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1991
1991 - 0981.PDF
T E C HNICAL: GENERAL A VI ATI 0 N ..»••• ..••.---**v, . • ••,,,- -' •' • • . :• " V "'•'"••" ''•'.' -^#. ^A POND RACER SHOWS ITS PACES Scaled Composites' Pond Racer sports aircraft, which has a wing core made of balsa wood, is pictured in flight and taxiing with designer Burt Rutan at the controls. The all-composite aircraft is powered by two heavily speed record for piston-powered aircraft, currently 457kt over a 3km course. An attempt at the record by Bob Pond, the industrialist who has funded development, will be made at the annual Reno Air Races in Nevada, modified automotive racing engines and has a theoretical top speed of after completion of the flight tests (Flight International, 10-16 April). around 460kt (852hm/h). The aircraft has been designed to break the world Photographs by Craig Schmitman Swiss approve Datwyler trainer Max Datwyler's Swiss Trainer MD.3-160 two- seat, fully aerobatic, all-metal trainer has received full certifi cation from the Swiss aviation authorities to FAR Part 23. Datwyler recently demon strated the pre-production air craft at the Freidrichshafen gen eral-aviation show in Germany and has announced that plans are being finalised for the MD.3-f60 to enter production. Construction in Switzerland is not being contemplated be cause of high costs, but with the jigs and tools fully designed and ready for production, a manu facturing site is to be estab lished in eastern Europe. Qual ity control and marketing will be carried out by the parent company in Switzerland. The Swiss Trainer is of modu lar construction. The airframe contains a variety of common components — for instance, the flaps and ailerons are the same as the elevators and rudder and are therefore interchangeable. Parts of the leading edges are common as are sections of the main wing; they are attached to each other with specially de signed hinge fittings, making construction and tooling easier, says Datwyler. • WESTERMEYER RE-ENGINES CESSNA 150 Austrian-based Oskar Westermeyer's re-engined Cessna 150 was displayed recently at the Freidrichshafen general-aviation show in Germany. The aircraft's usual Continental engine is replaced by a flat-four Westermeyer W.5/33 with cast aluminium-alloy cylinder heads cooled by pure ethylene glycol. A small radiator is fitted to the side of the engine cowling so that the coolant can be reduced in temperature before returning to the cylinder heads. The modification is certificated to FAR Part 33. May certification for Falcon 900B Dassault's Falcon 900B, retrofitted with Garrett TFE731-5B engines, is expected to be certificated by the begin ning of May. The 900B has already completed 50h of flight tests fitted with the TF73f-5B, a more powerful variant of the original Falcon 900's TFE731- 5A (Flight International, 6-12 February). The tests, being carried out at Istres in France, are preliminary to gaining US Federal Aviation Administration certification of the latest variant of the Falcon. Engine power on the 900B is increased by some 5.5% (l.lkN/ 2501b) giving more range and higher cruise altitude, while re ducing time to climb. Aircraft delivery is due to start in the third or fourth quarter of this year, with the 900B making its public debut at the Paris show in June. • Honeywell AFCS applied to Jaffe's modified Bell 222 Heli-Dyne Systems and Jaffe Helicopter have announced the selection of Honeywell's SPZ-7000 digital automatic flight-control system (AFCS) as part of a retrofit package for the Jaffe-modified Bell Model 222SP helicopter. The avionics selection is part of a teaming agreement between Heli-Dyne and Jaffe Helicopter. Heli-Dyne previously certified the SPZ-7000 on a'Bell 222B and 222UT in both the three- axis and four-axis versions for single-pilot instrument flight rules certification. D NEWS IN BRIEF INDIAN LIGHT DESIGN Indian state-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals will shortly begin manufacture of a light aircraft at its Hardwar plant in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. CESSNA STAMPS BFG Cessna has granted BF- Goodrich preferred-supplier status for the wheel and brake unit of the Qtationjet light twin-turbofan business jet and on other future Cessna developments. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 17 - 23 April, 1991 23
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