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Aviation History
1971
1971 - 0050.PDF
4* « l£lll8lii * • • '** *' SlSiliiiSSlsffli •••--, . . LIGHT COMMERCIAL & BUSINESS Jetstream testing continues With Jetstream Aircraft Ltd formally incorporated to promote the development and sales of the aircraft, both flight testing and ground testing is once again in hand. The Jetstream 200 prototype, which is now owned by the Cranfield Institute of Technology, is completing handling tests in the hands of John Allam and will be submitted for ARB handling during this month. Dr Gordon Watson, chief engineer of Scottish Aviation, has joined the board of Jetstream Aircraft and will be responsible for design and test work to be contracted to Scottish Aviation. The latter includes fuselage fatigue test ing, and the complete static test tank and specimen fuselage are to be moved from the Handley Page Park Street factory to Prestwick where cycling will restart as soon as possible. Captain W. Bright recently returned from the United States with one of the ten Jetstreams prepared for Cal-State Airlines. This aircraft was awaiting delivery and is fully equipped in 18-seat third-level configuration. It will be used for demonstrations but the company does not intend to re-register it in the United Kingdom and it will be returned to the USA later this year. An 18-seat Jetstream prepared for Cal-State and now being used as a demonstrator by the newly formed Jetstream Aircraft company. It is seen at Prestwick during its return ferry from America (see news item) toward corrosion propagation were found. Production has been stopped and Aerostar Aircraft has taken legal action against American Cement in an effort to return the Ted Smith assets to their former owner. A total of 178 Aerostar 600s and 601s had been delivered by September 1970, but there are no examples on the British register. Demonstration flights were carried out in the United Kingdom during the autumn when Butler hoped to appoint a distributor. Cambodian communication A Britten-Norman Islander has been introduced by Air Cambodia on a regular schedule which connects the country's only deep-water port at Komong Som with the inland provinces. Surface transport has been impossible as a result of Viet Cong activity. The company has praised the economy of the Islander and is reported to be considering the purchase of a second air craft. Falcon 10 Progress Up to December 18 the prototype Falcon 10 had completed 12hr 30min in nine flights. The flight envelope explored extended to Mach 0.89 and to 40,000ft with slow-speed handling being proved down to 85kt. Flight trials will be resumed when a modification pro gramme has been completed. An Aerostar 600 which visited Luton during a demonstration tour during the autumn; the aircraft came from the Butler Aviation sales centre at Geneva (see news item) Aerostar 600 Series Grounded Aerostar 600 and 601 air craft have been grounded by the FAA following the discovery of extensive corrosion in the wing structure. Aerostar Aircraft is a wholly owned subsidiary of Butler Aviation International and was formed during 1970 to integrate the activities of Mooney and Ted Smith Aircraft which had been acquired by Butler. At the time of the first flight of a production Aerostar 600 in September 1968, Ted Smith Aircraft passed into the hands of the American Cement Company. Aircraft produced during the period of American Cement ownership are guaranteed by that com pany, which will be responsible for claims arising from the grounding order. The discovery of the corrosion arose largely from the move of the Aerostar 600 production line from Van Nuys to Kerriville. An Aerostar Aircraft spokesman is reported to have said that manufacturing defects which would tend •MI ;, I .. it! Hfe ^|J'JH<MRtffvliMNRitii»Mt- ;\' •!!? iii -J"... - ! #«
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