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1965
1965 - 1670.PDF
902 FLIGHT International, 10 June I96S Resembling the Pawnee, but bigger, is the new UTVA-65 Privrednik agricultural aircraft from Jugoslavia. Two versions are planned, with 270 h.p. Lycoming GO-480 or 300 h.p. IGO-540 powerplant; the I65gal hopper is common to both, and may be loaded respectively to 1,3201b and 1,5401b within the gross weights of 3,7501b and 4,1801b SPORT psychologically harmful to the industry: "Too many people got the impression that you had to have government money in order to learn to fly." AND B U S I N ESS The Future, by Cessna The "decision to start selling aircraft in- stead of just taking orders" had given the general-aviation industry "no place to go except up," said Cessna's domestic sales manager, Mr Dick Robinson, speaking to aviation writers in New Mexico recently. "For many years," he said, "we sold aeroplanes despite ourselves. We were lucky—we had a product that people needed and wanted. But too many of us were not selling aeroplanes—we were just taking orders from people who wanted to buy them. We weren't bothering to tell people that flying is fun, practical, economi- cal, safe, convenient and comfortable. As a result, there was no new blood in the business." But the industry awoke in time: "We took a careful look at where we were and figured that there would have to be at least 193,000 new student pilots each year by 1968 . . . We encouraged our dealer organization to put increased emphasis on flight training . . . extensive advertising in national publications stressed the concept of flying and encouraging people to come out and fly with us. We geared a large part of our marketing effort around the learn-to-fly programme." The student pilot, Mr Robinson said, was the aviation industry's investment in the future. Last year 85,500 American student pilots licences were issued. This was the highest total for any year since the government-sponsored training scheme was active just after the war. Commenting on the post World War 2 flying "boom that turned into a bust," the Cessna executive said that the large increase in flight training under the government-sponsored scheme was Hiller Orders 100 Turbines Hiller has placed an order with Allison for initial batch of 100 Model 250-C18 gas turbines, to be used in the civil four-seat FH-1100. This is the first order for the engine that was originally developed for the US Army's light observation helicopter competition, in which Hiller is a finalist with the OH-5A military version of the FH-1100. The Allison C18 weighs 1381b and has a continuous rating of 270 h.p. It has a take-off rating of 317 h.p. (available for 30min), and a ram power rating of 335 h.p.—more than double the power- per-pound weight of comparably rated piston engines. Falcon Fan Jet Overhaul Two engine overhaul options are being offered to owners of Fan Jet Falcons by General Electric, makers of the CF700 powerplants. When the owner makes an overhaul contract with GE (no other organization is yet qualified for the job) he decides between a fixed-price scheme costing 114,000 per engine (covering also the cost of engine-caused premature overhauls) and an overhaul, at GE prices for time and material, with the total not to exceed $15,000. While the engines are being overhauled GE offers the use of loan units at a cost of $2,500 per month per engine plus $30 per engine-hour. Attending the first East Midland business aircraft show at Nottingham Airport on May 19 were (I to r) Lord Waterpark, CSE; Mr). R- Huskisson, Truman Aviation; Mr V. Mitchell and Mr E. Hall, Beagle; Mr D. C. ^uman, managing director, Truman Aviation; and the Marquis of Kildare, managing director, C5t First British non-aeronautical business opera- tors of a Hawker Siddeley 125 are the »« Company of Birmingham, who have bum special base facilities for the aircraft at Elmdon Airport. BSR also have a Dove 8
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