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AI(R) and TTS open Bangkok training centre
Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) and Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS) have opened a new ATR flight-simulator centre in Bangkok, in a move to improve support for the growing number of regional carriers operating ATR 42/72 turboprop aircraft. The Asian ATR Training Centre (AATC) opening follows certification by the ...
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Getting round UK night-rules
Sir - Further to the story "Europe may offer solution to UK cargo singles ban" (Flight International, 25 June-1 July, P32), the UK Civil Aviation Authority stated in court that there is no rule or regulation which prohibits the commercial operation of aircraft such as the Cessna Caravan, when such ...
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What's on
Latin American Airport Privatisation Conference 14-15 July, Miami, Florida, USA. Contact: World Research Group, 7th R 1120 Ave of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, USA; tel: +1 (212) 869 7231 (US toll free: 800 647 7600); fax: +1 (212) 869 7311; e-mail: info@worldrg.com Airplane Structural Design Loads ...
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Flight International awards
Flight International dominated the recent Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace sponsored Journalist of the Year Awards at the Paris Meridien Hotel on 15 June. David Learmount won the air-transport category, Kieran Daly (who recently moved to become editor of the new Reed Aerospace wire service Air Transport Intelligence) took the avionics ...
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Jersey European
Jersey European Airways has made internal changes. Deputy chief executive Jim French takes on the additional role of chief operating officer. Simon Chance, formerly chief operating officer, and also managing director of sister company JEA Engineering, will hold the new position of chief technical officer. Jonathan Breedon (top) is promoted ...
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Elliott
Marty Grier is named vice-president/general manager at business-aviation centre Elliott Aviation, of Moline, Illinois. He was formerly centre manager at FlightSafety International's Raytheon Maintenance Learning Center in Wichita, Kansas. Warren Tanner, vice-president of operations at has been promoted to the new position of director of special projects. Alan Nitchman, until ...
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Arianespace keeps up monthly launch rate
Arianespace completed its 26th launch in 26 months on 25 June when an Ariane 44P carried the Intelsat 802 communications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit from the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana. The European commercial launcher company's next launch is due on 7 August, carrying the ...
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Hughes sues ILS over alleged price breach
Hughes Space and Communications has filed a $300 million lawsuit against ILS International Launch Services - a Lockheed Martin/Khrunichev/ Energia US/Russian launch company - claiming that ILS had reneged on a contract to launch Hughes satellites at a fixed price. Hughes claims that the launch price was raised ...
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First Space Station modules prepared for 1998 launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON With the first elements of the International Space Station (ISS) due to be launched in a little under 12 months, the USA and Russia, the two leading members of the international consortium building the Station, have begun to reveal progress the initial modules scheduled to be ...
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Satellite down under
Australia is to develop a 400kg satellite, the Aries 1, which will be launched into low-Earth orbit in 2000 to provide geological mapping, environmental monitoring and land-use assessment data for agriculture, forestry and defence applications. The project will be the "world's first commercially sustainable resources-information satellite", says Peter McGaurun, Australia's ...
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Europe: US victim or partner in aerospace industry?
Sir - The editorial "Europe 0, USA 1" was correct to spell out the global complexities of the world aerospace industry today. The joint British Aerospace/ Lockheed Martin venture on the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) may well represent the future. This does not mean, however, the end of ...
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Air Jamaica aims to defeat American in the Caribbean
Graham Warwick/MONTEGO BAY AIRJAMAICA has inaugurated a Caribbean hub at Montego Bay, and signed a co-operation agreement with Delta Air Lines, in a bid to challenge American Airlines' dominance in the region. The Montego Bay hub, which was officially inaugurated on 30 July, links flights from ...
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An-124 Chapter 3 hushkit wins certification
A hushkit has been certificated for the Antonov An-124 which enables the cargo aircraft to comply with the International Civil Aviation Organisation's (ICAO) Chapter 3 noise legislation . The approval marks the first step towards the modification of all An-124s to Chapter 3 rules as additional hushkits become ...
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Atlantic Southeast will send back leased 146s
ATLANTIC SOUTHEAST Airlines is to return its five leased British Aerospace 146s, after deliveries of Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs) begin in August. The Atlanta, Georgia-based Delta Connection carrier had leased the 88-seat 146-200s for five years from British Aerospace Asset Management-Jets, but is to return them after only two ...
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Asiana has to wait on offset deals for widebody order
Asiana Airlines of South Korea has been told by the country's Government that it will not approve the planned purchase of 58 new widebody aircraft until it has obtained industrial offsets from Airbus Industrie and Boeing. The carrier has already completed negotiations for the aircraft and been given ...
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Beech runway collision is blamed on King Air pilot
THE RUNWAY collision of a Beech King Air A90 with a United Express Beech 1900C on 19 November, 1996, at Quincy Municipal Airport, Illinois, resulted from failure of the King Air pilots "-to effectively monitor the common traffic-advisory frequency [CTAF], or to properly scan for traffic", says the US National ...
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Bangladeshi regional prepares for start-up
A new Bangladeshi airline is preparing to start operations later this year, as a direct result of the country's new deregulation policy which is designed to encourage start-ups. GMG Airlines will launch domestic and regional services from Dhaka, Bangladesh, within a few months operating a fleet of secondhand ...
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Bombardier acts to fix cracks in CRJ fuselage bulkheads
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTONDC BOMBARDIER EXPECTED most of the 38 Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs) found to have fuselage-bulkhead cracks to be back in operation by 5 July. Repair of the final eight aircraft is awaiting the availability of hangar space. The repair takes three days and involves attaching ...
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EuroLOTkicks off with ATR fleet
Andrjez Jeziorski/MUNICH EuroLOT, the regional subsidiary of LOT Polish Airlines, has started operations, aiming for proÌt at the turn of the century. The new division, certificated by Polish aviation authorities in June, will initially be taking over LOT's network of 200-plus flights per week to six ...