All Safety News – Page 1388
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EF2000 overtakes inflation rate
Sir - In May 1996, I noted an article which quoted the price of the Eurofighter EF2000 at £34 million ($56.6 million). Two months later, in the UK Times of 22 July, the price was quoted as £50 million. What is happening? I thought that inflation was supposed ...
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ATN team to be led by AlliedSignal project
ATN SYSTEMS, the industry consortium created to develop the Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN), has picked an AlliedSignal-led team to develop the network "router". The team will provide the avionics and ground system equipment needed to support routing and operation of data communications services over the ATN. Working ...
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BA optimistic on open-skies
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON British Airways chief executive Bob Ayling is hopeful that the US/UK open-skies negotiations will be back on track by the end of September, despite the breakdown in the latest round of talks. Doubts were raised over the state of relations between the two sides ...
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...while signalling caution on a new Japanese alliance deal
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS British Airways has signalled that the signing up of an alliance partner in the Asia-Pacific region will take a back seat as the airline first attempts to see through its tie-up with American Airlines. Chief executive Bob Ayling told a meeting of Australia's National ...
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TWA bomb evidence mounts up
SUSPICIONS THAT A BOMB brought down Trans World Airlines Flight 800 on 17 July have been reinforced by additional traces of explosive residue and a Boeing analysis of a centre fuel-tank explosion. Accident investigators and federal law-enforcement officials still cannot say, that the TWA Boeing 747-100 was downed by a ...
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Looking at dwell-cracks in CF6-50
Sir - Further to my letters "Solving problems in development" and "Development problems continue" (Flight International, 7-13 February, P44 and 13-19 March, P37), I note a statement in the June issue of the Royal Aeronautical Society journal which says that following two uncontained compressor-disc failures in General Electric CF6-50s, the ...
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Satellite-landing system approval is postponed
US CERTIFICATION OF the Honeywell/Pelorus SLS-2000 satellite-landing system (SLS) has been put back by six months, to the end of 1996. The first satellite-landing system will be certificated to US Federal Aviation Administration special-category 1 (SCAT 1) levels at Newark, New Jersey, rather than at Minneapolis/St Paul, as ...
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Boeing reveals details of '747-look' -700X
FIRST DETAILS of Boeing's proposed 747-700X design reveal a "747-look" concept with the first change in the fuselage cross-section since the baseline 747 was designed in the 1960s (Flight International, 4-10 September). Boeing Commercial Airplane Group president Ron Woodard says: "The design of our 747-600X will allow for ...
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MDC wins $1.3 billion order from Lufthansa
Lufthansa Cargo has ordered a fleet of McDonnell Douglas MD-11F long-range trijet freighters in a deal potentially worth $1.3 billion, it was announced at the show yesterday. The deal covers five firm MD-11 freighters, worth $550 million, and options for seven more. It represents a breakthrough for McDonnell ...
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Radar footprint
The mystery of the radar-evading capabilities of the super-secret Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bomber intensified yesterday when Farnborough air traffic controllers reported they had tracked the aircraft during its brief appearance at Farnborough on Monday. A National ATC spokesman says the Siemens Plessy Watchman radar on the show site ...
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New concept challenges reverse thrust thinking
A novel concept that could change the way manufacturers look at thrust reversers was unveiled at Farnborough on Wednesday by French firm Hurel-Dubois. Called Papillon, it is a bypass thrust reverser which is aimed specifically at underwing-mounted bypass systems. "This proves our commitment to innovation," says commercial director ...
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Buyers time for Westland
Direct contact between GKN Westland buyers and potential component suppliers was the aim of yesterday's "meet the buyer" day organised at its exhibit. Chris Loney, GKN Westland director of public affairs, described the event as an "exciting idea" that allows face-to-face contact between key industry specialists. "Too often ...
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Top that! Full marks for Farnborough '96
Organisers of Farnborough ‘96 looked back on the world's best-known airshow this week and said: "The best just got better." When the curtain eventually drops on the final trade day of the show today, more than 130,000 visitors will have flooded through the Farnborough front gates, a 10% increase ...
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Team formed for ATC work
Aeronautical Telecommunications Network Systems has announced the formation of a six-company team, led by AlliedSignal, to develop technology for air traffic control systems of the future. Work on the Router Reference Implementation (RRI) programme will begin in December ‘96 with first deliveries in May 1998. The US-French team ...
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Flightspares named as agent for Morse
Flightspares is celebrating the signing of a contract to become a worldwide aftermarket distributor of Morse Controls aviation products for civil operators. This latest signing on Tuesday in Hall 1/D22 was the third new international contract in the last year for the UK firm and comes hard on the ...
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Barco panel display is a real family affair
Judging by the number of new products on the Barco stand in Hall 1/A12 the Belgian firm has been busy in the last year or so. Barco has launched, here at Farnborough, a complete family of Ruggedised Flat Panel Displays, all of which are on display, and all of ...
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Would-be pilots can have a go in simulators
Aerospace industry executives who have always looked at the pilot and thought "I could do that" can now get the chance to prove it, thanks to British Airways. BA has decided to take out its mobile simulator to corporate events to allow executives - key business customers of the ...
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The voice of Farnborough enjoys every moment
When Stratton Richey arrived at rain-soaked Farnborough yesterday, he surveyed the clag and thought "brilliant". Richey, the airshow commentator, immediately knew that the early morning bad weather would disappear by the afternoon, clearing the skies for a full flying display programme. Richey is the man behind the microphone ...
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Quick cover-up belies A-330 TIFF
Rumours of a three-way bust-up between Airbus, Malaysian Airlines System (MAS) and leasing company ILFC were reinforced on Wednesday afternoon when the A-330 reappeared at Farnborough following a trip to Toulouse for a hasty paint job. When it opened Wednesday's show along with its four-engined big brother the A-340, ...
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Free flight no longer a flight of fantasy
In six months, the transition to free flight has progressed ten years, says Clay Jones, vice-president and general manager of Rockwell Collins Air Transport division. Speaking at the show, he says: "A lot has occurred since I spoke in Singapore about the transition to free flight. I said ...