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AOPA is unhappy with wake-vortex
NEW WAKE-VORTEX approach-separation standards imposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration fail to consider general aviation (GA), says the US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA). The GA group joins the US Air Transport Association and the Regional Airline Association in criticising the aviation agency's rule changes which ...
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Military mapper
The US Department of Defense plans to fly a Space Shuttle mission tomap the Earth in close-up. Tim Furniss/LONDON ACCORDING TO DR MICHAEL Kobrick of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, "-we have a better global map of Venus than we do for the Earth". He has conceived ...
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British Airways
BRITISH AIRWAYS John Wood has been named director for Asia-Pacific at UK national carrier British Airways. Wood, most recently general manager/ vice-president for Canada, based in Toronto, replaces Val Gooding, who is to leave the airline. LITTON Steven Lambert has been appointed president ...
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Safety standards must be consistent
Sir - Like Steve Kirby, in his letter "Engines should be treated separately" (Flight International, 14-20 August, P40), I was reminded of the US National Transportation Safety Board accident report on the 5 May, 1983, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar oil-loss incident. There were lessons to be learned from that near-accident, which ...
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Congress digs its heels in over Pakistani F-16s for Indonesia
MEMBERS OF THE US Congress are threatening to block a $160 million sale to Indonesia of nine former Pakistani Lockheed Martin F-16A/B fighters, because of concerns about human rights in Indonesia. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy has warned US Secretary of State Warren Christopher that the proposed sale could ...
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Radio RAF
UK-based Park Air Electronics, a Northrop Grumman subsidiary, has been selected as prime contractor for the Royal Air Force's air-defence ground-environment re-equipment programme, aimed at providing the RAF with ground-to-air Have Quick II voice-communications. The deal is worth almost £5 million ($7.7 million). The first of 32 sites will be ...
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Joint trainer
Raytheon's Beech MkII may bury the jet-versus-turboprop debate forever. Graham Warwick/WICHITAILLUSTRATION BY Giuseppe Picarella BY EARLY NEXT century, US Air Force and Navy pilots will undergo primary training on the same aircraft type - the Raytheon Beech Pilatus PC-9 MkII. This unprecedented co-operation will be made possible ...
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UK puts Commander through its paces
THE FIRST SIEMENS PLESSEY Systems AR327 Commander tactical long-range air-defence radar for the Royal Air Force is being tested by the UK Ministry of Defence, following successful factory-acceptance tests. The latest trials are aimed at proving the system's transportability by air or land, its ability to be operated at extremes ...
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RAF installs GPS moving maps
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE has ordered the Skyforce Avionics Skymap II global-positioning-system (GPS) moving-map displays to equip the British Aerospace Hawks of 100 Sqn and those of the Red Arrows aerobatic-display team. The contract, worth around £50,000 ($78,000), follows a six-month in-service evaluation carried out by the RAF. ...
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Aerospace top 100
Industry consolidation is beginning to make its mark on the ranking of the world's top 100 aerospace companies. Compiled by Flight International and Booz¥Allen & Hamilton Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AFTER THE turbulence of the past few years, it would be reasonable to assume that the world aerospace industry ...
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Airbus is poised to join AE-100 programme
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINESE AND European aerospace-industry negotiators are expected to reach an agreement by the end of the month for Airbus Industrie to join the proposed Chinese AE-100 regional-jet programme. Under a plan which is now in the process of being finalised, Airbus will assume a leading role in Aero ...
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NTSB asks TWA to help
THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is asking Trans World Airlines (TWA), Boeing and Pratt & Whitney for $8 million towards accident-investigation costs in the continuing probe of the July TWA Boeing 747 crash. Meanwhile, traces of a chemical used in plastic explosives have been detected on ...
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European aerospace survey 1996
Research among Europe's aerospace companies reveals a growing pace of change. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON SPECULATION HAS BEEN rife over the fate in store for Europe's aerospace industry. Clearly, there is a period of radical change in prospect as the region gears up for some long-awaited restructuring. Yet, ...
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China Eastern to go public
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA EASTERN Airlines has been given the go-ahead to have its shares listed on the New York and Hong Kong stock exchanges by the end of the year, says a senior Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) official. The Shanghai-based carrier, together with ...
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Orders roll in as Bombardier rolls out its Global Express
Graham Warwick/TORONTO BOMBARDIER CHAIRMAN Laurent Beaudoin is "pleased" with the 52 firm orders which the Canadian company holds for the Global Express ultra-long-range business jet. Gulfstream has announced 63 firm orders for the rival GV, but the Global Express was launched a year later, Beaudoin says. The ...
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Cessna lights up Citation V cabin with fibre-optics
A CESSNA CITATION V has become the first business jet to be fitted with fibre-optic cabin lighting. The aircraft was equipped by lighting-system developer Avtec and cabin light-levels have increased, the Cahokia, Illinois-based company says. Fibre-optic lighting systems are now approved for installation on any aircraft, says Avtec. ...
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Qantas aims to keep on saving
QANTAS CHAIRMAN Gary Pemberton has warned that, despite improved profits, further fleet expansion will have to be backed by renewed cost savings. Qantas ended its latest financial year to the end of June with net profits up by more than one-third at A$247 million ($190 million), comfortably ahead ...
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Gulfstream picks reduced vertical-separation equipment
GULFSTREAM Aerospace has selected Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S) to supply systems for retrofit to Gulfstream II business jets, to enable operators to meet reduced vertical-separation minima (RVSM) regulations. RVSM rules are due to be introduced on North Atlantic routes in March 1997, and are likely to be extended to ...
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USA advances KTX-II MoU
THE US GOVERNMENT is expected shortly to forward a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to South Korea, covering the proposed joint development of the Samsung KTX-II advanced trainer/light-combat aircraft. It is understood that the Pentagon's Defence Security Assistance Agency has finished drafting the MoU. It is planned to present ...
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BWIA confirms cancelled Airbus orders
GILLES FILIATREAULT, incoming chief executive at BWIA International Airways, has confirmed that the Caribbean carrier does not intend to take two Airbus A340-300s it had ordered. Filiatreault says that, when he took over the job in August, he was reassured by BWIA's shareholders that the Airbus orders were effectively cancelled. ...