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Speaking the language
Sir - Invited, a few decades ago, by Sud-Aviation to visit its Suresnes factory where Alouette helicopters were manufactured for the Royal Netherlands Air Force, I went inside one for inspection. I discovered that the instrument panel (and the handbook) was in French. My hosts refused to believe ...
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Medical treatment on long-haul flights...
Medical treatment on long-haul flights could be dramatically improved with the AeroNet Source: Flight International
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Gulfstream plans Long Beach expansion as backlog builds
GULFSTREAM IS TO expand its Long Beach, California, service and completion centre as part of its strategy to double production to some 60 Gulfstream IV-SP and V business jets by 1999. The expansion will include a new paint centre, scheduled to be operational by the fourth quarter of 1997. ...
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N Zealand clears GPS
Dual Universal Avionics Systems UNS-1B flight-management systems with GPS-1000 global-positioning-system sensors are being used as the primary means of navigation in an Air Nelson Cessna Citation III. The system received certification from the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand for navigation in remote/ oceanic airspace, allowing the Citation to be ...
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Airbus suffers setback as GE walks away from A340-600
Airbus Industrie has suffered a setback in its efforts to launch the proposed A340-500/600 growth derivatives in time for a 2001 service-entry date, after exclusive discussions with General Electric over the aircraft's powerplant were abandoned this month. The collapse of talks with GE, which began in April 1996, ...
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DASA blames Boeing for Northrop pull-out
The decision by Northrop Grumman not to participate in the Airbus A3XX project has sparked accusations by Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) that Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC)have put pressure on their US suppliers not to participate in the proposed European large aircraft programme. DASA chairman Manfred Bischoff says that ...
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AA pilots are ready to abandon talks
Round-the-clock negotiations between American Airlines management and the Allied Pilots Association, a union which represents some 9,000 of the airline's flightcrew, had still failed to produce a new contract 18h before a threatened 15 February strike was due to begin. The talks have become bogged down on pay ...
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Oscillations force BA 777 back to Heathrow
Oscillations force BA 777 back to Heathrow The UK air-Accident Investigation Branch is looking into a mysterious in-flight incident involving a British Airways Boeing 777-200A, which was forced to turn back to London Heathrow in October 1996 after suffering uncommanded rudder movement. BA and Boeing have so far ...
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Congress budget watchdog doubts whether USA can afford new fighters
THE US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has warned that the Department of Defense cannot afford the planned number of McDonnell Douglas F-18E/Fs, Lockheed Martin/ Boeing F-22s and Joint Strike Fighters (JSFs) without doubling the proportion of its budget which is traditionally spent on new tactical aircraft. The CBO ...
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New power
There are those in the UK armed forces and the country's defence industry who are steeling themselves for a defence review later this year when, should notoriously fickle polls prove correct, the Labour Party again takes up the reigns of Government. Several critical Royal Air Force projects may ...
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DASA prepares to boost Airbus narrowbody production line
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) Airbus is extending its narrowbody-assembly line in Hamburg, anticipating nearly tripled production rates within three years. The German Airbus partner is to invest DM217 million ($130 million) up to the end of 1998 in the expansion. The Airbus consortium this year is scheduled to deliver ...
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Boeing kicks off flight tests of next-generation 737 family
Boeing's flight-test programme for its next-generation 737 family began smoothly on 9 February, with the 737-700 having a problem-free maiden flight from Renton, Washington. The flight marks the start of an eight-month test effort for the 737-700 which will include 1,200h of flying. Certification is planned in September, ...
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Trent 777 IGW remains 'on target'
Boeing and Rolls-Royce are confident that certification of the Trent 890-powered 777-200 Increased Gross Weight (IGW) version of the Boeing twinjet is "on target" to be completed by the end of March, despite a rescheduling of testing because of some late changes in engine configuration. The release of ...
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BAe flies its first converted A300B4 freighter
British Aerospace's Filton, UK-based division, BAe Aviation Services, flew its first converted Airbus A300B4 freighter on 23 January, and hopes to be able to secure approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration and UK Civil Aviation Authority approval by the end of March. The conversion of the first ...
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BMed resurrects BA franchise agreement
BRITISH Mediterranean Airways (BMed) has struck a new agreement with British Airways to operate as a franchise partner on routes between London Heathrow and the Middle East as from April. The two airlines originally agreed to a link for their 1996/7 winter schedules, but the plans were later ...
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CFMI gears up for bumper year
CFM International (CFMI) is stepping up production of CFM56 engines in response to record orders placed during 1996 for 1,280 powerplants valued at $5.5 billion. CFMI president Gerard Laviec says that the company had planned for only "about 700 orders" for the year. As a result of the ...
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Italy's EF2000 DA7 prototype flies
The Italian Eurofighter EF2000 prototype (DA7) has become the latest to join the flight-test programme, being flown for the first time on 27 January. The first radar-equipped EF2000 (DA5) will also be flown shortly, although weather conditions at the Daimler-Benz Aerospace airfield at Manching, in southern Germany, have repeatedly delayed ...
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Turkey signs up for further 30 Cougars
The Turkish Government has signed a contract for the purchase of 30 Eurocopter Cougar Mk1s, coupled with an agreement on local production. The contract, worth Fr2.5 billion ($434 million), covers ten AS532-ULs for the Turkish army, complementing the 20 ordered at the end of 1993, plus 20 AS532-ALs ...
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US DoD drives to enhance JDAM accuracy
The US Department of Defense(DoD) has re-instated an effort to enhance the performance of the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM), despite test results showing that the weapon exceeds the required accuracy by one-third. The original JDAM product-improvement programme (PIP) to increase accuracy down to 3m ...