All General aviation articles – Page 651
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Who's in control
AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL OPERATOR Dan Kennedy, recently returned from a Churchill Fellowship world study on GA safety, believes that insurance payouts of up to A$1 million ($806,500) on turbine agricultural aircraft, more than 60 of which are operated in Australia, may price his industry out of business if accident trends cannot ...
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Uncritical operators
General aviation's hardware - the aeroplane - is rarely examined for safety shortcomings. David Learmount/LONDON ACCEPTANCE OF LOWER levels of safety in private general aviation (GA) than in airline operations would seem almost logical: airline professionals ought to do it better. There seems to be ...
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IAS
Custom-completions specialist International Aviation Services, of Forth Worth, Texas, has named Kristin Martin general counsel. Patrick Browne becomes manager of technical sales, having held flight-officer positions with South African Airways, People's Express, Continental Airlines and Air Micronesia. Jeff Conrad has been appointed director of business development, having held management positions ...
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Malaysian bilateral
Malaysia and the USA have signed a bilateral airworthiness agreement and are now working towards US acceptance of Malaysian certification standards for the locally produced SME Aviation MD3-160 light aircraft. Approval will require a final technical assessment to be made in September or October, and would clear the way for ...
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Cessna is granted FAA approval for Citation X
Cessna has received US certification for the Citation X Mach 0.92 business jet, after an almost 30-month, 3,000h, flight-test programme involving three aircraft. Deliveries are to begin late this month, and the US manufacturer plans to deliver "11 or 12" aircraft by year-end. European certification is scheduled for July 1997. ...
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FAA forced ValuJet cut in growth before crash
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US FEDERAL AVIATION Administration concern over the effect on ValuJet's safety of its rapid expansion forced the carrier to rein back planned growth almost four months before the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 crash in Florida on 11 May, documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act ...
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Quality vs capacity
Paul Phelan/ADELAIDE STUDENT NUMBERS at the Australian Aviation College (AAC) in Adelaide are approaching maximum capacity, but expansion is out of the question, says general manager Harry Bradford. Although the BTR-owned school has over 200 students, it will not expand because quality would suffer, he says. ...
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Falcon certification
Dassault Aviation has obtained French civil-aviation certification for its Falcon 900EX long-range business-jet. The French manufacturer expects to gain US certification later this month, leading to first customer deliveries in October. Sony's US arm is the launch customer for the aircraft. The 900EX, which is equipped with AlliedSignal TFE731-60 turbofan ...
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Gulfstream offers GIV-SP cost guarantee
GULFSTREAM HAS introduced an operating-cost guarantee programme for its GIV-SP business jet, which will cover all scheduled and unscheduled airframe, engine and avionics maintenance for an hourly usage fee. The Gulfstream ServiceCare guaranteed direct-operating-cost guarantee programme is described by the manufacturer as "...the most comprehensive of its kind ...
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Indonesian navcal
Hunting Aviation is to supply two NAVCAL flight-inspection systems to the Indonesian civil-aviation authority. The equipment is used to inspect the accuracy of VHF omnidirectional-radio-range/instrument-landing-system navigation aids. It will be interchangeable between Socata TBM700 and Beech King Air inspection aircraft used locally. Source: Flight International
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What's on
Equipping & Supporting Rapid Reaction Forces 13-14 June, London, UK. Contact: HSA/RRMLC, H Silver & Associates (UK), 2nd Floor, Africa House, 64-78 Kingsway, London WC2B 6BD, UK; tel: +44 (171) 413 0936; fax: +44 (171) 413 0937. Second European Aircraft Valuation Seminar 13-14 June, London, UK. Contact: Commercial ...
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Where you train is not always where you end up flying
Sir - As a licensed US Federal Aviation Administration commercial pilot, I support the plea for international standards for flight training in the article "Unique Internationalism" (Flight International, 8-14 May, P3). There are some points which need taking up, however. Firstly, there is the argument that a UK ...
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Cessna
Tom Zimmerman has been named regional sales manager for Cessna Aircraft's Citation business-jet range. He has most recently been selling Learjets in the Western USA and, before that, he held a similar post with Mooney Aircraft. Donald Perry and Michael Kolman have become area sales managers for the CitationJet and ...
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Pemco
Vince DiSciullo has been named general manager at the Pemco nacelle-services division of aircraft maintainer and modifier Precision Standard, of Denver, Colorado. He was formerly vice-president for operations at the EDM division of Chromalloy Gas Turbine. Martyn Craig becomes sales manager of Pemco World Air Services. He has had 20 ...
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Bravo gets faster
Cessna has increased the maximum cruise-speed of the Citation Bravo light business jet to 401kt (740km/h), from 394kt, after more than 500h of flight-testing. Powered by Pratt & Whitney Canada PW530A turbofans, the improved Citation II was first flown in April 1995 and will be certificated in August. ...
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Anti-collision system aims at light aircraft
SMITH SYSTEM Engineering is to design and test a low-cost anti-collision system for light aircraft, under contract to the UK Civil Aviation Authority Safety Regulation Group. The CAA has already funded Smith to carry out research into the low-cost proximity-warning system, which works by detecting automatically the strobe ...
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Hong Kong's new airport secures second runway
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON CHINA AND THE UK have agreed to build a second runway for Hong Kong's new airport at Chek Lap Kok (CLK), to cater for faster-than-expected traffic growth. The agreement, signed by the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group, clears the way for a northern ...
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Ametek introduces monitor to keep track of regional-turboprop balances
AMETEK AEROSPACE Products has introduced a system to give fast, accurate propeller balancing, allowing regional-turboprop operators to keep down damaging vibration levels throughout an aircraft's life. The Balance Monitoring System automatically stores vibration data in flight. These data are then downloaded to a ground-based lap-top computer which calculates ...
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Wilcox makes formal WAAS protest to FAA
WILCOX ELECTRIC has issued a formal protest against the award of the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) contract to Hughes Aircraft, its former subcontractor on the $475 million programme. Wilcox says that the protest follows discovery that the US Federal Aviation Administration "-had given Hughes more time to ...
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Why not use the safer Halon gas?
Sir - During the 1980s, I campaigned (unsuccessfully) for the withdrawal of highly toxic Halon 1211 portable extinguishers from flightdecks and cabins, suggesting their replacement by five-times-safer Halon 1301. My fear was - and remains - that 1211, in the confined space of a flightdeck, could cause the ...