Aircraft lessor GE
Commercial Aviation Services (Gecas), an arm of General
Electric Co. (GE), has asked India’s aviation regulator to
de-register three Embraer jets leased to Chennai-based
Paramount Airways Pvt. Ltd, after the airline defaulted on
payments for the aircraft. Indian carriers have been under
financial strain with at least $1 billion (about Rs4,800 crore)
in losses in the fiscal year ended March, resulting in defaults
on aircraft payments. Simultaneously, the global economic
recession has meant that lessors suffering a credit crunch are
pushing hard to extract payments. Last year, Gecas confiscated
three aircraft from Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, the country’s
second largest private airline, owing to non-payment of dues.
In a letter dated 25 September to Paramount and the Directorate
General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Gecas says the airline “has
failed to remedy the events of default referred in the notice
and as at the date of this notice there still remains
$215,540.18” in dues. Paramount has informed DGCA that it has
already paid 65% of the sum and has a deposit of about $15
million with Gecas, including a $5 million safety deposit and
the balance towards maintenance
reserve.
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ATR launches -600 series with new avionics, engines.(AIR TRANSPORT & GENERAL AVIATION)
By MANISH KUMARATR has launched the "-600 series", the newest version of its family of aircraft. The new ATR 42-600 and ATR 72-600 will feature the latest technological enhancements while building upon the high efficiency, proven dispatch reliability and low fuel burn and operating cost of the current aircraft. The -600 series ATR aircraft will be progressively introduced during the second half of 2010.
Compared to the current
"-500 series", the main developments of the "-600 series"
are:
Thrust Vectoring
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Reaction Engines A2
By Pankaj vermaReaction Engines A2
The Reaction Engines Limited A2
(called the A2) is a design study for a hypersonic
airliner. The airliner is intended to provide
environmentally-friendly, long range and high capacity commercial
transportation. It is being examined as part of
the LAPCAT(Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts
and Technologies) program of the European Union.
The plane is not commercially launched, but Reaction
Engines Limited, the British design firm, says it could
probably be developed into a working aircraft within 25 years, if
there is market demand for it.
Development
The vehicle is intended to have about 20,000 km range and good subsonic and supersonic fuel efficiency, thus avoiding the problems inherent in earlier supersonic aircraft. The top speed is projected to be Mach 5+. It calls for the use of liquid hydrogen as a fuel, which has twice the specific energy of kerosene, and can be used to cool the vehicle and the air entering the engines via a precooler.
The developers say it would be able fly from Brussels to Sydney in about 4.6 hours. The cost of a ticket is intended to be roughly business class level.
"Our work shows that it is possible technically; now it’s up to the world to decide if it wants it."- Alan Bond, managing director of Reaction Engines Limited
