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R-R offers Trent/-524 hybrid retrofit option
Rolls-Royce has offered operators of RB.211-524G/ H-powered Boeing 747-400s and 767s the option to retrofit their engines with the core of the Trent 700, in an effort to offset higher-than-expected fuel-consumption degradation and reliability problems in the existing power plants. R-R recently accelerated development work on the so-called ...
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BFG tests SMART de-icing boot
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BF Goodrich (BFG) is to conduct certification flight-testing of its SMART boot pneumatic de-icer, with an integrated wide-area ice-detection sensor, on New Piper Aircraft's Malibu Mirage high-performance piston single. The company says that the system "-removes the guesswork from pneumatic de-icer operation". The ...
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Alliant wins canopy fracturing contract
Alliant Techsystems has won a $2 million contract to qualify its Laser Canopy Fracturing Initiation System for use in the Raytheon Aircraft Beech/ Pilatus PC-9 MkII. Over 700 Beech MkIIs will be built for the US Air Force and Navy under the $4 billion Joint Primary Aircraft Training System programme. ...
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FAA tests IR safety and security device
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is evaluating whether a low-cost infra-red (IR) device can enhance safety and security at US airports. Night Sight IR cameras supplied by Texas Instruments are being tested at the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport and Washington's Dulles International. They are being used ...
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Flight plan change is over the top
Sir - For the Dutch and Belgian Governments to ask the International Civil Aviation Organisation for changes in flight plan-transmitted data seems a bit over the top (News in Brief, "C-130 crash", Flight International, 30 October-5 November, P18). Assuming that air-traffic control was talking to the Lockheed Martin ...
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AI(R)
Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) has made two new appointments. Paolo Revelli-Beaumont, who was a participant in the negotiations leading to the creation of AI(R), becomes general secretary and Francesco Giobbe, who was general secretary, leads a new legal directorate. Both positions are directly attached to chief executive Patrick Gavin. ...
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Atlas launches most powerful civil-communications satellite
Tim Furniss/LONDON The Eutelsat Hot Bird 2, the world's most powerful civilian communications satellite, built by Matra Marconi Space (MMS), is heading for its operating position at 13¹E in geostationary orbit (GEO). It was launched by an ILS International Launch Services, Atlas 2A from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on ...
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Hughes confirms its ten-launch H2 deal
Hughes Space and Communications and Japan's Rocket Systems signed a contract on 25 November for ten launches of the up-rated H2A booster, (Flight International, 17-23 July, P17). The contract also includes an undisclosed number of launch options. The ten launches will begin in 2000 and will continue ...
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India cancels order for Russian launch
India will launch its remote-sensing satellite, the IRS 1D, aboard the country's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in 1997, and has cancelled its $14 million order for a launch by the Russian Molniya rocket. The PSLV had been declared operational after launching the IRS P3 satellite in March. ...
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Space Station crew switched round
Russian cosmonaut Anatoli Solovyov has been replaced by cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko. Solovyov had been named as the commander of the first Soyuz TM flight to the International Space Station (ISS) in May 1988, flying with Russian flight engineer Sergei Krikalev and US astronaut William Shepherd. Solovyov had featured ...
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What's on
Christmas Show/LMA Winter Exhibition 7-8 December, Yorkshire, UK. Contact: Yorkshire Air Museum, Halifax Way, Elvington, York YO4 5AU, UK; tel: +44 (1904) 608595; fax: +44 (1904) 608246. "Carrying the Torch" Air Show Industry Convention 8-11 December, Riviera, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Contact Rebecca Scullon Eyke:+517 782 2424. ...
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Alitalia fined for anti-competitive actions
Italy's competition authority has fined Alitalia for using unfair tactics in its fight against two new national airlines Air One (formerly Aliadriatica) and Meridiana, which have been attempting to make inroads into the Italian domestic market. The L415 million ($280,000) fine was less than expected because of Alitalia's ...
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Sabena to consider lease of ex-Air France Europe A330s
The ex-Air Inter A330s could soon be flying for Sabena Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS Sabena is considering the interim replacement of its three Airbus A310s early in 1997 with three leased ex-Air France Europe/Air Inter A330-300s. The Belgian airline has been examining the A330 and ...
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German EF2000 decision delayed again
EF2000 enters German holding pattern Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The German Government now looks unlikely to make a decision before March 1997 to proceed with the production-investment phase of the Eurofighter EF2000 programme, despite pressure from the industrial partners. Within two weeks of admitting that a ...
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Air France Europe shuttle makes good
Air France subsidiary Air France Europe, reports a "successful" first month's operations with its new high-frequency shuttle service between Paris/Orly and Marseille, Nice and Toulouse. The airline introduced the services in October in response to increased competition from independent carriers, even though one, Air Liberté, has since gone ...
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Space telescope
Space-based interferometry technology, which will allow astronomers to study the planets of other star systems for signs of life or for conditions to support Earth-based life, will be demonstrated by the NASA New Millennium Deep Space 2 mission due for launch in about 1999. Source: Flight ...
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A simple matter of subtraction
So what exactly is all the fuss about? Will all computer systems simply stop functioning as the clock strikes midnight on 31 December 1999? Many won't, but the likelihood of at least some of them either failing or producing spurious data is very real. Peter de Jager, a ...
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How long can profits last
After a good 1995, US airlines are, with some exceptions, moving towards an even better profit picture this year. And well it should be. If not now, one would have to ask: When? As the year of the 10 per cent ticket-tax boost draws to a close, and ...
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ESOP reflects a united front
In his Dateline Washington column on United's Esop (Airline Business, October), Mead Jennings arrives at erroneous conclusions based on what can only be described as misinformation. Allow me to put the record straight. * United's Esop structure is unique in business history in that it contains a sunset ...
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Saddened by Sudan action
I am writing regarding your brief report on the death penalty against Sudan Airways ruled by the United Nations Security Council on 8 October (Airline Business, November). One can only be saddened to see that small third world airlines can actually vanish altogether through actions that are only possible against ...