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Long Beach line closures loom
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing has indicated that the MD-80 and MD-90 assembly lines in Long Beach, California, will eventually be shut down, with priority given to the MD-95 and an 80-seat regional-jet variant, as well as continued MD-11 freighter production . Although a formal decision on ...
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Saudi 777 is completed
The first 777-200 for Saudi Arabian Airlines has been completed by Boeing. The first six 777s are due for delivery later this year as part of a 61-aircraft order also involving MD-90s, 747-400s and MD-11s. Deliveries of four MD-11 freighters intended for the airline have been delayed because of a ...
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UK tries to hasten Swanwick
The UK's National Air Traffic Services (NATS) has presented staff and airlines with a list of six options for completing the delayed New En Route Control Centre (NERC) at Swanwick. The £350 million ($585 million) programme is one year behind schedule and could slip to as late as ...
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Ariane 5 launch date
The European Space Agency has set 28 October as the earliest possible launch date for its Ariane 502 demonstration mission, pending qualification of the new first stage control filter and the completion of dynamic loading tests on the first-stage upper skirt. Source: Flight International
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Cross to France
A new Alsace, France-based airline, Europe Continental Airways, will launch operations early in 1998. Crossair will hold a 35% shareholding in the airline. Based at Basle-Mulhouse Airport, the carrier will operate two leased Saab 340s to France and Italy. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon-Hughes merger is cleared
Raytheon's $9.5 billion merger with Hughes Aircraft received US anti-trust approval on 2 October, after the company agreed to sell two businesses which together account for about 0.5% of the combined companies' $13 billion defence-electronics revenues. The US Department of Justice approved the deal after Raytheon allayed competition ...
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Rolls-Royce replaces Trent 800 blades after fatigue failure
Rolls-Royce says that the catastrophic Trent 800 engine failure on an Emirates Airlines Boeing 777-200 leaving Dubai on 16 September (Flight International, 24-30 September) was caused by fatigue failure of a first-stage high-pressure compressor (HPC1) blade. The company claims that it was aware of the problem with the ...
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UPS examines options for DC-8 and 747 replacements
United Parcel Service (UPS) will make a decision on a long-term McDonnell Douglas DC-8-71/73 freighter replacement "within the next six months," according to Douglas Kuelpman, vice-president of UPS Airlines. Kuelpman says that the replacement "widebody regional freighter" (WRF) will be a used and converted aircraft model. ...
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ALPA and Boeing clash over USAir accident
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES The Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) and Boeing have submitted opposing findings to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) over the probable factors involved in the crash of a USAir Boeing 737-300 on 8 September, 1994. The aircraft rolled rapidly to the left ...
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New system screens all luggage
Andrzej Jeziorski/FRANKFURT US airport-security-equipment manufacturers InVision and EG&G Astrophysics have joined forces to develop a high-throughput, automated-screening system for hold baggage. According to InVision, the TSS 2000 is the only security system which screens "-all hold baggage, including oversized bags". The system combines InVision's US CTX ...
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NASA tests probe
An air-data probe developed by Rosemount Aerospace has had initial flight tests on NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's Boeing F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft. The advanced L-probe air-data-integration trial proved that two probes can be operated at an angle of attack of up to about 70í and provide sideslip from the ...
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Virtual prototypes
Boeing will back Virtual Prototypes of Montreal, Canada, in developing its automatic C-code software generator, CCG/Lite, which allows interactive environments to be developed for real-time, embedded systems. Source: Flight International
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UK invents welding innovation
Ian Sheppard/CAMBRIDGE The UK Welding Institute (TWI) has developed a means by which previously "unweldable" aluminium alloys, such as the 2000 and 7000 series, can be joined. It had previously been impossible to weld harder aluminium alloys because heating would cause the heat-treated metal to revert to its previous, softer, ...
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An operational frequency needed
Sir - Having read the Comment "Back to basics" (Flight International, 24-30 September), I would suggest that someone in authority organises replacing the single VHF 126.9MHz band for exchanging operational information. This would be a quick and simple solution to an urgent problem. It could be years before ...
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VLM
Christian Heinzman has been named director-general of Antwerp-based Belgian regional airline VLM, with effect from 1 October. He was chief executive of Sabena-owned charter airline Sobelair before becoming director-general of Constellation International Airlines, a privately owned Belgian charter carrier. He will assist present VLM director-general Freddy Van Gaever, who will ...
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The right product at the wrong time
Sir - In your Comment "Missing the bus" (Flight International, 17-23 September), British Aerospace's reluctance over regional aircraft is defended. Besides the fact that most of it applies also to larger airliners, however, it would have been fair for BAe to have declared its reluctance to its partners ...
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Sabena
Marc Petit has been appointed executive vice-president of finance at Belgian national carrier Sabena with effect from 20 October. He is to succeed Peter Ramel, who will take up other responsibilities within the SAIR Group. Petit was general manager of Eridania Oilseeds division of the Eridania Behin-Say Group of Ravenna, ...
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Air London
UK charter broker Air London, of Crawley, Sussex, has made several promotions within its management. Mike Guina, who is overseeing development of the company's new US operation, Air Partner, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been named director of corporate strategy. Alan Marler has become director of operations, with particular responsibility ...
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Iridium half-way
Thirty-eight Lockheed Martin Motorola Iridium worldwide mobile communications satellites are now in orbit after the launch of a Boeing Delta 2 on 26 September, carrying five satellites from Vandenberg AFB, California. The $2.6 billion Iridium system will be declared operational in 1998, when 66 satellites will be in orbit. Twenty ...
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Error mars India's space hopes
Tim Furniss/LONDON India launched its first fully operational satellite on an indigenous booster on 29 September, but a leak in the fourth stage of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) caused a 113kt (210km/h) velocity underperformance, which resulted in the craft being placed into the wrong orbit. ...