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Who's in control
AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL OPERATOR Dan Kennedy, recently returned from a Churchill Fellowship world study on GA safety, believes that insurance payouts of up to A$1 million ($806,500) on turbine agricultural aircraft, more than 60 of which are operated in Australia, may price his industry out of business if accident trends cannot ...
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NATA
US aviation-business public-policy group The National Air Transportation Association (NATA), of Alexandria, Virginia, has appointed Kurt Herwald, president and chief executive of Stevens Aviation, as its chairman. Michael Pittard, chairman of Aviation Charter Services, becomes vice-chairman. Thomas Ransom, vice-president of AVITAT/Qualitron, becomes treasurer, replacing Jeff Baum, of Wisconsin Aviation, who ...
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AAR
Brian Olds has been appointed senior vice-president for aircraft sales and leasing at service company AAR Engine Group, of Elk Grove Village, Illinois. He will oversee the company's acquisitions, sales and leasing operations. He was most recently executive vice-president and chief operating officer of Midway Airlines. Irvin R Lucas, formerly ...
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IAS
Custom-completions specialist International Aviation Services, of Forth Worth, Texas, has named Kristin Martin general counsel. Patrick Browne becomes manager of technical sales, having held flight-officer positions with South African Airways, People's Express, Continental Airlines and Air Micronesia. Jeff Conrad has been appointed director of business development, having held management positions ...
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Quality vs capacity
Paul Phelan/ADELAIDE STUDENT NUMBERS at the Australian Aviation College (AAC) in Adelaide are approaching maximum capacity, but expansion is out of the question, says general manager Harry Bradford. Although the BTR-owned school has over 200 students, it will not expand because quality would suffer, he says. ...
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Engine-makers line up options for 747X
Guy Norris/LOS ANGLES GENERAL ELECTRIC and Pratt & Whitney expect to finalise by the end of the month their joint-venture plans for the new -500/600 growth versions of Boeing 747. The two manufacturers have "-quickly reached agreement on an engine configuration", but have yet to reach ...
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Lufthansa pilots unhappy with aircraft maintenance
LUFTHANSA PILOTS are unhappy with the technical state of some of the aircraft they fly, according to an internal report leaked to the German press. The pilots complain that technical problems on aircraft are left unresolved because of "lack of parts, time pressure and lack of personnel". Although ...
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FlightSafety
Marty Grier has become manager of LaGuardia, New York-based FlightSafety's Raytheon-aircraft-dedicated maintenance-technician learning centre, in Wichita, Kansas. He was formerly director of maintenance at Raytheon Aircraft Service, also of Wichita. Bill Lewandowski becomes manager of FlightSafety's Training Systems division, of Winter Park, Florida. He was formerly computer instructional technologist at ...
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...and Honeywell brings manual data into the picture
HONEYWELL HAS introduced a headband-mounted display which will allow ground crew to see troubleshooting data as they carry out airliner-maintenance work. The display, which is connected to a processor on the maintenance-worker's belt, is an addition to Honeywell's Airline Maintenance and Operations Support System (AMOSS). Fault ...
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Lufthansa tests remote maintenance system...
Martin Hindley/LONDON LUFTHANSA SYSTEMS is testing an airport-based remote diagnostic system designed to provide ground engineers with an incoming aircraft's maintenance history and repair requirements. The company has teamed with Berlin-based software house Sietec Systemtechnik to develop the tool, as part of a telecommunications-research programme sponsored ...
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An entente cordiale?
Dassault and Aerospatiale are finally on course to merge,creating a new centre of gravity in Europe Julian Moxon/PARIS Kevin O'Toole/LONDON At times it seemed that it might never happen, but it finally appears that Dassault Aviation and Aerospatiale are genuinely on course to merge. Among ...
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Hong Kong's new airport secures second runway
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON CHINA AND THE UK have agreed to build a second runway for Hong Kong's new airport at Chek Lap Kok (CLK), to cater for faster-than-expected traffic growth. The agreement, signed by the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group, clears the way for a northern ...
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Japanese make joint approach to Boeing for 747-X workshare
FIVE OF JAPAN'S principal aerospace manufacturers have joined forces to approach Boeing for a share in developing the proposed growth 747-500/600X. The companies are Japan's three "heavy industries" - Fuji, Kawasaki and Mitsubishi - together with ShinMaywa Industries and the smaller Japan Aircraft Manufacturing, or Nippi. Boeing is ...
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Marketing a package
Abu Dhabi, host city for Routes '97, has its own unique approach to airport marketing. Mark Blacklock reportsShortly before landing at Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, Britannia Airways screens a video about the city, its airport and the duty free shopping complex. Provided free of charge by ...
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H+S Aviation
Turbine-engine and propeller repair and overhaul organisation H+S Aviation, of Portsmouth, UK, has appointed Peter Tierney programme manager for Allison 250 business. Tierney, who joins the company from Aviall Caledonian, succeeds David McRobert, who becomes marketing and business-development manager. Janet Bell has joined H+S as human-resources manager. Source: ...
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CFM hits back at IAE claims as V2500 is flown on Airbus A319
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES CFM INTERNATIONAL is challenging the competitive claims of International Aero Engines (IAE), as the manufacturer of V2500 celebrates a successful first flight on the Airbus A319 at Toulouse on 22 May. The planned culmination of the 200h A319 flight-test programme in December, ...
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Snecma and P&WC reveal regional turbofan details
SNECMA AND PRATT & Whitney Canada are planning to begin deliveries of the proposed SPW14 joint-venture engine early in the year 2000, to match the projected introduction of the Aero International (Regional) (AIR(R)) 70 regional jet. The SPW14 is the only all-new turbofan under consideration for the ...
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...while South Korea attempts to salvage China deal
SOUTH KOREA IS trying salvage plans to develop a new 100-seat passenger aircraft in co-operation with China, following the renewal of direct industry-level discussions between the countries. A Samsung Aerospace team, led by vice-president Yu Moo-Sung, has met Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) in Beijing, in an ...
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Advanced flightdecks
ALL FUTURE DOUGLAS (DAC) aircraft will share a common display and avionics architecture to be based around Honeywell's Versatile Integrated Avionics concept, VIA 2000. The MD-95 will be the first aircraft to be equipped with the full system, while the MD-90 is set to be changed to ...