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I had a flight booked this afternoon, but it wasn't looking good when the day dawned with low cloud and a wee bit cool [but by no means "cold"]. After a lazy start to the morning I headed out to the aero club to find, as expected, all aircraft parked up in the hanger. Stink Oh well, while waiting for the flight, I did get to see two unusual airline visitors to this side of the airport and a GA [General Aviation] visitor who arrived soon after the ...

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18 May 2013 Latest Accident Alert from the Ascend Air Safety team Cessna 500 Citation PT-LPZ (msn 500-0015 built 1972) of BFB Leasing SA Arrendadora has sustained damage after it veered off the runway at Campo de Marte Airport, Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 18, and suffered a right main undercarriage collapse. The four occupants of the aircraft were uninjured in the accident. The aircraft was operating a flight from Sorocaba Bertram Luiz leupolz Airpo ...

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Published Sat May 18th, 2013 via RIA Novosti ARKHANGELSK, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - The aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya has been put in a dry dock at Russias Sevmash shipyard for cosmetic repairs ahead of final sea trials and delivery to the Indian navy later this year, the company said. The work is underway to repaint the hull under the waterline, said Sergey Novoselov, head of defense export projects at Sevmash. In addition, much of the interior ...

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Following from his hugely successful VariEze, Burt Rutan designedthe improved and larger LongEze which first flew on 12 6 79. Ithad a larger wing with a new airfoil and featured the same construction as the VariEze with foam cores covered by fibreglass. Like the VariEze it was also only available as plans up to 1985. It also had a more powerfulO-235 motor of 115 HP. The LongEze length was 0.8 metres longer than the VariEze, at 5.12 metres (16 fee ...

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The next type of 2 seater homebuilt to come along was the very different Burt Rutan designed VariEze. The VariEze was a sensation at the EAA flyin at Oshkosh in 1975 because it was so different. In the later1970s it evoked feelings that Star Wars had come to Oshkosh. Burt Rutan designed the VariEze using lessons he learned from has earlier canard design, the VariViggen (of which we have had one in New Zealand). It could not be stalled because the ...

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Noel Jones has sent in the following links to photographs he took on his recent trip in April 2013. I thought this maybe of interest to some, just wish I had a window seat for the military stuff in Peru. Plane spotting Santiago (Chile), Lima (Peru) and Havana and Baracoa (Cuba) (140 photos) http www.flickr.com photos zk-ngj sets 72157632671071285 Trip photos, long version (134 1 photos) http www.flickr.com photos zk-ngj sets 72157632671065561 Vid ...

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I am going to slightly bend my own rules over the next unspecified time period and post some interesting non NZ civil aircraft . They do however have NZ aeronautical connections in some way. First up - Good olde CMM has provided us with this photograph of two retired North American NA88 Harvards taken in July of 1978 (at Woodbourne I guess). NZ1038 is c n 88-13187 and was built with the US military serial of 41-33714 but was allocated to the RAF ...

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See the B-17 Aluminum Overcast at the Eugene Airport May 17-19. Read all about this rare visit here . This is part one of a two part series. See a photo gallery of this "Ducky" flight here . By Dan Pimentel Airplanista Blog Editor I have been growing increasingly amazed recently by all the great things that EAA does for the aviation family, and as a fairly new member, I consider my membership in this association as valuable as my long-time member ...

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Reims Cessna FRA150L ZK-FWW c n FRA1500122 has gone offshore. As its designation implies this was French built with a 130hp Rolls Royce engine and went to Heli-Orient Pte Ltd of Seletar, Singapore (Being Cessna agents) in March of 1972 as 9V-BEG. It was delivered to the Republic of Singapore Flying Club. Pic below. I then believe it went to Monarch Aviation Pty Ltd before arriving on the doorstep of Stan and Gilly Smith plus Derek Ells at Dairy F ...

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Chromalloy will receive $ 150,000 from Floridas Quick Action Closing Fund to expand and improve its investment foundry, Chromalloy Castings, in Tampa. Jordanian carrier Petra Airlines has signed a contract with Air France Industries KLM Engineering Maintenance covering component support for two Airbus A320s now and a third aircraft by year end. The agreement includes flat-rate repair services and flight-hour pool access. Cabinair Services , an SA ...