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Reverser suspected in TAM Fokker crash
Pilot exclamations on the cockpit voice recorder of the crashed TAM Brazilian Fokker 100 (Flight International, 6-12 November) have led investigators to suspect that the No 2 engine thrust-reverser may have operated in flight, say sources close to the investigation. This is supposed to be impossible, because the thrust-reverser actuators ...
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Canadian future is threatened if cost cuts are not endorsed
Brian Dunn/MONTREAL Canadian Airlines International could be forced out of business by the turn of the year if employees and shareholders fail to endorse a sweeping programme of cost-cutting being proposed by the management, warns president Kevin Benson. The cost cuts, which are planned to add ...
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Lockheed Martin starts non-core asset disposal
Lockheed Martin has begun the promised disposal of non-core assets, with the sale of two armaments units to General Dynamics (GD)for an agreed price of $450 million. Lockheed Martin's Defense Systems and Armament Systems units, both of which employ around 1,600 workers, were originally part of the GE ...
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German buyers thwart IPTN hopes for stake in ASL
Three anonymous German investors have emerged as buyers for the former Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) maintenance subsidiary Aircraft Services Lemwerder (ASL), ending plans by Indonesia's Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) to take a 25.1% stake. Two local investors from Lower Saxony, where ASL is based, and a third from ...
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Law suit resolved
Aerospace Safety Technologies has resolved its patent-infringement suit against AlliedSignal by licensing use of its electrothermal-heating technology in the ETIPS ice-protection system, and receiving a licence to use some Allied technologies. Source: Flight International
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New Snecma chief aims
The new president of French engine manufacturer Snecma, Jean-Paul Béchat, says that the company's debt will be halved by the year-end, with "balanced books by the end of 1997". He is also making headway in attempts to avoid a sell-off of group subsidiaries - the prospect being faced by his ...
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Transavia makes 'D-Check' on cost base
Peter Legro, chairman of KLM subsidiary Transavia, says that the spiralling reduction in European air fares and the resultant erosion of yields has forced it to make a bottom-up study of its operations, to cut costs. "We are looking at every aspect of the airline, from the in-flight ...
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AE-100 engine competition accelerates as rivals fight
The competition to power China's planned AE-100 passenger aircraft is intensifying, with rival engine manufacturers extending increasingly more attractive offers of industrial co-operation and co-production. Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) has stipulated that the joint venture will select an engine primarily on the basis of performance, reliability and ...
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Boeing agrees on Chinese Chinook
Boeing and China National Aero Technology Import and Export (CATIC) have reached an outline work-share agreement to co-produce the Boeing 234-100 Chinook helicopter, but are still looking for sufficient orders to launch the programme. The two sides have broadly agreed to split production of the civil heavy-lift ...
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Admit it
If anyone in global air-transport still believes that the legal minimum standards for airline pilot training are adequate for today's aircraft and air-traffic enviroment, they would do well to read the official report on the Birgenair Boeing 757 accident (P14). It states that the pilots involved in the accident, although ...
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Vympel pushes export R-77
Russian missile design house Vympel is pushing ahead with the development of an export variant of the R-77 (AA-12Adder) medium-range active radar-guided air-to-air missile. Pictured is what appears to be an export-modified R-77 ready for a test firing. The carriage pylon is marked AKU-170E, rather than the standard AKU-170, the ...
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Dassault wants a Rafale deal soon
Dassault and the French Government are close to resolving a major problem over how to fund an earlier service entry of the air force version of the Rafale fighter, to meet export demonstration needs. Dassault had expressed considerable concern over the defence ministry delaying delivery of the air force Rafale ...
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Eurofighter threatened by fresh defence cuts
Andrjez Jeziorski/MUNICH A new danger, to the Eurofighter programme, is looming in Germany with the spectre of further defence cuts early in 1997. Industrial and political sources say that the defence ministry could be facing a new cutback of between DM300 million ($200 million) and DM500 ...
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Prowler crews evaluate F-18 C2W
Graham Warwick/ST LOUIS Operational crews have evaluated the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18 command and control warfare (C2W) variant using a concept simulator at MDC's St Louis, Missouri, headquarters. The C2W variant of the two-seat F-18F is being proposed to replace US Navy and Marine Corps Grumman EA-6B Prowler ...
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Budget reductions hit Germany's Huey fleet
The German army is being forced to retire one-third of its fleet of Bell UH-1D Iroquois fleet ahead of time because of budget shortages. Some 52 transport helicopters from the current fleet of 176 are to be grounded from 1997, and will be cannibalised for spares. The helicopters ...
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US GAO backs CH-60 Black Hawk over Huey upgrade
The US Department of Defense could save more than $700 million if it forces the US Marine Corps to scrap plans to upgrade 100 Bell Helicopter Textron UH-1N utility helicopters and buy new Sikorsky Aircraft CH-60 Black Hawk rotorcraft, say Congressional investigators. "In deciding to modernise its fleet ...
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Germans plan London visit to discuss air force missile plan
German defence officials will visit London later this month for exploratory discussions on the possibility of drawing together elements of the UK's Storm Shadow variant of the French Apache stand-off weapon with the German KEPD-350 to meet a German air force requirement for such a missile. The officials are from ...
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USAF safety
The US Air Force has achieved its second-best overall flight-safety year on record in fiscal year 1996, with a "Class A" accident rate of 1.26 accidents per 100,000 flying hours. Class A includes fatal accidents or "mishaps" involving destruction or damage worth more than $1 million. Rates for fighter and ...
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Pentagon funds air-launched decoys for SEAD mission
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical (TRA) a $24.4 million contract to develop and demonstrate a miniature air-launched decoy (MALD) designed to knock out air defences. The MALD advanced concept technology demonstration (ACTD) involves using a small, inexpensive air-launched decoy for ...
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Acceptable errors
The human-factors element in flight safety is now being taken seriously. David Learmount/WARSAW The world's flight-safety specialists have given up trying to eliminate human error. Now, the aim is to understand error and to control, or "manage" it. This strategy holds the key to improving airline flight ...