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FAA details free-flight plan
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC DETAILS OF a two-year, 2,000-aircraft, demonstration of the technologies required for the free-flight concept have been released by the US Federal Aviation Administration. Almost $400 million in funding required to stage the trial has yet to be approved by Congress, however. Free flight ...
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Sweden is taking steps towards closer inter-European defence-industry links Tim Ripley/LONDON Sweden is keen to join moves to hasten European-wide aviation- and defence-industry consolidation by building alliances, according to senior Saab executives and Government figures. A Saab team, headed by Sweden's special envoy for defence exports, ...
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Turboprop Piper
New Piper Aircraft plans to launch a turboprop version of the Malibu Mirage piston single at the US National Business Aviation Association show in Dallas, Texas, in September. The US manufacturer says that the aircraft will be powered by a Pratt & Whitney PT6 variant, and that deliveries are due ...
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Single-lane progress
Cessna's latest revisions keep the 182 Skylane up with the best Dave Higdon/INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS FOR TENS OF THOUSANDS of flyers, the Cessna Skylane has always been the ideal family aeroplane: comfortable, economical, and with more than ample load-carrying ability for far-flung holiday trips. For thousands of others, its ...
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How far can you go?
There is nothing new about outsourcing (the practice of obtaining components from a third party). No-one expects an airline to make the tyres for its aircraft, and many successful carriers do not undertake their own heavy maintenance. The trend to outsource more work and concentrate on core services has ...
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Caravan extends
Cessna has named sales representatives for the Caravan single-turboprop utility aircraft in the Czech republic (Czech Aerospace of Prague), India (Taneja Aerospace and Aviation) and Poland (Loyd's Investments (USA)). Source: Flight International
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Yes to GPS
The European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) has approved the use of global-positioning-system satellite-navigation equipment for general-aviation aircraft which cannot be fitted with flight-management systems to achieve the required navigational-performance standard known as the RNP-5. This requires guaranteed navigational accuracy of within 9km (5nm) for 95% of the time. The move ...
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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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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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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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Russia certificates Rolls-Royce RB.211-powered Tupolev Tu-204
The Rolls-Royce RB.211-powered Tupolev Tu-204 airliner has become the first Russian/Western joint-venture jet-powered-aircraft programme to be certificated in the CIS. The Tu-204-120, which is powered by the RB.211-535E4, was approved by the Aviation Register of the Interstate Aviation Committee on 16 July, clearing the way for deliveries to ...
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An-24 'engine failure' kills 44 in Cuba
Engine-failure during take-off is the most likely cause of t he 11 July crash of a Cubana Cuban Airlines Antonov An-24, in which all 39 passengers and five crew are believed to have died, says the Cuban aviation authority. The aircraft crashed into the sea, at night in ...
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Taneja sets September date for delayed P.68 roll-out
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON India's Taneja Aerospace and Aviation (TAAL) plans to roll out the first fully indigenously produced Partenavia P.68 light twin in September, five months later than originally planned. The roll-out will coincide with the launch of TAAL'S fractional ownership scheme, which is claimed by the ...
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DC-8 training faulted
Flight-simulator fidelity in reproducing aircraft stall characteristics may have to be improved, if the US Federal Aviation Administration accepts National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommendations emerging from its investigation of December 1996 fatal crash on an Airborne Express McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63 in Virginia. The aircraft crashed when the ...
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FAA approves use of PC-based training after push by AOPA
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC AN ADVISORYCIRCULAR (AC) approving the use of personal-computer-based aviation training devices (PC-ATDs) has been issued by the US Federal Aviation Administration, and is expected to simulate development of equipment costing substantially less than general-aviation flight-training devices now available. The US National Air Transportation ...