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Airport role-reversal
On 1 January, 1998, the two main airports of Italy's second city will start a process of gradual role-reversal. Linate, which has always been Milan's main airport, is almost logjammed, while Milan Malpensa opens the first stage of a development which will give it more than twice Linate's capacity, both ...
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Swissair strategy advances
A year ago, when Swissair first presented Philippe Bruggisser as the incoming chief executive, he promised to take a firm hand with the group's costs and inject a touch more pragmatism to its alliance strategy. Twelve months later, Bruggisser appears to be making headway on both fronts. His ...
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Germans choose Elisra
The German army will equip its Sikorsky CH-53 helicopters with the Israeli Elisra SPS-65(V) integrated airborne self-protection system. A limited number of systems was rushed to Germany and installed on CH-53s which were flown on missions in Bosnia. The German army is now negotiating a deal to purchase the Israeli-developed ...
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Howmet and P&W set up Sprayform
Sprayform Technologies International has been established as a joint-venture company by Howmet and Pratt & Whitney. Greenwich, Connecticut-based Howmet is the majority shareholder in the new company. Sprayform has been established to develop Howmet's Spraycast-X process, which directly converts vacuum-melted superalloys into semi-finished ring shapes, suitable for use ...
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Pie in the sky?
Meet the demands for air travel, but do it with existing resources, the UK Government has told airport operators in the country's busiest region, London and the south-east. This may be beyond them, however. The signs are that air-traffic control may be able to cope, but that airports may not ...
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Resolving contradictions
One down, one to go - or, at least, that would appear to be the case, following the US Department of Defense's recent decision on its Hughes AIM-9 Sidewinder replacement, which ended the battle for the air-to-air missile's succession. The next decision to be made is over which ...
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Airports in growth again
A burst of growth towards the end of 1996 kept traffic increasing for the year at the world's airports, and the signs are that the good news could continue. Preliminary returns from the Airport Council International (ACI)which represents close to 500 airports around the world, suggest that growth ...
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Joint boost
A new joint venture has been set up to manufacture and market Russia's RD-180 and RD-120 rocket engines. The partners in the new company, known as RD AMROSS, are Pratt & Whitney (P&W) Space Propulsion of West Palm Beach, Florida, and Russia's NPO Energomash (NPO-EM), of Khimky, outside Moscow. ...
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The quiet runway
There are few airport managements which can claim that, by doubling the number of their runways, they will reduce noise nuisance dramatically. At Bogota's Eldorado International Airport, however, that is precisely what the Colombian Aeronautica Civil (civil-aviation authority) promises, even though the second runway will increase air-transport movement (ATM) capacity ...
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Letfreezes work on L-610M but gears up for -610G
Regional-aircraft manufacturer Let Kunovice has frozen its L-610M twin-turboprop-aircraft programme to dedicate its energy to the much-delayed certification of the Westernised L-610G variant. The 40-seat L-610G is now scheduled to receive certification in the third quarter of 1998 to US Federal Aviation Regulations Part 25 requirements. The programme ...
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Peace Programme
Jeff Peace has been appointed programme manager for Boeing's 777-200X/300X derivatives, as the manufacturer moves towards a launch of the long-range twinjets at the Paris air show in June. Peace was formerly programme manager of the 777-300, the first example of which is now being assembled. ...
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Trimble releases GPS training for GA pilots
Trimble, the California-based global-positioning-system (GPS)-navigation specialist, has developed a comprehensive instrument-flight-rules GPS training system for general-aviation use. The system combines a CD-ROM-based, multi-media tuition programme with a free-flight simulator developed for Trimble by Initiative Computing, an international software-development company specialising in aviation "teachware" products. The CD-ROMs, ...
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Delta 2 go ahead
McDonnell Douglas hopes to resume launches of its Delta 2 satellite booster on 1 May, after the US Air Force concluded that the loss of one of its global-positioning satellites on 17 January was due to a split in a solid-rocket booster which caused its Delta 2 to explode after ...
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CFMI says CFM56 DACproblem will be solved by July
CFM International (CFMI) expects by July to begin delivering redesigned turbine rear-frames (TRFs) for CFM56-5A/B double annular combustor (DAC) engines on national carriers Swissair and Austrian Airlines Airbus A319s, A320s and A321s. The revised TRFs should finally allow the two carriers to lift artificial flight-cycle limits on the ...
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Tiger signature is promised for Paris Air Show
French minister of defence Charles Millon has promised that the production-investment contract for the Franco-German Eurocopter Tiger anti- tank/support helicopter will be signed at the Paris air show in June. The agreement would clear the way for production of the first batch of Tigers, leading to delivery to ...
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France and Germany row on Airbus
A major row has broken out between the French and German partners in Airbus Industrie over German claims that France is blocking progress on converting the consortium into a fully fledged company. The chairman of the Airbus supervisory board, Edzard Reuter, has threatened to resign from the working ...
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Boeing submits revised bids for re-engineing B-52
Boeing has submitted a revised bid to re-engine the US Air Force's B-52 bomber fleet after its original submission was rejected as "not cost-effective" by an Office of the Secretary of Defense report on 15 April. Despite the blow, Boeing is confident that the initiative is alive, and ...
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DHL Europe closes on widebody freighters
DHL International is discussing the wet-lease of a small fleet of Airbus A300B4 freighters for its intra-European operations later this year, but is focusing on the Boeing 757/767 for its longer-term plans. Gordon Olafson, transport director for DHL International Europe, says that the company is looking to add ...
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Airbus united?
WORKING TOGETHER is a concept which has been promoted (perhaps even over-promoted) by Boeing in recent years. The concept has made its design and production processes more efficient, and could be applied equally to other companies. If the current fracas in Toulouse is anything to go by, the best new ...