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GAPAN courses are on line
Sir - I was interested to read the article "Masters of aviation" (Flight International, 5-11 February, P24) about the International Civil Aviation University and the degree course which the University is offering in Australia. The establishment of just such a course in the UK has been achieved through ...
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Northwest pairing
Northwest Airlines has selected Montreal-based Ad Opt Technologies' Altitude crew-pairing software after tests of the crew-scheduling system yielded operating savings for the airline of "several hundred thousand dollars per month". Source: Flight International
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In search of the new jet age
Time was when the regional-aircraft industry was focused on who would win the battle to build a family of 70- to 120-seat jet-powered aircraft. Strategists toiled to demonstrate how such a family would sit beneath the fleets of the majors. Much has changed since then. Now, the focus ...
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Notes
The tabular data have been collated mainly from information supplied by the manufacturers. Where no reply was received from the manufacturer, the previous year's entry is repeated, updated wherever possible from other sources Normal empty weight includes equipment and unuseable fluids, but does not take account of crew and baggage ...
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Russian Aerospace '97
Russian Aerospace '97 20-22 May, Moscow. Organised by Flight International and Aviaexport. Contact: Kim Daniels, First Conferences, 85 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5AR, UK; tel: +44 (171) 404 7722; fax: +44 (171) 404 7733; email: confdesk@firstconf.com Source: Flight International
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Lufthansa Cityline
Lufthansa is fighting hub congestion by offering an increasing number of direct city-to-city flights, both within Germany and to destinations in Europe, avoiding its hubs at Frankfurt and Munich. Flying 320 flights daily to European centres on routes for which traffic is too light for a 100-seat aircraft is the ...
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IPTN focuses on higher capacity for N2130 regional family
IPTN has dropped plans to develop a shortened, 80-seat, version of the planned N2130 short-haul jet-airliner and instead opted for a larger-aircraft family with six-abreast seating for between 104 and 132 passengers. The Indonesian manufacturer had intended building three different sizes of N2130, seating 80, 100 and 130 ...
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BAe Airbus delivers first A330-200 wing
British Aerospace Airbus has dispatched the first A330-200 wing from its plant at Chester to Airbus partner Dasa Airbus at Bremen, Germany, for equipping. BAe put the wing in the jig for final assembly in November 1996. The lower-capacity, longer-range A330-200 is scheduled to have its maiden flight in August. ...
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-as board approves 777-200X/300X specifications
Boeing has received board approval to firm up the specifications of its proposed 777-200X/300X growth derivatives and offer them to airlines, as the company gears up towards a possible launch of the new models at the Paris air show in June. Boeing claims that the -200Xwill be the ...
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Airbus sets up an Asian subsidiary for AE-100
Airbus Industrie has established a new subsidiary company, Airbus Industrie Asia (AIA), headed by former Alenia executive Carlo Scaglia, to partner China and Singapore in the development of the planned new A318/AE-100 narrowbody passenger aircraft. AIA has been legally registered in France as a Société bar Actions Simplifiée. ...
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AlliedSignal tests TCAS changes
ALLIEDSIGNAL Aerospace is flight-testing the latest software for the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS 2). The "Change 7" software is the final iteration of the TCAS 2, incorporating operational feedback from users of the system, and is the basis for the international airborne collision-avoidance system (ACAS2) standard, says AlliedSignal TCAS ...
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Bell bid for IAR majority gives Dracula extra teeth
Bell Helicopter Textron has submitted a $70 million bid for a majority stake in Romanian manufacturer IAR, lending renewed credibility to talks on licensed production of a Bell AH-1 Cobra attack-helicopter derivative known as the Dracula. Neculai Banea, president of Transylvania-based IAR, says that Bell wants the 70% ...
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Space Station will be delayed eight months
NASA administrator Daniel Goldin has admitted that the first launches to assemble the International Space Station (ISS) will be delayed by eight months, to June 1998. The admission confirmed a unilateral Russian Space Agency (RSA) announcement of the delay. RSA director Yuri Koptev says that it "-is entirely ...
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Royal Brunei outlines its plans for fleet replacement
Royal Brunei Airlines is looking to re-equip with a new fleet of longer-range, larger-capacity, narrow and widebody aircraft, to support its strategic goal of operating worldwide by 2000. The airline is talking to Airbus Industrie and Boeing about acquiring additional aircraft or new types by the end of ...
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Monarch chooses the A330 for long-haul charter work
Monarch Airlines has become the first UK airline to order the Airbus Industrie A330, having concluded a preliminary agreement with the consortium for up to four long range -200s, including two options. The airline, which has selected Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines, will take delivery of the two firmly ...
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Ireland plans expansion with ATP
Ireland Airways is close to finalising a lease deal with Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) for three new British Aerospace ATP aircraft to enable it to expand its Irish domestic services. The airline, a spin-off of Dublin-based freight carrier EI Air Exports, began scheduled services in 1996, when it ...
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Declining and falling
The annual report of Russia's Federal Aviation Service (FAS), formerly known as the Air Transport Department of the Ministry of Transport, shows that Russian air traffic continued to decline in 1996, and that financial results were negative. Sources in the FAS say, however, that the figures submitted by some regional ...
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Alliant protests over USAF WCMD choice
Alliant Techsystems is contesting the US Air Force's selection of Lockheed Martin to produce 40,000 Wind Corrected Munitions Dispensers (WCMDs), worth $500 million. The US defence contractor has lodged an official protest with the US General Accounting Office (GAO), citing questions about the USAF's cost evaluation. As is ...
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Galilean gallery
NASA celebrated THE Galileo spacecraft's first year in orbit around the giant planet Jupiter on 7 December, 1996. The highlights among its hundreds of images have not been of the planet itself, however, but of its four giant moons, Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa. These are called the Galilean moons, ...
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Corporate Aircraft Directory 1997
Last year was an important one for the business-aircraft fraternity, with several landmark events, including roll outs, first flights and certification approvals. There were also some important new-aircraft developments. The main focus of attention during 1996 was again the large-cabin, long-haul market. Bombardier kicked off flight-testing of its ...