All air transport news – Page 2610
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Coltec Industries' Chandler Evans Control Systems division is offering to exchange the Allison 250 turbine-engine main fuel-pump for a new, more reliable and maintainable, pump "for about the price of an overhaul". Source: Flight International
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Section 41 Success
Singapore Aviation Services (SASCO) has signed two contracts, worth S$8 million ($5.5 million), for section 41 modification to two South African Airways Boeing 747s and a Middle East Airlines 747. SASCO will also perform engine-pylon modifications to the aircraft. It has signed a letter of intent to carry out similar ...
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Appointments
James Wey has been appointed junior vice president Europe for Taiwan's Eva Air. Rono Dutta has been appointed United Airline's senior vice president planning following the departure of Rakesh Gangwal to Air France; James Hartigan Jr becomes vice president cargo. Daniele De Giovanni has been named ...
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Orders/Leases
SA Airlink has ordered nine Jetstream 41 aircraft, worth $63 million, for delivery between February and September 1995. Swissair has ordered an MD-11, scheduled for delivery in March 1997. Jetstream International Airlines has ordered 20 Dornier 328s, with an option for an additional 20. Elsewhere, Lone ...
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MD-80 operators prepare for ice
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US OPERATORS OF the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-80 are gearing up for fleet-wide installation of systems designed to prevent the formation of over-wing icing. Two systems have now been approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration as alternative means of compliance with an ...
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Air Macau chiefs resign after row
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE START-UP CARRIER Air Macau has suffered a major setback with the resignation of its chief executive David Young and two other senior managers, following a row over control and direction of the company. Young has quit the joint venture Sino-Portuguese airline only four months ...
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United expands shuttle operations
SHUTTLE BY UNITED is to expand its frequencies in eight US West Coast city-pairs and connect San Francisco, California, with Phoenix, Arizona, beginning in early February. The short-haul discounted air service has expanded from its initial 184 daily departures when it started operations in October 1994, to 342 ...
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Saginaw ghost
A mystery from the past may have relevance for the present. David Learmount/LONDON When Capt. Harvey "Hoot" Gibson's aircraft, a Trans World Airlines Boeing 727-100, suddenly rolled out of control and dived 32,000ft (10,000m), Gibson had to pull more than 5g before recovering control at ...
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Hughes wins contracts for four communications satellites
Tim Furniss/LONDON HUGHES SPACE and Communications International has maintained its lead in the satellite-manufacturing market with contract awards to build three HS-601 and one HS-376 communications satellites for Luxembourg, Malaysia and Afro-Asian Satellite Communications (ASC). The deals bring orders for the three-axis HS-601 to 38 ...
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Inmarsat claims lead in global satphones
INMARSAT P COMPANY has received $1.4 billion in investment commitments to implement the building of a global hand-held satellite-telephone system. The investment figure, which has been promised by 35 countries, exceeds the $1 billion target and represents the total projected equity requirements for the project at this stage, ...
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Restructure approved
SHAREHOLDERS of Canada's Fleet Aerospace have approved a major financial restructuring. Toronto-based Fleet, which makes parts for Bell Helicopter Textron, de Havilland and McDonnell Douglas, was in danger of defaulting on debt payments due early this year. Aerospace contractors, concerned about the company's ability to survive long-term, have ...
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Litton works on GLS for Airbus
LITTON IS WORKING with Airbus Industrie to certificate by December a worldwide non-precision-approach (NPA) capability, using the global-positioning system (GPS), on the A300/A310 and A330/A340. The capability is based on integration of Litton Aero Products' LTN-2001 GPS receiver and LTN-101 Flagship laser inertial-navigation system (INS). Litton says ...
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France offers Mirages to Philippine air force
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE FRANCE HAS offered to sell an undisclosed number of surplus Dassault Mirage F.1 fighters to the Philippine air force as replacements for its badly depleted fleet of Northrop F-5A/Bs. The ex-French air force aircraft form part of a larger package of defence-equipment sales ...
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Maintenance errors cripple A320
AN EXCALIBUR AIRLINES Airbus Industrie A320 was left with four of its five starboard spoilers disabled following a right-outboard-flap change carried out by British Airways maintenance at London Gatwick Airport, says a recent report by the UK Air Accident Investigation Branch. The pilots departed Gatwick on 26 August ...
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Martin says APALS order is near
MARTIN MARIETTA expects to announce a launch order in March for "significantly more than 100" Autonomous Precision Approach and Landing Systems (APALS) from an unnamed operator. The company is guaranteeing US certification of the radar-based APALS as equivalent to a Category III instrument-landing system (ILS) by the end ...
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TWA clarifies its Airbus A330 order
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES (TWA) has clarified plans for its outstanding order for Rolls-Royce Trent-powered Airbus A330s, which it had previously indicated would be cancelled under its planned financial restructuring (Flight International, 18-24 January, P8). The airline says, that the agreement for ten firm and ten option A330s remains ...
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Bargain carriers establish hubs away from bases
US LOW-COST CARRIERS, Midway and ValuJet Airlines, are establishing new hubs. Chicago-based Midway has reached agreement with American Airlines to lease gates at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, North Carolina, while Atlanta-based ValuJet has begun operations from Washington Dulles International Airport. Midway plans to shift most of its operations from ...
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Dornier expects 328-120 approval
DORNIER EXPECTS to receive Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) certification for its improved 328-120 regional turboprop in May and to deliver the first aircraft shortly afterwards to launch customer Formosa Airlines. The Dornier 328-120 is a further development of the recently certificated -110, offering improved runway performance. The ...
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Nagoya crash victims prepare to sue CAL
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CRASH VICTIMS' relatives and survivors of the China Air Lines (CAL) Airbus Industrie A300-600 accident on 26 April, 1994, at Nagoya, Japan, say that they are to sue the carrier for pilot error. The action coincides with publication of the first draft of ...