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Regional-jet makers ponder tough BA requirement
THE FIVE AIRCRAFT manufacturers invited by British Airways to bid for a $1 billion order for up to 60 regional jets have been left facing some difficult decisions over how best to meet the UK flag carrier's requirements on delivery schedules and aircraft mix. None of the contenders ...
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Government recommendation raises Grob Strato 2C fears
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN RESEARCH and technology minister Jurgen Ruttgers has recommended that the Grob Strato 2C high-altitude research-aircraft programme be cancelled. The minister is believed to have handed a report to the country's parliamentary budget committee advising that the Government refuse further support for the aircraft. ...
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UK offers Tornado GR4 to UAE
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE UK IS TO OFFER the United Arab Emirates (UAE) new-build Panavia Tornado GR4s to meet its strike-aircraft requirement, with British Aerospace now completing a bid worth more than £1.5 billion ($2.27 billion). The Gulf state is to be offered 24 Tornado GR4s, along ...
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US airline profits start to roll in
AMERICAN AIRLINES and Northwest Airlines set the scene for a record profits performance from the US airline industry as they led the round of year-end reporting. Northwest, which has helped lead the major US carriers out of recession over the past two years, posted another record year with ...
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European FAA?
ONE OF THE GREAT ADVANTAGES of belonging to an international club like the European Union (EU) is the harmonisation of rules on matters such as aircraft safety and certification. Right? Wrong - or partly wrong. The problem is that the EU and some of its neighbours do have a common ...
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Mikoyan considers 1.42 replacement
MIKOYAN IS considering developing a new, more-affordable, fighter to replace the Article 1.42, using technology from its stalled fifth-generation fighter programme. A senior official from the design bureau has admitted that the 1.42 is virtually unaffordable for the Russian air force. Anatoliy Belosvet, deputy general director ...
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Air Liberte launch
Air Libert‚ is to launch a three-times-a-week scheduled service from Bordeaux to Newark/New York on 1 April. The service will use Airbus A310-300s and will be the first transatlantic operation for the fast-expanding French independent airline. Source: Flight International
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Training crash
An Indonesian Beechcraft Baron training aircraft crashed in Bandung on 18 January, killing at least 14 people, including its crew of four. The Baron, owned by the state-run Curug flight-training school, is reported to have developed engine trouble. Source: Flight International
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Dynamic overweight
An error occurs in the text box which appears on P32 of the Spaceflight feature explaining the theory of "dynamic overshoot" and its effect on NASA Space Shuttle design. The figure of 350lb (160kg) should read 160lb (75kg). Source: Flight International
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Boeing 757 operators are advised of engine problem
Gunter Endres/LONDON BOEING HAS warned operators of 757s about several engine-rundown incidents on aircraft powered by Rolls-Royce RB.211-535E4 s. About half of the 700 aircraft operated by some 60 airlines across the world are involved, but the indications are that only older examples are affected. According ...
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CFMI studies service software
SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO ALLOW JET engines to be more easily serviced is being employed in the development of the CFM International (CFMI) CFM56-7 turbofan engine, which will power the new-generation Boeing 737. The software, known as Product Vision and developed by the GE Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New ...
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A340 findings indicate ozone is 'not being destroyed'
PRELIMINARY results from an experiment being carried out to study the effects of pollution at airliner cruising altitudes suggest that ozone is not being depleted, says Airbus Industrie. Five Airbus A340s (two operated by Air France, two by Lufthansa and one by Austrian Airlines) are involved in the ...
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Northrop Grumman replaces USAF wings
NORTHROP GRUMMAN IS MANUFACTURING a batch of 27 ship-sets of replacement wings for F-5E/F fighters operated by some 25 nations. The work is part of a block order announced in August 1995 under the USAF RF/F-5 structural-upgrade programme. Northrop Grumman was selected to manufacture 14 major structural components and replacement ...
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BA could use UK unemployed pilots
Sir - It would appear that the British Airline Pilots Association is the lapdog of British Airways, which could not recognise the stick when it was thrown in early 1995. There are still about 1,000 unemployed UK pilots (plus European colleagues), many of whom have the Boeing 737 ...
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An-32 freighter crashes on take-off, killing 250
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS David Learmount/LONDON IN ONE OF THE worst third-party aviation accidents in history, a freighter aircraft taking off from Ndolo Airport, Kinshasa, Zaire, on 8 January crashed immediately after take-off, killing about 250 people in the Simbazikita marketplace just beyond the airfield boundary. ...
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IPTN examines AEW option for N-250
INDUSTRI PESAWAT Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) has expanded its study of a possible future airborne early-warning (AEW) role for the new N-250 turboprop. The Indonesian manufacturer has formed a study team to look at AEW applications for the N-250. The study centres on around two AEW configurations proposed by ...
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Finland pools defence around F-18 assembly
FINLAND PLANS TO bring together its national defence industry into a new state-owned company, whose activities will include assembly of the country's McDonnell Douglas F-18s. The F-18 work had been handled by the aviation division of Valmet, a broad-based industrial group, which has decided to refocus on core ...
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Falcon battles with Phantom in Turkey
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Ari Egozi/TEL AVIV LOCKHEED MARTIN is offering several F-16 options to Turkey in an attempt to derail Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Turkish air force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom upgrade programme, which has run into political and financial difficulties. It is understood that ...
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Pilot fatigue caused Coventry crash
PILOT FATIGUE, combined with a disregard for a published minimum decision height, caused the fatal 21 December, 1994, Air Algerie Boeing 737-200 freighter crash on the approach to Coventry Airport in the UK, according to the official report. The aircraft had been on a surveillance-radar approach (SRA), ...
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World first
NASA has completed testing on the world's first lightweight, high-strength, graphite-epoxy composite cryogenic tank designed for flight. It will be installed aboard the McDonnell Douglas Delta Clipper Experimental Advanced (DC-XA) single-stage-to-orbit technology-demonstration vehicle, which will have its first test flight from White Sands, New Mexico, in about June. The tank ...