All articles by John Croft – Page 74
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Eclipse hits quality assurance target as deliveries continue to lag
Eclipse Aviation has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval for a flight...
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Northwest A320 landing incident tied to cocked nose wheel
The US National Transportation Safety Board is investigating another incident in which an Airbus A320 landed with its nose-wheel twisted at a 90e_SDgr angle. The...
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FAA: Mission mostly accomplished on key runway incursion preventatives
Sixty days after launching its "Runway Safety Call to Action", the US Federal Aviation Administration says "significant"...
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NTSB: icing in vicinity of skydiver Caravan crash
US National Transportation Safety Board investigators have revealed...
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Pats Aircraft awash in regional jet conversions
On the otherwise sleepy ramp at the Sussex County airport in rural Georgetown, Delaware, a metamorphosis of the VIP variety is in full overdrive. Here...
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PATS Aircraft boosting BBJ, CRJ and Embraer 190 conversions for booming VIP market
Pats Aircraft is rapidly ramping up the pace of its in-house completions from an average of three Boeing...
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NASA refusal to release safety data creates controversy
NASA has said it will reconsider its decision to withhold from Associated Press data compiled during a multi-year survey of airline and general aviation...
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Northwest A320 landing incident tied to cocked nose wheel
In what appears on the surface to be a case of déjà vu, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating yet another Airbus A320 that has landed with its nose-wheel twisted at a 90-degree angle.
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FAA orders replacement of suspect Bell Helicopter parts
The US Federal Aviation Administration has mandated that US operators of 87 Bell 206A and 206B helicopters must replace...
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US safety body demands unmanned air vehicle changes following Predator crash
After investigating an unmanned air vehicle accident in the USA in 2006, the National Transportation Safety Board has recommended that transponders in UAVs...
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Lockheed Martin success clears path for shorter en-route separation
The success of Lockheed Martin's en-route modernisation (ERAM) ...
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Jet maker sues US authority over 2006 proof-of-concept jet crash
Excel-Jet is suing the US Federal Aviation Administration for the 22 June 2006...
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JetStar operators want NTSB to investigate Lockheed Martin
The JetStar Operators Group , made up of the owners and operators of most of the three...
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SkyLink to extend services in Americas and North Atlantic
Arinc in the fourth quarter will broaden its SkyLink in-flight service to include the entire Caribbean flight region,...
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Court throws out Blackwater contention in Casa Afghanistan crash
A US federal appeals court has denied a bid by Presidential Airways , a subsidiary of the...
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Eclipse 500 specialist launches new service
Start-up very light jet management company JetAviva says it will follow the Southwest Airlines model to keep its costs down by having "one type of aircraft,...
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NTSB calls for more conservative landing calculations
The US National Transportation Safety Board has urged the Federal Aviation Administration to "immediately" mandate a 15% safety margin to be added into distance...
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PICTURE: US Coast Guard reaches operational milestone
The US Coast Guard has passed the 1 million flight hour milestone for its Eurocopter HH-65 Dolphin twin-engine helicopter fleet. The service operates 96...
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Bell solves BA609 tiltrotor torque mystery
Bell Helicopter engineers have resolved a performance anomaly that test pilots had discovered...