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Energetic simula
Phoenix, Arizona-based Simula has received a $3.4 million US Navy contract to supply energy-absorbing crew seats for Sikorsky CH-53 helicopters, with deliveries beginning in June 1997. Source: Flight International
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Trend setting
Shadin ETM engine trend-monitors are scheduled to be installed in the US Army's Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6-powered Raytheon C-12s, for use with the engine manufacturer's ECTM System IV condition-monitoring software. Source: Flight International
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Automatic growth
Aerospatiale of France says that it expects business worth Fr500 million ($100 million) a year from its new automatic test centre, based at Toulouse and Paris. The centre brings together the company's Aircraft Business Systems division, Missiles Automatic Test Centre and Sextant Avionique automatic test activities. Source: Flight ...
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Brussels expansion
Brussels Airport has outlined a BFr14 billion ($466 million) plan to add another concourse to its recently inaugurated new terminal. A tunnel will link the new concourse to the existing area. Source: Flight International
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Langkawi direct
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has launched a new thrice-weekly direct service between Langkawi and Taipei, using an Airbus A330-300. Source: Flight International
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Engine failure
A No3 engine failure seconds after take-off was the cause of the 22 October crash of a Millon Air Boeing 707 freighter at Manta, Ecuador, says the Ecuador Civil Aviation Department. All four crew and 20 people on the ground were killed. Source: Flight ...
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Wrong figure
Sir - In my letter "Baffled at such a waste of money" (Flight International, 6-12 November, P63) you state that the "-use of an aircraft (say, at $4,500/h) would mean that 100h would cost $500 million in charter". This, of course, should have read $450,000, as I wrote originally. ...
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Polynesian revamp
Following financial restructuring a year ago, Polynesian Airlines has reported a net profit of $720,000 on sales of $25.8 million. The airline, which operates a Boeing 737-300 on regional routes, funded the purchase of a second de Havilland Twin Otter for inter-island routes. Source: Flight International
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A3XX programme gathers momentum as MoU is signed with Rolls-Royce
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Julian Moxon/PARIS Airbus Industrie's plans to compete head-on with Boeing in the large airliner market are gathering momentum, with the consortium concluding the first agreement with an engine manufacturer to provide a power plant for the new aircraft. Airbus and Rolls-Royce signed a memorandum ...
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Ansett A330-200 order decision imminent
Max Kingsley-Jones/London Ansett Australia says that it will decide by the end of the year whether to become the Australasian launch customer for the Airbus Industrie A330-200, which would see it placing orders for up to 14 aircraft for delivery starting in mid-1998. According to the ...
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Report slams world pilot standards
David Learmount/LONDON A damning indictment of pilot training standards in the world's air-transport industry is revealed in the official accident report on the fatal 6 February Birgenair Boeing 757 accident near Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. The investigators say that basic internationally accepted requirements for pilot-training standards have fallen ...
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Alitalia/Alpi Eagles conclude codeshare deal
Marco Messalla/ROME Alitalia and Italian low-cost carrier Alpi Eagles have agreed a code-sharing deal, which includes the transfer of five Fokker 70s from Alitalia's former regional subsidiary Avianova -which has now been absorbed into the national carrier. Code-sharing operations will begin on 11 November, with Alpi ...
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Fairchild Dornier nears engine selection on 328 jet
Guy Norris/Palm Springs Fairchild Dornier expects to select a turbofan for its proposed 30-seat 328-300 "later this month", according to vice-president for sales, Andrew Jampoler, and is targeting an entry- into-service date for the new aircraft of late 1998. Engines being considered include General Electric's CFE738, ...
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Air Liberte/TAT merger possible, says British Airways
British Airways says that there is "every chance" of a merger between French independent carriers Air Liberté and TAT European Airlines, to create a single entity flying under BA colours. The combined carrier would be the second largest in France. In its business plan, submitted to the commercial ...
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JAL consulting
Japan Airlines and 17 associated group companies, including maintenance, cargo handling and catering, are to form a new aviation-business consulting company to advise on infrastructural development projects. JAL Aviation Consulting will be focusing primarily on airport construction projects in South-East Asia and China. Source: Flight International
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Volga passengers
The Russian heavyweight cargo specialist Volga-Dnepr Airlines has begun scheduled passenger services between its base in Ulyanovsk and Moscow. The carrier is flying 30-seater Yakovlev Yak-40s on the route, leased from the Ulyanovsk-based regional airline JSC Simbirsk Aero, which ceased flying in September because of debts of over 14 billion ...
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Weather data
A Northrop Grumman Airport Tower Display System (ATDS), a radar-interface system, has been installed at Baltimore's Martin State Airport. The ATDS provides Martin with aircraft detection and weather data generated at nearby Baltimore Washington International. Source: Flight International
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Taped vents probed in Peruvian accident
David Learmount/LONDON The failure by Aero Peru maintenance employees to remove protective adhesive tape placed over an aircraft's pilot/static vents during maintenance may have caused a Boeing 757 to crash on 2 October, says a Peruvian transport ministry statement (Flight International, 9-15 October). Tape covering static ...
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Australia turns up pressure on Papua New Guinea
Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has warned Papua New Guinea 's (PNG) Office of Civil Aviation (OCA) that it will not hesitate to rescind the Australian air-operators' certificates of PNG operators if the OCA cannot meet its regulatory commitments. The warning was issued after the OCA's deputy ...