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TWA acts as clock ticks
Trans World Airlines is cutting jobs, has a fresh look and is introducing new frequent flyer incentives in a bid to attract high-yielding business traffic, but Wall Street analysts question if the returns will come quick enough. 'There is a mad dash going on to improve the product ...
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US and Japan keep talking
Negotiators are pressing to meet a self-imposed deadline of 30 September for a Japan-US bilateral deal. Both sides know a failure to settle their differences could set off a round of sanctions. At presstime, a second round of talks had been scheduled for the end of August - ...
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Giant leap forward?
Varig may still be the undisputed giant of the Brazilian airline industry, but will restructuring efforts be enough to keep it ahead of burgeoning competition? Lois Jones reports.When you start off at the top, the danger is that there's only one way to go - and that's down. Five years ...
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Stretched to the limit
Vasp's ambitions spread far and wide, but are its financial resources equally expandable? Lois Jones reports. Vasp chairman and president Wagner Canhedo Azevado is a man who likes to think big and be in control. The chairman likes to consider South America, and not just Brazil, as a single ...
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Caracas fails to fill vacuum
While Caracas prevaricates over how to re-allocate Viasa's international routes, foreign airlines are racing to fill the vacuum left by the flag carrier's demise. This leaves any Venezuelan carrier eventually granted the dormant route authorities with the daunting challenge of having to establish itself in a market dominated chiefly by ...
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Looking at glideslope deviation
Sir - You published a letter of mine in November 1990, which proposed a system of radar surveillance to give visual warning of glideslope deviation on the controller's display, so that the controller could query the deviation with the aircraft concerned. A second (unpublished) letter expanded this concept ...
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Expolsive versus combustive flame
Sir - I have been following the investigation into the TW800 accident with great interest, and the two letters on the subject from Capt Pike and Mr Gambardella (Flight International, 13-19 August, P48) prompt me to draw attention to a passage in Lightning Protection for Aircraft (Fischer & Plumer, NASA ...
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Hughes
Roxanne Austin has been named chief financial officer of Hughes Electronics, of Los Angeles, California. Austin, previously senior vice-president, treasurer and controller of Hughes, replaces Charles Noski, who has been appointed executive vice-president and chief financial officer of United Technologies of Hartford, Connecticut. Source: Flight International
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HAI
The Helicopter Association International (HAI), of Alexandria, Virginia, has made additions and promotions to its staff. Patricia Willibey is the new executive assistant to the president. Stephanie Minor becomes executive assistant to HAI's executive vice-president. Kimberly Newell has been promoted to sales manager. The association's new exhibits manager is Deborah ...
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Lockheed
Dr Mark Albrecht is to become vice-president, business development with Lockheed Martin's Space and Strategic Missiles sector, of Bethesda, Maryland, with effect from 2 September. He is now a senior vice-president at Science Applications International, responsible for co-ordinating space-business activities. Source: Flight International
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Cathay Pacific
Zhang Xianlin, vice-president of China National Aviation (CNAC), has become the CNAC's new board member of Cathay Pacific Airways. He replaces the corporation's former board representative, Yao Shaoxian. Source: Flight International
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Bosman controls
Dutch manufacturer Bosman Powersource Support has been awarded a contract by MTU of Munich to manufacture the active clearance-control system for the low-pressure system of both the International Aero Engines V2500 and Pratt & Whitney PW2037 engines. Source: Flight International
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New inertial range
Inertial Aerosystems of Surrey, UK, has launched a range of solid-state fibre-optic gyroscopes. The Autogyro Navigator and Navigator Plus can be interfaced with a global-positioning-system receiver in a "continuous positioning system" which corrects gyro-drift. Source: Flight International
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Indestructably smooth
The UK's National Physical Laboratory has successfully tested Indestructable Paint's new inorganic-diffusion coating, which has withstood 2,000h of cyclic salt-spraying following heating to 750íC - significantly better performance and yielding a smoother finish than that of pack aluminised coatings says Indestructable. Source: Flight International
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Alitalia flies FARAWAY
Daimler-Benz Aerospace company NFS of Ulm, Germany, has flown its NFS-5000 flight-management- system demonstrator on an Alitalia Boeing MD-80. It will be tested for six months as part of the European Union-supported fusion of radar and automatic-dependent-surveillance data through the two-way-data- link (FARAWAY) programme. Source: Flight ...