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Modern-cockpit history
Cathode-ray-tube (CRT) flight-instrument displays and digital-technology flight-management systems arrived in operational airline cockpits only in 1982. Digital fly-by-wire control arrived less than seven years ago, in 1988. Today, however, the instrument displays of the Boeing 767, 757 and Airbus Industrie A310/A300-600 (the order in which the aircraft entered ...
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Power For ILFC
International Lease Finance (ILFC) has chosen General Electric/Snecma CFM56-5A/Bs, worth more than $300 million, to power 23 firm and nine optioned Airbus A319s, A320s and A321s (Flight International, 4-10 January). The remaining seven firm and one optioned Airbus will be powered by IAE's V2500. Source: Flight International
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727 Sale offer
Air France has made an unsolicited offer to sell the Belgian air force two Boeing 727-200 transports at a cost of $8 million. They would replace two older model-100QCs, for troop carrying and transport duties. The offer follows reports that the air force is finding it increasingly costly to maintain ...
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Lockheed and Taiwan expect to seal F-16 deal
LOCKHEED EXPECTS soon to conclude the first co-production contract with Taiwan for the manufacture of F-16 fighter airframe components, as part of wider offset package attached to the 1992 sale of 150 aircraft. The contract, estimated to be worth up to $40 million, will cover the production of ...
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Garuda
The sale of older aircraft helped Garuda Indonesia show a five-fold growth in profits for 1994, according to Indonesian transport minister Haryanto Danutirto. The state-owned carrier's profits rose to nearly Rps351 billion ($160 million) over the year, up from Rps64 billion in 1993. Garuda recently disposed of its fleet of ...
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Airbus cockpit/control milestones
1982 Garuda Indonesian Airlines takes delivery of its uniquely ordered A300B4-200s, the world's only two-crew conventional-cockpit wide-bodied type, which has a fully electro-mechanical (E-M) instrument fit but a "forward-facing crew-cockpit" (FFCC) employing the revolutionary "dark, quiet cockpit" (DQC) design philosophy. In the DQC, selector-switch lights turn off, when a system ...
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Gulfstream Engine Order
Rolls-Royce has signed a $150 million contract with Gulfstream Aerospace for the supply of additional Tay engines for the Gulfstream GIVSP business jet through to the end of 1997. Source: Flight International
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Air Botnia Expands
Finnish domestic regional carrier Air Botnia is launching its first international service by linking Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland, with Murmansk, on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia, twice a week. Source: Flight International
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Skytech claims record
SKYTECH OF BRUSSELS believes that the 550m3 (19,500ft3) industrial silos in the picture may be the largest closed-volume objects ever carried by helicopter in Europe. The seven 14,000kg units were carried under a Mil Mi-26T from Hallein, Austria, 150km (80nm) to Linz, in an operation taking three days because of ...
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ANA and Kansai Airport
The opening of the world's first offshore airport at Kansai in September 1994 was more important for ANA than for any other carrier. With Tokyo Narita having reached capacity, quite simply, without Kansai, ANA had nowhere else from which to grow. Even Kansai's predecessor, serving Osaka and the ...
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Aerospatiale wins Thaicom 3 deal
SHINAWATRA SATELLITE of Thailand has awarded Aerospatiale a $200 million contract to build the Thaicom 3 communications satellite. The spacecraft will have 12 Ku-band and 24 C-band transponders. The contract award represents the first for a European company in the Asia Pacific region and was won against competition ...
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MDC
John Capellupo has become president of McDonnell Douglas Aerospace. With McDonnell Douglas (MDC) for 34 years, Capellupo has also served as president of MDC's Missile Systems as well as being deputy president of Douglas Aircraft. Kenneth Francis, formerly executive vice-president responsible for McDonnell Douglas Aerospace West, will assume special-assignment duties ...
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ANA, the 777...and Rolls-Royce
To listen to British Airways and Boeing describe the "working-together" programme, in which the manufacturer invited an unprecedented degree of customer involvement in the design of its 777, is to hear a remarkable tale indeed; one of serendipity of requirements and almost supernatural harmony between the participants. The concept worked, ...
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Helicopter Approval
South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has licensed Korea Bell Helicopter and Samsung Aerospace Industry to begin assembly of civil helicopters, with domestic demand forecast for 300 aircraft by the year 2000. Samsung has a five-year licence-assembly agreement with Eurocopter France. Korea Bell was established by the manufacturer ...
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Russia makes first Rokot launch
RUSSIA LAUNCHED its first modified SS-19 military missile satellite mission from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 26 December 1994. It carried a small amateur radio satellite, the Radio Rosto/RS 15, into a 2,165 x 1,900km orbit. The missile, called the Rokot, has an added third stage. It is built ...
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Weak demand forces Air Hong Kong to cut fleet
CARGO CARRIER Air Hong Kong has cut its fleet from three to two Boeing 747 freighters as it continues to suffer from poor demand and heavy financial losses. The 747-100F is to be returned early to leasing company GE Capital Aviation, as the carrier is able only to ...
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New camera for the Hubble
A NEW $30 MILLION CAMERA, to be built by Ball Aerospace, will be installed on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during the third Space Shuttle servicing mission in November 1999. Called the Hubble Advanced Camera for Exploration (HACE), the unit's capabilities will be a major enhancement to the HST's present ...
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UK still wants to privatise air traffic control
THE UK CIVIL Aviation Authority is encouraging the Government to press ahead with the privatisation of the nation's National Air Traffic Services, despite the collapse of the first attempt in 1994. CAA chiefs say that the air-traffic-control system has a £100 million-a-year investment requirement, largely for modernisation, which ...
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Wheel Deal
AlliedSignal Aerospace has signed a letter of intent with China Southern Airlines to establish a joint venture in Shanghai to repair and overhaul aircraft wheels and brakes. Operations will begin in late 1995. Source: Flight International
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No worries for Astra operators
Sir - In the article "Astra owners face disc work" (Flight International, 30 November-6 December, P17), it was reported that US Federal Aviation Administration Airworthiness Directive (AD) 94-23-05, had been issued against AlliedSignal TFE731 engines installed on Israel Aircraft Industries Astras. In reporting the technical facts of the ...