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ERJ-145 makes Crossair debut with operational tests
Crossair's first Embraer RJ-145 is undergoing operational tests from the Swiss regional's base at Basle-Mulhouse. The 49-seater was scheduled to enter service on 26 March, with initial destinations including Manchester, Madrid, Birmingham, Copenhagen, Oslo, Hamburg and Valencia from Basle. Source: Flight International
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Delta continues rebranding with another livery revamp
Delta Air Lines has unveiled another new corporate livery on a Boeing 777-200 as part of a wider "customer-focused" re-branding effort launched last month. The airline is one-third of the way through repainting its 586-strong fleet with a revised scheme, launched three years ago. The latest revamp removes the words ...
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Strengths and weaknesses
Operational evaluation confirms the Boeing F/A-18E/F as the best carrier-based fighter the US Navy can afford - but it's not perfect Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Development and operational testing are two different disciplines. So it was with trepidation that the US Navy awaited the results of operational evaluation (Opeval) of ...
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FedEx studies head-up displays
FedEX is examining options to fit up to 290 of its jet aircraft with head-up displays (HUD) or enhanced vision systems (EVS). The programme has been launched to improve safety, permit operations to lower weather minima and broaden situational awareness. It was prompted by recent landing accidents involving the ...
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Carriers queue for La Guardia
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Continental Airlines and Delta Air Lines are moving quickly to claim additional slots promised for regional services at New York's La Guardia Airport as the result of newly approved Congressional legislation. Contained in the US Federal Aviation Administration reauthorisation Bill is a provision to grant ...
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Starsem success in Cluster
Starsem demonstrated the flight profile for launches of two pairs of Cluster satellites in June and July, using a dummy satellite on a Starsem Soyuz Fregat booster from Baikonur on 20 March . The Fregat upper stage's first firing placed the Dumsat payload into initial low Earth orbit. The ...
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Zvezda is cleared for launch despite poor safety levels
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA has cleared the launch in July of the Russian Zvezda service module for the International Space Station (ISS), despite US concerns about the failure of the Zvezda and Zarya modules to meet NASA safety standards, such as noise levels and pressurisation integrity. NASA says it ...
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East Europe leads move towards seamless ATC
Julian Moxon/BUDAPEST Hungary has inaugurated its new £40 million ($62 million) air traffic control centre at Budapest's Ferihegy Airport as pressure mounts for the creation of a "seamless" central European ATC area in the region. The Matias ATC centre, supplied by Thomson Airsys, has opened a year later than ...
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JMC considers planning pact with Hapag-Lloyd for long-haul fleet
Max Kingsley-Jones/BARCELONA JMC Airlines, the newly formed UK charter carrier, expects to choose between Airbus and Boeing for its new long-haul fleet later this year after concluding its long-expected order for up to five Boeing 757-300s. The long-haul deal could signal the start of a joint fleet planning ...
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Lufthansa snaps up KLM student pilots
Lufthansa is recruiting 60 trainee pilots graduating from the KLM Flight Academy in the Netherlands, following the Dutch flag carrier's decision to cut unprofitable routes and remove aircraft from its fleet in an effort to restore profitability. Industry sources say that KLM will also offer to second to Lufthansa ...
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Marketplace
Air Luxor has purchased a second Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 500 from Novair, in a deal arranged by Cabot Aviation. The disposal of Novair's last TriStar 500 is being finalised. Cathay Pacific is understood to be in discussions with Boeing over acquiring the original Boeing 777-200 test aircraft which is ...
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BAE approves regional launch
Emma Kelly/LONDON BAE Systems hopes to announce the launch airline for its RJX regional jet family in the next three weeks following the formal launch of the Avro RJ derivative on 21 March. Peter Connolly, BAE Systems senior vice-president for sales and marketing, says an order for the ...
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Investigators throw light on MD-11 crash cause
Canadian accident investigators are again sifting the wreckage of the Swissair Boeing MD-11 Flight No SR111 to check whether cockpit map reading lights could have been the ignition source for the fire which brought down the aircraft, flying from New York to Geneva off Nova Scotia in September 1998. ...
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Lockheed Martin forms GPS company
Lockheed Martin has formed a new company, Synchronetics, to provide regional augmentation of the global positioning system (GPS). It plans to operate ground- and space-based augmentation systems that allow GPS to be used for air navigation. Initially, Synchronetics is targeting South America, says Dan Brophy, director of navigation services ...
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US Airways gets set to form international partnership
Ramon Lopez/TOULOUSE US Airways will become a partner in an international airline alliance in the next few months, says chairman Stephen Wolf. At the same time, the airline is gearing up for long-haul expansion with the delivery of the first of up to 30 Airbus A330-300s. Until now, ...
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WAAS guides FAA to new approach
The US Federal Aviation Administration plans new categories of approach guidance based on the expected performance of the wide area augmentation system (WAAS). Details revealed at the WAAS users' summit in mid-March suggest the new levels will provide increased operational benefit earlier than expected. The FAA told users that ...
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Workshop
Lasham, UK-based Triumph Air Repair (Europe) has renewed its three-year agreement with London Gatwick-based GB Airways to maintain its Honeywell GTCP 85 series auxiliary power units on the airline's Boeing 737s. Pan American has begun installing Raisbeck Stage 3 kits on its seven Boeing 727-200s, a combination of upgrading Stage ...
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Aegean considers global alliances
Aegean Airlines is "probing" global alliance possibilities with a view to joining one of the networks by next March to let it launch international routes, having given up hope of co-operating with Greek carrier Olympic Airways. The airline plans international expansion around the opening of the new Athens Spata ...
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US Army keen to move on common engine
The US Army wants to move ahead with the proposed new Common Engine Programme (CEP) to power Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters and the Sikorsky UH-60X Black Hawk. It has failed to enlist the US Navy's support for a joint development, however. An operational requirements document (ORD) has been signed ...
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China close to fielding land-attack missiles
China is making progress towards fielding new land-attack cruise missiles (LACMs), but it is unclear which weapon will be deployed first. One is known as the CF-2000 Chang Feng, or "Long Wind". Last year, in a report to US Congress, the Department of Defense said new Chinese LACMs would ...