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A New Turboprop Single from Extra

Extra has introduced a new, turboprop version of its Extra 400 six-seat single. The EA-500 will be built at the company’s new 64,500-square-foot production facility at Dinslaken Airport near D?sseldorf, Germany. The EA-500 was the logical progression for Extra from the certified EA-400 six-place pressurized single, which makes use of the Continental Voyager liquid-cooled engine. […]

High-Tech Lock Sets

Aircraft Security & Alert Systems has introduced a new series of locks specifically designed for large-cabin business jets. The locking systems have already been designed for the Global Express, Challenger 604, Gulfstream IV, V, 200, the Falcon 900 and 2000 and the Embraer Legacy. Keys are cut vertically and horizontally, can only be duplicated by […]

Moving Up

I bought a new Cardinal RG in 1976 and, while I liked the airplane, my mission changed. I had been living in Little Rock, Arkansas, working for Flying, and the general aviation business of that day was concentrated in the middle of the country. My average jaunt was about 300 nm. In 1977, I moved […]

New Flagship for Dassault

Compared with that of the Falcon 900EX, the composite and metal wing of the FNX will be longer, thinner and more highly swept. Dassault’s latest Falcon Jet, code named FNX, will be the fastest, roomiest and most modern the company has ever produced. First flight for the French jet is scheduled for 2004. The FNX […]

2001 Cirrus SR22

The natural evolution of airplanes is to increase the power, and that is just what Cirrus Design has done with its new SR22. Where the original production Cirrus, the SR20, flies with a 200-horsepower IO-360 six-cylinder Continental, the SR22 has an IO-550 Continental six that develops 310 horsepower. That is a big increase. Even though […]

Power Flow Adds Airframes to Approved List

A tuned exhaust system, developed by Power Flow Systems, is now approved for installation on the Piper Cherokee 140 and on Cessna 172s equipped with 180-horsepower engines. According to Power Flow, a Cherokee powered by the 150-hp Lycoming O-320-E2A engine and fitted with the new exhaust system demonstrated a 40 percent increase in rate of […]