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France's revolution
The announcement on 18 February by French regional airline Brit Air that it was to place the launch order for the 70-seat Series 700 version of the highly successful 50-seat Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) served only to confirm the revolution taking place in France's regional-airline industry. In ...
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Gunships for peace
Camouflaged in the forest, looking down on the River Danube, is a Belgian army tactical air-control party (TACP) practising its skills at calling in air strikes. There are no NATO aircraft on this exercise, however. Instead, two white-painted Mil Mi-24 helicopters can be seen flying along a wood line into ...
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Regional jets find a home
LABOUR TURMOIL and strike threats spawned by the introduction of new-generation "regional jets" have diverted attention away from an evolution that is taking place in both the airline and aircraft manufacturing industries. This is the opinion of aircraft manufacturers, airline-industry pundits and air-carrier officials who say that the ...
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Historic manufacturers return
Two famous names from German aviation history staged a comeback at the Aero '97 show, with the presentation of new prototypes from Zeppelin and Junkers. The general-aviation show, in Friedrichshafen, Germany, from 23-27 April, featured the public debut of the Zeppelin New Technology (NT) airship, the LZ N07. ...
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Diamond reveals four-seat Katana
Austrian manufacturer Diamond Aircraft Industries has displayed a mock-up of a four-seat addition to its Katana aircraft family for the first time. The DA 40 Katana is set for its maiden flight by July, and Diamond hopes to certificate it to European JAR 23 standards by the end ...
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Wankel examines multi-fuel engine
German engine manufacturer Wankel Rotary is studying the development of a multi-fuel rotary engine for aircraft and helicopter applications. Wankel says that the variable installation position (VIP) engine will be able to run on avgas, kerosene, diesel, natural gas, methanol or hydrogen, and will offer substantial weight savings ...
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Operators alerted on Cessna-twin fire risk
OPERATORS OF CESSNA turbocharged piston-twins have been urged to inspect the exhaust systems, while the US Federal Aviation Administration considers action to prevent leaks which could cause in-flight fires. The Cessna Pilots Association (CPA) has advised operators of 300- and 400-series turbocharged twins to inspect the exhaust systems ...
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FAA re-issues Teledyne crankshaft AD
A PROPOSED airworthiness directive (AD) requiring replacement of the crankshafts in some 10,000 Teledyne Continental 360-and 520-series piston engines has resurfaced, with the US Federal Aviation Administration citing an abnormally high failure rate. The original July 1993 notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) was strenuously opposed by the US ...
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Third Global Express joins flight-test programme
BOMBARDIER HAS flown the third Global Express long-range business jet. Aircraft 9003 was flown for the first time on 22 April, from the de Havilland final-assembly plant in Toronto, Canada. It is scheduled to join the first two Global Expresses at Bombardier's Wichita, Kansas, fiight-test centre in early May. ...
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Orenda picks engine site in Nova Scotia
Orenda Aerospace has selected Truro, Nova Scotia, as the site for an engine manufacturing and aircraft remanufacturing plant. The Canadian company which will produce the OE-600-series vee-8 piston engine will be known as Orenda Recip, and it will be the first private aerospace company at Debert Airport, a former Canadian ...
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New Delhi collision is blamed on Kazakhs
Lawyers for Saudi Arabian Airlines have testified to the Indian Court of Inquiry that the Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 crew descended through their cleared altitude, causing the 12 November 1996 fatal collision with the Saudi Boeing 747-100 near New Delhi, India. Saudi Arabian claims that its crew carried ...
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NASA has five options for next Discovery mission
NASA has selected five proposals for detailed study as candidates for the next mission in the low-cost Discovery series of interplanetary spaceflights, to be launched in 2002. One or two of the five proposed spacecraft will be selected next October for full development. The five new ...
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First US-Russian spacewalk is completed in ISS rehearsal
Cosmonaut Vasily Tsiblyev and astronaut Jerry Linenger conducted the first Russian/US spacewalk on 29 April, working outside the Mir 1 space station for 4h 57min in a rehearsal for the joint walks required during the assembly and operation of the International Space Station (ISS). The spacewalkers deployed two ...
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United Airlines prepares 747SP for SOFIA programme
The former United Airlines Boeing 747SP earmarked for conversion to NASA's SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy) project has been ferried from United's San Francisco maintenance base to Waco, Texas, for modification by Raytheon E-Systems. The aircraft was brought to San Francisco in mid-February from Las Vegas, Nevada, ...
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Bombardier
Canada's Bombardier Business Aircraft has set up a new sales organisation, headed by John Lawson, president of sales. Peter Edwards becomes senior vice-president of international sales and Bill Monroe, based in Wichita, Kansas, is appointed vice-president, US Learjet sales. Source: Flight International
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Bell steals a march on rivals for Colombian Huey re-engineing
BELL HELICOPTER Textron is to upgrade as many as 14 UH-1 Huey helicopters now used by Colombia for drug-interdiction and other military missions. The modernisation project, which has yet to be formally announced, gives Bell the lead on two other joint ventures seeking UH-1 re-engineing contracts. In recent ...
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Crash grounds BK117S
The US Federal Aviation Administration has grounded Eurocopter BK117s until the tailbooms can be inspected for fatigue cracks. The move follows the crash of Colgate-Palmolive's corporate aircraft on take-off in New York on 15 April, killing one passenger. Since then cracks have been found in three more helicopters. ...
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Zeppelin ready for historic return
One of the most famous names in aviation is set to get airborne again later this year when airship builder Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik makes its planned maiden flight of the LZ N07. The 75m-long airship is due to fly from its Friedrichshafen base in the third quarter of this year. After ...
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BMW R-R offers loan deal to help Tupolev
BMW ROLLS-ROYCE is preparing to loan some of its BR710 engines to Tupolev to help kick-start the Russian firm's twin-engined Tu-334 programme. Günter Kappler, the German engine-maker's engineering director, says that the company will loan at least two engines, in a programme similar to that for the R-R-engined ...
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Stage 3 testing starts
Burbank Aeronautical II (BACII) has begun flight testing its Stage 3 hushkit for the Pratt &Whitney JT3D-powered Boeing 707. The tests should finish in August, with US Federal Aviation Administration certification expected in September. Source: Flight International