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DASA wants Airbus to scale down large-aircraft plans
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE partner Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) wants the consortium to drop its A3XX 500- to 650-plus-passenger aircraft study in favour of a 400- to 550-seat aircraft to rival new stretched variants of the Boeing 747 now under study. The DASA move comes in the wake of recent bruising ...
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Boeing nears launch order for 747 stretch 747
Guy Norris/SINGAPORE BRITISH AIRWAYS, Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines are close to negotiating launch orders with Boeing for the 747-600X, the stretched version of the present 747-400 and the first major derivative of the 747. The airlines will meet Boeing in early April at a crucial meeting ...
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MDC reveals its long-term plan for MD-11 plan
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is in the final stages of defining two new versions of the MD-11, which will enable the company to compete head-to-head with Airbus and Boeing in the Boeing 747-100/200 replacement market and the emerging extra-long-range market. "We got to the point that we had to ...
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BMW Rolls-Royce revises Gulfstream V powerplant
BMW ROLLS-ROYCE is reconfiguring the high-pressure turbine of the BR710 to reduce fuel consumption and cut maintenance costs. The company plans to supply modified engines to power the third prototype of the Gulfstream V long-range business jet. Despite the late change, which reflects performance-guarantee concerns discovered during early ...
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BA to equip European fleet with TCAS 2
BRITISH AIRWAYS WILL announce this week that it is fitting traffic-alert and collision-avoidance systems (TCAS 2) to its 116-aircraft short-haul fleet The airline is the first major European carrier to order the TCAS 2 for its entire fleet. Its 102 long-haul aircraft are already fitted with the system, ...
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US help sought in 757 crash probe
THE DOMINICAN Republic has asked the USA for help in investigating the 6 February crash of a Boeing 757 into the sea just north of the island. The aircraft, chartered by Dominican carrier Alas Nacionales from Turkish airline Birgenair, was climbing through 7,000ft (2,000m) after a night take-off ...
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British Airways should look again at Avro family
Sir - Your article "Regional-jet makers ponder tough BA requirement" (Flight International, 24-30 January, P8) suggests that Avro is expected to offer a mix of RJ85s and RJ100s, but that it does not have an offering in the 120-seat bracket. Literature which I have received from Avro also ...
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The pros and cons of a 'single European ticket'
Sir - It is interesting to be informed via "European FAA?" (editorial, Flight International, 24-30 January) that there are plans to force the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) to become legally responsible to the European Commission, rather than to the individual airworthiness authorities of member states. Can we ...
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What's on
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Conquering the divide
Europe is beginning to question the Joint Aviation Authorities' competence to regulate. David Learmount/LONDON AVIATION REGULATORS in Europe, having built what they thought was a structure with firm foundations when they set up the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAAs), are now discovering that the house may have ...
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Varig
Varig Brazilian Airlines has named Fernando Abs da Cruz Souza Pinto director president, succeeding Carlos Willy Engels, who becomes vice-president of the administrative council. Dr Walterson Fontoura Caravajal is elected president of the administrative board, succeeding Edgard Nascimento de Araujo who has resigned for health reasons. Source: Flight ...
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Corporate strategy
Winner: Lockheed Martin Location: Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Achievement: Taking consolidation of the world aerospace defence industry to a new scale with the success of its giant merger. There is little doubt that the merger of Lockheed and Martin Marietta was the landmark event of 1995 for the ...
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Aerospace faces up to threat of cadmium ban
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE THREAT OF a European ban on cadmium being extended to aerospace is forcing manufacturers to search for alternative anti-corrosion coatings. Aerospace is exempt from an existing ban on cadmium, but this is likely to be revoked if studies into possible alternatives prove fruitful. ...
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Air Transport
Winner: Bombardier Regional Aircraft Location: Ontario, Canada Achievement: Helping carriers to exploit the benefits of open skies, with new low-cost, direct air services using the 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet. FROM THE OUTSET, Bombardier designed its 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet to help airlines open up new ...
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Helicopters
Winner: Eurocopter Location: Paris, France Achievement: Application of advanced noise-reduction technologies throughout the design of the low-noise EC 135 helicopter THE AWARDS JUDGES decided that two entries in this year's Helicopters category stood out "head and shoulders" above the others. Those were from Eurocopter for ...
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EC120 testing reaches 60h
THE EC120 FIVE-SEAT HELICOPTER has undergone over 60h of testing since its first flight in June 1995 from the Eurocopter France site at Marignane. A second aircraft is scheduled to join the programme by the middle of this year. The aircraft, a joint venture between Eurocopter, Singapore Aerospace and China ...
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Business and General Aviation
Winner: Gulfstream Location: Savannah, Georgia, USA Achievement: First flight of the Gulfstream V, destined to be the first of the new ultra-long-range business jets to go into service. GULFSTREAM IS NOT alone in targeting the market for an ultra-long-range business jet, but its Gulfstream V ...
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Military aviation
Winner: McDonnell Douglas Location: Long Beach, California, USA. Achievement: Successful entry into service of the C-17 transport and an outstanding first year of operations. At the start of 1995, the McDonnell Douglas C-17 Globemaster III entered full operational service with the US Air Force. In the first ...
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Environment
Winner: PZL-Swidnik Polish Aviation Works Location: Swidnik, Poland Achievement: Taking a lead on safe environmental production in Eastern Europe with the introduction of a new anodising line. At the start of 1995, Polish helicopter maker PXL-Swidnik opened a fully automated line for chromic acid anodising of aluminium ...
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Safety
Winner: Jeppesen Location: Englewood, Colorado, USA. Achievement: A simple but highly effective development to help pilots remain familiar with the world's more exacting airport approaches, by making the charts on which they rely more readable. To help address an identified need within the airline industry to improve ...