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Simuflite
SimuFlite Training International, of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, has promoted Bill Wilhelmi, manager of advanced programmes, to senior manager of marketing and business development. Mark Malkosky has been appointed manager of maintenance training. Malkosky has been with the pilot-training company for three years, most recently as supervisor of maintenance ...
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Flight Directors
Jon Thompson has joined Flight Directors of Crawley, UK, as general-aviation manager within the charter-sales team, where he will concentrate on the conference/ incentive and executive-aviation markets. He comes to the company from Air Charter UK. Source: Flight International
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Les Wilson
Les Wilson, managing director of Bristol Airport, Avon, in the UK, died in a car crash on 27 November. He was deputy managing director at London Luton Airport before joining Bristol in 1980. A previous past chairman of the Airport Operators Association, he was awarded an OBE in the 1995 ...
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UTC signs for ICAD design software
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES has signed an agreement, potentially worth almost $1.9 million, to use Concentra's ICAD System design-automation software at Hamilton Standard, Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky Aircraft. The deal includes an option to buy Burlington, Massachusetts-based Concentra's Selling Point sales-engineering automation software. Concentra says that P&W has used ...
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T-tail, take three
McDonnell Douglas has finally launched its MD-95 into the hotly contested100-seat market. Guy Norris/LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) hopes to build a lot of future business on its newly launched MD-95. Not only will it lead the attack on the yet-to-be-realised 100-seat market, but the small airliner ...
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New members join in-trail-climb club
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES NORTHWEST, AMERICAN and Singapore Airlines (SIA) are set to join Delta Air Lines and United Airlines in operational trials of in-trail-climb (ITC) procedures over the Pacific. The use of ITC is being examined as a way of preventing one aircraft becoming "trapped" beneath ...
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Lockheed/Boeing
Tom Burbage has become vice-president and general manager for the Lockheed Martin-Boeing F-22 programme, where he will direct all aspects of the fighter aircraft, which is being manufactured at Aeronautical Systems in Marietta, Georgia, Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems in Fort Worth, Texas, and Boeing Military Airplanes in Seattle, Washington. ...
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Malaysia offered Rooivalk options
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE ATLAS AVIATION of South Africa is discussing with Malaysia a series of industrial co-production options for the CSH-2 Rooivalk, to meet the country's pending requirement for a new attack helicopter. The South African company faces strong competition from McDonnell Douglas with its AH-64D Apache ...
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Airport costs threaten Russian revival
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW HUGE INCREASES in airport charges and fuel costs are threatening to stifle the beginnings of a recovery in the Russian airline market, the country's carriers have warned. Russian airlines have been reporting signs of growth for the first time since 1990, when passenger traffic ...
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Growing up
Boeing has begun assembly of its firstnew-generation 737.Guy Norris/SEATTLE IT IS UNPRECEDENTED but, by mid-1997, Boeing's Renton site in Seattle, Washington, will be producing six different models of the same jet airliner. The aircraft is the best-selling 737, and the ramp-up represents the phase in its development when production of ...
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Boeing 777: shake, rattle and roll?
Sir - I have recently flown on "Friendly Skies'" new "Mega Twin" (United Airlines' Boeing 777) and there is no doubt that the aircraft is most impressive in terms of space and cabin layout. One thing surprised me, however, and that was the high level of noise and ...
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Multi-type piloting
Increasingly, commercial pilots will be simultaneously qualified on more than one type. David Learmount/LONDONPaul Lewis/HONG KONG IT SEEMS CERTAIN that, in the future, the average airline pilot will be simultaneously qualified on more aircraft types than are today's aircrew. Most major-carrier commercial pilots today are "type-rated" on one ...
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Osprey tilts the balance
A leaner, cheaper, V-22 tilt-rotor is taking shape, thanks to advances in manufacturing technology. Graham Warwick/FORT WORTH MAJOR PIECES OF THE FIRST production-representative V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor are coming together at Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing Helicopters, and confidence is growing that the dramatic cost and weight reductions achieved ...
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Boeing tackles 'tail-wag' problem on United 777s
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING PLANS TO MAKE changes to the 777 gust-response system as part of efforts to eliminate a slow yawing motion, or "tail-wag", experienced by crews on the first few United Airlines aircraft. "We sent a team out to fly with the aircraft on revenue ...
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Apache As arrive for Longbow
THE FIRST OF more than 750 US Army McDonnell Douglas AH-64A Apache helicopters scheduled for re-manufacture into improved AH-64D Longbow Apache configuration have arrived at the company's Mesa production site in Arizona. The first two airframes were delivered to Mesa on 17 November and are being stripped to ...
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Garuda Indonesia gears up for approaching privatisation
GARUDA INDONESIA is going to turn many of its operations into financially independent business units from 1996, in preparation for the national carrier's eventual privatisation. The state-owned airline has targeted the Garuda Maintenance Facility (GMF) and ground handling as the first two divisions to be given the new ...
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AlliedSignal wins 2h cockpit-voice recorder certification
A solid-state cockpit-voice recorder (SSCVR) made by AlliedSignal Aerospace, which stores 2h of digitally recorded sound, has received US Federal Aviation Administration certification. An SSCVR will be required on all Part 121 transport-category aircraft in Europe by April 1997, and AlliedSignal believes that the FAA will require the ...
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Long Beach rolls out the barrel
MCDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has begun production of the first MD-11 fuselage barrels at its Long Beach assembly site, following transfer of the work from General Dynamics' Convair division in San Diego, California. Production of the fuselage sections, 5.5m in diameter and 18.3m in length, was transferred to Long ...
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NASA concerned over Russia's commitment to Alpha station
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA IS BECOMING concerned about Russia's attempts to save money by prolonging the life of its Mir 1 space station to enable it to be incorporated into the initial configuration of the Alpha International Space Station. Statements proposing the plan were first made by ...
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Galileo set for Jupiter
THE GALILEO PROBE will plunge into the turbulent atmosphere of the planet Jupiter on 7 December as its mother ship enters orbit. It will be the first man-made contact with Jupiter, and the first time the planet has been orbited by a spacecraft (Flight International, 28 June-4 July). ...