All Safety News – Page 1387
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Big plans and growing pains
The next generation of large airliners captured the show headlines. Andrew Doyle/LONDON DESPITE THE FACT that Boeing, as expected, failed in its last-ditch efforts to launch its 747 major derivatives at the 1996 Farnborough air show, the civil spotlight was firmly focused on the next generation ...
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Losses make New Zealand's Kiwi flightless
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS LOSSES AT KIWI Travel International Airlines, the New Zealand low-cost carrier, have forced it to cease operations, while two Australian airlines have also run into financial difficulties. Kiwi Travel went into voluntary liquidation with losses estimated at NZ$3 million ($2 million) over the past ...
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BA aims to silence new UK noise rules
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS is preparing the way for a possible court challenge to new noise limits at the three major London airports, due to be imposed by the UK Government from 1 January, 1997. The carrier expects to complete an internal review within the next ...
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MDHS transfers civil training to UND
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA UND AEROSPACE is to provide all factory-authorised flight and maintenance training for McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems' (MDHS) civil aircraft. UND has ordered an MD500E, MD600N and MD Explorer from MDHS for use in the programme, and the aviation-education arm of the University of North Dakota will ...
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MDC sets October date for MD-XX
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) hopes to begin offering its MD-XX, the MD-11 tri-jet derivative, to airlines as early as October and "-will launch as soon as possible after that, probably in early 1997", says Walt Orlowski, MDC vice-president and general manager of the programme. ...
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Clinton stakes claim for security money
David Learmount/LONDON MASSIVE FUNDING for higher levels of security at US airports has been demanded by US President Bill Clinton, following initial recommendations from Vice-President Al Gore's Commission on Aviation Safety and Security. The US Federal Aviation Administration has to implement the recommendations. Demanding that Congress ...
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Alitalia urges Air Europe
ALITALIA IS PUSHING for the charter operations of Air Europe Italy and Eurofly to be merged into a single airline, in an effort to prevent a damaging fare war between the two carriers. The move has been prompted by Eurofly's plans to enter long-range charter markets served by ...
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Saab sounds out potential partners for new regional
Andrzej Jeziorski/LINKOPING SWEDISH REGIONAL-turboprop manufacturer Saab Aircraft is in the early stages of talks to find a partner for a successor programme to its current range, the 35-seat Saab 340 and the 50-seat Saab 2000. According to Saab Aircraft president Hans Kr_ger, the company aims to ...
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ValuJet aims for 16 September restart
VALUJET AIRLINES is poised to resume flight operations the week of 16 September, initially operating seven aircraft between Atlanta and four as-yet-unnamed US cities. The airline will be able to build its fleet to 15 aircraft and extend services to 17 destinations within 45 days. The Atlanta-based airline ...
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Sound of silence
THE UK GOVERNMENT has decided that the absolute noise limits for airliners leaving London's three major airports should be reduced by up to 3dBA. This action, it says, will reduce noise for airport neighbours at little cost to the airlines - "only" 12% of departures of the heaviest-laden Boeing 747s ...
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Polish Government considers Swidnik SW-4 purchase
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE POLISH MINISTRY of the Interior could become the launch customer for the PZL-Swidnik SW-4 light helicopter, which is due to be flown for the first time within weeks. According to the company, Polish interior minister Zbigniew Siemiatowski has told Swidnik that he wants ...
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Power games
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE TWO MANUFACTURERS which will offer engines for Boeing's 747-500X/600X derivatives laid their cards on the table at Farnborough, and highlighted the radical differences between two powerplants which could end up being remarkably similar in terms of performance. General Electric and Pratt & Whitney ...
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Lufthansa takes MD-11s, USAir talks -95s
Guy Norris/FARNBOROUGH McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is in final negotiations with USAir for a huge MD-95 twinjet order, thought to include more than 50 aircraft on firm order and 50 on option. News of the USAir talks comes hot on the heels of the sale of up to ...
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Scientists lose faith in Ariane 5 managers after 'betrayal'
Tim Furniss/FARNBOROUGH EUROPEAN SPACE Agency (ESA) scientists have been "betrayed" by management mistakes which resulted in the failure of the first Ariane 5 launch in June, according to Roger Bonnet, the head of the agency's space-programmes office. Bonnet says that the official enquiry board into the ...
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Dornier sets jet date
FAIRCHILD DORNIER could launch a turbofan version of its 30-seat Dornier 328 next month, with development of a stretched 50-seat turbofan to follow in mid-1997 after an eight-month definition phase. The turbofan development, an alternative to the long-awaited turboprop stretched-version of the aircraft, has already been deemed ...
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Licencing and major regulatory issues
REGULATIONS which affect cross-crew qualification (CCQ) and mixed-fleet flying sometimes directly limit the number of commercial type-ratings a pilot is allowed to have on his licence, but in all cases specify the training necessary first to obtain the type ratings and then to maintain type-rating currency. The regulatory components are: ...
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The Cathay experience
CATHAY PACIFIC Airways has been operating mixed-fleet flying with its new Airbus Industrie A330/A340s since August 1995. This is a pioneering departure, in that it requires crews to be simultaneously qualified, on aircraft with two and four engines, a combination, which has never before been an industry-accepted practice for line ...
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Japanese/US bilateral talks falter
Japan's Minister of Transport has written to his US Department of Transportation (DoT) counterpart warning against the imposition of traffic sanctions, following the collapse in the recent round of air services talks. In a letter sent to US transportation secretary Frederico Pena, Japan's minister, Yoshiyuki Kamei, states that ...
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Boeing 737 mystery prompts airworthiness directives
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC and David Learmount/LONDON The US National Transportation Safety Board's investigation into the USAir Pittsburgh crash has spawned airworthiness directives (ADs) requiring changes in the Boeing 737 flight-control system. This comes despite the fact that the investigation, the most exhaustive in the board's history, has failed ...
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Pricing row forces Virgin Express to delay new Geneva service
VIRGIN EXPRESS has been forced to postpone "until further notice" its new scheduled service to Geneva, following the Swiss authorities' objections to the company's low-fare policy. The Brussels-based carrier was to have begun services on 2 September. The proposed Virgin Express aimed to set fares at around half ...