All air transport news – Page 2534
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Airbus offers composites work to boost MAS bid
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has offered to transfer, production of composite airframe components to Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Engineering, in a last-ditch effort to secure a deal with the national carrier for up to ten A340s. The offer, made by Airbus president Jean Pierson, centres on the production of composite cargo-compartment ...
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CityLine hands turboprop operations to Contact Air
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA CITYLINE is to hand over its Fokker 50 operations to partner Contact Air to enable it to concentrate on jet-airliner operations. In a related move, Contact Air is to return five de Havilland Dash 8-300s to the Canadian manufacturer. The move, approved ...
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Air Liberte takes over Euralair routes
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR LIBERTE has made the first move towards consolidating France's privately owned airlines with an agreement to take over the scheduled routes of Euralair. Euralair president Alexander Couvelaire calls the deal with Air Liberte "the opening shot in the regrouping of private-airline forces in ...
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UK questions RAF CASOM contenders on potential commonality advantages
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE UK MINISTRY of Defence (MoD) has asked all seven contenders for the Royal Air Force's conventional stand-off missile (CASOM) requirement what advantages would accrue from commonality if a second nation procured a similar system. A letter to all bidders for Staff Requirement ...
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Vietnam poised to sign up for Regionair A320-200s
VIETNAM AIRLINES is expected this month to sign a lease with Singapore company Regionair for ten Airbus A320-200s, to replace eight similar aircraft now reaching the end of their leases from European airlines. Air Vietnam's requirement will mean an imminent order with Airbus, as Regionair has no other ...
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JAA may reduce safety margins
David Learmount/LONDON A CRUCIAL European decision on airliner-cabin emergency-exit design, is expected to be announced on 12 December, is set to derail the US/European regulatory-harmonisation process. The European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) conclusion, by exploiting a regulatory loophole, may lead to a reduction of safety margins for ...
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GEC-Marconi denies radar cancellation
GEC-MARCONI IS denying reports from Manila that the Philippine Government has cancelled a recently signed contract for four surveillance radars. The Philippine press has reported that President Ramos has ordered that the radar deal be revoked and new tenders requested, after Senator Sergio Osmena alleged that the 3.5 ...
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DAT delivery
Sabena has taken delivery of the first two of 23 Avro RJ85s ordered earlier this year in a $500 million deal with the British Aerospace subsidiary. The aircraft will be used by Sabena commuter subsidiary Delta Air Transport (DAT) in Europe. Deliveries to Sabena will continue until 1998. Avro has ...
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Northwest crew is punished for Brussels miscue
NORTHWEST AIRLINES has taken stern action against the flight deck crew of a Frankfurt-bound McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40, which landed at Brussels Airport by mistake on 5 September. Northwest has completed its internal probe of the incident, which has resulted in the captain "taking early retirement" the first officer ...
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Canadian agrees on further cost cuts
CANADIAN AIRLINES International has reached a 38-month agreement with its 3,100 ticket agents, airport agents and crew schedulers to reduce costs by more than C$17 million ($13 million) a year. The carrier's pilots, dispatchers and simulator technicians have all signed agreements, which are expected to save the airline ...
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Boeing strike talks resume
BOEING AND ITS striking workers resumed stalled talks on 6 December, as the impact of the two-month-old stoppage mounted on customers and suppliers. Major Boeing subcontractor Northrop Grumman has announced that it will extend its scheduled holiday plant shutdowns by four to nine days, idling more than 6,000 employees, "...to ...
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GE/Allison wins JAST backing
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA A GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE)/Allison team has received a $7 million contract to begin work on an alternative engine for the four-service strike-fighter to be developed under the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme. Initial funding covers feasibility studies into derivatives of GE's current F110 and advanced ...
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The dangers of down-wind turns
Sir - Although not always accepted by the flying establishment, the danger of the "down-wind-turn" phenomenon is accepted by pilots of light aircraft and gliders. The effect may be seen, as birds circle in windy conditions, when the rapid loss of height as the bird turns down-wind, becomes obvious. ...
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Piper
Larry Bardon, formerly with Lockheed's "Skunk Works" and Pilatus Aircraft, has been appointed director for marketing and sales at light piston-aircraft manufacturer New Piper Aircraft, of Vero Beach, Florida. Dan Elliott becomes manager for manufacturing. Elliott, who previously spent 13 years with Piper, returns having served as chief tool engineer ...
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Saab
Saab Aircraft of America has appointed John Sterne as a director for regional-airline sales. He was formerly sales director with ATR Marketing. Al Smolinski, previously marketing director for Jetstream Aircraft, becomes vice-president for marketing support. Mike Miller, previously of Rolls Royce, will serve as director of fleet planning. ...
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Lockheed Martin
Sandra Walls has been appointed vice-president of business management at Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems, of Marietta, Georgia. She replaces Todd Kallman, who becomes vice-president of business management for the aeronautics sector of Lockheed Martin, of Bethesda, Maryland. Walls, with Lockheed since 1969, was formerly director of enterprise business planning. ...
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Cessna
Arbrey Barrett has been named vice-president for aircraft completions at Cessna Aircraft, of Wichita, Kansas. Barrett joined Cessna as a manufacturing supervisor in 1965, having held similar positions at airframe manufacturer Boeing, of Seattle, Washington. Five new executives are appointed for the company's single-engine-aircraft interests. They are H D Cartwright, ...
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Rolls-Royce Inc
Stanley Doepke is named director of airline marketing and Bruce McClelland becomes airline-analysis manager at Rolls-Royce Inc, the US arm of the UK aero-engine manufacturer. Doepke was formerly sales director at Fokker Aircraft USA, while McClelland was director of strategic market planning at Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dornier). Frederick Kocher becomes senior ...
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Kitfox change
SkyStar Aircraft is ready to make Teledyne Continental O-200 and IO-240B and Textron Lycoming O-235 engines available on its Kitfox family of kitplanes, now powered by uncertificated Rotax engines. Source: Flight International