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January 23, 2013
By The AVweb Editorial Staff
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AVflash! One More Prototype for
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Roadable aircraft developer Terrafugia has released more video of its Transition vehicle being put through its paces but it's suggesting production and delivery of the device may come later rather
than sooner. In a carefully worded news release on Tuesday, the Massachusetts company said it might have to build a third prototype based on the testing it has done so far on the second machine. "Once
the engineering team is satisfied that the majority of the field issues have been identified from this prototype, we will evaluate if the number and magnitude of potential modifications warrant the
construction of another prototype prior to final compliance testing for certification," the company said. The video, shot in late October, shows an aircraft that appears to have significantly better
handling characteristics than the first prototype (we think it looks better, too) and Terrafugia says they continue to make improvements, hence the possibility of a third prototype.
Meanwhile, the company says it's wringing out the current test article, "actively flight testing and drive testing to evaluate the durability of the Transition airframe in real-world environments."
Terrafugia also has a seat at the FAA's review of Part 23 certification rules and says it may have something to say about that soon. "These new developments have led Terrafugia to initiate a new
internal program which we look forward to announcing at the appropriate time," says the carrot left dangling in the news release. The current program is geared to a Light Sport designation for the
folding-wing aircraft.
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Aviation safety officials from the U.S. and Japan on Monday visited the GS Yuasa Corp., in Kyoto, which manufactured the lithium-ion batteries for the 787 that led to the fleet's grounding last
week. The investigators toured the plant and were briefed by company officials about the design, production and quality, according to Reuters. The U.S. investigators said they have
ruled out excess voltage as a cause of the battery fire in Boston on Jan. 7, and will expand their probe to look at the battery charger and the 787's auxiliary power unit. Meanwhile, the NTSB plans to
continue tests of the batteries this week in Arizona.
In Washington, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the 787 won't fly again until regulators are "1,000 percent sure" that it's safe. Lithium batteries are used on other aircraft, according to
Reuters, including some Airbus and Embraer models, but they are not from the same manufacturer used by Boeing.
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Transit police who were using explosives to train bomb-sniffing dogs left one of the bombs aboard an Air Canada 767 that later carried passengers, a taxpayers group reported this week. The incident
happened about two years ago, in January 2011, and was only confirmed after the group filed a Freedom of Information request. The dog handler noticed the device was missing two days after the training
session, and reported it. Air Canada inspected the airplane 14 times, but the bomb was never found. It was believed to have been tossed out with the trash. The material was inert without the aid of an
explosive booster, "i.e., blasting cap," according to the police report.
"Why on earth were Transit Police -- responsible for SkyTrain lines -- planting explosives on a commercial airplane as a dog training exercise?" asked Jordan Bateman, an official with the Canadian
Taxpayers Federation. "How inept do you have to be to not account for every explosive you put on a plane? This incident is a chilling reminder of what happens when police agencies push past their
level of expertise and jurisdiction." The taxpayers group has long been critical of the Transit Police, saying its officers are overpaid and ineffective.
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Canada's Bombardier has landed firmly in rival Embraer's backyard with Brazilian certification of its latest business jet model, the Global 6000. The companies, both of which accuse each other of
being unfairly supported by their respective governments, are involved in a bare-knuckle scrap for dominance in the small airliner market and Embraer's ambitious business jet development program has
not gone unnoticed by Bombardier. "This is an important milestone in our Global 6000 jet's history of leadership in Brazil, and we expect it to help generate even more interest in the world's leading
long-range, large cabin business jet," said Fabio Rebello, Bombardier's VP for Latin American sales, in a news release. "With this new certification the entire families of Learjet, Challenger and
Global jets now have Brazilian certification."
Last week Embraer announced it was picking the same engines for its updated version of the E-series airliners as Bombardier is planning for its CSeries, which is a direct challenge to the E-Jets.
In fact, Bombardier is helping Pratt & Whitney develop the PurePower geared turbofans at facilities near Montreal. The companies are predicting a significant efficiency increase with the new engines.
Bombardier hopes to fly the first CSeries proof-of-concept aircraft later this year but Embraer's re-engined E-jets are four years away.
Cessna is the latest business jet builder to make a sales call on Nigeria in the last couple of months and the country's business leaders expect more. A report in Ventures Magazine says the Wichita planemaker had a CJ3 and
Sovereign on the ramp at Murtala Muhammed Airport and Abuja Airport last week trying to take a piece of the oil-rich country's bizjet market. A couple of months earlier Dassault did a similar tour.
The magazine quoted unspecified reports as claiming that Nigeria is the second-fastest expanding market for bizjets next to China.
The magazine says there were only 20 private aircraft in the country five years ago. Now there are about 130 and it has prompted a building boom at some airports. Maintenance and repair capacity is
expanding, too. Bombardier was among the early entrants to the Nigerian market and has about a third of the business. Ventures said the company considered Nigeria its biggest market in Africa in
2012.
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E-Volo's New Copter — A Whole New
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E-Volo, a German company that successfully flew an innovative electric-powered vertical-takeoff aircraft in
2011, now says it is ready to build a two-person design. Germany's transport ministry will have to create a new category and develop new regulations to allow the aircraft to fly, and E-Volo says
that process is under way. The company said they hope to achieve extensive endurance testing of the passenger cabin, the landing framework and the rotor array by this summer, so they can start test
flights this year.
The company said it plans to exhibit a full-size mock-up of its Volocopter at Aero 2013, in Friedrichshafen, Germany, in April. Germany's federal ministry of economics and technology has granted
the company a subsidy of about $2.6 million to help cover the costs of the project.
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