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Jet Airways adds
Jet Airways of India will add a Boeing 737-500 to its fleet at the end of November, increasing its fleet of 737s to 12. Three more 737-400s will be introduced by May next year, enabling the airline to expand its route network and frequencies. Source: Flight ...
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DAS doubles DC-10s
Das Air will add a second McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 freighter in 1997, and has announced plans to increase its presence in the Gulf. The number of services from London to Dubai has been increased to three a week, and a direct flight has been added to Abu Dhabi. The UK-based ...
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Falcon rejuvenated
Graham Warwick/FORT WORTH and Guy Norris/EDWARDS AFB FIGHTER PILOTS use "check six" as slang for a look back to ensure that the enemy is not approaching from behind. It is also the motto of the Lockheed Martin F-16A/B mid-life update (MLU) programme - signifying a look back to ...
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Collins
A demonstration flight in Rockwell-Collins' Sabreliner testbed, equipped with a prototype of its Pro Line 21 display for the Raytheon Premier I, illustrates the progress made since the system was launched a year ago. The first impression of the display is of solid colours and crisp symbols against a smooth ...
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Hunting new pastures
Max Kingsley-Jones/Coventry On 17 October, Hunting Cargo Airlines retired its remaining Vickers "VC9" Merchantman (Vanguard) freighter when the last operational example was flown to the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, south-west of London, for preservation. This marked the end of a 20-year association with the four-engined turboprop for the ...
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Fokker rescue plan put on hold
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SAMSUNG'S PROPOSED rescue of Fokker has been put on hold until the South Korean Government and other other local aerospace manufacturers decide whether or not they should back the programme. The deal ran into a last-minute delay when Samsung sought South Korean Government approval ...
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Vanguard Variations
The Merchantman's origins lay with the 100- to 140-seat Vickers Vanguard of the early 1960s. The four-engined turboprop was first flown from the Vickers-Armstrongs factory at Brooklands on 20 January 1959, and entered service with British European Airways (BEA) in December 1960. Although very economical to operate, the design was ...
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IPTN drops certification plans for PA2 prototype
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE I NDUSTRI Pesawat Nusantara Terbang (IPTN) has abandoned plans to use its second N250 regional prototype as an airworthiness-certification vehicle in a bid to avoid any further postponement of the aircraft's maiden flight. The Indonesian manufacturer had intended using prototype PA2 to begin certification, ...
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Boeing plans tail-strike safeguards for stretched 757
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is developing a series of design changes for the 757-300 to reduce the potentially greater risk of tail-strikes affecting the stretched aircraft. The -300 will be 7m longer than the current -200 production model and is almost exactly the same length as ...
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FSF launches final assault on 'killer' CFIT accident rate
David Learmount/DUBAI THE FLIGHT SAFETY Foundation (FSF) is this week launching the final phase of its attack on the airline industry's worst killer-accident category, controlled flight into terrain (CFIT), insisting that it intends to halve the annual number of CFIT accidents by 1998. Over the last ...
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ModiLuft grounded by Lufthansa action
INDIAN DOMESTIC carrier ModiLuft has been effectively grounded following court action by Lufthansa, which is trying to repossess lease-expired aircraft. The case is the latest in a series of disputes which have arisen between Western aircraft lessors and private Indian carriers which have allegedly failed to meet their financial obligations. ...
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In-flight Trent 700 failure forces Cathay A330 back to Saigon
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways is investigating the involuntary in-flight shutdown on 11 November of a Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engine, which forced the crew of one of its Airbus A330-300s to return to Saigon shortly after take-off. The engine suffered a suspected internal gearbox failure as ...
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LOT expands fleet as traffic and profits grow
Andrjez Jeziorski/WARSAW LOT Polish Airlines expects passenger numbers to top 2 million this year, following solid growth so far in 1996, and plans for further expansion of the network in the remainder of the year. The airline's fleet has also been growing, and now numbers four ...
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Engine success
Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise has signed a deal with International Aero Engines to order V2500 turbofans to power its fleet of Airbus Industrie A320/321 aircraft. The $330 million deal covers engines for eight A320s and four A321s and options for a further 12 aircraft. China Southern Airlines has also ordered ...
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A3XX programme gathers momentum as MoU is signed with Rolls-Royce
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Julian Moxon/PARIS Airbus Industrie's plans to compete head-on with Boeing in the large airliner market are gathering momentum, with the consortium concluding the first agreement with an engine manufacturer to provide a power plant for the new aircraft. Airbus and Rolls-Royce signed a memorandum ...
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Ansett A330-200 order decision imminent
Max Kingsley-Jones/London Ansett Australia says that it will decide by the end of the year whether to become the Australasian launch customer for the Airbus Industrie A330-200, which would see it placing orders for up to 14 aircraft for delivery starting in mid-1998. According to the ...
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Alitalia/Alpi Eagles conclude codeshare deal
Marco Messalla/ROME Alitalia and Italian low-cost carrier Alpi Eagles have agreed a code-sharing deal, which includes the transfer of five Fokker 70s from Alitalia's former regional subsidiary Avianova -which has now been absorbed into the national carrier. Code-sharing operations will begin on 11 November, with Alpi ...
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Fairchild Dornier nears engine selection on 328 jet
Guy Norris/Palm Springs Fairchild Dornier expects to select a turbofan for its proposed 30-seat 328-300 "later this month", according to vice-president for sales, Andrew Jampoler, and is targeting an entry- into-service date for the new aircraft of late 1998. Engines being considered include General Electric's CFE738, ...
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Volga passengers
The Russian heavyweight cargo specialist Volga-Dnepr Airlines has begun scheduled passenger services between its base in Ulyanovsk and Moscow. The carrier is flying 30-seater Yakovlev Yak-40s on the route, leased from the Ulyanovsk-based regional airline JSC Simbirsk Aero, which ceased flying in September because of debts of over 14 billion ...
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Reverser suspected in TAM Fokker crash
Pilot exclamations on the cockpit voice recorder of the crashed TAM Brazilian Fokker 100 (Flight International, 6-12 November) have led investigators to suspect that the No 2 engine thrust-reverser may have operated in flight, say sources close to the investigation. This is supposed to be impossible, because the thrust-reverser actuators ...