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Mixing fire and water
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Most of the world's aviation industry abandoned development of flying boats in the 1940s, when the increased range of land-based aircraft, plus the birth of turbine engines, seemed to indicate the end of an era. A few manufacturers stayed with the flying boat - Canadair has continued to ...
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Forecasts 98': Airlines
Paul Lewis/Singapore Kevin O'Toole/London For the world airline industry, 1998 begins much as 1997 ended, with two issues on top of the agenda: the fall-out from Asia's economic woes and the next step in the industry's increasingly rapid consolidation. Both issues should make 1998 a busy one for airline ...
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Forecasts 98': Aerospace
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON While the US aerospace/defence industry will spend 1998 largely preoccupied with consolidating on its mammoth restructuring effort, the real will be focused across the Atlantic, on how Europe plans to respond. Boeing's mid-1997 acquisition of McDonnell Douglas, and the political furore it raised from the European ...
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Forecasts 98': Defence
Douglas Barrie/LONDON While 1998 may hold little excitement for European and US combat-aircraft manufacturers at home, the year promises some interesting battles in what are increasingly becoming crucial export markets. By the end of 1998, Lockheed Martin may have a clear-cut view of the limits of the export ...
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Forecasts 98': Space
Tim Furniss/LONDON At long last, assembly of the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to start in 1998. Six years later than originally planned, the first component is to be launched in June, marking the beginning the realisation of a programme initiated by USPresident Ronald Reagan in 1984. Reagan could ...
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Forecasts 98': Safety
David Learmount/LONDON The official ackknowleging by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) that the airline world is split geographically and economically into sectors with vastly different levels of safety achievement was 1997's safety triumph. The coming year will give the first test of political and industrial will to enact ...
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Quick-change artist
Peter Gray/ARLINGTON The tilt-rotor concept has been around for many years, but only recently has the first military application (the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey) received production approval from the US Department of Defense. Even more recently, Bell and Boeing have launched the Model 609 civil tilt-rotor which is scheduled to fly ...
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CMC completes preliminaries for Leopard business jet
Chichester Miles Consultants (CMC) has completed preliminary flight trials of its Leopard four-seat business jet. The Williams FJX-1-powered aircraft, conceived in 1982, was tested for its handling and performance capabilities at speeds of around 260kt (485km/h). The aircraft was first flown in 1988 with Noel Penny turbojets, but has ...
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Executive Jet Aviation sets sights on additional Falcon 2000s
Executive Jet Aviation (EJA) could more than double its Dassault Falcon 2000 fleet by early in the next century, says the world's leading fractional-ownership company. Dassault's $500 million sale of 24 Falcon 2000 business jets to EJA is the single largest order for the transcontinental widebody aircraft to date. ...
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Sikorsky sees S-76 fractional-ownership market emerging
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Sikorsky believes that at least one fractional-ownership programme using its S-76 helicopter will be launched in early 1998. Interest in helicopter fractional-ownership "has exploded", says director, commercial programmes, Mike Moran, and the company is talking to "several" potential operators. Richard Santulli, chairman of Executive Jet ...
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Dassault's supersonic programme advances
Dassault Aviation's efforts to launch a supersonic business jet (SSBJ) programme are beginning to take shape, according to company officials. The French company says that the study, which may be concluded this year, does not represent a commitment to a supersonic aircraft project, but Bruno Revellin-Falcoz, vice-president for research ...
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Reed new editor of 'Flight International'
Reed Aerospace has announced that Carol Reed is to succeed Allan Winn as editor of Flight International. Reed, who is now editor of Jane's Defence Weekly, will take up her new post on 2 February. Winn is now editor in chief of the Reed Aerospace titles, which include Airline Business, ...
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1997 ends badly for world airlines safety
Five times as many people died in air-transport accidents during the second half of 1997 as in the first six months, and there were half as many again fatal accidents. Preliminary figures, however, show that overall, 1997 was close to the annual average for the decade. Airline fatalities for ...
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Swissair signs A340-600 deal to replace MD-11s
Swissair is to phase out its Boeing MD-11s early in the next decade after concluding a major deal for more Airbus widebodies at the end of 1997, following the board's earlier approval to order the A340-600. Swissair has long been expected to be among the launch customers for the ...
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Bombardier's turn-around on Super Tucanos annoys Brazil
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Brazil has threatened to suspend trade negotiations with Canada in retaliation for Bombardier's decision to switch from the Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano to the Raytheon T-6A Texan II turboprop trainer for its NATO Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) programme. The Canadian company says that it ...
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Economic crisis delays Thailand F/A-18 purchase
Thailand plans to delay its purchase of eight Boeing F/A-18C/Ds by three years because of the country's economic crisis. A team from the Royal Thai Air Force plans to visit Boeing in mid-January in a bid to re-negotiate the $392 million contract, signed in 1996, which now calls for delivery ...
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IAI ends 1997 with first flight of the Galaxy
THE MAIDEN flight of Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Galaxy business jet took place on 25 December. The flight from Ben-Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, lasted 2h and the aircraft reached an altitude of 10,000ft (3,000m). IAI plans to complete certification this year using two flying prototypes and two static test ...
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HGS wins on RJ145
Luxembourg-based Luxair is expected to be announced as the customer for the first Embraer RJ145 regional jets to be equipped with a head-up guidance (HGS) system. Flight Dynamics beat GEC-Marconi and Sextant Avionique to the contract. Source: Flight International
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Boeing pushes service entry of 777-200X/300X back to 2001
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing has pushed back the planned in-service date of the 777-200X/300X until at least the first quarter of 2001, largely because of its inability to secure a major launch customer. The company has confirmed that it is "decreasing effort" on development of the 777 derivatives, ...
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TARMAC puts pilots on the right road
The German Aerospace Centre Institute of Flight Guidance has extended its prototype Taxi and Ramp Management and Control (TARMAC) system to the flightdeck, with an Airborne System (AS) display which is being evaluated by pilots in an Airbus A320-based demonstration cockpit. The TARMAC-AS assists the pilot graphically during taxiing, while ...