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Lufthansa criticises 747-X design
Andrzej Jeziorski/HAMBURG LUFTHANSA operations chief executive Klaus Nittinger has criticised recent changes in Boeing's design proposals for its 747-500/600X. "The aircraft has changed so drastically [since November] that it has moved far away from what we would like to see," says Nittinger. Lufthansa was enthusiastic about ...
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BA fights for the continent
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE announcement of a new wave of restructuring at British Airways should have come as little surprise. In May, chief executive Bob Ayling followed the group's world-beating 1995 profits announcement with a stark warning that BA needed to make another £1 billion ($1.5 billion) in savings. ...
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MDHS plans to produce MD902 Explorer in 1997
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS Helicopter Systems (MDHS) is to phase out production of the MD900 Explorer in 1997 and replace it with a more advanced version, the MD902. The US company is upgrading the Explorer largely in response to competition from Bell, with its 427, ...
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CAE builds German helicopter simulators for training school
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA CAE Eletronik has begun work on a DM251 million ($166 million) contract to supply up to 12 helicopter flight-simulators for the German army's aviation school at Buckeburg, near Hanover. The DM112 million initial contract is for two Bell UH-1D and two Sikorsky CH-53G simulators, for delivery ...
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GEC demonstrates the ECR 90 to Eurofighter nations
Douglas Barrie/LONDON GEC HAS FLOWN high-ranking Government officials from the four Eurofighter partner nations in the UK Defence Research Agency's BAC-One Eleven test-bed for the ECR 90 radar, in a move aimed at demonstrating that the radar meets key performance requirements. The officials included Christian Biener, ...
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Eurocontrol fears delay to RNAV
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS The introduction of area navigation (RNAV) and the flexible use of airspace in Europe, planned for March 1998, is being threatened by the failure of some airlines to acquire the required avionics, says Eurocontrol. The Brussels-based air-traffic control (ATC) agency is increasingly concerned that ...
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Rockwell delivers first quartz navigator for use on Outrider
ROCKWELL HAS delivered the first navigation processor for Alliant Techsystems' Outrider unmanned air-vehicle (UAV) - using the smallest inertial sensor commercially available. The processor has Rockwell's digital quartz inertial-measurement-unit (DQI) and reduces cost by using data from the global-positioning-system (GPS) receiver which is part of the UAV's automated ...
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Globemaster stretch fails to find favour with US Air Force
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE US Air Force favours the "baseline" McDonnell Douglas (MDC) C-17 Globemaster III rather than a stretched derivative as its new-build option to replace the Lockheed Martin C-5A/B Galaxy, according to the US manufacturer. MDC claims that the USAF is interested in using ...
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European regionals grow
Julian Moxon/HANOVER The European Regional Airlines Association (ERA) has good cause to celebrate. In the year since its last annual meeting, the industry has seen strong passenger growth and the beginnings of the long-awaited shake-out among the aircraft manufacturers. The disappearance of Fokker, the sale of ...
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Indonesian firms plan nine new communications satellites
Companies in Indonesia are planning to build up to nine new telecommunications satellites. The Indonesian schemes are part of a recent explosion of interest in space ventures in the Asia Pacific and other fast developing regions of the world. PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) is to assess bids from ...
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German industry confronts Eurofighter 'catastrophe'
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE GERMAN Aerospace Industries Association (BDLI) is warning of "catastrophic consequences" if Germany does not commit to Eurofighter series production this year. In an attack on recent defence-budget cuts, BDLI defence technology forum chairman Werner Heinzmann - who is also president of Daimler-Benz Aerospace's ...
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FAA faces TCAS 4 decision
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The future of the US Federal Aviation Administration's work on the next-generation traffic-alert and collision- avoidance system (TCAS) hangs in the balance as agency officials prepare to present FAA administrator David Hinson with their findings on research into the TCAS 4. Terminating the ...
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American edges to regional goal
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA American Airlines and its pilots union have tentatively agreed a complex formula governing the introduction of regional jets by commuter arm AMR Eagle. The agreement foresees the acquisition of up to 218 45- to 70-seat regional jets by 2009, but limits AMR Eagle to a maximum ...
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Missile concerns spike Huzar avionics decision
Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW DOUBTS OVER the Israeli NT-D anti-tank missile have blocked an expected Polish Council of Ministers' decision on an avionics integrator for the PZL-Swidnik W-3W Huzar combat support helicopter. The Polish Council of Ministers' Defence Affairs Committee was to make a recommendation to the prime ...
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Slots of value
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION (EC) is keen to overhaul the slot-allocation system at Europe's airports by creating a "market" in which some slots could be traded for money. It is right to be looking for an overhaul but, if it believes that airline services should exist as much for the customer ...
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Taxing times ahead
Finally, business is getting better for fixed-base operators, but there are new threats to their survival. Karen Walker/ATLANTA If prizes were to be handed out to those industries which have seemed most without hope in recent years, then the fixed-base-operator (FBO) business would probably walk away with ...
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Sturdy Beech
Raytheon's Beech MkII trainer won the 712-aircraft JPATS competition. Flight International flew it to find out why. Raytheon AIRCRAFT joined forces with Pilatus in 1990 when it identified Pilatus' PC-9 trainer as a viable candidate for the $7 billion US Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) competition. This contest ...
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SBAC
David Marshall has been named director-general of the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC), of London, UK. Marshall, who formerly worked for UK aerospace company Rolls-Royce and became a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1994, replaces Sir Barry Duxbury, who has retired through ill-health. Source: Flight ...
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Lockheed Martin considers a floatplane version of Hercules
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN is studying a floatplane version of the C-130J Hercules 2 transport and says that there is significant interest in the concept from US Navy special-forces. The scheme involves a removable catamaran hull attached to the underside of an otherwise unmodified C-130J. Conversion ...
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Air Liberte wins reprieve in effort to stay airborne
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR LIBERTE has been given six months to implement a survival plan or face bankruptcy. The independent airline is credited with leading the battle to open up the French air market, and was also recently voted the country's most popular carrier The concession was ...