All air transport news – Page 2563
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Behind the screens
Karen Walker/ATLANTA NEW TECHNOLOGIES are bringing new ways of entertaining and informing passengers while they fly, as well as helping them to use their time productively. The resulting changes in services, which might routinely be offered to passengers in the near future, could have most impact ...
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Northwest contract
ST Aviation Services SASCO has signed a $21 million contract with Northwest Airlines for a Section 41 modification of nine Boeing 747-200s, with an option to upgrade a further six. Work will begin immediately and be spread over 18 months. SASCO has also won a $2.5 million deal with FedEx ...
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AI(R) selection
Aero International (Regional) has selected the Honeywell/Trimble HT1000 as the standard optional global-navigation satellite sensor (GPSS) navigation-management system for the ATR 42 and 72 regional turboprops. Source: Flight International
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Dallas Anglo-American
Dallas Airmotive has signed a memorandum of understanding to acquire the engine services division of Anglo American Airmotive, which is based at Bournemouth International Airport in the UK. The deal includes all tools and equipment at the engine centre, including the Pratt & Whitney PT6A engine-series test cell installed ...
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Learjet
Rolland (Rollie) Vincent has been appointed director of public relations and strategic planning at Bombardier subsidiary Learjet, of Wichita, Kansas. He was formerly director of international marketing, responsible for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, for Bombardier Regional Aircraft, based in Toronto, Canada. Nita Scrivner has been named director of ...
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Helicopter success
McDonnell Douglas has sold its first MD600N to a customer in France. The helicopter was purchased by supermarket chain Presta Services. The helicopter company has also sold a MD Explorer, a MD600N and a MD500 to UND Aerospace. The aviation education and training arm of the University of Dakota has ...
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Hurel-Dubois presents new thrust-reverser concept
FRENCH aerostructures company Hurel-Dubois is developing a new thrust-reverser concept which it claims will be cheaper, lighter and more reliable than existing systems. The system, called the Papillion, incorporates technology used in the company's earlier pivoting-door thrust-reverser designs in a blueprint requiring fewer components. The design is aimed at underwing-mounted ...
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Asiana wants additional power for 777-300 fleet
GENERAL ELECTRIC and Rolls-Royce are being pressed by Asiana Airlines to commit to development of higher-thrust engines to power Boeing 777-300s. The South Korean carrier has specified that it wants a 430kN (98,000lb)-thrust engine to power its planned fleet of aircraft. The yet-to-be-selected engine is needed by early ...
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Lufthansa takes MD-11s, USAir talks -95s
Guy Norris/FARNBOROUGH McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is in final negotiations with USAir for a huge MD-95 twinjet order, thought to include more than 50 aircraft on firm order and 50 on option. News of the USAir talks comes hot on the heels of the sale of up to ...
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CFMI faces new 737 test hurdle
CFM INTERNATIONAL (CFMI) is redesigning the fan-blade-retention device on the CFM56-7B2 for the third time in an attempt to complete certification testing for the engine type for the new-generation Boeing 737. The new test will take place "around the end of September", says CFMI, which realises that ...
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Dornier sets jet date
FAIRCHILD DORNIER could launch a turbofan version of its 30-seat Dornier 328 next month, with development of a stretched 50-seat turbofan to follow in mid-1997 after an eight-month definition phase. The turbofan development, an alternative to the long-awaited turboprop stretched-version of the aircraft, has already been deemed ...
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Condor power
Rolls-Royce is to provide the engines for up to 24 Boeing 757-300s ordered by German airline Condor in a deal covering 12 firm orders and 12 options. See P12. Source: Flight International
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Highly rated
Is cross-crew qualification delivering its promises? David Learmount/LONDONPaul Phelan/CAIRNS AS AIRLINES AND regulators start to gain experience with cross-crew qualification (CCQ) training and mixed-fleet flying (MFF), its potential is becoming clearer. Cathay Pacific Airways, with its unique Airbus Industrie A330/A340 MFF operation, now has 55 complete ...
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Licencing and major regulatory issues
REGULATIONS which affect cross-crew qualification (CCQ) and mixed-fleet flying sometimes directly limit the number of commercial type-ratings a pilot is allowed to have on his licence, but in all cases specify the training necessary first to obtain the type ratings and then to maintain type-rating currency. The regulatory components are: ...
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The Cathay experience
CATHAY PACIFIC Airways has been operating mixed-fleet flying with its new Airbus Industrie A330/A340s since August 1995. This is a pioneering departure, in that it requires crews to be simultaneously qualified, on aircraft with two and four engines, a combination, which has never before been an industry-accepted practice for line ...
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BAe's asset management effort reaps return with more deals
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON BRITISH AEROSPACE says that its aggressive drive to limit losses from the group's extensive turboprop leasebook is beginning to produce results, with a series of new deals including the first sales of Jetstream J31s. BAe Asset Management Turboprops (AMT) announced plans to step up ...
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Boeing 737 mystery prompts airworthiness directives
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC and David Learmount/LONDON The US National Transportation Safety Board's investigation into the USAir Pittsburgh crash has spawned airworthiness directives (ADs) requiring changes in the Boeing 737 flight-control system. This comes despite the fact that the investigation, the most exhaustive in the board's history, has failed ...
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A coming of age
The powerful Trent 800 is carving out a big slice of the engine market for Rolls-Royce. Guy Norris/LOS A little over a year from now the world's longest jet airliner is due to fly from Everett, Washington. Powering the first flight of the Boeing 777-300 will be Rolls-Royce ...
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ATN team to be led by AlliedSignal project
ATN SYSTEMS, the industry consortium created to develop the Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN), has picked an AlliedSignal-led team to develop the network "router". The team will provide the avionics and ground system equipment needed to support routing and operation of data communications services over the ATN. Working ...