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Cessna decision drives move to unleaded fuelfuel move
Efforts to develop unleaded aviation-gasoline (avgas) have been boosted by Cessna's decision that, when it restarts production of piston singles in 1996, it will use engines which can be run on low-octane unleaded fuel. New Cessna 172s and 182s will be powered by Textron Lycoming low-compression-ratio engines, able ...
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US regional growth continues in 1994
US REGIONAL AIRLINES report an 8% increase in the passengers boarding in 1994. The Regional Airlines Association (RAA) recorded 57 million boardings industry-wide, generating a 13% increase in traffic to 12 billion revenue-passenger kilometres. RAA figures show a US regional fleet of 2,172 aircraft - a ...
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Russia and USA compromise on ABM agreement
RUSSIA AND THE USA have agreed on a revision to the 1972 anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty which will allow the US Army to deploy the Lockheed Martin theatre high-altitude air-defence (THAAD) system now under development. The revised treaty will continue to prohibit deployment of defences against strategic ballistic ...
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Nordam is cleared over blade failures
NEW ZEALAND authorities have cleared Nordam's hushkit, of causing turbine-blade failures in the Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines, of Air New Zealand's (ANZ) fleet of Boeing 737-200s. The airline suffered four low-pressure turbine-blade failures on hushkitted 737s (Flight International, 22-28 February), but now appears to be the victim ...
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Boeing/Lockheed Martin halt JAST talks
LOCKHEED MARTIN and Boeing have suspended talks over teaming on the US Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme at least until contracts are awarded in mid-1996. The two companies began talks earlier this year, when it became clear that the JAST project was going to absorb the advanced ...
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Russia in need of a new revolution
Russian aviation is in crisis, as anybody who has recently passed through Moscow's Sheremetyvo Airport will have gathered. What should be an international gateway to Russia is a chaotic mix of despairing passengers, futile bureaucracy and casual corruption. Like much else in Russia, the airport has yet to ...
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Fuel-leak detection system goes on trial
The UK division of international oil and gas engineering company J P Kenny has launched a system to detect possible leaks in airport fuel- hydrant networks. Developed in association with Texas-based software companies PMA and Modisette, the LeakLoc system is undergoing acceptance trials at London Stansted Airport. ...
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MDA offers dent remover
An electromagnetic dent-removal (EDR) process used by McDonnell Douglas Aerospace (MDA) is being offered to outside users following its formal certification as an approved repair process for the MD-90. EDR has been under development at MDA since 1986, and used on commercial and military production lines to undertake ...
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Fit for survival
Only a few years ago, it seemed that the large passenger-carrying hovercraft was doomed to extinction. It had only ever achieved a foothold in one major market - across the Channel between England and France, and even then only a few of the biggest Westland/British Hovercraft SR-N4 craft ever entered ...
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Heliwing flies
Boeing's Heliwing aerial vehicle (UAV) had its first flight on 26 April, lifting off and hovering for several minutes at 10 ft (3m) at Boeing's test site in Moses Lake, Washington. The tail-sitter air vehicle has a fixed-wing and a pair of 2m-diameter counter-rotating propellers coupled to a 30kW (40shp) ...
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ESA set to double GIV-SP order
Ramon Lopez/ DALLAS/FORT WORTH EXECUTIVE JET Aviation (EJA) is to buy as many as 40 Gulfstream IV-SP business jets and is surveying the market for an aircraft able to supplement its fleet of Hawker 1000 business aircraft. Early this year, EJA ordered seven Gulfstream IV-SPs ...
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IHI to become partner in CF34
Ishikawajima - Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) of Japan is to become a major partner in the General Electric CF34-8C turbofan under the terms of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the two companies. The announcement confirms persistent rumours of imminent IHI involvement in the engine (Flight International, ...
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Bombardier tests CL-415 modifications for France
BOMBARDIER HAS completed flight-testing of modifications to the Canadair CL-415 water-bomber and is preparing to present the results to France's Securite Civile, which had refused to take delivery of the aircraft (Flight International, 9 March-4 April, P17). Scooping tests were conducted off North Carolina in early April, ...
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Security fears hit Olympic flight plan
SECURITY CONCERNS are posing early hurdles for the plan to install a helicopter short-haul transport system at Atlanta, Georgia, in time for the 1996 Olympic Games. The project, backed by the US Federal Aviation Administration and the Helicopter Association International (HAI) and seen as a blueprint for similar ...
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GA deliveries recover in USA
US GENERAL-AVIATION aircraft manufacturers posted an almost 34% increase in billings, to $595 million, for the first three months of 1995 and shipped 207 aircraft, an increase of more than 14% over the 1994 first quarter. The recovery was led by increased shipments of turboprop-powered aircraft, says the US General ...
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Competition conference
Europe is less than two years away from completing the single European air market, yet bitter disputes continue to rage over issues ranging from airport access and slot allocation, through to state aid and US open-skies deals. To help address these crucial issues, Flight International has been invited ...
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Elbe converts Tu-154 for German open skies
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace Airbus subsidiary Elbe Flugzeugwerke has delivered a converted Tupolev Tu-154M airliner to the German air force for use in open-skies surveillance operations. The aircraft, formerly part of the Federal defence ministry VIP flight, has been adapted for the surveillance role in a 12-month conversion costing DM45 ...
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Hughes in valve race
Hughes Training (HTI) has launched an urgent programme to develop a replacement for light-valve projectors used in its McDonnell Douglas F-18 dome simulators. General Electric ceased production of Talaria light-valves in 1994. GE light-valve projectors are widely used in dome simulators and no off-the-shelf replacement exists, HTI says. ...
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Israel/Jordan plan airport link up
ISRAEL AND JORDAN are investigating the possibility of common use of the Jordanian airport at Aqaba on the Red Sea. The heads of the civil-aviation authorities of both countries will soon tour airports, which serve more than one country, to evaluate the proposed plan. The mid-town airport of ...
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US National Guard seeks reconnaissance pods
THE US AIR NATIONAL Guard has issued a requirement for 26 reconnaissance pods to be carried by Lockheed F-16s or McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-15s. The pods are to be available in 1996, when the US Air Force's last MDC RF-4C reconnaissance aircraft are retired. The ...