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Garrett
Christopher Crum has been named, operations manager at maintenance company Garrett Aviation Services, of Phoenix, Arizona. He will be based at Houston International Airport, Texas. He was formerly director of customer support for regional airlines at AlliedSignal Engines. Source: Flight International
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An issue of stability
The RAAF's new Chief of Air Staff discusses future staff and equipment needs. Douglas Barrie/CANBERRA Instability is a concern for the recently appointed Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Les Fisher. His concern is with his personnel, however, not regional politics. ...
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ASIST monitors space parts from the ground
THE GODDARD Space Flight Center in the USA has developed a new ground-based system, incorporating a new dynamic data visualisation tool called Sammi, to provide remote monitoring and control of spacecraft components in flight. The Advanced Spacecraft Integration and System Test (ASIST) has been designed to display and ...
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On show in Australia
Paul Phelan/cairns Australia's Air Shows Down Under, which runs from 21-26 March, has attracted large numbers of domestic and overseas exhibitors The organisers of Air Shows Down Under, being staged at Asta Avalon Airport outside Melbourne, Victoria, on 21-26 March, will again try to balance the demands of ...
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Nothing to be afraid of
US authorities worry about accepting Robinson Helicopter. Australian cowboys show that training is the key to safe use. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) latest move to beef up flight-training requirements for the Robinson Helicopter R22 and R44 follows a year of ...
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Transaero plans more routes inside Europe
INDEPENDENT RUSSIAN airline Transaero plans to begin scheduled services to Frankfurt and Berlin from 26 March. It already serves Tel Aviv and Eilat, and serves London in conjunction with Riga Airlines Express of Latvia. In June, it is due to start serving Faro and Malaga. In ...
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C-17 military transport is back on track, says MDC
McDONNELL DOUGLAS "...has dug itself out of a sizeable hole" and is now moving forward with the C-17 military-transport programme, says Donald Kozlowski, the firm's senior vice-president for the project. Kozlowski admits, however, that the once-troubled C-17 project must still overcome hurdles before the US Department of ...
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Simon Aviation's de-icing system 'saves on fluid use'
SIMON AVIATION Ground Equipment of Olathe, Kansas has launched an aircraft de-icing system, which, the company claims, saves up to 30% fluid use. Known as the Fluid Efficient Deicing System, it consists of a spray nozzle on a manoeuvrable swivel, which allows an operator, housed for protection in ...
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UK likely to spurn US missile approach
US OVERTURES seeking to entice the UK into a joint stand-off missile programme are unlikely to succeed, according to industry leaders already bidding for the UK requirement. A similar French offer has already been rebuffed. The US Department of Defense is looking to fill the hole left ...
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GEC talks to Siemens as DASA deal stalls
GEC HAS OPENED negotiations with Siemens over a possible purchase of the German Company's defence-electronics operation, as long-running joint-venture talks between Siemens and Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) have run into trouble. Although both German companies insist, that year old talks on a link between Siemens' defence electronics group and ...
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Lifting the gloom
The mood at GAMTA's annual conference in London was very different to that in 1994. Kieran Daly/LONDON The second half of the 1990s will test Europe's general aviation (GA) operators beyond precedent, but it may also reward them, as never before. What is beyond doubt is that ...
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A minister for Europe
Roger Freeman, the UK Minister for Defence Procurement, reveals his pragmatism on the European front. Douglas Barrie/LONDON When it comes to European policy, Roger Freeman, the UK Minister for Defence Procurement, marches to a different beat than that of many other senior Government ministers. ...
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Seeing double
Multi-spectral seekers, extended range and increased velocity are in vogue for the next generation of guided weapons. Douglas Barrie/LONDON Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Julian Moxon/PARIS Over the next decade, Western air forces will revamp their inventories of both within and beyond-visual-range (WVR/BVR) missiles. The operational requirements which ...
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UK unveils replacement for unique IMC rating
Kieran Daly/LONDON THE UK CIVIL AVIATION Authority is about to invite comments on a proposed "instrument weather rating [IWR]" to replace its current - and unique - instrument-meteorological- conditions (IMC) rating. An Air Accidents Investigation Board recommendation (92-32) following the 1992 crash into a mountain ...
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Diamond ships its first Katana to Missouri
DIAMOND AIRCRAFT has delivered its first DA20 Katana trainer to Central Missouri State University. The London, Ontario-based manufacturer says that it has firm orders for 121 of the all-composite two-seaters, the majority from US flight schools. Diamond has so far delivered 11 Canadian-built DA20s and operates a demonstrator ...
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Starkraft ditches kitplane plans
STARKRAFT HAS dropped plans to market its Model 700 piston-twin as a kitplane and is arranging financing to certificate the eight-place, all-composite aircraft. A prototype was flown for the first time in December 1994, powered by two 260kW (350hp), liquid-cooled Teledyne Continental TSIOL-550s mounted in the nose and ...
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Swissair and Sabena head for May deal...
Kieran Daly/ZURICH THE BELGIAN Government's exemption of flag carrier Sabena from social legislation responsible for some BFr650 million ($22 million) of the airline's annual costs has paved the way for its proposed co-operation with Swissair. Swissair chief negotiator Alain Bandle says: "I think it is fair ...
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HS-601 boosted with new order
Tim Furniss/LONDON THE COMMERCIAL success of the Hughes Space and Communications three-axis stabilised HS-601 satellite bus has been further boosted with the 42nd order for the spacecraft. Japan's Space Communications (SCC) has purchased the satellite, to be called Superbird C, for launch in early 1997 (Flight International, ...