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Fokker will make selection of F28 retrofit engine in February
Plans to launch a re-engineing programme for the Fokker F28 Fellowship are gathering momentum, with a final engine selection expected in February. Programme partners Fokker Services and Perry Group plan a launch decision in April, depending on market response. Lion Boenders, product marketing manager at Woensdrecht, Holland-based Fokker ...
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Ansett sells 727s
Ansett Australia has sold its last six Boeing 727s (five -200 Advs and one -200 Adv Freighter) to Intrepid Aviation Partners of Memphis, for A$20 million ($16 million). Three will be delivered in January, and three in April, and the non-cargo aircraft converted to freighters. The 727 capacity has been ...
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Philippine air force considers twin-engined fighter solution
The Philippine air force is leaning towards a twin-engine solution to its fighter requirement, following flight evaluations of a McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18C/D and Mikoyan MiG-29. According to local sources, the Philippines' new armed forces chief-of-staff and former air force commander, General Arnulfo Acedera, has come out in ...
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Joint endeavours
Col Ben Robinson, commander of the USAir Force's 93rd Air Expeditionary Group (Provisional) says: "We shoot no missiles; we carry no cargo; our only product is information; and information dominance is the key to success." The system which brings so much to the modern battlefield without firing a shot is ...
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Fighting the accountant
CRITICS OF THE McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18E/F argue that the aircraft does not represent enough of an advance over the current F-18C/D to justify the $63 billion programme cost. The US Navy , however, believes that the E/F structural upgrade restarts the growth cycle and prepares the aircraft to replace ...
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1996 spawns worst-ever accident totals
Three grim airline accident records were set in 1996. Commercial passenger and cargo airlines worldwide suffered more fatal accidents, more onboard fatalities and, by a massive margin, more crash-caused deaths on the ground than ever before. This has established an already-emerging upward trend for the 1990s in the numbers of ...
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Airbus issues hydraulic pump warning after A330/340 fires
Airbus Industrie has instructed all A330 and A340 operators to de-activate the aircraft's electrically driven hydraulic pumps, following a series of fires which has left at least two aircraft badly damaged. In the latest incident, an auxiliary pump is suspected of having overheated on a Malaysia Airlines (MAS)A330-300 ...
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Airbus closes in on AE-100 development agreement
Airbus Industrie is expected to announce shortly its team to head Europe's participation in the joint development of the proposed Air Express AE-100 regional passenger aircraft in partnership with China and Singapore. The new Airbus team will assume responsibility for the programme from Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)), which ...
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The boom returns for airliner orders
Airbus, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC)saw jet-airliner orders climb comfortably above the 1,000 mark in 1996, giving the big three aircraft builders their best year since the bonanza of the late 1980s. Production rates are also on the rise and due to hit record levels within the next two to ...
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Indian ATC responsibility
Sir - It is beyond comprehension to understand how the Indian Government and, more importantly, its air-traffic-control (ATC) services can deny responsibility for the 12 November, 1996, mid-air collision between a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-100B and an Air Kazakhstan Ilyushin Il-76 at New Delhi. Surely the 1,000ft ...
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PATS fuel tanks extend 767 range
JET AVIATION HAS completed modification of the first Boeing 767 to be fitted with auxiliary fuel tanks. The 15,000litre auxiliary fuel-system, produced by PATS, was installed in a corporate-configured 767-200ER completed at Jet Aviation's Basle, Switzerland, modification centre. The aircraft's owner has not been identified, but is believed ...
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FSI's Boeing 777 receives Level C approval
FLIGHTSAFETY International's (FSI) first Boeing 777 full-flight simulator has received Level C training approval. The FSI-built simulator is now in service at the company's Seattle training centre. A second 777 full-flight simulator is now being built by FSI's Simulation Systems division for delivery to Malaysian Airlines in the second quarter ...
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Airbus Industrie and Wicat join in A310/A300-600 training upgrade
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS improving pilot training for the A300-600 and A310-300, with the help of Wicat Systems, to match that available for the A320, A330 and A340. Wicat is supplying new computer-based training (CBT) courseware and is developing a "free-play" trainer for the A310/A300-600 flight-management and -guidance system (FMGS), similar ...
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TTS unveils new-design simulator
THOMSON TRAINING &Simulation (TTS) has delivered the first of its new-design full-flight simulators to the ATR Training Centre (ATC) in Toulouse, France. The new design was evolved following TTS' acquisition of Rediffusion and includes features from the UK company's Concept 90 simulator. The first new-design machine to enter ...
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Why was this aircraft allowed to land at Heathrow?
Sir - On 8 December, 1996, I was awaiting clearance at Heathrow when a Fokker 50 (with a known undercarriage problem) approached runway 09R (Flight International, 18-31 December, 1996, P10). The expected happened, and the left main gear collapsed. What I would like to know is: why was ...
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MiG-AT poised for service
The Russian air force will place an order for ten VPK MAPOMiG-AT advanced jet trainers within the next 12 months, according to Russian press reports. If confirmed, the move is the clearest indication yet that the MiG-ATis emerging as the air force's preferred jet trainer over the rival Yakovlev Yak-130. ...
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AD could ground 727 freighter conversions
US CARGO CARRIERS are bracing for a Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive (AD) which could severely restrict the payload of Boeing 727 freighter conversions. The AD had been anticipated in late December 1996, but the FAA says that it now plans to begin discussions with aircraft modifiers and operators in ...
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Boeing offers airlines 767-400ERX stretch
BOEING IS NOW formally offering the stretched 767-400ERX to airlines. Authority to offer was given at the beginning of January, and the company expects a formal launch early this year, leading to a first flight in 1999 and certification and first delivery in 2000 (Flight International, 18-31 December, 1996, P5). ...
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IAI discusses Astra with Indian defence ministry
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and the Indian defence ministry are negotiating the sale of up to nine Astra business jets to be configured for maritime-reconnaissance and target-towing roles. The talks come on the back of the visit of a high-level Israeli defence/aerospace delegation to India at the end ...
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Passenger traffic continues growth
World scheduled passenger traffic continued to grow by 7% in 1996 and is expected to stay buoyant this year, according to preliminary estimates by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). Traffic growth, measured in terms of revenue-passenger kilometres (RPKs), was again led by a 9%rise on international services, ...