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Pilots warned of software glitch
Flight manuals for the Airbus A320 family are being amended to alert pilots to a "software anomaly" which can cause the aircraft to adopt "an unintended flight path". The US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive (AD), to take effect on 3 November, is sufficiently urgent for the FAA to have ...
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Saab ready to close regional-aircraft lines as orders dry up
Julian Moxon/PARIS Saab Aircraft will shut down production of its 340 and 2000 turboprops in 1998 and leave the regional-airliner market altogether, unless new orders can be secured by the end of 1997. In a statement, Saab warns that the decision could come as soon as ...
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Universal approval
The US Federal Aviation Administration has given parts-manufacturer approval for Universal Avionics' UniLink two-way air-to-ground data link, which has a new graphics format. The system also received a supplementary type approval on the company's Challenger 601. Source: Flight International
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MMS Flight Dynamics
Matra Marconi Space (MMS) has won a $16.7 million contract to develop and install Intelsat's new worldwide command system, centred at its Washington DC base. The system is due to be deployed by November 1998. Source: Flight International
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Atlas guides Aviacor
Atlas Project Management of Moscow has been contracted by Aviacor to help produce and market the Antonov An-140 regional aircraft, which was flown for the first time in September. The project team will be based in Samara, where a production line is being prepared. Source: Flight ...
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Chrome free coats
US company Sermatech has introduced a new coating for metal parts which is an alternative to chrome plating, increasingly seen as being environmentally unsound. Sermetel Process 2000 is a viable replacement and contains no hazardous or toxic materials, claims Sermatech. Source: Flight International
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Singapore gets needle
Singapore has purchased a variant of the Russian Igla (Needle) shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile for its armed forces. Details of the deal have not been released, but there have been suggestions that Singapore is interested in licence manufacture of the weapon. Source: Flight International
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Global architect
The US Air Force has awarded TRW a $6 million contract to conduct architectural-structure studies for potential communications pay- loads for the Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Global Hawk unmanned air-vehicle. Source: Flight International
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Aegean AMRAAM
The US Department of Defense intends to sell Turkey 138 Hughes AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs), worth$62 million, for its Lockheed Martin F-16s. Greece, meanwhile, plans to supplement its stock of 150 AMRAAMs with the purchase of 90 more missiles. Source: Flight International
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Apache Logistics
The US Army and Team Apache Systems, a joint venture involving Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Corpus Christi Army Depot, are negotiating a contract under which the team will provide support for the army's Boeing AH-64A/Ds. Source: Flight International
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Airport fees warning
Charges at Europe's airports have again come under fire from British Midland Chairman Sir Michael Bishop. The "unjustifiably high" charges from monopoly airport providers are damaging the long-term health of the region's airline industry, he told delegates at an Airports Council International conference in Venice, adding that airport fees and ...
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Beacon team
Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are to pursue the US Federal Aviation Administration's Air Traffic Control Beacon Interrogator programme. The FAA will procure 127 monopulse secondary surveillance radars. Source: Flight International
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Second PRM commission
A production-version of the AlliedSignal Aerospace Precision Runway Monitor (PRM) system has been commissioned at Minneapolis-St Paul Airport. The PRM, which has an electronically scanned (E-Scan) radar, allows airports to conduct simultaneous, independent aircraft landings under instrument conditions on parallel runways as close as 1,036m (3,400ft). ...
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Debonair and Azzurra
European regional airlines, Debonair and Azzurra Air, are set to announce an alliance on routes between the UK and Italy. An announcement is scheduled to be made on 22 October. Debonair, based in Luton, serves Rome and connects to Copenhagen via Munich. It operates seven British Aerospace 146-200s. Azzurra Air, ...
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Augsburg updates
Augsburg Airways of Munich is to acquire up to five new Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-200s and -300s regional turboprops, to be based at Hamburg Airport and signalling an expansion of its Team Lufthansa franchise. The first of the aircraft will be delivered in January 1998, while the airline has ...
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Stretched 777 takes to the air
The first Boeing 777-300 had a "flawless" maiden flight from the company's Everett site on 16 October, completing the 4h 6min test mission at Boeing Field, Seattle, with no technical problems. Boeing 777 programme chief pilot Frank Santoni says: "We spent 4h shaking the aircraft down thoroughly. You ...
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Airbus aims at A320 production boost
Airbus Industrie chief operating officer Volker Von Tein has raised the possibility of an increase in the production rate of the A320 family from the planned 18 per month - but only if the consortium secures an order for 120 aircraft from US Airways. The current rate of ...
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Storm may be to blame for Austral DC-9 crash
Stormy weather appears to have been a factor in an Argentinian McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 accident in which all 74 people on board were killed. The 28-year-old Austral Lineas Aereas aircraft (LV-WEG) hit the ground in a 70¹ nose-down attitude in a marshy area near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, according ...
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China Eastern Airlines adds first MD-90 to its fleet
Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines has taken delivery of the first two of nine 157-seat Boeing MD-90s on order under China's 40-aircraft TrunkLiner programme, 20 of which are being built at the Douglas Products Division in Long Beach. The remaining 20 are being produced by the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory. ...
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Airbus to rule at German Britannia?
Britannia Airways is considering an all Airbus fleet to expand its new German charter market service. The carrier, which launches its operation with a flight from Berlin-Schonefeld on 3 November using a Boeing 767-300ER, could decide to switch to the European built aircraft by 1999. The foray into ...