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TWA bomb evidence mounts up
SUSPICIONS THAT A BOMB brought down Trans World Airlines Flight 800 on 17 July have been reinforced by additional traces of explosive residue and a Boeing analysis of a centre fuel-tank explosion. Accident investigators and federal law-enforcement officials still cannot say, that the TWA Boeing 747-100 was downed by a ...
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British Airways expects 777 ETOPS in October
Guy Norris/FARNBOROUGH BRITISH AIRWAYS is expected to be cleared for inaugural transatlantic services with the General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 in October, pending final approval by the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). The engine/airframe completed extended-range twinjet operations (ETOPS) testing on 31 July, and US Federal ...
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Swissair caution
Swissair has made a slight downward adjustment to its year-end profit forecast, adding to the cautious outlook among Europe's airlines. The adjustment came after the group revealed a SFr51 million ($42.5 million) loss in the first half of the year. The result is nevertheless an improvement on the SFr86 loss ...
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Looking at dwell-cracks in CF6-50
Sir - Further to my letters "Solving problems in development" and "Development problems continue" (Flight International, 7-13 February, P44 and 13-19 March, P37), I note a statement in the June issue of the Royal Aeronautical Society journal which says that following two uncontained compressor-disc failures in General Electric CF6-50s, the ...
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Sukhoi Su-37 display steals the show
Not content with introducing the "Cobra" manoeuvre into the display vocabulary, Sukhoi has gone a step further with an even more stunning manoeuvre from its thrust-vector-modified Su-27M. The aircraft, dubbed the Su-37, stole the show with a display which saw it entering a Cobra-like manoeuvre, only to continue beyond the ...
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Three shafts: the basics
Most turbofans have a low- and high-pressure spool, whereas the R-R engines have three: a high, intermediate and low spool. R-R believes that this is more advantageous because each spool can be better optimised aerodynamically and, therefore, works more efficiently. The fan and booster run together on the LP spool ...
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SatCom for NATO
Siemens Plessey Systems is to supply NATO with a transportable telemetry and control terminal for NATO communication satellites. The S-Band Transportable SATCOM Ground Terminal will be located, initially, in the UK. The system can be transported by sea, air or land and can be set up by a four-man team ...
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Colourful display
Belgian visual-systems supplier Barco has revealed a new generation of "ruggedised" flat-panel displays. Based on its colour-active liquid-crystal display technology, the panels are sized at 250, 325 and 400mm diameter and, for the first time, a real-time window can be displayed while another application is running. Source: Flight ...
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BA to phase out its ageing 747-100s
British Airways says that the recent order/reconfirmation of 14 Boeing 747-400s will enable the ageing fleet of 15 747-100s to be phased out over the next four years. "These aircraft have more than earned their investment", says chief executive Bob Ayling. BA has not yet decided on the destiny of ...
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Pakistan bilateral
The USA and Pakistan have tentatively agreed a new bilateral aviation accord that will greatly expand services between the two nations. Pending final approval, the two governments have already begun to open up access. US carriers, which were previously restricted to Karachi, now have free access to destinations and to ...
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ILFC leases
International Lease Finance (ILFC) has placed two International Aero Engines-V2500-powered Airbus A321s with Air Macau for delivery, in February and April 1997 on seven year leases. The aircraft will join two A320s and two A321s already leased from the US lessor. ILFChas also placed a Rolls-Royce Trent 772-powered Airbus A330-300 ...
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Daewoo starts pre-production KTX-1
DAEWOO OF SOUTH KOREA HAS BEGUN construction of a pre-production KTX-1 prototype at its Changwon plant. The fifth and final test aircraft, powered by a 700kW (950shp) Pratt & Whitney PT6A-62 turboprop engine, is scheduled to be flown in early 1998. The improved aircraft will incorporate the various aerodynamic refinements ...
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MDC brings YC-15 out of the desert
THE McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) YC-15 is being brought out of mothballs, after almost 15 years of desert storage, to act as an advanced-technology test bed for the US Air Force and MDC. Likely uses include advanced flight- and propulsion-control technology. The aircraft went into storage at Davis Monthan AFB, Arizona, ...
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Allied APU deal
AlliedSignal Aerospace has won a $40 million deal to supply auxiliary power units (APUs), wheels, brakes and avionics to GATX Capital for 33 Boeing 737s, 757s and Airbus A320s. It has also agreed a $30 million deal to provide 36-300 APUs for Airbus A319s, A320s and A321s operated by Canadian ...
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Rogerson selected
Bell has selected the Rogerson Kratos NEOAV IIDS integrated display system for its 412EP utility helicopter. Bell has also selected the Rogerson primary flight electronic-flight-instrument system already selected for the Bell 430. The NEOAV IIDS has also been chosen by CASA for its CN212. Source: Flight International
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'Glass-cockpit' SeaSprite goes on display
KAMAN AND LITTON HAVE shown the digital "glass-cockpit" configuration being proposed for the SH-2G(A) Super SeaSprite offered to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The Integrated Tactical Avionics System is built around a four-colour multi-function display cockpit architecture which can handle the electronic flight-instrumentation system, engine and transmission data, tactical plots ...
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French Suyuz mission
The Soyuz TM23 spacecraft landed safely in Kazakhstan on 2 September, ending the French-funded Casseiopea science mission performed on the Russian Mir 1 space station by spacionaute Claudie Andre-Deshays, who was launched aboard the Soyuz TM24 on 17 August. Deshays landed with cosmonauts Yuri Onufrienko and Yuri Usachev, who had ...
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DASA recovers from loss position
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) began the long haul back from its disastrous losses in the first half of the 1996, after shedding Fokker at the start of the year. The aerospace business saw operating profit improve by almost DM1 billion ($680 million) although that still left DASA with losses ...
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Digital gyro deal
Airbus Industrie has selected Honeywel's GG1320 digital ring-laser gyro as a replacement for analogue ring-laser gyros in its A319, A320, A321, A330 and A340 types. The GG1320 is to be certificated on the A320 as part of the US avionics manufacturer's air-data/initial-reference system in December. It will be certificated on ...
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GE/P&W will finalise GP7000 by year end
THE GENERAL Electric-Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance joint venture will complete definition of the GP7000 baseline design for the proposed Boeing 747-X series by the end of the year to meet an entry-into-service target of 2000 (Flight International, 4-10 September). The partners aim to begin a 36-month development ...