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CAE supplies Schreiner
Schreiner Aviation Training has ordered a Boeing 737-800 Level D full-flight simulator with MaxVue Plus visual from CAE Electronics, for installation in the third quarter at its Amsterdam flight simulator centre. Source: Flight International
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RAF Chinook training due to start after six-month delay
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCCAE's Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility (MSHATF) is expected to start training UK Royal Air Force Boeing CH-47 pilots in mid-March, more than six months later than planned. Visual system problems and difficulties tuning the flight characteristics of the CAE-built Chinook and Aerospatiale Puma simulators delayed the ...
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Low-fare JetBlue takes off with 30 cities in its sights
Low-fare carrier JetBlue Airways, which lifted off on 11 February with two leased Airbus A320s, expects to be serving 11 US destinations by the end of the year and has set its sights on 30 US cities within three years. Meanwhile, it has emerged that talks about JetBlue becoming ...
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JAT is cleared for take-off
Igor Salinger/BELGRADE Yugoslav flag carrier JAT is poised to relaunch full operations following the formal lifting in mid-February of its ban from flying into European Union (EU) countries. JAT says the three months from 25 March will be the most crucial for it to regain its presence on European ...
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Ilyushin gauges interest in turboprop to replace An-2
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW The Ilyushin design bureau is completing detailed design of its proposed new regional turboprop, the Il-100, which is to be built by MAPO. The twin-engined 12-seater was announced this month at a convention of polar airlines in Archangelsk in north-west Russia (Flight International, 8-14 February). During the gathering, ...
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IAI takes on more work on 428JET
Israel aircraft Industries (IAI) is increasing its participation in the Fairchild 428JET programme, which will see it taking on the design and manufacture of additional components. IAI has an agreement to design and manufacture the fuselage, as well as undertake final assembly of the 44-seat, Pratt & Whitney Canada ...
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Emery nears update decision
Emery Worldwide expects to reach a decision "quite soon" on replacing its 27 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-60/70s and 29 Boeing 727-100/200 freighters. US cargo carrier Kitty Hawk is also considering a fleet update. Speaking at a cargo conference in Florida earlier this month, company vice-president and chief financial officer Mike ...
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Noise limits will stymie Brussels cargo hub
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS The Belgian Government has announced comprehensive measures to reduce aircraft noise at Brussels Zaventem Airport by up to 30% by mid-2003. The move will effectively ban most freighters, other than the Boeing 757, from night operations. A 30% increase in aircraft movements, from 300,000 to 400,000, ...
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Boeing adds BBJ winglets
Boeing has fitted the first production Aviation Partners-designed winglets to a Next Generation 737. The aircraft is a Boeing Business Jet (BBJ), on which they will be standard fit. The winglet-equipped BBJ will be used in supplemental type certification flight tests starting this month. The tests are expected to generate ...
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A340 variants beat range target despite their weight
Andrew Doyle/TOULOUSE After completing 320 days of windtunnel testing Airbus Industrie predicts that its A340-500 and -600 will marginally exceed nominal range targets . The better-than-expected aerodynamic performance will fully offset the fact that the empty weight of the -600 remains about 1.5t (3,300lb)above specification, while the -500 is 1t ...
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Tarnished image
Three Japanese satellite launches in the last two years have failed: the country's space programme is in crisis Andrzej Jeziorski/TOKYO Japan's space programme has been tarnished by a series of launch failures that culminated this month in the unsuccessful mission to deliver a government observation satellite into orbit aboard ...
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BA moves closer to selling loss-making Air Liberté
Chris Jasper/LONDON British Airways may be edging towards the sale of loss-making French regional subsidiary Air Liberté to SAirGroup carrier AOM, while pressing ahead with plans to enter the Italian regional market, possibly through a move for Meridiana. French newspaper reports say BA and SAir have been discussing an ...
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WAAS users' summit to debate problems
A "users summit" has been called for mid-March to determine the best solution to integrity issues uncovered during testing of the US Federal Aviation Administration's Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). The summit, organised by the US Air Transport Association (ATA) and Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), will involve ...
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Workshop
Polar Air Cargo has signed an agreement with Singapore Airlines (SIA) Engineering covering heavy maintenance work for its Boeing 747-100/200 freighters. Sabena Technics and Triumph Air Repair have signed a memorandum of understanding covering partnership on maintenance of auxiliary power units, integrated drive generators and constant speed drives, ATEC 6000 ...
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Swissair to rewire MD-11 cockpit areas
Swissair is to carry out an extensive programme of cockpit-area rewiring on its 19 Boeing MD-11s, starting in August. The airline's decision is based on analysis, since the September 1998 crash of one of its MD-11s near Halifax, Canada, of wiring routing in the forward fuselage, according to Swissair engineering ...
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NSC delay forces upgrade for Scottish ATC
Scottish airspace, crucial to flights between northern Europe and North America as well as local air traffic, will be managed by the old Prestwick air traffic control centre (ATCC) for at least six more years, says the UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS). A repeatedly delayed scheme to build a ...
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Routes
Air Canada will begin daily flights between Vancouver and Denver on 3 April and between Montreal and Denver from 5 June. Services will start between Toronto and Austin-Bergstrom International in early June. All routes will use 112-seat Airbus A319s. From mid-May, Air Canada regional affiliate Air Georgian will begin three-times ...
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Bombardier needs a year to recover Q400 deliveries
Andrew Doyle/COPENHAGEN Bombardier has confirmed that deliveries of its new Dash 8 Q400 turboprop are likely to suffer significant delays for the next 12 months. SAS Commuter put the first Q400 into revenue service early this month, four months late, and is to receive another 21 of the ...
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Investigators school
An accident investigation training academy for US and foreign investigators is to be set up by the US National Transportation Safety Board. The Board says this is part of its international aviation safety programme, which supports foreign accident investigations while offering research, engineering assistance and safety training. Course development, staffing ...
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Marketplace
JMC Airlines has confirmed it is finalising an order for two Rolls-Royce RB211-powered Boeing 757-300s, for delivery early next year (Flight International, 24-30 November, 1999). United Airlines has appointed BAE Systems Asset Management to remarket nine British Aerospace ATPs previously operated by its partner, United Feeder Services. The aircraft have ...