All General aviation articles – Page 167
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Analysis
Analysis: Ascend corporate travel survey suggests its time to go back to the future
Ascend survey shows that corporates are looking at multiple ways to achieve financial efficiency for their business flights
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News
Alliances stymied in solving transatlantic riddle
The alliance groups' much-sought joint ventures across the north Atlantic are up and running, but the challenge of achieving year-round profitability in...
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Biman issues tender for CF6-50C2 engine repair, overhaul
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has issued a bid tender for the repair and overhaul of 12 of its GE Aviation CF6-50C2 engines that are installed on its McDonnell...
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FAA investigates Southwest close call with fireworks mortar
The US FAA has posted air traffic control audio tapes revealing a near miss...
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FAA launches Part 23 update
The US Federal Aviation Administration has launched a new aviation rulemaking committee (ARC) that could produce a slate of more pragmatic certification standards for light business jets and general aviation aircraft several years from now, simplifying and streamlining the path to market for new aircraft.
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China's ARJ21 falls behind on flight test schedule
Two key components in the flight test programme of China's first indigenously designed regional jet have not been completed, and this has led to the likelihood...
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MAKS: Berkut targets light helicopter market
A Russian start-up helicopter manufacturer has produced a two-seat co-axial helicopter, aiming to break into the light helicopter market currently dominated by the Robinson R-22 and R-44.
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Seabird starts flight tests of new Seekers
Australia's Seabird Aviation has launched the flight test programmes of two new versions of its Seeker patrol and surveillance aircraft.
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NewsMAKS: TsKB Progress flight tests new twin-turboprop
Samara, Russia-based TsKB Progress, better known as the producer of the Soyuz rocket, has produced a fifth Rysachok twin-turboprop utility aircraft, which...
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Chartered 737 crashes in northern Canada
Police in Canada have reported survivors from among 15 occupants of a chartered Boeing 737 which crashed in the north of the country.
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AUVSI: MTSU, Army team to start UAS center
Middle Tennessee State University and the Army Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aircraft Systems announced Thursday they have joined in a memorandum of understanding to establish the Center for Unmanned Systems Operational Advancement and Research at the university.
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NewsEC proposes raising ETS threshold for business aviation operators
More business aviation operators could soon be permitted to use Eurocontrol's emissions trading system (ETS) support facility, under new draft legislation from the European Commission which proposes raising the threshold to qualify for the simplified tool.
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Victor aims to 'democratise' private jet market
A new internet-based private jet operation which aims to "democratise" the business aviation market made its official debut on 15 August.
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NewsARJ21 first delivery likely delayed
First delivery of the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) ARJ21 regional jet is likely to be delayed by up to a year or more, after problems...
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AUVSI: Boeing pauses Phantom Ray tests after two flights
Boeing has ended the scheduled flight test program for the self-funded Phantom Ray unmanned combat air systems (UCAS) demonstrator after two sorties.
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NewsAUVSI: RoMeLa humanoid robot to battle shipborne fires
The Robotics and Mechanisms Lab, or RoMeLa, of Virginia Tech is working on a three-year project with working on a three-year project with ONR.
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NewsAir Berlin to reduce fleet, slash routes in major shake-up
Air Berlin is to implement a wide-ranging cost reduction plan that will see it cut eight aircraft from its fleet, cancel a number of routes and partially...
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GAMA attacks US government’s “demonising” rhetoric as GA shipments fall again
Recovery in the general aviation manufacturing industry is faltering, according to the latest figures from the General Aviation Manufacturers Association. (GAMA)
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NewsGulfstream G650 edges closer to certification
Gulfstream's G650, which saw its flight test programme disrupted by the 2 April fatal accident involving aircraft 6002, has completed a number of flight-test...
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BA recruitment drive aims to attract less well-off pilots
British Airways aims to broaden the pool of potential pilot recruits with its new Future Pilot Programme (FPP), which it claims will put an end to the situation in which only the rich can raise the finance to complete pilot training to airline level.