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1995
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e«N«Ml AVIATION Advanced Citations [ ~ j win foreign orders ^J^ FAA tackles icing problems on Beechjet and Diamond types Skytech claims record SKYTECH OF BRUSSELS believes that the 550mJ (19,500ft3) industrial silos in the picture may be the largest closed-volume objects ever carried by helicopter in Europe. The seven 14,000kg units were carried under a Mil Mi-26T from Hallein, Austria, 150km (80nm) to Linz, in an operation taking three days because of poor weather. GRAHAM WARWICK/ATLANTA KOREAN AIR LINES has ordered four Cessna Citation Ultra light business-jets for use as flightcrew trainers. The aircraft will be modified to accom modate a third crew-station aft of the cockpit. The forward bulk head will be removed, but six cabin seats will be retained, enabling the Ultras to be used to transport passengers. The aircraft cockpits will be modified to replicate an airliner flightdeck, with three large primary flight-displays, dual flight-manage ment systems, ground-proximity warning system and flight-data recorder. The first Ultra will be delivered in the second quarter of 1995 and will be used to smooth the transition between turboprop- powered trainer and airliner. Cessna, meanwhile, has announced that its Brazilian dis tributor, Taxie Aereo Mairia (TAM), has ordered six Citation Excel light business-jets for deliv ery between the last quarter of 1998 and the first quarter of the year 2000. The Excel was launched in October 1994 as a widebody addi tion to the Citation light business- NEWS IN BRIEF I • HELICOPTER APPROVAL South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has licensed Korea Bell Helicopter and Samsung Aerospace Industry to begin assembly of civil helicopters, with domestic demand fore cast for 300 aircraft by the year 2000. Samsung has a five-year licence-assembly agreement with Eurocopter France. Korea Bell was estab lished by the manufacturer as a maintenance centre in 1986, but became independent in 1994. Types to be assembled in South Korea have not been agreed yet, Bell says. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 11 - 17 jet line, which also includes the Bravo and Ultra. The Bravo was launched in September 1994 as a replacement for the Citation II, and deliveries begin in 1996. Deliveries of the Ultra, which replaces the Citation V, began in July 1994. Excel deliveries are to begin in 1997. • Cessna says that the winning bid from Independence, Kansas, to host the company's light-aircraft assembly line included state and local financial incentives, tax abate ments, guaranteed infrastructure improvements and plans for early installation of an instrument-land ing system at the airport, where the 46,450m-' (500,000fr') factory will be located. Participation in the financing of plant construction was a key crite rion in site selection, Cessna says. Five Kansas towns submitted pro posals: Independence, Emporia, Hays, Manhattan and Pittsburg. The manufacturer says that it declined requests from other states to enter the competition, citing its commitment to remain ing in Kansas. The site is expected to employ some 1,000 people and produce 2,000 Cessna 172, 182 and 206 piston-singles a year initially. J THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has issued an airworthiness directive (AD) de signed to prevent Raytheon Air craft Beechjet 400 and Mitsubishi MU-300 Diamond aircraft from suffering uncommanded nose- down pitch at certain flap settings during icing conditions. The Beechjet is based on the Diamond design, which Beech Aircraft acquired from Mitsubishi. The AD results from icing tests which were used to demonstrate that ice accumulations on the horizontal stabiliser may cause the aircraft to pitch down. Icing tests conducted on a Beechjet 400 in a windtunnel demonstrated that, under certain conditions, "run-back ice" may build up on the aircraft's tailplane aft of the heated element of the leading edge. The ice caused the test aircraft to pitch down at land ing-flap settings beyond 10°. Tailplane icing had occurred during a flight of a Beechjet 400A but the pilot was able to land with out incident, with die flaps set at 10°. Inspection revealed that tbe tailplane had triangular accumula tions of run-back ice. The AD revises instructions about special operating proce dures during icing conditions.• Indians deliver first Partenavias TANEJA AEROSPACE AND Aviation (TAAL) has deliv ered the first of the Aer- cosmos/Partenavia P.68 variants which it is building under licence in India. The company says that it sold six aircraft during 1994 and is negotiating the sale of 12 more. A second aircraft will be delivered this month and the remaining four commitments by March. According to TAAL sources, the company is also close to reaching agreements with two US companies on sales and ser vice deals for a light passenger- jet and a helicopter. • anuary 1995
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