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Aviation History
1988
1988 - 1096.PDF
GENERAL AVIATION Greek Coast Guard buys Trinidads ATHENS Hard on the heels of a major order for TB.20 Trinidad aircraft from China, Socata has sold two of the piston- singles to the Greek Coast Guard. Purchased at a cost of $133,000, the Trinidads join a pair of Cessna 172RG Cutlass patrol aircraft which have been in use for the last five years. • A Piper Cherokee 140 crashed into an olive grove on the Greek island of Skiathos earlier this month, killing the pilot and three passengers. According to witnesses, the crash happened shortly after take-off as the aircraft attempted a tight turn. There are now fewer than 20 air worthy light aircraft in private hands in Greece. Locator beacon will hold accident data CRANFIELD Design Tech is developing an emergency location device for fixed-wing aircraft, based on its Adelt system offered to helicopter operators through British Caledonian Helicop ters. The aim is to offer over- water operators a product which would automatically deploy after an accident and transmit position and data. Design Tech says that its device will store the last 20min of flight data recorder information and float free after deployment from the aircraft. Design Tech believes that accident analysis will be simplified in cases where the flight data recorder is not recoverable. The unit would also store aircraft type, call sign, and passenger com plement, and transmit the information in response to interrogating signals from search vehicles. Automatic deployment will be triggered by salinity, acceleration, and frangible switches. Beech assembles first production Starship I Beech Aircraft has mated the wings and fuselage of the first production Starship I, but it will not be completed for many months. The manufacturer says that it wanted to show that pro duction is under way, even though certification is not complete. Other Starship fuselages (hidden by the port wingtip in the upper picture) are in Beech's Plant III awaiting subsequent assembly. Non-composite items and components, identified by their lighter colour in contrast to the black composite, are visible, notably aileron hinge fittings, wing attachments, flap rails, and cockpit window pillars. Since the first production aircraft has not yet been fitted with fuel tank strakes it has a very blunt appearance to the wing leading-edge inboard sections. Workers mating the two major assemblies give scale to the aircraft, which has a cabin measuring about 5ft 6in wide (with a headroom of similar size) and more than 16ft long. Some systems components are visible in the forward fuselage bay and on the wing trailing edge, from which electrical wiring harness can be seen hanging. BRIEFINGS Robert Anderson has resigned from the presidency of Combs Gates Denver, a subsidiary of the Learjet Corporation with six aircraft service centres in the USA. He has been replaced by Thomas Winget, a Combs Gates veteran and a former senior vice-president of the company's eastern regional fixed-base operations. Octavia Air has modified a Mitsubishi Mu-300 Diamond for UK public transport, claiming the type is unique on the UK register. Lynton Aviation will operate the aircraft, primarily for a motor racing organisation. A deal with Aerospatiale of France to co-produce a light helicopter would demand a $150 million investment from the Chinese, according to the People's Republic's official newspaper China Daily. China's domestic market is "vast", the paper reports a government trade official as saying. Two new operators, Central Helicopters and East Mid lands Helicopters, have started up at Lichfield and Costock, England, with Bell JetRanger equipment. US dairy company R. J. Smelley has purchased the 4,000th civil Bell Jet- Ranger produced at Bell's Mirabel factory in Canada. 22 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 30 April 198S
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