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Dassault/Aerospatiale merger will not meet deadline
DASSAULT AND Aerospatiale will be unable to meet the 30 June deadline set by president, Jacques Chirac for agreement on the structure, for a merger between the two. Dassault president Serge Dassault told a shareholders' meeting on 13 June that, while the steering committee charged with preparing the ...
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Late delivery
Some issues of Flight International dated 12-18 June were dispatched late as a result of severe storm damage suffered at the magazine's printers. We apologise to any reader who failed to receive the issue on time. Source: Flight International
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Doubts prevail on USAir alliance with BA
Doubt has been thrown on the future of USAir's alliance with British Airways, following revelations that the US carrier has not yet agreed to hold confidential discussions with BA or American Airlines. American Airlines boss Bob Crandall revealed in a briefing on 12 June, that both his airline ...
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Dash to Japan
Ryukyu Air Commuter (RAC), a subsidiary of Japan Airlines group member Japan TransOcean Air, will become the first operator of the de Havlland Dash 8 regional aircraft in Japan when it takes delivery of three Dash 8-100s in 1997. The Naha, Okinawa-based carrier placed three firm orders and two options ...
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How HUD works
HUDs present the vital parameters of aircraft position, velocity, demand information and trend cues on a screen suspended from the flight-deck roof between the pilot's eyes and the aircraft windscreen. The pilot looks through this screen (the combiner) to the real world beyond and, as the combiner is collimated (focused ...
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Reflecting the true costs of airport modifications
Sir-In your article, "Airlines force Boeing to raise 747-600X range" (Flight International, 22-28 May, P13), you mention the Airports Council International's (ACI) new report, Costs and Capacity Implications of New Large Aircraft for Airports. I would like to clarify a point on the average capital cost per new-large-aircraft ...
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Standard delivery
Hughes Aircraft is to provide Standard Missile-2 and Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile systems engineering and software for the anti-aircraft-warfare suite of the Trilateral Frigate programme involving Canada, Germany and the Netherlands. The preliminary design contract, was awarded by, Hollandse Signaalapparaten. Source: Flight International
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Who's in control
AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL OPERATOR Dan Kennedy, recently returned from a Churchill Fellowship world study on GA safety, believes that insurance payouts of up to A$1 million ($806,500) on turbine agricultural aircraft, more than 60 of which are operated in Australia, may price his industry out of business if accident trends cannot ...
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RAF receives EJ2000 missile bids
Bids were put in on 11, June for the Royal Air Force's £1 billion ($1.52 billion) future medium-range air-to-air missile for the Eurofighter EJ2000 - seen carrying mock-ups of the Meteor missile offered by a British Aerospace-led team. BAe ASRAAM missiles are also visible. Hughes also bid. BAe's team includes ...
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Installation
The 2020,would be fitted to the left-hand side of the flight-deck, to be used from the captain's seat. Installation weight is 22kg, and unit cost about $500,000. Fitting, is most easily accomplished during manufacture, but the HUD can be retrofitted by repositioning the standard overhead circuit-breaker panel. Such retrofits, would ...
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Saab performs Gripen high-alpha trials
Saab Military Aircraft is performing high angle-of-attack flights as part of the last phase of testing of the JAS39 Gripen. The trials are designed to test the aircraft's manoeuvre load limiter, which allows the pilot to use full control inputs without exceeding safety limits. Saab's second test aircraft, repainted in ...
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SA Airlink KwaZulu-Natal link
SA Airlink's agreement to operate the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government's recently ordered Jetstream 41 (Flight International, 5-11 June), will fit in well with existing operations, says Airlink's joint managing director Barry Webb. SA Airlink already operates a fleet of ten British Aerospace Jetstream 41s and two Dornier 228s, and serves several ...
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Accessory sale
Aviall has completed the sale of its Miami-based aircraft-accessory repair business to Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems, as part of its plan to quit the engine- and component-repair business and focus on parts distribution. Source: Flight International
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On the horizon
Science Applications International (SAIC) has bought Horizon Technologies' (HTI) Advanced Systems Group and Horizon Technologies Australia, producers of mission-planning and simulation systems. Source: Flight International
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ACA
Richard Kennedy has been appointed general counsel and secretary of Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA), of Sterling, Virginia. Kennedy has served British Aerospace since 1991, most recently directing legal and financial arrangements for airline, and aircraft transactions for subsidiary JSX Capital. He succeeds Mark Bisnow, who will continue as a consultant ...
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Channel Express
Antony Sainthill has been appointed director of Airbus Industrie A300 programmes at cargo carrier Channel Express (Air Services), of Bournemouth International Airport, in the UK. He has been a non-executive director since 1994 Source: Flight International
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NATA
US aviation-business public-policy group The National Air Transportation Association (NATA), of Alexandria, Virginia, has appointed Kurt Herwald, president and chief executive of Stevens Aviation, as its chairman. Michael Pittard, chairman of Aviation Charter Services, becomes vice-chairman. Thomas Ransom, vice-president of AVITAT/Qualitron, becomes treasurer, replacing Jeff Baum, of Wisconsin Aviation, who ...
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Ansett
Following the promotion of Tony Griffiths to regional manager for the UK, Europe and Africa, from 1 July, Ansett Australia has appointed Jim Corcoran manager for sales and marketing for the UK, Ireland, Benelux and Scandinavia. Corcoran, with the Ansett Group for 14 years, was formerly manager of Ansett Australia's ...
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Hawaiian
Michael McQuay has become executive vice-president of Hawaiian Airlines, responsible for airport and inflight operations. He replaces Frank Forster, who is to retire. McQuay joins Hawaiian after 25 years with Continental Airlines, most recently as vice-president of its Houston, Texas, hub. Source: Flight International