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Airbus pushes on with new versions of A340
David Learmount/TOULOUSE Airbus Industrie is to challenge Boeing's 777-300 stretch with an enlarged, rewinged A340 which carries as many passengers and flies further, says the European consortium's A330/ A340 commercial programme manager David Pound. The European consortium is effectively launching the -500 and-600 variants of the ...
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Airbus moves closer to forming AE-100 partnership
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE members and Alenia have reached a broad consensus on the need to establish a new European aerospace joint venture to partner China in the development of the proposed AE-100 regional jet. The planned new Airbus-led consortium is intended to take over Aero International (Regional)'s (AI(R)'s) partnership ...
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Lawyers link TW 800 loss to Iran air force 747 explosion
Alan George/LONDON Relatives of passengers killed in July's Trans World Airline (TWA) Flight 800 crash in which 230 people died when a Boeing 747-100 crashed off Long Island, New York, plan to sue the airline and the Boeing company for compensation, says their lawyer. The move ...
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You have control
Several recent airliner accident reports have identified problems with cockpit automation as principal or contributory causes of the accidents. Much of the conventional reaction (especially by pilots) to these incidents is of the "automation must be stopped" or "automation has gone too far" variety. That reaction, in human terms, is ...
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Allison and BMW Rolls-Royce hold co-operation discussions
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH ALLISON ENGINE, Rolls-Royce and BMW Rolls-Royce are set to co-operate in a three-way development of the US company's AE3012 turbofan. The engine is already a contender to power the Aero International (Regional) AIR 70 regional jet. Detailed talks now under way are expected to ...
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LucasVarity investment dispels doubts
Lucas Aerospace is to acquire the Boeing Georgia cargo handling systems operation, in a move, which appears to dispel speculation that the newly merged LucasVarity group would quit the aerospace sector. The acquisition will bring sales of around $90 million, taking the Lucas cargo-handling business above the $200 ...
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What's on
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Honeywell
Don Schwanz is to become president of Honeywell's Phoenix-based Space and Aviation Control business. He succeeds John Dewant who plans to retire on 31 December. Schwanz, now vice- president and general manager of Air Transport Systems joined Honeywell in 1979 and has held several management positions in the commercial and ...
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Recommendations for improved safety
THE HUMAN-FACTORS TEAM makes a large number of recommendations for action by the FAA and other agencies. There are eight main headings, but some basic demands, like the need for better information-exchange on incidents, is repeated in varying forms under several of them. The principle recommendations for each heading include: ...
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Roger Green
Professor Roger Green BSc, FRAeS, AFBPsS, died on 25 September, 1996, following a long illness, aged 48. As head of the UK Defence Research Agency's Centre for Human Sciences, he had been a world leader in bringing aircrew human-factors (HF) awareness to the civil and military front-line, including making HF ...
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Re-site the wings on the A3XX
Sir - I support Noel Falconer's plea (Flight International, 18 - 24 September, P49) for a revised wing location for the new Airbus A3XX proposal. I have given lectures to branches of the Royal Aeronautical Society, in which I presented a design for a shoulder-wing, 600-1,000 seat Global ...
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Recorder retrieval: technology exists
Sir - In response to the letter "Make recorders easier to recover" (Flight International, 11-17 September, P60), I would point out that there have been automatically deployable flight-data/cockpit-voice recorders on the market for more than 25 years. They have been fitted to every type of airframe - from ...
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Hong Kong's CAA is independent
Sir - While acknowledging the past help and advice received over the years from the UK Civil Aviation Authority, I should like to make it absolutely clear that the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department is by no means an offshoot of the UK CAA as reported (Flight International, 11-17 September). ...
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Experience in Indonesia is well worth while
Sir - In his letter "Looking at the priorities" (Flight International, 14-20 August, P40) Frans Verheijen aired his opinion on the Indonesian N250 project. It appears that Mr Verheijen now has a well-paid job in his native country (the Netherlands), thanks to invaluable experience gained in Indonesia, but ...
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ASTAAS closes down
THE AUSTRALIAN Government has shut down ASTA Aircraft Services (ASTAAS) after failing to find a buyer for the loss-making maintenance operation. ASTAAS, which employed around 450 people, was one of two units left over after the 1995 privatisation of the ASTA aerospace business in 1995. The other unit, ...
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Loral acquires AT&T Skynet Services
LORAL SPACE & Communications has agreed to buy AT&T's Skynet Satellite Services business for $712.5 million (£475 million) in cash. The deal includes AT&T's network of Telstar C- and Ku-band communications-satellites, and is Loral's first acquisition since the company disposed of its aerospace and defence businesses to Lockheed ...
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Hawaiian offer
Hawaiian Airlines reports that its August share offer has been fully taken up by investors, raising more than $39 million. President Bruce Noble says that the infusion of new cash is "the last element needed to complete the rebirth" of the 67-year-old airline. Source: Flight International
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Sabre sale
American Airlines parent AMR has set terms for the flotation of a stake in its Sabre computer-reservation-system subsidiary, which prices the sale at up to around $460 million. The public offering has been tentatively scheduled for October. Source: Flight International
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Daimler shuffle
The Daimler-Benz group is expected to announce a corporate reorganisation which could see control of subsidiaries centralised at its Stuttgart headquarters in Germany. Under such a scheme Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) would lose its independent board. According to unconfirmed reports in the press, another option would be to shift all responsibilities ...
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Airport growth
World airport passenger traffic grew 6.6% over the first half of the year, helped by the booming North American market, where numbers grew by more than 7%. Atlanta Hartsfield, boosted by the Georgia city's hosting of the Olympic Games in the summer, was the fastest- growing of all the major ...