All General aviation articles – Page 661
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Exim approves Aeroflot financing
AEROFLOT-RUSSIAN International Airlines (ARIA) is to receive $1 billion financing from the US Export Import Bank (Exim) to help purchase 20 Westernised Ilyushin Il-96M/Ts. The financing covers the US content in the aircraft, including engines and avionics, and will be guaranteed by the Russian Government and by pledges on the ...
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FAA approves Saab wingtip
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has granted full certification, for the Saab 340B Plus extended wingtip programme, enabling the introduction by American Eagle, of 25 of the new type. American Eagle already operates more than 100 Saab 340Bs. Extended wingtips were certificated late in 1995 by Transport Canada ...
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Beyond the basics
Aptitude is not enough to win airline sponsorship for today's ab initio pilot-training courses. David Learmount/LONDON IT IS ALREADY axiomatic in the airline industry that today's airline pilots are expected not only to retain traditional piloting and airmanship skills (despite practising them less on the modern flight ...
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UK delays Swanwick opening by one year
THE OPENING OF the new en route air-traffic-control centre for England and Wales has been delayed until December 1997, says the UK Civil Aviation Authority. The £350 million ($530 million) Swanwick Centre, near Fareham, Hampshire, has been plagued by problems with integrating the air-traffic-management system's 2 million lines ...
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Ryanair rebuffed by Irish Government
RYANAIR, THE independent low-fare Irish airline, is to re-assess its expansion plans for Dublin following the rejection by the Irish Government of its plan for a second city airport at Baldonnel's Casement Aerodrome, now used by the Irish Air Corps. Chairman Tony Ryan had proposed the move, to ...
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In-trail-climb testing inadequate
Sir - In the article "New members join in-trail-climb club" (Flight International, 6-12 December, 1995, P16), Ken Peppard of the US Federal Aviation Administration is quoted as saying that "...pilots, controller and ARINC operators feel comfortable with the procedure". The US Airline Pilots' Association (ALPA) believes this to be an ...
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Talk this way
A Swedish-led technology could provide a key element of the Future Air Navigation System. Kieran Daly/LONDON THE GLOBAL-NAVIGATION satellite-system-synchronised, self-organising, time-division, multiple-access (STDMA) data- link really needs a much better name. It is one thing for the dedicated souls serving on the International Civil Aviation ...
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Asia-Pacific
The Asia-Pacific region continues to maintain its flagship role at the sharp end of global air travel recovery. Double-digit growth is again forecast through 1996, bringing further financial gains for regional operators and benefits for major airlines operating into the area from elsewhere. There will, however, be dramatically ...
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Beaming into new system
Our institute has been conducting extensive research on airline revenue management for the past three years, and parts of your article 'A system approach' (Airline Business, January) seem to be based on false assumptions. Our first concern is the quoted 1 per cent increase in airline revenues. While there is ...
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Uncertainty wins the casting vote
Some airlines are viewing the spate of elections this year with trepidation.Even in parts of the world where airlines are privately owned and have the commercial freedoms associated with deregulation, they remain uniquely susceptible to the political environment in which they must operate. Small wonder that the prospect of a ...
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China double in five years
Beijing may have put the brakes on its airline's phenomenal expansion rates over the past year but the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is preparing to cope with another 'Great Leap Forward'. The latest Five Year Plan, covering 1996-2000, caters for an annual civil aviation industry growth ...
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US deliveries highest since 1990
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US GENERAL-aviation aircraft industry has unveiled 1995 figures showing that it delivered the highest number of aircraft since 1990 and achieved the best billings since 1981. The figures enabled the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) president Ed Stimpson to report that ...
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Australian firefighters want to test-fly Canadair CL-415s
SOME OF Australia's major fire fighting authorities are to recommend that their state governments approve and fund a three-month operational evaluation of Canadair's CL-415 fire bomber during the country's next fire season, which usually starts in December and extends to March. The decision follows a series of ...
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Computers aid GV wing design
APPEARANCES CAN be deceiving, and the GV's outward similarity to the GIV belies the changes wrought to achieve an almost-60% increase in range. The wing is all-new, sized to house the fuel required for a 12,000km (6,500nm) range, but shaped by the desire to maintain the GIV's ...
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Competition hots up for ALH engines
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES COMPETITION TO power the Indian-built military utility Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) is intensifying between Turbomeca and LHTEC, the light helicopter turbine engine company, jointly owned by AlliedSignal and Rolls Royce's, Allison Engine division The companies are negotiating with Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) to ...
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Business Express yields to bankruptcy protection
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC BUSINESS EXPRESS, the US regional carrier based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been forced into the federal bankruptcy court by Saab Aircraft. The airline owes Saab more than $20 million - much of it in unpaid lease payments. A major creditor, Saab ...
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Checking the numbers
There are fears that Hong Kong's new airport is already heading for a capacity problem. Chris Yates/HONG KONG IT IS THE WORLD'S single largest project in civil engineering today and one of the most complex combined excavation and reclamation projects in history, requiring the largest fleet of seaborne dredgers, ...
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Delta is debut customer for electro-optical ice detector
ROBOTIC VISION Systems (RVSI) has received its first airline order for the ID-1 wide-area aircraft ice-detection system. Delta Air Lines has ordered four of the hand-held electro-optical systems for use this winter at its main US East Coast airports. Hauppauge, New York-based RVSI says that the Delta order ...
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Seven-league leader
Gulfstream is first into the air with a global-range business jet. Cut away poster by Tim Hall. Graham Warwick/SAVANNAH GULFSTREAM IS NOW officially a two-aircraft company, for the first time in its history. While flight-testing of the 12,000km (6,500nm)-range Gulfstream V gathers pace, production of the 7,800km-range Gulfstream IV-SP ...
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Raisbeck
Tom Halvorson has joined Raisbeck Engineering as vice-president marketing. Halvorson's 35-year aviation career has spanned marketing, fixed base operations, aircraft sales and regional-airline management. He joins Raisbeck Engineering after 15 years with Western Aircraft of Idaho where he has held a variety of positions, most recently company president. In the ...