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Maintaining UK safety record
Sir - The current dispute between commercial single-engined-aircraft suppliers and the UK Civil Aviation Authority would appear to be driven by profit and safety, respectively. Before offering support in either direction, the industry should have at its disposal information on the number of in-flight shutdowns of the Pratt ...
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Choice of pilots must be objective
Sir - A career in the management of aircraft in the airline business has become a clearly identified professional area where the job description and the profile of the person to fulfil this exacting and responsible management activity can at last be specified. The history of flying aeroplanes ...
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Business Air
Scottish regional airline Business Air celebrated ten years of operation on 30 August with a dinner, supported by Saab Aircraft International (which manufactures the carrier's 340s) and others, to raise money for charity. Seen (left to right) are Saab Aircraft's regional sales manager, Anders Yngell, and Bjorn Astrand, vice-president for ...
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Bombardier
Bombardier Aviation Services, of Montreal, Canada, has appointed John Gonsalves to the new position of regional director, eastern service sales in north-east America, based in Hartford, Connecticut. Randy Znamenak becomes regional director for western service sales, also a new position, based in Wichita, Kansas. Source: Flight International
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Air China deal boosts CAE's market share
CAEElectronics has sold two full-flight simulators and a flight-training device to Air China in a deal worth C$30 million ($21.7 million). The Boeing 737-800 and 777-200 simulators and 777-200 flight- training device will be installed in Air China's Beijing training centre in late 1998. The Chinese airline has ...
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Airbus/CASC finalise Hua Ou support centre
Airbus Industrie and China Aviation Supplies' (CASC) new Hua Ou Aviation Training and Support Centre in Beijing is in the final stages of being fitted out and is scheduled to begin full operations at the end of October. The joint venture recently received its final approval from China's ...
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Embry-Riddle establishes regional-pilot programme
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has established the first direct-hire programme for its student pilots under an agreement with US regional carrier Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA). Candidates selected in joint screening by the airline and university will be given a conditional offer of employment and provided training ...
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QuickTurn picks Frasca
Frasca International is to supply a Raytheon Beech King Air C90 fight-training device to QuickTurn, a division of SimuFlite Training International. The fixed-base device will have a four-window Frasca visual system. Source: Flight International
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches orbit
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft entered orbit around the Red Planet on 11 September, marking the second success for the US space agency after the mission of the Mars Pathfinder and its Sojourner Rover on the planet's surface, starting on 4 July (Flight International, 20-26 August). The Lockheed Martin-built ...
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Prospector delay
The launch of NASA's Lunar Prospector orbiter aboard a Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle (LMLV) 2 has been delayed from 24 September until 23 November, to allow additional time to complete testing on the booster. It will be the LMLV2 maiden flight and the first launch from the Spaceport Florida's commercial ...
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Eurockot aims for 1998 launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) has received $35 million funding from the Dresdener Bank to begin reconfiguring a launch pad and developing support equipment at Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome for the first commercial launch of the Rockot booster in late 1998, carrying three data-messaging satellites. Dasa and ...
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Seventh SMM is poised for imminent lift-off
NASA's STS86/Atlantis mission is scheduled to be launched on 25 September, to dock with the Russian Mir space station during the seventh Shuttle Mir Mission (SMM). The Atlantis will retrieve NASA astronaut Michael Foale from the Russian space station and leave a new US resident, Dr David Wolf. ...
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nUnited Space
Glynn Lunney has become vice-president for strategic and business planning at Lockheed-Boeing's United Space Alliance, of Houston, Texas. He was formerly vice-president and programme manager, where he is replaced by deputy programme manager Howard DeCastro. Both report to president and chief executive Paul Smith. Source: Flight International
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On the horizon
How the European Space Agency plans more science with less money Tim Furniss/LONDON As the European Space Agency (ESA) prepares to see its penultimate large-scale, high-budget, planetary mission, the Huygens, take off with NASA's Cassini en route for Saturn on about 13 October (Flight International, 7-13 ...
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TNT
Bob O'Donnell has become managing director of airline-management organisation TNT International Aviation Services, of Windsor, Berkshire, UK, a division of TNT Express Worldwide. He was previously managing director of Excalibur Airways and is a former deputy chief accountant at Britannia Airways. Source: Flight International
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BFGoodrich
Stephen Henderson has become vice-president and general manager for the component-services division of BFGoodrich Aerospace Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul Group. He was formerly general manager of sales and marketing at GE Engine Services and, before that, was managing director of Aviall Caledonian Engine Services in Scotland, UK. ...