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Thinking thin
Ian Sheppard/London Launched in April, the UK Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI) is a 50:50 Government/industry-funded programme co-ordinated by the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) as part of its Competitiveness Challenge. Donald Craig, seconded from Rolls-Royce as SBAC LAI programme manager, believes that the UK is leading the ...
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Boeing burgers
Boeing is reshaping the way it produces airliners to reduce costs and speed up deliveries Guy Norris/Seattle To most, burgers and airliners do not readily mix. Yet, as Boeing fights hard to reduce costs, cycle times and defects, the fast-food production concept is exactly the sort of philosophy it is ...
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Managing safely
Australasia hopes to lead by example with its candid approach to safety measures in the cockpit Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Has cockpit resource management (CRM) delivered the safety outcomes projected when the concept was launched in the early 1980s? Not universally, admit specialists such as Robert Helmreich, Ashleigh Merit and John ...
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Skynet 5 goes national
European military space integration has been ditched by the UKTim Furniss/LONDON The UK is to develop a new generation of military communications satellites rather than enter the Trimilsatcom collaborative programme with France and Germany (Flight International, 19-25 August). When he announced the Ministry of Defence decision on 12 August, Lord ...
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AlliedSignal studies enhanced ground proximity warning
Guy Norris/Redmond An advanced ground proximity warning system for general aviation applications is under study by AlliedSignal and could be given the go-ahead by the end of the year. The system would take advantage of packaging features of the Mk VI enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) now ...
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Commander offers trade-up scheme
Commander Aircraft has introduced a factory-direct trade-up programme. The company hopes this will boost sales of new and used Commander 114B/TC piston singles by making it easier for owners of Beech, Cessna, Mooney and Piper piston singles to trade-in their aircraft. "We offer prospective customers a fair market value for ...
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Kestrel seeks extra funding for family of utility piston singles
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Kestrel Aircraft has pushed back certification and first deliveries of its four-seat, single-engined K-250 utility aircraft to 2000, while it seeks funding for the programme. "Development is ongoing and we are now in the process of ordering tooling for the first production prototype," says Kestrel vice-president ...
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Average aircraft
Cincinatti, Ohio-based market analyst Aviation Research Group/US says that the 335 fixed-wing corporate aircraft operated by the top 100 US companies have an average age of 9.1 years, with the fleet comprised largely of older Cessna Citations, Dassault Falcons and Gulfstreams. Source: Flight International
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Greek order
The Greek Merchant Marine Ministry has signed a Dr18 billion ($54 million) contract with Eurocopter for four Super Puma AS332C1 helicopters, which will be deployed for search and rescue operations. The contract, under which the first helicopter is scheduled to be delivered in early 2000, also includes the supply of ...
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Orenda gets OE-600A approval
Orenda Recip has received Canadian approval to begin production of its 450kW (600hp) OE-600A vee-8 piston aero engine. Certification of the first re-engineing programme using the powerplant is expected before year-end, with others pending. The Canadian company plans to produce engines at a new plant set to open at ...
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New Piper test demand for complete range of aircraft
Dave Higdon/VERO BEACH New Piper Aircraft is examining market needs for a complete family of piston, turboprop and jet-powered aircraft. "We want New Piper to grow, and our product line to expand into a full family of aircraft," says chairman Chuck Suma. The Vero Beach, Florida-based company is also keen ...
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Sikorsky sizes up emergency medical market
Sikorsky is to supply two S-76C+ emergency medical service (EMS) helicopters to Florida's Palm Beach County. Under the deal, the helicopters will be available for use by Sikorsky as demonstrators as the manufacturer's S-76 completion and delivery centre is located in the county, at West Palm Beach. The helicopters ...
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Wilksch completes 90kW diesel flights
Wilksch Airmotive has completed initial development testing of a new two-stroke diesel engine for light aircraft. The UK company says that it plans to unveil details of the new powerplant in the middle of September. Mark Wilksch, founder of the Milton Keynes-based company, says that the first flight of ...
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717 sales drought may prompt Air Canada 'walk-away' offer
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is stepping up its sales campaign for the 717-200 in North America and is negotiating possible "walk-away" deals with Air Canada as anxiety grows internally over the lack of new orders for the small twinjet. Boeing declines to comment on specific campaigns, but Air ...
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Australia to prolong Hornets' life to 2015
Australia has ended industry hopes that it was about to launch a competition for a new fighter by announcing plans for a A$1.2 billion ($710 million) avionics and sensor upgrade of its Boeing F/A-18A/B Hornets, extending the fighter's operational life out as far as 2015. The upgrade will bring ...
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C-130J handover to RAF is two years late
Lockheed Martin is handing over the first C-130J tactical transport aircraft to the Royal Air Force at the company's Marietta, Georgia plant on 24 August - around two years behind schedule because of a series of technical problems. The aircraft will be delivered to the UK Defence Research Agency at ...
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ILFC prepares to finalise $1.5 billion A340-500/600 deal
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Guy Norris/Los Angeles International Lease Finance (ILFC) is finalising a $1.5 billion order with Airbus Industrie for 10 A340-500/600s. Details are expected to be unveiled at the Farnborough air show in September. According to Rob Duncan, a senior vice-president at the Los Angeles, California-based leasing company, just "one ...
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Braathens purchases Malmö Aviation
Braathens is to purchase Swedish airline Malmö Aviation for around SEK600 million ($74 million). Braathens partner KLM, which has a 30% stake in the Norwegian airline, will also "contribute" a sum believed to be about $20 million. The deal is the latest chapter in the tussle within the region ...
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Raytheon eyes Premier I variant
Graham Warwick/WICHITA A launch decision on the first derivative of Raytheon Aircraft's new Premier I business jet is expected "within a year", says company president Art Wegner. Speaking at the roll-out of the first Premier I in Wichita on 19 August, Wegner said that the next aircraft, known inside the ...
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Cruise attack
US Navy ships fired between 75 and 100 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a terrorist training camp in Khost, Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Khartoum, Sudan, on 20 August. The attacks, in response to the bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, were launched from the Red ...