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More and more airlines are taking advantage of quick-access recorders. Paul Phelan/CAIRNS The MAJOR QUALITY-CONTROL and cost-savings benefits delivered by quick-access flight-data recorders (QARs) are beyond debate, and most leading non-US carriers are already enjoying these benefits. Although some airlines have been surprisingly slow to adopt ...
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Canada 3000 signs up for A330-200s
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON CANADA 3000 AIRLINES has signed a lease agreement for up to four Airbus A330-200s, and is set to become the launch customer for the high-capacity twin in North America, and the first operator worldwide of the -200 version. The Toronto, Canada-based charter airline has ...
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Swissair focuses on MD-XX and A340-600
Andrew Doyle/LONDON Swissair is evaluating closely the proposed McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-XX and Airbus A340-500/600 developments, as it approaches a decision on a new medium-/high-capacity, long-range type to replace its five Boeing 747-300s. The evaluation is being carried out jointly with Belgium's Sabena - 49.5%-owned by the Swiss ...
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GEC-Marconi leaves IFE market
GEC-MARCONI InFlight Systems (GMIS) is to leave the in-flight entertainment (IFE) market when its existing contractual commitments have been fulfilled. The company has also experienced problems attempting to get equipment into service. Potential purchasers for the proprietary technology are being sought, but despite industry rumours, GMIS says ...
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Crandall forecasts UK-US fares battle
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON AMERICAN AIRLINES chairman Bob Crandall expects all five major rival US carriers to compete with the British Airways/ American alliance at Heathrow if the deal goes ahead. The American boss is forecasting a fares war across the Atlantic as capacity outstrips demand in the wake ...
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Endevco accelerometer picks up hot vibrations
ENDEVCO UK HAS developed a differential piezoelectric accelerometer which is capable of measuring vibration in jet engines at temperatures of up to 650¡C. This capability means that the device is suitable for location in the high-temperature turbine section of the engine, says the Hertfordshire, UK-based company. The 6240C ...
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GEC-Marconi wins UK contracts
GEC-MARCONI Avionics Support division, has won a £40 million ($62 million) contract from British Aerospace, covering the augmented logistic support of new avionics being installed in Royal Air Force Tornados. BAe was recently awarded the support contract for RAF Tornado GR4s by the UK Ministry of Defence, following ...
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CMC seeks Leopard backers
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON CHICHESTER MILES Consultants (CMC) is expecting to fly an upgraded version of its Leopard four-seat business jet before the end of the year, and is seeking investors to enable the programme to be certificated by the end of the decade. The $1.25 million twin-engined aircraft ...
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GECAS picks gables
GE Capital Aviation Services has selected Gables Engineering communication and navigation control-panels for new-generation Boeing 737s on order. Source: Flight International
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Lord tackles DC-9 cabin noise
LORD HAS flight-tested active noise- and vibration-control on a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and expects US supplemental type-certification of the system in November. The company says that its NVX Active System for the DC-9 and MD-80 series eliminates engine tones and reduces cabin noise by "as much as 70%". ...
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Runway expansion
Raytheon Aircraft is to build a new 2,450m (8,000ft) runway at its Beech Field headquarters in Wichita, Kansas. The longer runway, replacing the existing 1,850m strip, will accommodate larger aircraft, including the next-generation Hawker business jet expected to be launched in November at the National Business Aircraft Association convention in ...
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FlightSafety International sets up joint helicopter training-centre with Petroleum Helicopters
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) has teamed with Petroleum Helicopters (PHI) to establish a helicopter training-centre at Lafayette, Louisiana. FSI has agreed to relocate its helicopter training-centre from Alliance Airport in Fort Worth, Texas, to PHI's headquarters at Lafayette Louisiana Regional Airport. The two companies agreed to collaborate on helicopter training in ...
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Gulfstream plans to put EVS in GIV picture
GULFSTREAM will demonstrate an enhanced-vision system (EVS) for the Gulfstream IV- SP business jet at the US National Business Aircraft Association convention in Orlando, Florida, in November. The company has selected Kollsman to develop an infra-red sensor, with the image to be shown on a Honeywell/GEC-Marconi head-up display (HUD). ...
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Italy's air force orders Israeli pilot locator
THE ITALIAN air force is equipping some squadrons with the airborne search-and-rescue system (ASARS) made by Tadiran in Israel. Deliveries of the pilot-location system begin soon under the terms of the $5 million contract. The French air force has already purchased the hand-held component of the system for its operations ...
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Arianespace and Hughes win Japan contracts
HUGHES SPACE and Communications has been awarded a contract from Japan Satellite Systems to build a fifth communications satellite, the JSAT 5. Arianespace will launch the satellite in 1997-8. It will be the 12th Japanese satellite to be boosted by the European organisation and the second in the ...
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Israel is confident about David project
ISRAEL'S ElectrOptics (El-Op) and OHB of Germany have completed a $120,000 feasibility study for a commercial, multi-spectral imaging remote-sensing satellite, David, primarily intended for ecological monitoring. The study "-indicates that the project has excellent chances for success", say the companies, which have "-decided to mobilise the funds required." ...
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Explosive expansion
LOCKHEED MARTIN hopes to meet the "explosive demand" for space-based communications services with a refurbished factory in Sunnyvale, California, to produce the company's new A2100 satellite bus, the first of which, the GE-1 (shown left), was launched on 8 September. A total of 16 satellites a year will be produced ...
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Step forward
CTA Space Systems, Virginia, has delivered to TRW the spacecraft bus for the US Air Force Space Test Experiment Platform (STEP) Mission 4. The 156kg craft is the fifth (the first was designated 0) in the STEP programme, which is to fly new technologies and experiments on a spacecraft which ...
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IS&S upgrades Northwest altimeters
NORTHWEST AIRLINES has selected Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S) to supply altimeters and altitude-alerters for retrofit to ten McDonnell Douglas DC-9s. The solid-state barometric altimeter will replace the DC-9 pilot's electromechanical unit and the co-pilot's pneumatic unit. Malvern, Pennsylvania-based IS&S says that its altimeter functions as a repeater ...
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Delta Air rolls out sliding carpet
DELTA AIR LINES is to equip 150 McDonnell Douglas MD-88 and MD-90 airliners with Scandinavian Bellyloading's Sliding Carpet cargo and baggage loading system. Two cargo systems will be installed in each aircraft, in the fore- and aft-holds. The Sliding Carpet system, consisting of a Kevlar-reinforced conveyer ...