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Aviation History
1972
1972 - 0094.PDF
60a-61 FLIGHT International, 13 January 1972 I MTV COMMERCIAL & BUSINESS §• «=£W"*J*''^ *«**" A Britten-Norman Islander of Northern Executive Aviation by the company's Manchester Airport office (see news story) Fan reversal An agreement has been reached between Garrett and Aeronca for the thrust-reverser equipment, now being developed, by the latter concern, to be offered as an optional accessory on the Garrett AiResearch TFE731 turbofan. Reverser equipment has been installed in a Fanjet Falcon for flight testing (see Flight for October 28, 1971, page 678) and its principal advantage is claimed to be that a single cascade assembly is used to reverse both the primary and the basic-engine gas flows. The TFE731 is intended for the Falcon 10 and Learjet 26 and certifica tion of the engine with thrust reversal is planned for mid- 1973. Shipping support While the use of aircraft to ferry ships' crews to overseas ports is an established charter activity, a recent charter undertaken by Northern Executive Aviation points to the value of moving ship spare parts rapidly on request. Transmission parts weighing 400kg were required to repair a tanker lying at Malta and incur ring a loss of £2,000 per day of delay. The parts were carried in the company's Islander at a round-trip cost of £900, and were delivered in little over 24hr from the charter being placed by the brokers. Australian charter merger Jack Brabham Aviation has taken a major share in Kingsford Smith Flying Service, thus adding maintenance premises and a flying school to the company's previous air-taxi activity. Both organisations were based at Bankstown airport, Sydney, and the com bined fleet of the new company will consist of nine aircraft ranging from a Navajo to two Cessna 150s. Frelon weight increase The Aerospatiale Super Frelon SA.321JA has been granted certification by the SGAS at an increased all-up weight of 13 tonnes instead of 12 tonnes. BH-125 outlook brightens According to Atlantic Avia tion, a leading American distributor for the Beechcraft- Hawker 125, recent economic measures can be expected to stimulate sales of the type. The ten per cent import surcharge has been removed and a seven per cent invest ment tax credit has been applied to imported capital goods—a measure which was dropped during the ninety- day period of economic adjustment. The effect of the changes has been to reduce the price of a BH-125 by $200,000—a significant proportion of the equipped price of $1 • 35 million. Baron control locks The US National Transportation Safety Board has called for the FAA to insist on a modified type of flying-control lock for the Beech Baron. The NTSB says that there have been three recent fatal accidents resulting from pilots forgetting to remove control locks, and that this may be because of the three-unit lock used at present. The main hazard is considered to be that after a period of use the elevator/aileron lock pin may become detached from the cable carrying the rudder lock and throttle guard, and may thus be left in place inadvertently. Crop-spraying boom According to Czechoslovakian sources there has been a significant increase in agricul tural aviation in Bulgaria and the volume of such flying is assessed as being third in magnitude, after that of the USA and USSR. Half of Bulgarian agricultural land is treated by crop-spraying aircraft. CSE's demonstration Seneca, below left, is engaged on an extensive sales tour to United Kingdom Piper dealers and is seen here at the Nottingham base of Truman Aviation. Below, the third Sikorsky S-6IN for KIM is seen awaiting delivery from the manufacturer's flight-test hangar : :**„• V lj§|§l|il HI! • • O^:
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