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Allison
Richard Quirin has been named executive vice-president and chief financial officer at Indianapolis, Indiana-based Allison Engine, a member of the Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group. He was formerly at Lucas Electronics Systems Products and served as vice-president for contracts and business development on special assignment to Lucas Geared Systems. Source: ...
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Times when GPS is of no help
Sir - In response to Derek Colbourne (Letters, Flight International, 26 June-2 July, P40), I, too, have flown into Tregganu, as well as Tauwau, northern Borneo. I have flown into Chin Min on the Taiwanese/Chinese airspace border, to Saana in Yemen, and to most of the marginal airstrips in New ...
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Family fortunes
Braathens SAFE celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, with the founder's grandson at the helm Max Kingsley-Jones/OSLO AT THE LAST COUNT, the Norwegian population totalled some 4.5 million. In 1995, Norway's flag carrier, Braathens SAFE, carried more than 4 million passengers on its domestic routes, representing 52% ...
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Out of the wilderness
The new chief executive of Air Niugini, Moses Maladina, is leading the national airline of Papua New Guinea towards privatisation. Paul Phelan/PORT MORESBY AIR NIUGINI'S new chief executive and former company secretary, 31-year-old lawyer Moses Maladina, faces daunting tasks in his work of grooming the airline ...
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KLM tries to pacify Northwest
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON KLM HAS MOVED to patch up its strained boardroom relationship with Northwest Airlines, proposing that the carriers be locked into their alliance agreement for up to five years at a stretch. Until now, the agreements have been ratified annually, but KLM chairman Pieter ...
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Scientists work on software to help damaged aircraft land
Andrew Doyle/LONDON Aircraft, which suffer major equipment failures or explosions, could be landed safely using software developed jointly at NASA Ames Research Center and McDonnell Douglas (MDC). The new research envisages that in less than 1s a damaged aircraft's computers would be able to "relearn" ...
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Rolls-Royce stands to benefit from turbine-materials study
An UK UNIVERSITY-industry consortium has been awarded a £3.3 million ($5.1 million) Government grant to develop advanced materials for use in aero-engine turbine blades. The consortium, headed by Professor Colin Humphreys from the department of materials science and metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, will involve engine manufacturer ...
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Theseus flies
The Aurora Flight Sciences Theseus remotely piloted aircraft had a successful 1h 17min flight on 1 July at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, California, when it reached an altitude of around 8,000ft (2,450m). The first flight of the Theseus was cut short by problems with the propeller controller ...
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Lockheed Martin begins talks with Czech manufacturers
LOCKHEED MARTIN has held negotiations with Aerovodochody and engine manufacturer Motorlet on possible industrial offset packages which could accompany a deal to sell F-16 fighters to the Czech Republic. A team of industrial experts from the US manufacturer arrived in Prague on 1 July for discussions with several ...
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MDC X-36 arrives for flight tests at Dryden
THE FIRST McDonnell Douglas X-36 tailless fighter-agility research aircraft arrived at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB, California on 2 July. The aircraft, the first of two 28%-scale remotely piloted vehicles to be made for the research effort, will take part in a scheduled 25-flight test ...
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The end nears for limits on passenger liability
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE WORLD'S major international carriers are aiming to abandon cash limits on passenger-liability claims from 1 November. The initiative will mark a radical departure from the existing limits, which have remained largely unchanged for more than 40 years. Under the new rules, passengers ...
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Embraer increases EMB-145 cruise speed
WITH THE Embraer EMB-145 flight-test programme now well on the way towards certification, the Brazilian manufacturer has released more details on the improved performance of the aircraft, with cruise speed and fuel consumption better than originally advertised. At an early stage of flight-testing, Embraer revealed that the aircraft ...
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Unions kill Air France Europe
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDONJulian Moxon/PARIS THE GRAND PLAN of Air France Group chairman Christian Blanc to create a single European operation from the merger of Air Inter and Air France's regional operations, has been blocked by the unions' failure to agree to productivity improvements. Instead, Blanc says that Air ...
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Airbus tackles A320 pilot shortage
Andrew Doyle/LONDON AN AIRBUS INDUSTRIE pilot team is attempting to improve the utilisation rate of Indian Airlines' A320 fleet. The team, which consists of Airbus training captains and airline check-pilots, has been dispatched to the airline in an effort to help it overcome a shortage ...
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Klimov details MiG-35 options
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW KLIMOV IS DEVELOPING two thrust-vectoring-engine designs, the RD-133 and the RD-333, for an advanced derivative of the MAPO-MiG MiG-29 Fulcrum, dubbed the MiG-35 (Flight International, 12-19 June). The engine-design bureau says that the RD-133 is based on the RD-33 which powers the Fulcrum, ...
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Aeroflot forges Transaero links
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW AEROFLOT AND Transaero have signed an agreement which will result in the two Russian carriers co-operating in operations, ticketing and fleet planning. The two airlines, both based at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, are responsible for 27% of Russia's passenger market. The memorandum calls for ...
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Gulf Air stems losses with rationalisation
GULF AIR SAYS that route cuts and rationalisation of its fleet have put it back on course for an early return to profitability, but warns that further cuts are in the pipeline. The airline had revealed that it lost $159 million in 1995 (Flight International, 3-9 April). Outlining ...
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Air Inter Europe shuts 18 loss-making routes
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR INTER EUROPE is to close 18 loss-making routes in the third quarter of 1996 as part of money-saving measures as the carrier prepares for liberalisation in April 1997. The airline's moves towards competitiveness are threatened, however, by its pilots, who have until 30 ...
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Soyuz facelift
Russia's space booster, the Soyuz, is receiving new engines and avionics. Tim Furniss/LONDON RUSSIA'S CENTRAL Specialised Design Bureau in Samara has formed a partnership with France's Aerospatiale and the European launcher organisation Arianespace to attempt to market the Russian Soyuz booster for launches into low-Earth ...
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IAI makes plans to convert KLM Boeing 747s SUDs
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON THE BEDEK Aviation Division of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is about to sign a contract with KLM for the conversion of two Boeing 747-200 stretched upper deck (SUD) combis to full freighter configuration. The Netherlands airline has signed a letter of intent, and ...