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Report into Britannia 757 crash poses questions
A fast, high sink-rate, nosewheel-first touchdown in a storm started a sequence which led a Britannia Airways Boeing 757 to swerve off a runway at Girona, Spain, and break up, says the UK Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB). There were two serious injuries in the crash last September. After ...
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Damaged Crossair recorders go to Canada for analysis
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH The damaged flight data and cockpit voice recorders recovered from the wreckage of the Crossair Saab 340B which crashed shortly after take-off from Zurich on 10 January have been dispatched to the Transport Safety Board of Canada (TSB) for analysis. All 10 passengers and crew were ...
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Internet funds speed Delta retirements
Proceeds from the sale of stock in Internet ticket-auction company priceline.com will enable Delta Air Lines to accelerate the retirement of its Boeing MD-11s and MD-90s. The $711 million raised by selling some of Delta's stake in priceline.com will also allow the airline to repurchase up to $500 million of ...
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Impulse moves to lease Bavaria 717s
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Impulse Airlines is close to reaching a deal with Bavaria Leasing to take delivery of a pair of Boeing 717-200s as part of the Australian carrier's plans to launch interstate jet services. The Newcastle, New South Wales-based airline is expected to announce within the ...
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JAL boosts use of low-cost subsidiaries
Japan Airlines (JAL) plans to increase the use of its low-cost subsidiaries in the next fiscal year, which starts on 1 April, to deal with "the changing business environment more flexibly and rapidly". JAL says it will transfer four more Boeing 737-400s to domestic subsidiary JAL Express (JEX) up ...
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Raytheon delivers
Raytheon has delivered a Lockheed Martin P-3C partial aircrew co-ordination trainer to the US Navy, to train crews involved in anti-surface warfare operations. Under the Anti-Surface Warfare Improvement Programme, P-3s are being upgraded. Source: Flight International
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USMC tests MV-22
US Marine Corps pilots have flown a Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor full-flight simulator developed by FlightSafety International. The flights took place ahead of an operational evaluation programme set for July at MCAS New River, North Carolina. The simulator features FlightSafety's improved ChromaView Plus visual system integrated with a SEOS ...
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Last year 'difficult' for Ariane despite launch successes
Julian Moxon/PARIS Arianespace had a "difficult year" in 1999, despite launching 80% of available satellites and succeeding with a "perfect" first commercial launch of the Ariane 5, says director-general Jean-Marie Luton. While it won 12 of the 14 contracts put out for tender, the achievement is "unrepresentative", says Luton, ...
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ISS service module delayed
Tim Furniss/LONDON Russia's Energia company has confirmed that the Zvezda service module to the International Space Station (ISS) will not be launched until August at the earliest, rather than March/April as planned. The slippage has been caused by delays in the Zvezda schedule and by concerns about the ...
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Lockheed Martin delivers Image
Lockheed Martin has delivered the NASA Imager for Magnetopause-to-Auroral Global Exploration spacecraft (IMAGE) to Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, for its launch on 15 February. IMAGE, the first of NASA's Medium-class Explorer Mission spacecraft, was developed under a contract with Southwest Research Institute. IMAGE will be launched into a ...
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Russia considers extending the Mir Soyuz mission
The Russian Space Agency is recommending to the Russian Government the launch of a Soyuz spacecraft with two cosmonauts to the Mir space station at the end of March. The Mir has been unmanned since August. The crew's 45-day mission would be part of the planned programme to prepare ...
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Intelsat options
Europe's Intelsat is to exercise options with Space Systems/Loral for two additional Intelsat IX satellites - Intelsat 906 and 907 - to be deployed to the Atlantic Ocean region to meet growing demand for Internet services. Intelsat says that this will allow two existing satellites to be redeployed to new ...
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Proton engine-maker accused of neglect
Tim Furniss/LONDON The Voronezh Mechanical Engine Plant has been accused of neglect following investigations into two similar Proton launch failures on 5 July and 27 October, with Russian communications satellites. The review board, set up to establish the cause of the failure on 27 October, says: "The most ...
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Metal tanks may delay X-33
Lockheed Martin may be forced to replace the composite propellant tanks of the X-33 technology demonstrator with aluminium tanks, delaying the first launch until 2002. The company is also investing a further $100 million in the programme, which should have seen a first launch last June. The composite tanks have ...
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NASA aims for first X-34 tow tests and powered flights
NASA plans to begin ground tests of the X-34 reusable launch vehicle testbed on the dry lakebed at Edwards AFB, California, in mid-February, with flight tests planned for mid-year. The ground tests will involve towing the 17.7m (6ft)-long suborbital X-34 behind a truck for more than 3,000m across Rogers ...
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Korean Air 747s undergo checks after flap loss
The South Korean Government has ordered checks on Korean Air's (KAL) Boeing 747 Classic fleet following an incident when one of its freighters lost a flap section. South Korean civil aviation officials confirm the 12 747-200/-300s are being inspected. The checks were triggered by the latest incident, in which ...
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Anonymous syndicate nears Ansett NZ takeover
An unidentified New Zealand syndicate with close links to Qantas is finalising a deal with News Corporation to take over Ansett New Zealand. Industry sources suggest Qantas is sponsoring the takeover and plans to transfer six of its Boeing 737s to the new owner's fleet. A block of six ...
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Airbus takes top slot
Julian Moxon/PARIS Airbus Industrie comprehensively outsold Boeing for the first time in its 30 year history last year, booking 476 orders worth $30.5 billion. The European consortium's order intake represented 55% of the total order business, with Airbus ending the year 85 orders ahead of its US rival's tally of ...
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Racal deal firms Thomson at No 3
Chris Jasper/LONDON Thomson-CSF has agreed to buy the UK's Racal Electronics for £1.32 billion ($2.16 billion) in a move that further strengthens its position in defence electronics and systems. The purchase consolidates French company Thomson-CSF's status as Europe's third major defence player behind BAE Systems and European Aeronautic, Defense ...
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Patent application reveals SSBJ design
One of several supersonic business jet configurations being studied jointly by Lockheed Martin and Gulfstream Aerospace has been revealed in a US patent application. Although the application, filed by Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, provides no details of the design, accompanying diagrams show a twin-engined aircraft with highly swept "arrow" ...