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Bombardier ponders super mid-size launch
Bombardier will decide within a year whether to launch development of a "super mid-size" business jet to fill the gap between the mid-sized Learjet 60 and large Canadair Challenger 604, says business-aircraft division president Michael Graff. Market research and engineering analysis are "well advanced", he adds. If Bombardier ...
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Cessna uprates Caravan and steps up output
Cessna Aircraft has introduced an uprated version of its basic Model 208 Caravan and is to step up production in 1998 to meet increased demand for the single-turboprop utility aircraft. The Caravan 675 uses the more-powerful, 500kW (675shp) Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A engine of the larger Model ...
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Century books orders for jet single
Century Aerospace began taking orders for its Century Jet single-turbofan business aircraft at the show, and was confident of meeting its target of an initial 20 sales by the end of the week. The first 20 buyers were offered $100,000 off the $1.95 million list price, and a ...
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Dassault Aviation plans supersonic business jet
Dassault Aviation is considering development of a supersonic jet (SSJ) business jet, six years after rival aircraft manufacturers Gulfstream Aerospace and Sukhoi aborted the last project aimed at the supersonic corporate-jet sector. "The time is now right to talk about a Falcon SST - the so-called global twins ...
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Busy K-C Aviation fails to complete Global Express deal
K-C Aviation says that its business-aircraft completion bookings are "at an all time high" and the Dallas-based firm is being forced to turn some refurbishment work away. It is, however, making little progress in its bid to undertake completion work on the Bombardier Global Express. K-C president John ...
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Learjet 45 wins approval with improved range
Bombardier has announced increased cruise performance for the Learjet 45 and is working to improve field performance following final US certification of the light business jet on 22 September - one day before the show opened. Lower-than-predicted aircraft drag and better-than-expected fuel efficiency have increased range from the ...
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New Piper unveils turbine mock-up of Meridian
NEWPIPER Aircraft has unveiled a mock-up of its Malibu Meridian six-seat turbine-single, further boosting this burgeoning sector of the aircraft market. The Meridian is based on Piper's Malibu Mirage pressurised piston-single, and is the company's first turboprop since the Cheyenne production line was halted several years ago. The ...
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Commitment to Bell Boeing 609 grows
Although the first flight of the Bell Boeing Model 609 is still two years away, interest in the civil tilt-rotor continues to grow. The joint venture by Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing holds preliminary purchase agreements from 29 customers representing 41 aircraft, including Evergreen Helicopters, Massachusetts Life Insurance, ...
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Galaxy breaks ground
Galaxy Aerospace broke ground for its new Fort Worth Alliance Airport, Texas, headquarters on 23 September. The $12 million site, to be completed inSeptember 1998, will include completion and service centres for the company's Astra SPX and Galaxy business jets. Source: Flight International
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America West
America West Airlines, of Phoenix, Arizona, has named Louis Couto vice-president for information systems. He was formerly chief information officer at Burr-Brown, a speciality semiconductor manufacturer. Source: Flight International
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United Airlines
Andrew Studdert has been appointed senior vice-president for fleet operations and administration at United Airlines of Elk Grove, Illinois. Studdert, formerly senior vice-president of the information-services division and chief information officer, succeeds Joseph O'Gorman, who is to retire. Source: Flight International
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Falcon Jet
Falcon Jet of Teterboro, New Jersey, has named Marc Valle, formerly programme manager for the Falcon 900 and 900EX at Dassault Aviation in Velizy, France, vice-president of programmes. Carlos Mejia becomes field service representative to support Falcon operations in Mexico and Central America. He was formerly a Falcon maintenance instructor ...
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Interactive
Inflight-entertainment company Interactive Entertainment of Memphis, Tennessee, has appointed David Lamm chief financial officer. He was formerly vice-president for finance at McKesson's information-technologies and capital-investiments divisions. Source: Flight International
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Another proton
Seven Motorola Iridium communications satellites were placed into orbit on 14 September, on the third launch in 30 days by a Proton K booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The Iridium 23-29 craft were the second septuplet satellites launched for Motorola by the Proton. An operational constellation of 66 satellites is ...
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Space delay
An attitude-control electronics fault on Japan's engineering test satellite ETS 7 has delayed its launch aboard an H2 booster on 1 November by about two to three weeks. The H2 will also carry the NASA/Japanese Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite. The ETS 7 consists of a main spacecraft and a ...
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Deep space
Spectrum Astro, of Gilbert, Arizona, has delivered the Deep Space 1 to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the first New Millennium programme mission to be launched in 1998, to demonstrate new technologies, including ion propulsion (Flight International, 8-14 January). Source: Flight International
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British Midland trains
British Midland is acquiring a Thomson Training & Simulation Airbus A320 simulator for its UK flight-training centre. The company recently ordered 20 A320/321s for delivery starting in the second quarter of 1998. The £8 million ($12.7 million) simulator should be ready by late 1998. Source: Flight ...
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Lufthansa fights fires
German national carrier Lufthansa will begin training in mid-October on a Finnish-developed environmentally friendly firefighting trainer, with a propane-gas fire simulator and water extinguisher, which replace carbon-dioxide practice extinguishers. Source: Flight International
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Tilt-rotor licences
The first civil powered-lift pilot ratings have been awarded by the US Federal Aviation Administration to test pilots flying the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey military tilt-rotor. Source: Flight International
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Cessna expands
Cessna has appointed 19 service stations throughout North America to sell and support its 172 Skyhawk, 182 Skylane and 206 Stationair piston-singles in Canada and the USA. Source: Flight International