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 ...ical Aircraft Systems for its
Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System for fighter aircraft, and
the Cirrus Design Corporation for FAA certification of the first general
aviation aircraft - the Cirrus SR20 - to be fitted with an airframe para
chute system as standard.
Flight International Publisher Allan
Winn, Editor Carol Reed, and two
jugglers, welcomed industry leaders
Carried away b...
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 ...ATION OF A helicopter-transportation sys
tem at the 1996 Olympic Games in
Atlanta, Georgia, in July and
August has been extended to
include fixed-wing aircraft.
Two general-aviation aircraft, a
Cirrus SR20 and a Mooney 201,
will be used as airborne platforms to
test signal strenguhs of the global-
positioning system (GPS) in a cor
ridor running up and down the
eastern USA.
US Federal Av...
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 ...production capability for
composite canopies by 1998.
• Cirrus is to build a new manufac
turing site in Grand Forks, North
Dakota, where it will make com
posite sub-components for the
four-seat Cirrus SR20. The
6,2 70m' (67,500ft2) site will support
the start of SR20 production which
is due to begin in early 1997 with
the expected completion of Cirrus'
main site in Duluth, Minnesota.
C...
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 ...the GA sector in particular, in the
doldrums. The company's co-founders,
Alan and Dale Klapemeier, believed that
some radical changes would be required
if the industry was going to revive.
Their Cirrus SR20 was designed in
1994 with very specific intentions.
Not only was it to be made out of
composites, but the whole interior
would be revamped. The fuselage
would be much wider and ergono...
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 ...ENERAL AVIATION
Cirrus SR20s: leading the shift to composites in light-aircraft manufacture
Shaping the future
New companies using new technologies
are challenging established light-aircraft
manufacturers.
KAREN...
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 ...s
mock-up of SR20
Cirrus Design has revealed a mock-up of its long-antici
pated new production aircraft,
billing it as part of the "re-vital-
isation of the general-aviation
[GA] industry".
The Cirrus SR20 is
described as an "entry-level
personal-transportation vehi
cle". The company expects to
receive US Federal Aviation
Administration Part 23 certifi
cation by mid-1996 and says
that...
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 ...ENERAL AVIATION
Cirrus SR20 demonstrator
kills test pilot in prison crash
DAVE HIGDON/DULUTH
NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and
Federal Aviation Administration
investigators are examining the
ailer...
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 ...DAVE HIGDON/WICHITA, KANSAS
IT IS a long, arduous padi from membership of the kitplane-producing community to becoming a certificate-holding member of die production-aircraft industry and not one
of...
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 ...s orders for more than 130
SR20s, Klapmeier says.
Cirrus wants to ramp up produc
tion of the SR20 rapidly, he adds,
with the target of delivering
around 350 aircraft in die first full
The first Cirrus SR20 customer could be in the driving seat later this year
year of production. The Duluth,
Minnesota-based company is rais
ing funds for the production in
crease, but has money in hand to
...
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 ... business
in February.
Boeing says the proposed sale of
the MD900 Explorer to Belgium's
Heli Fly, expected to be finalised by
the end of July, is unaffected (Flight
International, 3-9 June). •
Cirrus SR20 flies closer towards certification
CIRRUS DESIGN flew its pro duction prototype SR20 sin-
gle-engined light aircraft on 3 June
and is now hoping to receive US
certification by the end o...
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 ...for unnamed UK police ASUs and eight for private customers and commercial
operators. "We plan to deliver three more EC 13 5 by the end of the year and about four ayear there
after," says McAlpine.
Cirrus SR20 stays on
course for delivery
CIRRUS DESIGN has flown the second production SR20
light aircraft. The first aircraft
crashed during a test flight on 23
March, killing the pilot.
Duluth...
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 ... Cirrus Design Corporation
ACHIEVEMENT: FAA certification for the first GA aircraft to
be feature an airframe parachute system as standard
When Cirrus Design received US FAA certification for its
Cirrus SR20 general aviation aircraft in October 1998, it
became the first aircraft to be certificated with an airframe
parachute system as standard. Certification followed the
successful deploymen...
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 ...tional providers over
the next five years.
SAFETY
Pull-force parachute problem
investigated in SR20 crash
A preliminary accident report from
the US National Transportation Saf
ety Board into a Cirrus SR20 light
aircraft crash in Lexington, Ken
tucky, last month points to the
operator's failure to implement a
service bulletin for deployment pro
blems with the aircraft's parachute.
The ...
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 ...ompany's two new manufac
turing sites at Grand Forks, North
Dakota, and Duluth, Minnesota,
begins in earnest in October.
Wings and tails will be made at
Grand Forks initially, with fuselage
The Cirrus SR20 will be later, but safer
production and final assembly at
Duluth. "We're aiming to make
one aircraft a day, with around 250-
300 a year eventually," he adds.
Cirrus is almost halfway t...
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 ...Initial observations of
the equipment in operation indicate that the
display is not an undue distraction for the pilot
and will improve his situational awareness.
CIRRUS PARTICIPATED
A prototype Cirrus SR20 four-seat light air
craft, which is being developed by Minnesota-
based Cirrus Design and equipped with a large
Arnav ICDS 2000 display and datalink re
ceivers to relay GPS position dat...
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 ...ged 41.5t/h in uphill logging and
68.6t/h downhill. •
NEWS IN BRIEF
• JAPAN EH 101 AGREEMENT
Japanese trading house
Okura is to market and sell
the EH Industries EH 101
helicopter in Japan.
• 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 certi
fication of the fixed-gear...
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 ...ering
from a "broad spectrum of general
aviation pilots", says the company,
but it has received only two com
mitments to date from Skyhawk
customers. BRS' parachute is fitted
as standard on the Cirrus SR20.
The firm is working towards
blanket US Federal Aviation Ad
ministration certification for a
range of airframes with gross
weights similar to that of the
Skyhawk, including most Pipe...
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 ...SB HE Si A L A xJJj\fJ On
Australia's National Jet wins
coastal-surveillance deal
PAUL PHELAN/CAIRNS
NATIONAL JET Systems of Adelaide, South Australia,
has won the fixed-wing element of
a nine-y...
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 ...Cover story
OUT WITH THE OLD
General aviation aircraft have not kept pace with
technology, but modern, lighter designs from Europe
are threatening to transform the market
JUSTIN WASTNAGE / LICHST...
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 ...East Coast and West Coast loca
tions are planned.
Each Level 3 training device,
equipped with six-axis electric
motion and liquid-crystal visual
display systems, will be reconfig-
urable between Cirrus SR20/22
variants with traditional and elec
tronic flight instruments.
The simulator cockpit will be
equipped with the central multi
function display, while a left-hand
screen will mimic e...
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