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Hercules 2 line gets new tooling
Lockheed Martin has introduced a "flow-line" assembly process for the mid-fuselage section of the C-130J Hercules 2. Designed by Hyde Group of Cheshire, UK, the multi-stage jig allows mid-fuselage production to be integrated with the final assembly line. This replaces a 40-year-old practice of assembling the piece in a separate ...
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Rada orders
Rada Electronic Industries has secured orders worth $5.4 million for its CATS, ACE and maintenance simulator products. The CATS orders came from the UK and China, while a weapons-system trainer has been ordered by the Israeli ministry of defence. Source: Flight International
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Tu-224: different class of aircraft
Sir - In the article "Kato launches Sirocco to lead R-R-powered Tu-204 effort", Dr Ibrahim Kamel, president of the newly formed Sirocco, is quoted as saying that the Tupolev Tu-224 (Western-powered Tu-204) will cost about $36 million. You then say that comparative "sticker" prices for the similarly sized Airbus A321-100 ...
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Delaying JAR-FCL is not feasible
Sir - In his letter "Why make changes to UK licensing?" (Flight International, 20-26 November, 1996, P74), M M Jenkins makes points about the European Joint Aviation Requirements for flightcrew licensing (JAR-FCL). JAR-FCL for pilots was formally adopted by the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) on 8 October, 1996, ...
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Donald Lang
Donald Lang, engineer, business executive and pilot, who retired a year ago as president of Pratt & Whitney China, died on 31 December at the age of 54, following heart surgery. Lang joined P&W in 1965 as an experimental test engineer. He helped develop the F100 engine, which powers the ...
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Europe seeks reversal of Air Pacific Boeing order
European governments are putting pressure on Fiji to reverse an Air Pacific order for three Boeing 737-700s with an option on a fourth, and order Airbus aircraft instead. The Fijian flag carrier ordered the aircraft in 1996 to add to its all-Boeing fleet of 737s, a 747 and one 767. ...
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Augsburg considers expansion with Dash 8-400
Augsburg Airways, which recently became the first "Team Lufthansa" franchise partner, is considering further fleet expansion with the de Havilland Dash 8-400. While no firm purchase decision has been taken, the southern Germany-based regional airline says that its partnership with Lufthansa opens the possibility of future operations on ...
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Aviazur modernises Islander fleet
Aviazur has replaced its ageing Pilatus Britten-Norman BN2A piston-engined Islander with a new BN2T turboprop Islander. The New Caledonia-based air-taxi operator required the new aircraft to enable it to operate 460km (250nm) missions with a full payload of nine passengers in a "hot-and-high" environment from short runways. The Islander, one ...
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Collision leads to restructure of Delhi air-traffic-control routes
Arrival and departure procedures in the New Delhi airport terminal manoeuvring area (TMA) have been revised since the collision on 12 November, 1996 between a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 which killed 349 people (Flight International, 20-26 November 1996, P8), according to the Indian Directorate ...
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Delta ends intra Europe flights
DELTA AIR LINES is to discontinue the intra-European operations which it acquired from Pan American World Airways in 1991, and instead increase transatlantic flights, principally from New York's J F Kennedy Airport. The restructuring will result in a one-time charge against earnings of up to $60 million, mainly ...
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Fokker will make selection of F28 retrofit engine in February
Plans to launch a re-engineing programme for the Fokker F28 Fellowship are gathering momentum, with a final engine selection expected in February. Programme partners Fokker Services and Perry Group plan a launch decision in April, depending on market response. Lion Boenders, product marketing manager at Woensdrecht, Holland-based Fokker ...
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Ansett sells 727s
Ansett Australia has sold its last six Boeing 727s (five -200 Advs and one -200 Adv Freighter) to Intrepid Aviation Partners of Memphis, for A$20 million ($16 million). Three will be delivered in January, and three in April, and the non-cargo aircraft converted to freighters. The 727 capacity has been ...
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ValuJet progress
ValuJet Airlines is again serving West Palm Beach and will resume flights to Fort Myers, Florida, on 16 January. The low-fare Atlanta, Georgia-based airline continues to rebuild its route structure under the watchful eye of the US Federal Aviation Administration which has now given permission for ValuJet to add three ...
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Comsat picked on WAAS
COMSAT Mobile Communications has been selected by the US Federal Aviation Administration to provide satellite-communications services for the Hughes Aircraft Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), ex -pected to begin operations in December 1998. Under a contract potentially worth $100 million if all options are exercised, COMSAT will furnish satellite and ...
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JSTARS
Col Robert Latiff has been named programme director for the US Air Force's Electronic Systems Center's Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS), based at Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts. Latiff, formerly programme director at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex System Program Office, succeeds Col Robert Chedister, who will take command of the ...
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Swearingen
Paul Bartles has been appointed vice-president of manufacturing at SJ30 business-jet manufacturer Sino Swearingen Aircraft, of San Antonio, Texas. Bartles, who was most recently president and general manager of Morrison Knudsen Rail Systems of Argentina, has also held senior positions with Fairchild, Shaw Aero Devices and Mooney Aircraft. ...
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Arianespace 'record' boosted by Ariane 4
Arianespace is claiming an "absolute record" for launch operations during 1996, despite the loss of the first of the European Space Agency's (ESA) new Ariane 5 heavy launchers on a mid-year maiden flight. The Ariane 4 operation involved an unbroken string of ten successful launches, placing 15 satellites ...
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Iridium programme to kick off
The first three of Motorola's Iridium satellites were scheduled to be launched by a McDonnell Douglas Delta 2 from Vandenberg AFB, California, on 10 January. A total of 66 operational satellites to be launched into low-Earth-orbit constellations by 1999 will provide the world's first global telecommunications network, providing a worldwide ...
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DC-XA crash cause
An unconnected hose led to the destruction of the Clipper Graham DC-XA technology-demonstrator vehicle at White Sands, New Mexico, on 31 July, 1996. A helium pneumatic-system brake line on one of the landing gears was unconnected, preventing pressurisation of the brake mechanism and extension of the gear. Source: ...
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Mercury could be target for fifth Discovery
NASA will make a final decision in April whether to launch the Hermes Global Orbiter spacecraft to map the planet Mercury as the fifth mission in the Discovery series. The Hermes has been proposed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California and spacecraft-builder Spectrum Astro in Arizona. The ...