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Lone Star launches APALS map-based landing system
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US REGIONAL LONE Star Airlines is the launch customer for Lockheed Martin's autonomous precision-approach and landing system (APALS). The Fort Worth, Texas-based airline has signed a memorandum of understanding to equip its four Dornier 328 regional turboprops with the system, which uses the aircraft's radar to ...
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Garuda finalises MD-11 lease deal
GARUDA INDONESIA has finalised a deal with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to lease three new MD-11 tri-jets, to replace three similar early-build aircraft owned by General Electric Capital Services (GECAS). MDC is expected to deliver the three General Electric CF6-80C2-powered aircraft at the end of 1996 on a long-term ...
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MDC covers losses on MD-11
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has put aside a $1.8 billion charge to cover its losses on MD-11 sales, leaving a question mark over the future of the faltering programme. The move follows dwindling orders for the tri-jet, for which there was a backlog of only ...
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Regional-jet makers ponder tough BA requirement
THE FIVE AIRCRAFT manufacturers invited by British Airways to bid for a $1 billion order for up to 60 regional jets have been left facing some difficult decisions over how best to meet the UK flag carrier's requirements on delivery schedules and aircraft mix. None of the contenders ...
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Boeing 757 operators are advised of engine problem
Gunter Endres/LONDON BOEING HAS warned operators of 757s about several engine-rundown incidents on aircraft powered by Rolls-Royce RB.211-535E4 s. About half of the 700 aircraft operated by some 60 airlines across the world are involved, but the indications are that only older examples are affected. According ...
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CFMI studies service software
SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO ALLOW JET engines to be more easily serviced is being employed in the development of the CFM International (CFMI) CFM56-7 turbofan engine, which will power the new-generation Boeing 737. The software, known as Product Vision and developed by the GE Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New ...
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An-32 freighter crashes on take-off, killing 250
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS David Learmount/LONDON IN ONE OF THE worst third-party aviation accidents in history, a freighter aircraft taking off from Ndolo Airport, Kinshasa, Zaire, on 8 January crashed immediately after take-off, killing about 250 people in the Simbazikita marketplace just beyond the airfield boundary. ...
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Pilot fatigue caused Coventry crash
PILOT FATIGUE, combined with a disregard for a published minimum decision height, caused the fatal 21 December, 1994, Air Algerie Boeing 737-200 freighter crash on the approach to Coventry Airport in the UK, according to the official report. The aircraft had been on a surveillance-radar approach (SRA), ...
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Kenya buys VIP Fokker
FOKKER HAS DELIVERED a corporate version of the Fokker 70 regional jet to the Kenyan Government for VIP transportation. The aircraft, modified with the addition of extra fuels tanks to extend its range to 6,300km (3,400nm) is the third Executive Jet 70 delivered by the Dutch manufacturer. The Dutch Government ...
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Japan sets budget for aerospace projects
JAPAN'S MINISTRY OF International Trade and Industry (MITI) will allocate '11,161 million ($106 million) in fiscal year 1996, to support indigenous and international collaborative aerospace programmes. The budget includes '5,328 million for continued studies into development of the next-generation supersonic transport, and basic research of a super/hypersonic propulsion ...
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Malaysian Boeing choice was driven by capacity criterion
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE AIRCRAFT-SEAT capacity, rather than price, appears to have been the deciding factor in Malaysia Airlines' (MAS) selection of the Boeing 777 over the rival Airbus A340. Boeing had been widely expected for some weeks to win the MAS order with a combination of ...
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Loral deal creates $30 billion Lockheed Martin
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN has again raised the stakes in the US defence business with its agreement to buy the bulk of Loral for $9.1 billion. The latest deal, which comes less than a year after Lockheed's merger with Martin Marietta, will create a group with sales ...
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Air Libert, plans new routes
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRENCH DOMESTIC airline Air Liberte is poised to take advantage of the 1 January 1996, liberalisation of French skies (to national airlines only) with plans to launch 23 new domestic routes in the first six months of this year. Air Liberte President Lotfi ...
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777 delivery
China Southern Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 777-200. The twinjet will be used on routes from Guangzhou to Shanghai and Beijing. The carrier has ordered six General Electric-GE90-powered 777s, including two -200 versions. Source: Flight International
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Off target
1995's world airline safety performance shows that targets are not being met. David Learmount/LONDON FIGURES FOR 1995 confirm that numbers for world airline fatal accidents are showing an upward trend. The 1995 fatal-accident total (57) and the number of resulting fatalities (1,215) are significantly above the annual ...
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Firing tests completed on Vulcain for Ariane 5
THE SECOND AND FINAL qualification firing of the Vulcain cryogenic first-stage engine of the Ariane 5 booster was successfully completed at Kourou, French Guiana, on 6 January, clearing the way for the booster's maiden flight on 7 May. The Ariane 5 will have its first commercial flight for Arianespace in ...
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Varig president leaves within first year
VARIG PRESIDENT Carlos Willy Engels has stepped down after less than a year in charge of the Brazilian flag carrier. Officially, the company cites personal reasons for his departure, although it is believed that results for 1995 were not good enough to satisfy creditors who also sit on the Varig ...
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BA tries to salvage plan to use USAir 737 pilots
BRITISH AIRWAYS' controversial plan to use 30 USAir Boeing 737 co-pilots at its London Gatwick hub hangs in the balance, after the UK Department for Employment and Education (DfEE) indicated that it is unlikely to grant the pilots work permits. The DfEE told BA on 5 January ...
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Dornier pushes for laminar-wing funding
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DORNIER LUFTFAHRT, the regional-turboprop subsidiary of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA), is pushing for Government funding to test a laminar-flow wing on the Dornier 328 regional turboprop. The German company says that the project is one of several technology investigations applicable to future regional-turboprop designs, ...
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Delta used UK slots in disguise
Sir - In reply to the letter "US carriers should think again" (Flight International, 3-9 January, P39), Mr Howard is mistaken in thinking that Delta ever had slots at London Heathrow. What he recalls seeing were McDonnell Douglas DC-8-33s painted in Delta Air Lines' colours, beginning in 1969, which were ...