All air transport news – Page 2536
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AMR plans regional-jet contest for Bombardier and Embraer
AMR EAGLE is to start a competition later this month between Bombardier and Embraer 50-seat regional jets. The contest will be another clash in what promises to be a long-running battle between the Canadair Regional Jet and Embraer EMB-145 for dominance in the regional-jet field. Any regional-jet purchase ...
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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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First MD-95 empennage shipped to Douglas
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) at Salt Lake City, Utah, has completed the first empennage subassembly for the MD-95 100-seat regional twinjet. The empennage has been shipped to the Douglas Aircraft factory at Long Beach, California, where it will be mated with the aircraft's horizontal stabiliser. Final assembly of the first MD-95 ...
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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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What's on
Russian Aerospace '97 20-22 May, Moscow. Organised by Flight International and Aviaexport. Contact: Kim Daniels, First Conferences, 85 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5AR, UK; tel: +44 (171) 404 7722; fax: +44 (171) 404 7733; email: confdesk@firstconf.com RAeS Events January: D F McIntyre Lecture: Prestwick Airport Reborn 13 January; Gordon ...
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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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The reason flat turns won't work
Sir - In reply to the letter "Will we see turns without banking?" from D F Newland (Flight International, 20-26 November, P74), the reasons against flat turns are: the biological control unit (the pilot) would pass out because of the high lateral loading; to maintain equilibrium ...
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Other mid-air collisions
Sir - In the article "Collision raises doubts on ATC routeings" (Flight International, 20-26 November, P8), you say: "The last time a mid-air collision between commercial airliners occurred was 11 August, 1979." I would point out that, in April 1984, a mid-air collision occurred between two Votec Embraer ...
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Argo Systems
Robert van Dijk has joined Boeing subsidiary ARGO Systems as director of business development for MPA programmes. He was formerly marketing manager for defence programmes at Fokker Aircraft of the Netherlands Source: Flight International
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Bombardier
Jean Girard has been named vice-president and general manager of the new Bombardier Completion Centre, formed from the business-jet completion division of Innotech Aviation of Dorval, Quebec, Canada, purchased by Bombardier in November. Girard was formerly vice-president of aviation services at the Canadair Defence Systems division. ...
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TI tilt rotor deals
The TI Group has secured two separate deals to provide the landing gear and flight controls for the new Bell Boeing 609 corporate tilt-rotor. Dowty Aerospace Wolverhampton is to design and develop a complete suite of fly-by-wire control actuators in a deal reckoned to be worth in excess of $100 ...
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One of the lads
Bombardier Regional Aircraft division's de Havilland Dash 8 Series 200B has been selected by LADS of Adelaide, Australia, as an airborne platform for a hydrographic survey of shallow coastal waters. The aircraft will be delivered in June for modification and fitting with Laser Airborne Depth Sounder equipment. Service entry is ...
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Aircraft news
Boeing has signed a deal with American Airlines, granting the US manufacturer sole supplier status for jet aircraft until 2018. As part of the deal American has placed firm orders for 12 B777s, four B767-300ERs, 12 B757-200s, and 75 B737-600/700/800s. The US carrier has also taken so-called purchase rights on ...
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Appointments
Philip Chen will succeed Simon Heale as deputy managing director at Cathay Pacific Airways from mid-March. Heale takes up the position of finance director at Swire Pacific. Stanley Hui will replace Chen as Dragonair's chief executive from 1 February 1997, while Hui's role as chief operating officer of Air Hong ...
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Stalemate in London talks
UK and US negotiators kept to uncontentious issues such as ground handling and customs procedures during the latest round of bilateral talks in London in December 1996. Any breakthrough seems unlikely before the UK Office of Fair Trading and US Department of Justice rule on the proposed British Airways-American Airlines ...
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Airbus steal
Alenia is to join the four Airbus partners in the development of the AE100 with China and Singapore. In a blow to AI(R), the European partners decided to pursue the programme through Airbus, instead. The deal paves the way for Alenia to join the Airbus consortium after the latter's restructuring. ...
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Toughing out the boom
In 1997, can the major airlines improve on their performance in the boom year of 1996? Airline Business previews the main issues which will dominate airline executives' thinking in 1997. These are the good times, but life for the average airline manager does not appear to be getting any easier. ...
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Polls leave Thai with Bill
A change of government has rubbed salt into Thai Airways International's wounds. Lack of political clearance forced the carrier to postpone its US$4.7 billion fleet revamp and accept penalties of some $40 million. The latest setback for the mostly state-owned carrier comes on top of disastrous fourth quarter results which ...