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NTSB wants to limit Tomahawk training
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) believes that flight training in the Piper Tomahawk should be restricted pending completion of flight-testing by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The Safety Board recommendation to the FAA follows the crash on 4 March, 1994, of a Piper Tomahawk which killed a ...
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Customers still go nuts over the Squirrel
Eurocopter has delivered the 2,000th single-engined helicopter to leave the consortium's Squirrel/Fennec production line. The UK's Defence Helicopter Flying School (DHFS) has taken delivery of an AS350 BA variant of the Squirrel. The single-engined Squirrel has been ordered by 800 customers in 50 different countries. A further 621 orders have ...
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Lionceau approval due by year-end
European Joint Aviation Authorities certification of the French APM-20 Lionceau high-performance, composite light aircraft is expected late this year. The Lionceau was shown in static and flying displays at the Paris air show in June. Flight-testing continues. Three examples of the initial two-seat version have been built. The ...
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Corporate Air deal helps to fill Ayres Loadmaster orderbook
Ayres has announced additional orders for its LM200 Loadmaster single-turboprop freighter, taking its firm orderbook to 67 aircraft, including 50 for launch customer FedEx. The biggest new order is from Billings, Montana-based Corporate Air, which has ordered ten, with options on an addidtional 20. Corporate Air has a fleet ...
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Confidence boosters
Tim Furniss / Paris The market for launches of communications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) is heating up. With US/Russian company ILS International Launch Services claiming a 50% share in the commercial-launcher market alongside Arianespace, its European competitor, there is also confusion over just how big the market ...
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Saab picks Concurrent
Saab has selected Concurrent Computer PowerMaxion processors to upgrade its Linkoping,Sweden, simulation centre, used in development of the Saab JAS39 Gripen fighter and other military and commercial aircraft. The $500,000 order is for three PowerMaxion systems. Source: Flight International
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ETC extends USAF deal
Environmental Tectonics (ETC) has extended for another year its renewable agreement with the US Air Force Institute of Technology to support development of a sustained-g dynamic flight simulator based on ETC's human centrifuge. Source: Flight International
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Aeroservice acquires
Aeroservice Aviation Service has acquired a Boeing 727-200 Level C simulator from Air Canada. The simulator, fitted with four-window SP1T/4 visuals, is an addition to existing 727, 737 and McDonnell Douglas DC-8 simulators. Source: Flight International
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Sincom LTN-92
Simcom International has installed its Litton LTN-92 inertial-navigation-system emulator on a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 simulator at Northwest Aerospace Training (NATCO),and is to install the system on another DC-10 and two Boeing 747 simulators at NATCO, and provide a computer-based desktop simulation of the LTN-92 for 747 training. ...
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Closing the GAP
Revitalisation of the US general-aviation industry is well underway, but true recovery will depend on manufacturers developing competitive new aircraft which are faster, quieter and easier to fly than today's designs. NASA hopes to stimulate the development of new aircraft through its Advanced General Aviation Transportation Experiments (AGATE) and General ...
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UK CAA and single-engined flights
Sir - I was disappointed to read in Bob Crowe's letter "Getting round UK night-rules" (Flight International, 9-15 July) that he believes that he received a curt "…wait until the JARs are in place" reply from the Civil Aviation Authority, when his operators asked to operate under Joint Aviation ...
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CD players are still risky on aircraft
Sir - Capt Mark Zucal (Letters, Flight International, 18-24 June) is quite wrong to rail against rules which forbid the use of a compact-disc (CD) player in passenger aircraft. I can assure him that the rules are not nearly tough enough. The problem is that some portable electronic devices ...
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Commercial flights only concern JAA
Sir - The European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) is concerned with extended-range operations (ETOPS) of smaller, twin-turbofan aircraft only when they are flown for the purpose of commercial air transport. Nobody in the JAA has ever suggested that the proposed rules under discussion should be applicable to these smaller ...
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The power of dreams
The V-Jet II, created by Sam Williams and Burt Rutan to boost interest in small turbofans, points to a new way forward. Small-turbofan creator Dr Sam Williams and light-aircraft guru Burt Rutan have teamed up to produce a design which they hope will revolutionise general aviation. Williams' ...
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Operators shrug off FAA's 727 payload restrictions
OPERATORS ARE playing down the impact of payload restrictions to be imposed on Boeing 727 freighter conversions under four airworthiness directives (ADs) proposed on 14 July. The ADs, which cover over 300 727s converted from passenger to freighter configuration by third-party modification companies, will require operators to fit strengthened floor ...
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FAA accelerates 747 fuse-pin inspections
The US Federal Aviation Administration has re-issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) reducing the time allowed for replacing the engine/ pylon fuse pins on General Electric- and Pratt & Whitney- powered Boeing 747s. The action follows the discovery of a fractured forward fuse pin on an unidentified aircraft. ...
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Europe's JAA places Trent-powered A330 on ETOPS trial
The Airbus A330-300, equipped with Rolls-Royce Trent 700s, will have to have several months of reliability exhibited before the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) restores 180min extended-range twin-engined operations (ETOPS) clearance for the aircraft. The Trent-powered variant became the last of the three A330ss to be cleared by ...
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Atlantic Coast Airlines begins CRJ training despite ban
ATLANTIC COAST Airlines has begun pilot training on its first Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ), despite the lack of an agreement enabling it to operate the 50-seat aircraft on its United Express services. United Airlines' pilot contract now bars the carrier's commuter partners from operating regional jets. The ...
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United launches A319 operations
United Airlines on 8 July launched passenger services with its first two recently delivered Airbus A319s. The airline, which holds orders for 28 A319s powered by International Aero Engines V2500-A5 engines, is equipping the aircraft with 126-seat, two-class interiors. Under the initial schedule, United will operate the A319s from Chicago ...
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SAA re-introduces old 747SP
South African Airways (SAA) has re-introduced one of its old Boeing 747SPs, which it had sold, to provide increased capacity on its international services. The airline has suffered a capacity shortage because of a delay in the introduction of its new Boeing 777s as a result of its failure to ...