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Blame HF problems on sunspot peak
Airlines relying on HF communications to keep in contact with their aircraft are in for a bumpy ride. With sunspot activity increasing as we reach the current 11-year peak (predicted to be next year) HF is going to become increasingly unreliable. Over the past few weeks intense solar flares have ...
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Swissair SR111 flight recorder found
The investigation into Swissair flight SR111 which crashed on 2 September has taken a major step forward following the recovery of the flight data recorder (FDR). Swissair in Zurich says the FDR was recovered yesterday evening. As the search for the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) continues, the Swiss flag ...
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Qantas to upgrade RB.211 engine fleet
Qantas Airways has become the latest airline to opt for Rolls Royce's up-grade of RB.211-524G engines to the improved -524G-T. Rolls-Royce managing director for airlines, John Cheffins, says engines powering 18 of Qantas's 747-400s, plus spares, will be retrofitted. Cheffins would not give the value of the deal, but ...
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Celebration marks IAE sales milestone
It was large drinks all round at the International Aero Engines stand in Hall 4 to celebrate the delivery to Lufthansa of the 1,000th V2500 engine. Barry Eccleston, IAE president and chief executive officer, was joined by representatives of the companies that make up IAE and Jan Peter Jansen of ...
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Orders flow for Vickers at show
Mark Hannant US industrial giant Vickers has announced a number of new orders at the show. Raytheon Aircraft has selected Vickers as integrated hydraulic system supplier for the Hawk Horizon, Raytheon's new transcontinental business jet. Vickers' Aerospace Marine Defence (AMD) Fluid Power Division will be involved in both ...
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Advanced systems give Eurofighter knockout punch
Steve Nichols "He never knew what hit him" is a well-worn phrase, but an apt one if you are a Eurofighter ES2000 pilot. A combination of systems means the pilot has only to look at an enemy plane and it is probably downed. First, the enemy is ...
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Airlines assured in the year 2000
Tony Stevenson Airbus Industrie and Boeing aircraft will not be at risk to the "millennium bug" as the clock strikes midnight at the end of 1999. Both major manufacturers have given pledges that aircraft systems will be "millennium compliant." Boeing's Walt Gillette, leader of engineering and product ...
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Airbus to decide on A318 by year-end
Mike Martin Airbus Industrie will make a launch decision on the 100-seat A318 aircraft by the end of the year - and has chosen the Pratt & Whitney PW6000 engine for the aircraft, it was announced at the show yesterday. The decision sees the European company move away ...
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'Cool' Bombardier highlights teamwork
Bombardier Services has come up with the coolest crowd-puller at this year's show. It's the British Bobsleigh team, which cornered its way smoothly into Hall 4, stand B8 to help Bombardier Services promote its latest philosophy - teamwork. Business development manager Richard Howman says: "We place a lot ...
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Airshow debut is milestone for new Galaxy
Karen Walker Galaxy Aerospace's president and chief executive officer, Brian Barents, was witness to a major milestone in his company's history on Friday. Barents arrived in time to see the new Galaxy business jet touch down at Farnborough to make its debut appearance at an airshow. "This ...
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Greyhound cleared in unscheduled check-up
Safety is an issue taken very seriously at Farnborough, a point illustrated with precautionary checks on a Grumman C-2 Greyhound after it landed at the show on Saturday. Use of the main runway was briefly suspended when the Greyhound stopped on the taxiway. After careful inspection of a suspected ...
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Control system keeps a handle on stock
Mark Hannant British Airways Engineering Logistics Centre at London's Heathrow airport is a hive of activity. Each week it handles and ships more than 100 tonnes of aircraft spare parts. Keeping track of the movement of such a huge volume of traffic requires a complex system. And that ...
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Farnborough 1948-1998:
Geoff Thomas Mention 'Farnborough' or 'the old black sheds' to an aeroplane buff, and the resulting misty eyes and far-away expression give the game away. Over the past half-century, this little piece of Hampshire - only a few miles south-west of London - has regularly played host to ...
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C-130J - late, but much better
Geoff Thomas Another first for Farnborough '98 is the public debut of the Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules, two years later than hoped for by the Royal Air Force, but welcome nonetheless. The Flight Daily News picture of the aircraft is taken over The Needles, a group of rocks on ...
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Elusion takes warfare training to new plane
Tim Ripley Electronic warfare (EW) specialists will be making a bee-line for the new Elusion EW training system, which is making its debut at Farnborough. The simulation and training arm of UK defence electronics giant Marconi Electronic Systems is marketing the system internationally after securing a contract earlier ...
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Storming the skies
Geoff Thomas Weather's always a problem for display pilots, especially when the remnants of a hurricane - now demoted to a tropical storm - head across the Atlantic towards Europe- and Farnborough. Maybe the best-prepared will be Dassault's chief test pilot Yves Kerherve who says that the Dassault Rafale ...
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Safety governs flight validation
Geoff Thomas All display pilots have to satisfy Farnborough's eagle-eyed flying control committee that they're not going to do anything dangerous - either to themselves or to the thousands of spectators along the flight line. For the past few days, the leaden skies over Farnborough have echoed to ...
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Anglo-French joint venture to tackle fighter technology
Tim Ripley British and French fighter manufacturers have formed a joint venture company to develop the technology for the next generation of European combat aircraft. European Aerosystems brings together British Aerospace and Dassault Aviation in a formal arrangement, which builds on the November 1995 memorandum of understanding between ...
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Gulfstream grows with acquisition of K-C Aviation
Gulfstream Aerospace has completed the purchase of K-C Aviation for $250 million. The acquisition allows the company to expand its aircraft completions, maintenance and parts business, and establishes Gulfstream as a major player in the aircraft engine service market. K-C has facilities in Texas, Wisconsin and Massachusetts, which ...
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Mergers on cards for small aviation firms?
Alan Dron The wave of consolidation that has swept the upper echelons of the US aviation industry will be repeated among second-tier and smaller, specialist, companies over the next few years, believes Frank Lanza, chairman and chief executive officer of L-3 Communications. New to Farnborough,L-3 Communications was formed ...