All Safety News – Page 1237
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NASA orders hybrid Delta for SIRTF launch
NASA has contracted Boeing to supply a hybrid Delta booster to launch its Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF). The booster is a Delta II with the nine large strap-on boosters from the Delta III. This booster is also available to commercial customers for launches of 2,030kg (4,400lb) payloads ...
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Extruded profiles set in style
High flying goes high fashion on the Menziken stand, where the group's aerospace division is exhibiting its aluminium extrusion profiles in style. Created by Swiss fashion designer Elsie Brandtwein, this eye-catching display makes a confident statement from Menziken which has been supplying the aircraft industry with extrusions and pressed ...
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FAA prepares for millennium countdown with confidence
Tamzin Hindmarch Mission impossible or mission accomplished? Just how confident is the US Federal Aviation Administration about beating the Millennium Bug? In this year's Aviation System Capital Investment Plan, prepared for the US Congress in January, the FAA committed itself to ensuring all its systems would be certified ...
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FAA hotline for counterfeit product reports
Tamzin Hindmarch The US Federal Aviation Administration has set up a free hotline for people wishing to report suspected unapproved aircraft parts. Such products may look the same, but if they do not comply with FAA standards they may not be of the same high quality or be ...
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No smoke problems with CSE Engineering
Steve Nichols Smoke in the cockpit is a pilot's nightmare and one of the biggest causes of air crashes according to official data. Recent incidents involving a Swissair Flight 111 and ValuJet Flight 592 prove just how difficult it is for pilots to see what they are doing ...
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Cargo airship fleet on the drawing boards
Tony Stephenson An old idea has been reborn and is set to transform the way that heavy freight - such as offshore drilling rigs and saw mills - is transported across the continents. Using principles first developed in the 1930s, German company Cargolifter is set to launch a ...
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USA to say sorry?
US Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering visiting China to explain the bombing by a US pilot of the Chinese Embassy during NATO's air assault on Yugoslavia. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said he had gone with an inter-agency team in order to explain what happened and to say ...
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Invisible threats from space
THE good news is that astronomers have identified an asteroid that could be on a collision course with Earth. The bad news is that they have lost it. The object, called 1998 OX4, was found last year by a team at the University of Arizona, who tracked it for ...
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IAE lets the market do the talking for new variant engine
Geoff Thomas International Aero Engines (IAE) has announced that it has begun to evaluate a new variant of its V2500 engine, which powers Airbus A320 family aircraft. The formal launch of the -A7 version could happen by the end of this year, says IAE president and chief executive ...
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Teamwork key to show success
Ian Verchere As the person elected by his peers at GIFAS, the French national association of aerospace companies, to run the 43rd Paris air show, Edmond Marchegay has all the cool of an aircraft carrier skipper in variable weather. The decks may heave and roll in the swell, ...
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Jean-Loup and Nigel, the voices of Paris 99
Andrew Douse Meet the men who talk you through the daily flying display - Nigel Stevens and Jean-Loup Cardey. It's their job to provide the running commentary on the flight presentation for 4h every afternoon. More than 70 aircraft are expected to grace the sky above Le Bourget ...
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Airbus predicts global demand for 15,500 aircraft
Mike Martin Airbus Industrie and Boeing unveiled their latest market forecasts at the show yesterday. There's broad agreement on the basic value of the business over the next 20 years, but interesting differences of view. Lift-off for a new standard in style, being set by Gulf Air ...
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Lockheed Martin's watching brief
Geoff Thomas A Lockheed Martin symposium entitled 'How to Watch an Air Show' proved an interesting diversion at Le Bourget yesterday. Somewhat surprisingly, it didn't advise attendees to stand with feet slightly apart, head tilted back and eyes wide open. What it did do was to provide a ...
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Air transport
Smiths Industries Aerospace and Alaska Airlines won the Air Transport award for using Smiths' flight management system (FMS) and GPS to eliminate non-precision approaches. The team pioneered required navigation performance 0.15 approach and departures at Juneau Airport in Alaska. Terrain at the airport rises from sea level to ...
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Avionics
AlliedSignal Aerospace's continued improvements of the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) - including the addition of new obstacle alerting, peaks display and geometric altitude capabilities - were recognised by judges at the awards. They named it the winner of the Avionics category. The EGPWS system is not new, ...
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Horizon Air launches QUIET Q400 in North America
Alan Peaford Horizon Air has become the North American launch customer of Bombardier's Q400 in a $321-million deal announced at the show yesterday. The Seattle-based airline placed a firm order for 15 of the super quiet 70-passenger aircraft with options on an additional 15. Bombardier announced a ...
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Don Bateman is honoured with top award
Don Bateman, chief engineer of AlliedSignal's avionics team, last night achieved one of the industry's greatest accolades when he was awarded the title Aerospace Industry's Personality of the Year. Batemen was honoured at a glittering ceremony at Le Musée des Arts Forains in Bercy where hundreds of aerospace professionals ...
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Chinese predict return to profit
Taiwan's China Airlines (CAL) is reporting an average load factor for the five months leading up to May of 72% - up five percentage points over the previous year - and continues to forecast a 1999 year-end return to profitability. CAL says its average load factor from January to ...
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Cathay set to return to full service
Cathay Pacific Airways is targeting 18 June for the resumption of normal services as it re-trains returning pilots and closes charters with other carriers established under its pilots' recent 'sick-out'. Spokeswoman, Diana Fung, says from Hong Kong that the carrier will operate at 89% of normal capacity today, ...
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Crew collapse traced to cargo door crack
New details of a depressurisation incident on the world's highest time Boeing 737-200 now revealed by investigators tell how the captain and senior flight attendant spent several minutes unconscious when a crack that had gone undetected for 17 years let cabin air escape. The aircraft, of UK charter ...