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Turboprop- and proud of it
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Cutaway Poster/Tim Hall Gentlemen prefer blondes and passengers prefer jets - two claims as hard to disprove as they are to prove. But Bombardier believes it can prove the latter claim to be inaccurate with its new 70/78-seat regional turboprop, the Q400, formerly the de Havilland Dash ...
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Powerful performer
Peter Gray/WEST PALM BEACH The latest incarnation of Sikorsky's S-76 is the first to meet in one airframe/engine combination the differing performance requirements of the helicopter's two traditional markets: utility and corporate. Previously, the US manufacturer built two variants of the aircraft: a long-range version for the cost-conscious utility ...
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Single minded
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The economic shackles are steadily being removed from the single-engined turboprop market as international aviation authorities reverse their longstanding prohibition on single-engined instrument flight rules (IFR) operations for commercial flights. The impressive safety record of Pratt &Whitney Canada PT6 turbine-powered aircraft has contributed a great deal to the ...
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Commercial boost
Tim Furniss/LONDON The US Air Force is expected shortly to award Boeing and Lockheed Martin $500 million contracts to begin development of new booster families which will cut the cost of launching satellites into orbit. The first operational launches are planned for 2001. The USAF's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle ...
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Industry watchdogs
David Learmount/LONDON Religion, especially in medieval times, used the fear of hell as its most potent weapon to make people believe and behave. The promise of heaven never had quite the same power of persuasion. Those who wish to persuade industry to believe in the Y2K "bug", and ...
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The Millenium bug
Ian Sheppard/LONDON As early as the 1960s, computer programmers warned that using a two-digit date field was dangerous. The practice may have saved memory - which was at a premium in those early days - but, when the year rolled over to 2000, computers would act as though it ...
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Cirrus gets closer to SR20 certification
Cirrus Design has appointed Wings Aloft as the first service centre for its single-engined SR20. The Seattle-based company will serve Cirrus' growing number of customers in the north-west region of the USA. The Duluth, Minnesota-based manufacturer plans to set up a network of service centres around the USA and, later, ...
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Bankruptcy may arrest Japan's civil EH101
EH Industries has delivered the first EH101 to Japan, but the helicopter's entry into service with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police is facing delay as the result of the planned take-over of local trading house, Okura, which imported the helicopter. The General Electric CT7-6-powered helicopter has been delivered to Kawasaki ...
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Explorer range poised to make switch to Belgium's Heli Fly
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Heli Fly is close to completing negotiations with Boeing over the Belgian company's purchase of the twin-engined MD-902 Explorer product line. An announcement is imminent. Talks have been under way for several months and, although the Halen-based company will not disclose the reasons for the ...
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Groen wins new gyroplane order from China
Groen Brothers Aviation (GBA) says it has secured a further large order for its gyroplanes from Shanghai Energy and Chemicals (SECC) of China . The order is on top of an existing contract for 200 of the Utah-based company's Hawk III gyroplanes, and covers purchase options on further Hawk ...
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PZL-Okecie flies P&WC-powered Kruk variant
Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL-Okecie has begun test flights of a new variant of its PZL-106 Kruk agricultural aircraft, powered by a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34AG turboprop engine. According to the company, the modified aircraft is aimed at the export market, with particular emphasis of sales to South America, ...
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Western Work
Western Aircraft, a full service fixed-base operator and repair station based in Boise, Idaho, has been named as a Raytheon Aircraft Authorized Service Center for the Beech King Air, Baron and Bonanza. Western is also an authorised service centre for the Raytheon Hawker, types of Cessna aircraft, the Lockheed Jetstar ...
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UK company seeks funds to work on radical seaplane design
A UK aviation company is searching for financing to continue work on a six-seat light amphibious aircraft which it has under development. Warrior (Aero Marine) claims that its Centaur composite aircraft offers better performance and reduced costs compared with those of rival seaplane designs. Warrior has flown the first of ...
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Comair negotiates 428JET order
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Fairchild Dornier is in advanced talks with US regional airline Comair which could lead to a launch order for the 42/44-seat 428JET. The manufacturer confirms that negotiations cover a potential order for 30-40 aircraft, but it does not expect to be ready to make any conclusive ...
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Air Hanson sold to Lynton Group
Lynton Group has acquired UK general aviation charter and maintenance company Air Hanson after more than three months of negotiations. The sale marks the third acquisition in less than a year for the Morristown-New Jersey-based company. In December 1997, Lynton snapped up Magec Aviation, a fixed base operator (FBO) ...
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Woodard goes in Boeing shake-up
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing Commercial Airplane Group (BCAG) president Ron Woodard has been replaced by Alan Mulally, former president of the Information, Space and Defense Systems (ISDS) unit as part of sweeping management and organisational changes announced by company chairman Phil Condit on 1 September. The move follows months ...
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BAe and Dassault join forces to tackle Tornado successor
British Aerospace and Dassault Aviation and are expected to announce at the Farnborough air show, which opened on 7 September, the formation of a joint company to study a follow-on to the Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado GR 4 strike aircraft. The deal will cement an existing memorandum of ...
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Poland and Hungary veer towards fighter lease
Poland and Hungary are leaning towards leasing new aircraft to fulfil their requirements for a new fighter, rather than making a straight purchase, which is seen as unaffordable. US officials from the Department of Defense, Air Force and Navy briefed Polish defence and industry officials in Warsaw at the ...
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Saab restructures
Saab Aircraft Customer Support, Saab Aircraft Finance Group and Saab Collaborative programmes are to be merged to form a Commercial Aircraft group. Saab Aircraft AB will become Saab Aircraft Customer Support AB. Source: Flight International
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S Korean aerospace businesses to merge
Three of South Korea's largest aerospace manufacturers, Daewoo Heavy Industries (DHI), Hyundai Space & Aircraft and Samsung Aerospace, have agreed in principle to merge their businesses into a single entity as part of wider corporate consolidation move. South Korea's five major corporate conglomerates, or chaebols, have announced plans to ...