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Puerto rico by blimp
An American Blimp A-60+ lightship has completed what is believed to be the first extended offshore airship flight in more than 40 years. The airship flew 1,700km (920nm) from North Perry, Florida, to San Juan, Puerto Rico, in about 35h, including overnight stops. The airship, one of the 13 A-60+ ...
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Airbus/Boeing pin hopes on China orders
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Airbus Industrie and Boeing are hoping that forthcoming visits of US and European leaders to Beijing will produce follow-on aircraft purchases, as China Aviation Supplies (CASC) completes the final allocation of the 80 airliners ordered last year. Boeing is believed to be working on the sale ...
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Fastener safety rules catch US industry
Dave Higdon/HOUSTON A pending change in the regulation of fastener standards in the USA has created an unexpected threat to the aerospace industry, which is calling for urgent government action. According to the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) and the US Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), legal implications could ...
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Marketplace
MARKETPLACE ++ American Airlines has confirmed its order for a further eight Rolls-Royce Trent 800-powered Boeing 777-200ERs, increasing its 777 order to 19. Delivery of the newly ordered aircraft will begin in 1999. Delta Air Lines has converted two options for R-R Trent 800-powered 777s. ++ Aerotec/ USA, ...
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Light aircraft may escape from new rules
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC European and US airworthiness authorities may exempt general aviation aircraft under 2,700kg from new regulations intended to harmonise the certification standards applied to derivatives of existing designs. The International Certification Procedures Task Force (ICPTF), which includes the European Joint Aviation Authorities and US Federal Aviation ...
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Space trace
An Orbital Sciences' (OSC) Pegasus XL booster air launched from the company's Lockheed TriStar carrier aircraft over the Pacific Ocean on 2 April successfully placed NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) satellite into low Earth orbit. The 212kg TRACE will be used to investigate the connection between the sun's ...
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Up-front employees
If recurrent training is outsourced, airlines lose an opportunity for crew contact Expanding commercial airlines face problems obtaining, training and retaining quality flightcrew David Learmount/frankfurt US commuter airlines are losing aircrew at the rate of about 20% a year, being bled dry by airlines such as ...
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Gripen EW
Ericsson Saab Avionics has beaten "severe international competition" to supply the integrated electronic warfare (EW) suite for the export version of the Saab/British Aerospace JAS39 Gripen fighter. The EWS 39 threat warning, jamming and chaff/ flare suite is based on the EW system already installed in Swedish air force Gripens. ...
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B/E Aerospace buys
US cabin interior specialist B/E Aerospace is back on the acquisition trail, agreeing to purchase Puritan-Bennett Aero Systems, a leading manufacturer of commercial aircraft oxygen delivery systems and passenger service units, from Nellcor Puritan Bennett, for $69.7 million. Source: Flight International
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Dassault in pre-merger moves
Julian Moxon/Paris Dassault Aviation is studying the separation of its military and civil businesses in a move which is seen as preparing the company for a merger with Aerospatiale and eventual integration of the military business into a greater European alliance. The move came as a further two ...
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Fishbed flight test
The Lahav division of Israel Aircraft Industries has completed a series of test flights of an upgraded Mikoyan MiG-21Bis Fishbed. The MIG-21-2000 includes an Elta EL/M-2032 advanced multimode radar, two multifunction liquid crystal colour displays and other new avionics. The upgrade is being offered to several MIG-21Bis operators. ...
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May deadline looms for South African helicopter contests
Douglas Barrie/London South Africa has set a May deadline for bids in its Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) contest to replace Aerospatiale Alouette IIIs and for maritime helicopters for its planned 3,000t corvettes. Eurocopter and GKN Westland are shortlisted for the six maritime helicopters, while Agusta, Bell Canada and ...
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Alenia chief vents anger at Airbus
Julian Moxon/Rome The president of Alenia's aerospace division, Georgio Zappa, has criticised France, Germany and the UK for their continued failure to define the future shape of the European aerospace industry. Zappa also attacks Aerospatiale, British Aerospace and Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) for not including Alenia Aerospazio in the ...
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PAL probe finds faulty reverser
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Asymmetrical thrust is emerging as the most likely cause for the crash of a Philippine Air Lines' (PAL) Airbus Industrie A320 at Bacolod, after the pilot attempted to land with only one of the aircraft's two engine thrust reversers serviceable. Flight International understands from investigators in ...
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P&W recalls blades after cleaning blip
Pratt & Whitney has been forced to recall thousands of high pressure turbine (HPT) blades and remove eight engines from service after a new ultrasonic cleaning device caused microscopic cracking of the blades. The company declines to comment on the cost of the problem, but it is known to ...
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Loss of control
Often it is unfair to blame only the pilot for colliding with objects near a helipad. Some sites are unnecessarily cluttered with objects waiting to be hit Helicopters cannot afford malfunctions, because when they happen loss of control is frequently the result David Learmount/london Fixed ...
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Price cutting 'harms' airline industry
The world airline industry is continuing to underperform because of price cutting, warns Pierre Jeanniot, director general International Air Transport Association (IATA), forecasting a sharp fall in profits this year. Preliminary figures from IATA suggest that international airlines earned net profits of around $5 billion last year, despite a ...
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Germany finances development of Taurus stand-off missile
GermanY's defence procurement office (BWB) has awarded Daimler-Benz Aerospace missile subsidiary LFK a contract for the development of the MAW Taurus modular stand-off missile. The missile, in its basic KEPD 350 version, is armed with a TDW Mephisto kinetic energy penetrator to allow attacks on hardened targets, and is ...
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US Army Hueys face grounding for at least a month
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The US Army hopes to begin returning some Bell UH-1s to flight by the end of April, after grounding the helicopters on 28 March. All Army and National Guard UH-1s - 907 in all - have been grounded because of failures of a spur gear on ...
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US Navy aims for cut-price T-45s
The US Navy hopes to buy the remaining Boeing T-45 Goshawk jet trainers on order under a multi-year procurement that would increase the production rate and reduce the aircraft's cost. Production is now running at 12 aircraft a year, with some 70 aircraft still to be delivered. The proposed ...