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Southwest signs up
Southwest Airlines has awarded GE Engine Services a ten-year, $380 million contract to maintain the CFM56-7 engines which will power the US carrier's fleet of Boeing 737-700s. The work will be performed under GE's Maintenance Cost Per Hour (MCPH) service programme. Southwest will begin taking delivery of 737-700s in 1997. ...
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Kiwi Travel wins approval for tran-Tasman services
KIWI TRAVEL International Airlines has emerged successfully from its dispute with the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (NZCAA), finally gaining approval for starting scheduled services across the Tasman Sea to Australia. NZCAA chief Kevin Ward had opposed the granting of a licence, principally until the US Federal Aviation ...
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Northrop Grumman details IDECM bid
Northrop Grumman has revealed details of its proposal for the joint US Navy/Air Force integrated defensive electronic-countermeasures (IDECM) requirement. The company is one of four bidders for the contract to develop a jamming system for the USN's McDonnell Douglas F-18E/F and various USAF aircraft, including the McDonnell Douglas ...
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Balkan/Malta link-up
Air Malta and Sofia, Bulgaria-based Balkan Airlines are to operate a joint Sofia-Malta-New York-John F Kennedy, USA scheduled service using a Balkan-operated Boeing 767-200ER. Air Malta chairman Joseph Tabone says that the weekly service, starting in November, results from negotiations aimed at providing a viable, non-stop New York service from ...
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TASC offers turbulence prediction
ALMOST 25% OF reported aircraft accidents are turbulence-related, claims Reading, USA-based meteorological equipment manufacturer TASC, which offers operators a system for clear-air turbulence (CAT) prediction. Known as the SCATR (specific clear-air-turbulence risk predictor), the screen-displayed system uplifts data from the world's primary meteorological centre at Bracknell, UK. ...
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EUCARE takes shape
David Learmount/London EUROPE IS EDGING closer to the creation of a confidential aviation-safety reporting system. Proponents of the idea, known as EUCARE, expect a formal proposal to emerge from a 12 September meeting in Brussels. The likely framework, say sources close to the EUCARE, would be ...
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Loral recorder gains double approval
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LORAL DATA Systems has received US and European certification for its Fairchild A200S solid-state cockpit-voice recorder (CVR). The Sarasota, Florida-based company believes the A200S to be the first 2h-capacity CVR to meet the latest Eurocae ED-56A certification standard. The ED-56A sets new requirements for ...
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Meeting demands
Airbus Industrie rolls out the A319 to complete its present range of airliners. Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE IN JUST 25 years since its creation in December 1970, Airbus Industrie has fielded a range of airliners spanning 124-350 seats, knocked McDonnell Douglas (MDC) into third place in ...
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Mighty Moose
It has been a testing time for the C-17, but the military transporter is winning new friends. Guy Norris/MILDENHALL THE McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) C-17 military transport has earned the nickname "The Moose" because of its impressive size and large, antler-like winglets. After years of doubt, it also seems ...
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Laser gyro at the core of Honeywell ADIRS
HONEYWELL'S GG1320 LASER GYRO, developed for the Boeing 777, forms the core of the company's new air-data/inertial-reference system (ADIRS) (Flight International, 23-29 August) selected by Boeing for the 737-600/-700/-800 family. The new gyro is also included in Honeywell's VIA 2000 integrated avionics system. Source: Flight International
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AIDC seeks Taiwanese air force support for IDF trainer variant
Paul Lewis/TAIWAN TAIWAN'S Aero Industry Development Centre (AIDC) is pressing the air force to support the development of an advanced trainer variant of the Ching-Kuo Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF). AIDC is proposing a "downgraded" tandem-seat version of the IDF to meet the Taiwanese air force's requirement ...
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ChinaStar goes to Lockheed
Tim Furniss/LONDON CHINA ORIENT Telecom Satellite has awarded Lockheed Martin the contract to build its ChinaStar 1 satellite which will be launched on a Long March 3 booster in late 1997. Although China has built its own geostationary communications satellites, it does not have the capability ...
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SAMECO plans abandoned
Plans for the Sino-Singapore joint-venture company, Shenzhen Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering (SAMECO), have been scrapped after the venture failed to win government approval to perform heavy maintenance work. SAMECO was due to open by early 1996, initially providing line maintenance, but with the long-term intention of developing a ...
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GAMECO looks for partners to fund Chinese expansion
GUANGZHOU AIRCRAFT Maintenance Engineering (GAMECO) is considering opening up its joint venture to new partners, as part of its planned expansion into central China. The company plans to start building a new two-bay widebody aircraft maintenance hangar in early 1996 and has targeted the city of Wuhan as ...
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Shorts teams with AlliedSignal on new powerplant
SHORTS AND AlliedSignal Engines have teamed to offer a so-called Integrated Powerplant System, based on AlliedSignal's new TFE731 family of turbofan engines. Bombardier subsidiary Shorts will supply nose cowls, fan-cowl doors and engine-build units, pipework, ducting and electrical harnesses for the nacelle of the new powerplant. The Belfast, ...
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NASA begins repairs to Shuttle boosters
Technicians at Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, began unprecedented repair work to the solid- rocket boosters of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on 18 August. Working inside the nozzles of the boosters, technicians are replacing the insulating material protecting the nozzle O-ring joints with a new ...
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LLV aims at 1996 launch despite booster setback
Lockheed Martin is confident that it can launch the NASA Lewis and Clark spacecraft on schedule in June and July 1996 aboard its Lockheed Launch Vehicle (LLV 1). Its confidence comes despite the loss of the first LLV 1 following a booster failure on 15 August. CTA's $10 million Gemstar ...
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Spacehab contract
NASA has awarded Spacehab a $54 million contract to prepare Space Shuttle Spacehab mid-deck extension laboratory modules for its missions to the Russian Mir 1 space station. Shuttle Mir missions Nos 3, 4, 5 and 6 will be equipped with Spacehab modules. The company is developing a version of the ...
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African aviation
The African aviation industry has been preaching about regional co-operation for years: it could soon happen. Kevin O'Toole/Johannesburg In the middle of August the African aviation community met in Johannesburg to discuss its future. There was nothing new about the issues. The industry, like much else within the ...
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DASA plans to fly Dornier 328 with hydrogen power in 1998
Andrzej Jeziorski/Munich DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is planning to turn a Dornier 328 turboprop into a hydrogen-powered testbed, with a view to possible serial production. The test aircraft is scheduled to be flown in late 1998, and the flight could lead to production of an operational, hydrogen-powered ...