All General aviation articles – Page 686
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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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Stability with style
Bell has incorporated both flair and style in its intermediate-sized twin-turbine helicopter, the Model 230. Peter Gray/DALLAS When Bell Helicopter Textron decided to re-engine its Bell 222 helicopter with Allison 250-C30G/2s, it took the opportunity to incorporate more than 70 other refinements and modifications. The result is the ...
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Turboprop market ripe for mergers
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE TURBOPROP market showed few clear signs of recovery in 1994, lending weight to moves for industry consolidation in the run-up to the alliance between ATR and Jetstream; exclusively reported in Flight International, 18-24 January issue. Overall delivery numbers appear to be largely unchanged ...
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Australia compromises over certification of Eagle XT-S
AUSTRALIA'S Civil Aviation Authority has issued a special category certificate of airworthiness to allow the Eagle XT-S sports trainer to operate in Australia, following its failure fully to meet European Joint Aviation Regulations for Very Light Aircraft (JAR-VLA). The aircraft is manufactured in Perth, Western Australia, by Eagle ...
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Schweizer capitalises on R22 troubles
SCHWEIZER AIRCRAFT reports strong interest in its Model 300CB training helicopter, fuelled by fears that the Robinson R22 could be grounded because of safety concerns. The 300CB will be launched formally at the Heli-Expo '95 in Las Vegas, Nevada, in late January. Elmira, New York-based Schweizer says that ...
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Taxi service
Span Air, a new Indian private-taxi operator, is launching a regional service in the state of Maharashtra, using three Reins-Cessna F406s acquired from Sembawan Aviation of Singapore. It is believed that Span is paying $1.5 million per aircraft. The taxi operator says that it is also talking to aircraft and ...
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New momentum, but little new in safety summit
A two-day aviation safety .summit held in Washington DC on 9-10 January produced a list of 70 safety recommendations for the US Federal Aviation Administration and the US airline industry. The meeting, attended by 1,000 airline executives, safety officials, pilots and aircraft manufacturers, was held in the wake ...
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Government order reprieves Kania
Poland's Kania multi-role-helicopter programme has been granted a stay of execution following the placing of four new orders by the Polish Ministry of the Interior - the first new sale of the Kania in five years. The deal came at a time when some at manufacturer WSK PZL-Swidnik were pushing ...
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Weight limits imposed on Eagle trainer
AUSTRALIA'S CIVIL Aviation Authority has imposed a take-off-weight restriction on the Eagle XT-S sports trainer, which effectively limits it to single-seat operation. The aircraft is manufactured in Perth, Western Australia, by Malaysian interests (Flight International, 9-15 March, 1994) The move apparently resulted from an ACAA review of the ...
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Lancair secures ES deal
LANCAIR International has formed a joint venture with a Malaysian partner to certificate and produce the Lancair ES four-seat, all-composite, light aircraft. The fixed-gear ES is now available as a kitplane and the certificated aircraft is expected to be available within 18 months. Lancair says that it was ...
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Too close for comfort
The TCAS 2 mandate is being met as the FAA pushes the TCAS 1. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC For the past year, all civil airliners with more than 30 seats operating in or into the USA have been equipped with the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS). ...
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AFI draws up plans to revive Prescott Pusher kitplane
THE PRESCOTT PUSHER, a kitplane design from the mid-1980s, is to be certificated and produced under a scheme developed by San Antonio, Texas-based Aviation Franchising International (AFI). Plans call for the four-place, all-metal aircraft to be fabricated overseas, assembled in the USA and sold through franchised dealers. AFI president ...
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Grob aims to regain Strato 2C financing
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN COMPOSITE-aircraft manufacturer Burkhart Grob is expecting a decision to be taken this month on further Government funding for the Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft, which has overshot budget estimates. The company says that the programme requires DM30 million ($19.5 million) extra cash from ...
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LTS101 directive
The US Federal Aviation Administration proposes an airworthiness directive to enforce a 1988 service bulletin from Textron Lycoming requiring cast axial-compressor rotors in LTS101 turboshafts and LTP101 turboprops to be replaced with improved machined wrought rotors. Source: Flight International
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Flutter heads suspect list in BD-10 crash
FLUTTER IS SUSPECTED as the cause of the in-flight break-up of a Bede Jet BD-10 turbojet-powered light aircraft, which killed the pilot (Flight International, 11-17 January). The aircraft was being used for flutter testing in a programme intended to lead to certification of the BD-10 for production by ...
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FAA compromises on its regional TCAS I deadline
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC REGIONAL AIRLINES in the USA are being given until the end of 1995 to fit the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS I) on their aircraft, even though manufacturers are warning that they may struggle to deliver kits in time. The US Federal ...
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FAA tackles icing problems on Beechjet and Diamond types
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has issued an airworthiness directive (AD) designed to prevent Raytheon Aircraft Beechjet 400 and Mitsubishi MU-300 Diamond aircraft from suffering un-commanded nose-down pitch at certain flap settings during icing conditions. The Beechjet is based on the Diamond design, which Beech Aircraft acquired from ...
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Civil Avionics Directory
For the first time, Flight International has attempted to encompass, in a single directory, the range of commercial-avionics products available worldwide, whether to the builder of a kitplane or to the buyer of an airliner fleet. This directory combines previously separate issues covering general-aviation and regional-airliner avionics and air-transport avionics. ...
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US aviators discuss safety in Washington
THE PLANNED two-day US aviation safety summit, called after the fourth major airline crash in recent months, was scheduled to have begun in Washington DC on 9 January. The US Transportation Department says that the meeting, intended for airline executives, safety officials, pilots and aircraft manufacturers, was to ...
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No worries for Astra operators
Sir - In the article "Astra owners face disc work" (Flight International, 30 November-6 December, P17), it was reported that US Federal Aviation Administration Airworthiness Directive (AD) 94-23-05, had been issued against AlliedSignal TFE731 engines installed on Israel Aircraft Industries Astras. In reporting the technical facts of the ...