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How far can you go?
There is nothing new about outsourcing (the practice of obtaining components from a third party). No-one expects an airline to make the tyres for its aircraft, and many successful carriers do not undertake their own heavy maintenance. The trend to outsource more work and concentrate on core services has ...
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Ramon Lopez/Washington DC On 17 July, as the first anniversary of the Trans World Airlines Flight 800 crash passed, US Government and industry officials were still waging a war of words over what lessons have been learned and what, if anything, should be done as a result of the ...
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DERA icing trials extend operating envelopes
The UK Defence and Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) has recommended a scheme allowing the Royal Air Force to enhance significantly the safety of helicopters being operated in harsh environments. Engineers at DERA's Boscombe Down aircraft test and evaluation sector dispatched a fully instrumented Boeing Chinook HC2 to Shearwater Canadian ...
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NASA/MDV X-36 prepared for high-agility flight tests
NASA and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) are upgrading the flight-control software in the X-36 tailless-fighter technology demonstrator before resuming flight tests of the remotely piloted subscale vehicle on 29 July. The team plans to increase angle of attack (AoA) to 35 degrees during the next phase of flights, having achieved 20 ...
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Drying up
CTT Systems has launched a CD-ROM designed to educate airline management on issues relating to moisture in the aircraft, including added weight, corrosion and electronic failures. The latter is particularly pertinent, says the Norkoping, Sweden-based company, with the increased use of in-flight entertainment equipment and satellite links. Meanwhile, CTT has ...
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Caribbean spirit
Air Jamaica has placed its hopes for a profitable share of the Caribbean tourist market on a new Montego Bay hub Normally sober Delta Air Lines caught the mood of the moment, with an impromptu tie-swapping ceremony that sparked the spirit of celebration at the 30 June ...
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Meggitt clocks on
Meggitt Avionics its first contract from Boeing for commercial-aircraft avionics. The UK company's solid-state clocks are to be part of the basic avionics for Next generation 737s. Meggitt has also been contracted to supply the secondary flight-display system for the Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter concept demonstrator aircraft. Source: ...
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MDC tackles software
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has picked Alydaar Software to correct computer programs affected by the "Year 2000" problem - when 2000 could be interpreted as 1900 because programs use only the last two digits of the year. Alydaar, of Charlotte, North Carolina, will use its SmatCode process to correct software written ...
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GE uses new material
GE Aircraft Engines claims to have achieved a 2% thrust increase on its CF6 engine using the material Rene 88 to coat the turbine blades. Rene 88 is a composite resin with high durability and temperature-resistance characteristics. Initial application on in-service engines is scheduled for May 2000. Source: Flight ...
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Hawkers get Hobby
Raytheon Aircraft Services' Houston Hobby fixed-based operation is the latest site in the US chain to be named an authorised service centre for Hawker-series business jets. Source: Flight International
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Caravan extends
Cessna has named sales representatives for the Caravan single-turboprop utility aircraft in the Czech republic (Czech Aerospace of Prague), India (Taneja Aerospace and Aviation) and Poland (Loyd's Investments (USA)). Source: Flight International
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Lockers for Learjets
Lincoln, Nebraska-based Duncan Aviation has been appointed an installation centre for Raisbeck Engineering's aft-fuselage baggage locker for the Learjet 31/35/36 series. Raisbeck says that more than 40 aircraft now have the lockers. Source: Flight International
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Mercy for Air Methods
Air methods is to acquire Mercy Air Services, a helicopter emergency medical service provider in southern California. Denver, Colorado based Air Methods will pay almost $6 million. The companies had combined 1996 revenues of $46 million. Source: Flight International
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Yes to GPS
The European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) has approved the use of global-positioning-system satellite-navigation equipment for general-aviation aircraft which cannot be fitted with flight-management systems to achieve the required navigational-performance standard known as the RNP-5. This requires guaranteed navigational accuracy of within 9km (5nm) for 95% of the time. The move ...
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NTSB wants to limit Tomahawk training
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) believes that flight training in the Piper Tomahawk should be restricted pending completion of flight-testing by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The Safety Board recommendation to the FAA follows the crash on 4 March, 1994, of a Piper Tomahawk which killed a ...
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Customers still go nuts over the Squirrel
Eurocopter has delivered the 2,000th single-engined helicopter to leave the consortium's Squirrel/Fennec production line. The UK's Defence Helicopter Flying School (DHFS) has taken delivery of an AS350 BA variant of the Squirrel. The single-engined Squirrel has been ordered by 800 customers in 50 different countries. A further 621 orders have ...
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Lionceau approval due by year-end
European Joint Aviation Authorities certification of the French APM-20 Lionceau high-performance, composite light aircraft is expected late this year. The Lionceau was shown in static and flying displays at the Paris air show in June. Flight-testing continues. Three examples of the initial two-seat version have been built. The ...
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Corporate Air deal helps to fill Ayres Loadmaster orderbook
Ayres has announced additional orders for its LM200 Loadmaster single-turboprop freighter, taking its firm orderbook to 67 aircraft, including 50 for launch customer FedEx. The biggest new order is from Billings, Montana-based Corporate Air, which has ordered ten, with options on an addidtional 20. Corporate Air has a fleet ...
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Confidence boosters
Tim Furniss / Paris The market for launches of communications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) is heating up. With US/Russian company ILS International Launch Services claiming a 50% share in the commercial-launcher market alongside Arianespace, its European competitor, there is also confusion over just how big the market ...
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Saab picks Concurrent
Saab has selected Concurrent Computer PowerMaxion processors to upgrade its Linkoping,Sweden, simulation centre, used in development of the Saab JAS39 Gripen fighter and other military and commercial aircraft. The $500,000 order is for three PowerMaxion systems. Source: Flight International