All air transport news – Page 2551

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    Aviastar Asia ties up deal for 20 Tu-204s

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Paul Duffy/SHANNON Aviastar Asia (AAC), the new joint venture set up in Taipei to market the Tupolev Tu-204 outside Russia, has now signed a contract for 20 aircraft, which is expected to be announced officially at Airshow China '96 at Zhuhai in November. Singapore-registered AAC brings ...

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    BA ditches plans for British Mediterranean franchise

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    British Airways has abandoned proposals to operate its services to the Levant under a franchise agreement with British Mediterranean Airways (BMed), and both carriers say that they will continue to serve the Middle Eastern region independently. The two airlines struck a deal to operate joint services to Amman, ...

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    CAAC holds up Chinese airliner approvals

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Paul Lewis/BEIJING Chinese airlines are facing a growing backlog of pending aircraft orders and leases waiting for final approval from the country's civil aviation authority and Government. All Chinese aircraft orders and lease agreements of longer then one year are required to be submitted to ...

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    GE modifies GE90 combustion with manifold redesign

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    GE Aircraft Engines is planning to introduce a modified GE90 combustion system from mid-1997, designed to reduce manufacturing costs, emissions and weight. The only physical change is a redesigned manifold, while alterations to the fuel-nozzle system have been achieved through software modifications. "We have simplified the [double annular] ...

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    AlliedSignal invests to boost LF507 despatch reliability

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    AlliedSignal says that it is aiming for 99.95% LF507 dispatch reliability on the Avro RJ100 by the end of 1997 as the main target of an aggressive support campaign. The engine's reliability was criticised recently by Crossair president Moritz Suter (Flight Inter- national, 16-22 October). Allied- Signal Engines ...

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    Sabena links with Virgin Express for Heathrow route

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS Virgin Express is launching scheduled services between Brussels and London Heathrow, in a code-share deal with Sabena under which it will replace the Belgian flag carrier on the route. The low-cost Brussels-based airline launched services on 27 October with nine daily return ...

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    Westpac orders 737s and takes options on -700

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Western Pacific Airlines (Westpac) has finalised its expected order for new Boeing 737s, with an agreement for up to 12 aircraft, including options on the next-generation -700. The fast-growing, low-cost start-up, which has been in negotiations with Boeing for some months, has now placed a firm contract for ...

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    The tangled web

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    As free flight comes closer to reality, all parties involved in the concept find the final details difficult to agree. Julian Moxon and Kevin O'Toole/AMSTERDAM Few concepts have caught the aviation industry's collective imagination as strongly as that of "free flight". The prospect of aircrews being able ...

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    CNS/ATM programmes in Europe

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    PROGRAMME FOR HARMONISED AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT RESEARCH IN EURO-CONTROL (PHARE) Aimed at demonstrating the feasibility and merits of a future air-to-ground integrated air-traffic-management system in all phases of flight. Now part of Euro-control's European Air Traffic Management System initiative. The last of three demonstrations in 1998 will include ...

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    The big turnaround

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    A pilot shortage may be about to bite, but the major carriers are likely to be unaffected Karen Walker/ATLANTA It seemed almost impossible three years ago, but the airline pilot is a wanted commodity again. In the USA, it is believed that almost every major airline will ...

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    MDC board approves MD-XX for airlines

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    McDonnell Douglas (MDC) is understood to have given board-level approval to its civil-aircraft arm to start offering the MD-XX tri-jet family to airlines. A final board decision was due to be made at a meeting held at St Louis, Missouri, on 25 October attended by MDC president and ...

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    Cargo crash

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    A Boeing 707 freighter operated by Millon Air caught fire and crashed in a densely populated neighbourhood of Manta, Ecuador, on 22 October. At least 22 people were killed and 60 injured when the Miami, Florida-bound jet, loaded with flowers and frozen fish, lost altitude and crashed. The crew of ...

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    Asiana engine bidders await decision

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Competing power plant manufacturers are hoping for a decision from Asiana Airlines in November on the selection of engines for its planned fleet of 20 Boeing 777-200/300 and 28 Airbus A330-200/300 wide-body aircraft. According to local sources, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce are now into the ...

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    Koreans join 747X

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Boeing 747 subcontractor, Northrop Grumman has signed memoranda of understandings with Korean Air and Samsung Aerospace to supply structural components for the planned new 747-500/600X derivatives. The two South Korean companies are discussing supplying parts for the new aircraft's fuselage and empennage. Korean Air already builds the 747-400's flap tracks, ...

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    Smiths' work on Beech MkII

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Sir - Peter Henley gives a very positive view of the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System-winning Raytheon Beech MkII trainer in his flight test (Flight International, 2-8 October, P30). Our only regret is that Smiths Industries' contribution is not mentioned - the programme will provide us with $100 ...

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    ANA buys Wicat A320

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    All Nippon Airways (ANA) of Japan has become the latest carrier to purchase an Airbus Industrie A320 flight-management and guidance system (FMGS) "free-play" trainer from Wicat Systems. The ANA trainer consists of a cockpit replica with simulated primary-flight and navigation displays, multi-function control/ display unit, flight-control unit, thrust ...

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    CAE Electronics prepares to equip India's FANS centre

    1996-10-30T00:00:00Z

    CAE Electronics is preparing to deliver a future air-navigation system (FANS) workstation to India, for installation in the Calcutta air-traffic-control centre. The workstation will enable India to offer fuel-saving routes over the Bay of Bengal to airlines operating Boeing 747-400s with FANS-1 avionics. The workstation is similar to ...

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    MDHS

    1996-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Mesa, Arizona-based McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) has named Charles Vehlow general manager of AH-64 Apache programmes. He was formerly director of the AH-64D Longbow Apache and AH-64 derivative programmes. Source: Flight Daily News

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    Choice for Arkia and Euro regionals

    1996-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Arkia Airlines of Israel is to choose between the AI(R) Avro RJ and the de Havilland Dash 8-400, and plans to order between six and ten aircraft to replace Dash 7s. Arkia would like to introduce the new type by mid-1997. The Dash 8-400, however, will not be available until ...

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    Aero Industry Development Centre (AIDC)

    1996-10-23T00:00:00Z

    AIDC has developed a single-seat attack variant of its AT-3 two-seat trainer. Some AT-3A trainers are being upgraded to AT-3B close-support aircraft, with Westinghouse APG-66 radar, head-up display and 1553B databus. Ching-Kuo Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF) Production of the IDF was halted in October 1995 over ...