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Boeing regroups as strike ends
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING IS WORKING flat out to catch up on delayed airliner deliveries and resume production after 32,000 machinist-union workers voted overwhelmingly on 13 December to return to work . The 68-day strike stopped deliveries of more than 30 airliners and suspended production ...
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FAA proposes to amend commercial-pilot flight hours
NEW FLIGHT, duty and rest rules for commercial pilots have been proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration in a move to improve aviation safety. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) reduces the number of duty hours (the time a flight crewmember is on the job available to ...
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GE90 power surge hits 777 ETOPS progress
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES PLANS TO BEGIN extended-range twinjet-operations (ETOPS) tests of the General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 have been hit by an incident in which a British Airways aircraft suffered an engine surge during pre-delivery flight tests. Although the engine recovered automatically from the surge, ...
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Waves of change
When Ireland extended the control zone around its shores, it had to look at new maritime-patrol aircraft. Paul Duffy/CASEMENT CHARLIE 253 IS HEADING home after an 8h patrol. According to Irish Air Corps Maritime Squadron commander Maj Michael McNulty, it has been a typical mission for the ...
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Double or quits
The Spacehab venture has been assured of a future by its involvement in the Shuttle-Mir missions. Tim Furniss/CRYSTAL CITY, ARLINGTON THE ARLINGTON-BASED Spacehab Company, which leases the Space Shuttle-based Space Research Laboratory of the same name, has raised $100 million in international private financing. This is the ...
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Boeing defines plans for a 'simple' 777-300 stretch
Guy Norris/SEATTLE DETAILED PLANNING for the design of the stretched Boeing 777-300 is to be completed by mid-February 1996. Half of the design will be released to manufacturing by September, and major assembly is due to begin in late March 1997. Boeing is keeping the ...
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Libya-bound fighter-parts are seized
THREE CONTAINER loads of spare parts for Libyan military aircraft have been seized in northern Italy while being shipped to Tripoli in violation of United Nations (UN) sanctions. Two containers of electronic components and parts were on a Libya-bound ship in the port of Genoa. A third was ...
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It's not where you are, it's who you are
Sir - The article "US airlines move to end passenger-liability limits", (Flight International, 15-21 November, P17) signals a welcome development as the new inter-carrier agreement addresses the long-overdue question of airline liability on a global scale. The new agreement will permit passengers to make unlimited claims under their national law, ...
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Combative markets
The combat aircraft market is estimated to be worth some $88 billion over the next decade. Douglas Barrie/LONDON WHILE MANUFACTURERS in the traditional combat-aircraft producing nations have been forced to take serious stock of the changed world in which they operate, their home countries have ...
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Dunlop delivers EH101 Merlin de-icing system
DUNLOP Aviation has delivered to Westland Helicopters the first production engine-intake anti-icing assemblies for the EH Industries EH101 Merlin anti-submarine helicopter. The equipment will be installed on 44 EH101s being assembled by Westland for the Royal Navy. The intakes are constructed from layers of glass and carbon fabric and aramid ...
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GA association boosts CRM training
Forbes Mutch/LONDON THE UK GENERAL Aviation Manufacturers and Traders Association (GAMTA), has completed a benchmarking exercise into cockpit/crew-resource-management (CRM) training. The concluding report, published in association with Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, recommends the establishment of a central library of CRM training resources, including videos and other ...
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Inside the Spacehab
The 3m-long, 4.1m-wide, 31.1m3 (2,155ft3) pressurised volume of a Spacehab - taking up one-quarter of the payload bay of the Shuttle and doubling the working space available for astronauts usually confined to the flight deck and mid-decks - can house 2,175kg of experiments, provided with 3.15kW of continuous power. Access ...
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NZ sidesteps ICAO rules in ATC strike
Paul Phelan/CAIRNSDavid Learmount/LONDON NEW ZEALANDS privatised air-traffic-control (ATC) service sidestepped International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO) procedures during a 4-6 December controller strike says, the international aviation organisation. The strike, which seriously disrupted domestic and international schedules, was due to be repeated on 12-15 December. The ...
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BAe launches strategy to grow in Australia
BRITISH AEROSPACE has launched a new expansion strategy in Australia which will include "a programme of mergers and acquisitions" designed to strengthen the UK group's presence in the market. BAe admits that its "immediate focus" is to secure an order for its Hawk 100 as a new lead-in ...
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Alpha Space Station faces a new crisis
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA IS TO REJECT Russian proposals to include the Mir 1 space station as part of the Alpha International Space Station programme (Flight International, 6-12 December). The US space agency confirms that Russia has made the proposal, but says: "We do not want ...
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Australia's Singapore deal annoys indigenous firms
AUSTRALIA'S AEROSPACE industry has been angered by its Government's endorsement of a joint venture set up to maintain Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) Agusta S.211 trainers at their base near Perth, Western Australia. The six-year contract is worth about A$18 million ($13.3 million) annually. Following negotiations with ...
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Qantas will fly to India again
QANTAS HAS made sweeping schedule changes, which will include the carrier resuming services to Bombay via Singapore from next July, ending a six-year absence from India. A direct Boeing 747-400 flight from Melbourne to Johannesburg will be the first from Australia's East Coast. The three existing flights depart ...
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Aerospatiale studies low-cost ramjet
Julian Moxon/BOURGES AEROSPATIALE IS working on a small diameter, low-cost ramjet-powered missile intended for air-to-air, anti-radar and light naval applications. Researchers at the company's Bourges site will soon test a prototype engine, which in production form would cost about the same as a typical missile ...
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China's EPKM is a riddle
THE SUCCESSFUL launch of the Asiasat 2 communications satellite aboard a Chinese Long March 2E booster from Xichang on 28 November included the "maiden flight" of the first nationally built EPKM perigee kick motor, says China. The motor, used to raise the satellite's low-Earth orbit to geostationary-transfer orbit, ...