are looking to the new year as a period of real revival, although managements believe trading conditions will remain tough. They also concede stringent measures will have to be ...
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DOT scales back the Clinton way
In targeting the Department of Transportation for halving from its 1993 level, the Clinton administration is not only seeking to get ahead of the Republican-controlled Congress in its frenzy to downsize federal government, it is also courting opposition from airlines and airports. Transportation secretary Federico Peña has announced the administration's ...