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Composite Y-7
Xian Aircraft is developing a composite vertical stabiliser for its Y-7 turboprop. The company has completed static testing and plans to fit the first production example later this year. The composite stabiliser is claimed to be the largest composite airframe section to be produced in China. ...
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Booming Bahrain
Bahrain International Airport has reported its best-ever year, with growth recorded in all areas of activity during 1995. Overall passenger figures of 3.4 million were 4.1% up over 1994 while cargo tonnage passed 100,000t, an increase of 11%. Source: Flight International
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US pilot hiring up
Major US airlines almost doubled pilot hiring in 1995, according to Atlanta, Georgia-based Aviation Information Resources (AIR). The consultancy says that 12 majors hired 2,377 pilots, up from 1,266 in 1994. The forecast is for the airlines to hire 2,500 pilots in 1996. Overall, 196 airlines surveyed by AIR hired ...
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Northwest traffic up
Northwest Airlines carried a record 49.3 million passengers in 1995, up by more than 10% over 1994. The systemwide load factor also reached an all-time high of 71.5%, compared to 68.1% the previous year. Source: Flight International
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...and for Eurowings
Germany's largest independent regional airline, Eurowings, recorded strongly improved traffic for 1995. Scheduled-passenger numbers went up by 27.5%, to almost 1.5 million, accompanied by a substantial rise in load factor, from 48.7% to 57.1%. Eurowings chairman Reinhard Santner attributes the improved result to Europe's economic upturn and also to the ...
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Aero Lloyd Airbus
German charter carrier Aero Lloyd took delivery on 16 January of its first IAE V2500-powered Airbus A320. The airline will eventually operate a fleet of six A320s and ten A321s, configured in a single-class layout for 174 and 212 passengers, respectively. The Airbuses will successively replace the existing fleet of ...
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JAL expansion
Japan Airlines (JAL) recently unveiled a corporate medium-range plan for 1996 through to 2000, projecting a 3-5% annual pick-up in business,because of the expansion of Tokyo's two main airports and increased use of Kansai International Airport. With completion of Tokyo's Haneda Airport upgrade by the spring of 1997, JAL is ...
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Dynamic overshoot
Ten years after the Challenger accident, there is still argument over a phenomenon called dynamic overshoot. Tim Furniss/Washington DC IF NASA ERRED IN DESIGNING the Space Shuttle, its hypersensitive reaction to the term "dynamic overshoot" and to the name of Ali AbuTaha, who conducted an independent ...
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Gulfstream HUD tests will begin in February
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES FLIGHT TESTS OF the Honeywell/GEC-Marconi HUD 2020 head-up-display (HUD) system are due to begin on a Gulfstream IV in February, following the delivery of flight-test equipment from GEC late in 1995. A pre-production HUD 2020 and newly developed Honeywell symbology are still being flight-tested on the US ...
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Material change
Avro International Aerospace is to test a composite tail-fin leading edge on its Avroliner regional jet, to enable it to offer airlines a high-frequency (HF) radio-communications capability. Avro says that the HF aerial will be embedded in the fin, as an alternative to installing a "washing-line"-type aerial running from the ...
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AB Shannon
David Billingsby (left) has been appointed sales manager for AB Shannon, part of the Air Bristol Group, of Bristol, Avon, UK. Billingsby, formerly general sales manager of maintenance company JEA, of Exeter, Devon, and, before that, director of sales at Budget Rent-a-Car, is seen with group chief executive Brian Beal. ...
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What's on
Asian Aerospace '96 6-11 February, Singapore. Contacts (Asia-Pacific) Reed Exhibition Companies, tel: +65 371 0705; fax +65 271 4520; (North America) tel: +1 (203) 840 5342; fax: +1 (203) 840 9342; (Rest of the World) Reed Exhibition Companies, Oriel House, 26 The Quadrant, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey TW9 1DL, UK; tel: +44 ...
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Wavionix speeds up design of air-traffic flight patterns
David Learmount/LONDON A SOFTWARE product which is claimed to revolutionise the safe design of air-traffic flight procedures has been launched by a new company, Wavionix, based in Lausanne, Switzerland. The time taken to design new air-traffic flight patterns or amend existing ones can be cut from ...
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Scientists get to grips with friction testing
Andrew Doyle/LONDON A FIVE-YEAR TEST programme aimed at achieving a better understanding of how runway contaminants such as anti-icing fluid and slush can adversely affect aircraft stopping distances began in Canada on 15 January. The first phase of the programme, which involves Transport Canada, the US Federal Aviation Administration and ...
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Reasons for being
NATO has been reshaping itself and reviewing the role of its air power. Tim Ripley/LONDON IF THERE WAS ONE reassuring aspect of existing in a bipolar world packed with nuclear weapons, it was that at least you knew which side you were on. The US-led NATO alliance faced ...
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Ariane/Delta kick off busy schedule
Tim Furniss/LONDON ARIANE AND DELTA boosters have been used to start what promises to be the busiest year ever for commercial launches, with three satellites for Malaysia, South Korea and US company PanAmSat being placed in orbit on 12 and 14 January, respectively. Over 25 other geostationary communications satellites are ...
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New study qualifies Shuttle risk assessment
A STUDY FOR NASA by New York-based Science Applications International research group puts the risk of a catastrophic failure of the Space Shuttle at one in 248 flights, compared with one in 78 in 1988 when the Space Shuttle returned to flight after the Challenger accident. NASA's internal estimate of ...
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Start for Woomera's space bid agreement signed
AN AUSTRALIAN engineering company and Russia's Scientific Technical Complex (STC) have signed an agreement to study the feasibility of establishing a commercial launch service for low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites from the Woomera Rocket Range in South Australia. The Russian Start booster would be used to carry 600kg payloads to ...
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RD-180 selected for Atlas launcher
LOCKHEED MARTIN Astronautics has selected the Pratt & Whitney/NPO Energomash RD-180 liquid-rocket engine to power the upgraded Atlas IIAR satellite launcher. A firm contract is contingent on receiving Russian Government export licences. The RD-180, which has been under development since March 1994, was selected over the Russian Samara-NK ...