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FAA tackles icing problems on Beechjet and Diamond types
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has issued an airworthiness directive (AD) designed to prevent Raytheon Aircraft Beechjet 400 and Mitsubishi MU-300 Diamond aircraft from suffering un-commanded nose-down pitch at certain flap settings during icing conditions. The Beechjet is based on the Diamond design, which Beech Aircraft acquired from ...
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Broadening horizons
Times are hard at home, so All Nippon Airways is looking abroad for its growth. Kieran Daly/Tokyo and Kansai Throughout the world, governments are cheerfully embracing the concept of instant deregulation of their air-transport services. The consequences of this are sometimes dramatic, frequently unforeseen and, ...
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Lessons from the cockpit
Airbus has learned a lot about the "glass cockpit", but there is much more to be gleaned. David Learmount/LONDON In little more than a decade, a breathtaking change has taken place in airliner-cockpit design, and in flight management and control technology, but some pilots believe ...
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FAA compromises on its regional TCAS I deadline
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC REGIONAL AIRLINES in the USA are being given until the end of 1995 to fit the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS I) on their aircraft, even though manufacturers are warning that they may struggle to deliver kits in time. The US Federal ...
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Advanced Citations win foreign orders
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA KOREAN AIRLINES has ordered four Cessna Citation Ultra light business-jets for use as flight crew trainers. The aircraft will be modified to accommodate a third crew-station aft of the cockpit. The forward bulkhead will be removed, but six cabin seats will be retained, enabling the ...
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Championing United
After sweeping consolidation, where does UTC go next? Kevin O'Toole/LONDON George David shows a near faultless eye for detail as he skips between the United Technologies (UTC) business units summoning up market statistics and programme information. As president of a group, which spreads from aircraft ...
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Pentagon awards more JAST work
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US DEFENCE department's Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme office has handed out 24 contracts, worth $140 million, for concept definition and design research. No foreign firms were on the list, but the Pentagon says that it wants to open up the project. ...
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Row shadows start of new Cambodian line
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CAMBODIA International Airlines (CIA) is threatening legal action over the Cambodian Government's order for it to cease operations and hand over routes to newly re-launched national carrier Royal Air Cambodge (RAC). The Thai-owned airline says that it was given 24h notice to stop ...
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Malaysia plans to sell F-5E/Fs after MiG-29s enter service
MALAYSIA IS looking to find a buyer for up to 15 of its air force's Northrop Grumman F-5E/F fighters, which are due to be replaced by Mikoyan MiG-29s later this year. The F-5s, are planned to be withdrawn from service, by January 1996 and disposed of according to ...
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Seaspray sparks Australian row
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS THE PERFORMANCE of the GEC-Marconi Avionics Seaspray radar, is at the centre of a growing dispute, between the Australian Government and the four losing bidders, for its A$270 million ($210 million) nine year coastal surveillance contract. The work was awarded to National Jet ...
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Indians deliver first Partenavias
TANEJA AEROSPACE AND Aviation (TAAL) has delivered the first of the Aercosmos/Partenavia P.68 variants, which it is building under licence in India. The company says that it sold six aircraft during 1994 and is negotiating the sale of 12 more. A second aircraft will be delivered this month ...
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MGM Grand Air sold off
MGM GRAND, THE US hotel and casino operator, has sold its luxury charter airline, to Michigan based American International Airways (AIA). Despite the relaunch in 1994 of scheduled routes to Las Vegas, MGM Grand Air had been losing money. The deal includes the fleet of three ...
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Tupolev to collect Russian approval for Tu-204 airliner
TUPOLEV IS DUE to receive formally its Russian type certificate for the Tu-204 after winning certification on 29 December 1994. Protocol issues have postponed the presentation until 10 January, but the delay means that the manufacturer is still uncertain whether, as it suspects, the certification will include a ...
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MDC plans to test new aft- nozzle design on Harrier II
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) plans to begin flight-testing a new aft-nozzle design on its AV-8B Harrier II technology demonstrator, beginning in February. The aircraft has been used to evaluate wingtip-mounted AIM-9 Sidewinders since its first flight on 30 November 1994. The "zero-scarf" aft nozzles have been developed by Rolls ...
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Boeing and Airbus tie on 1994 order intake
Kevin O'Toole/London BOEING AND AIRBUS have ended 1994 virtually tied on the volume of new aircraft orders taken during the year, according to preliminary figures released by Seattle and Toulouse. Early returns suggest that Airbus may even have beaten its rival by a single aircraft, after ...
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PW4084-powered 777 undergoes service-ready tests
BOEING BEGAN a 1,000-flight service-ready testing programme of the Pratt & Whitney PW4084-powered 777 on 29 December 1994, almost two months later than hoped. It says that cyclic testing is going better than expected, however. Approval for extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) with the 777 when the twinjet enters ...
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Peregrine founder killed in BD-10 private jet accident
A BEDE JET BD-10 turbojet-powered private jet crashed on 30 December, 1994, killing the pilot, Michael Van Wagenen - president and founder of Peregrine Flight International, the company which recently acquired the rights to certificate and manufacture the BD-10 for the general-aviation market (Flight Inter- national, 4-10 January). ...
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Rudder ruled out in Coventry
UK INVESTIGATORS are virtually certain, that control difficulties played no part in the crash of an Air Algerie Boeing 737-200 on approach to Coventry Airport. They have found no evidence of rudder-control malfunction in the 21 December 1994, accident and believe that the aircraft's impact with an electricity ...