All Safety News – Page 1410
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Bedek backs 707 as tanker platform
Douglas Barrie/TEL AVIV ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries' Bedek group is to stay with the Boeing 707 airframe as the basis for its tanker-conversion business, following internal studies into alternative airframes. Despite the age of the 707 design, senior Bedek officials believe that the airframe still provides ...
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The benefits of glass cockpits
Sir - I get the impression from David Learmount's article "Cracked glass" (Flight International, 3-9 April, P30) that glass-cockpit aircraft today are less than flawless and that there is a revolution, not just an evolution, needed to bring them back on track. Research into cockpit layout and the ...
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Cargo conundrum
Steady growth is predicted for world air-cargo market. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURERS and conversion specialists are watching the burgeoning growth in world air-cargo traffic with eager anticipation. Every forecast points to steady and continuous growth, but not all agree on whether most of it will be ...
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Preaching conversion
Buoyant demand spawns new wave of widebody freighters. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA SO FAR, THE WIDEBODY freighter-conversion market has been dominated by the Boeing 747. Now, a new wave of widebody freighters is being rolled out of modification centres to meet the buoyant demand for cargo aircraft. ...
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Profitable Dassault keeps quiet on Aerospatiale link
FEW CLUES HAVE emerged as to the state of Dassault Aviation's enforced merger talks with Aerospatiale from chairman Serge Dassault's unveiling of an increasingly healthy financial results for 1995 . Dassault refers only briefly to the negotiations with Aerospatiale, which have been more or less forced on his ...
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EU tightens foreign safety
David Learmount/LONDON EUROPEAN UNION (EU) airports might be empowered to carry out safety checks on foreign airlines in the same way that EU ports already check ships under the port state-control system, says the European Commission (EC). The safety check is one of several proposals, ...
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Price is right for Boeing ATM organisation
FORMER HUGHES AIR-traffic supremo Nancy Price is joining Boeing to head its new Aviation Systems organisation. Aviation Systems is being created to help Boeing focus its systems-integration expertise on the growing air-traffic-management (ATM) market and will be part of the company's Defense and Space Group in Kent, Washington. ...
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South Africa maintains grip on competition
SOUTH AFRICAN transport minister Mac Maharaj, has confirmed the Government's commitment to the competitive development, of aviation in the sub-Saharan region of Africa, but has warned that some restrictions, must remain for the foreseeable future. In a speech prepared by Maharaj, but delivered by deputy director of the ...
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Quite Improper
DUSSELDORF AIRPORT'S attempt to ban all flights by turboprop airliners is embodiment of the worst fears of the world's regional airlines. The airlines immediately affected by the ban will, rightly, do everything to have it overturned. They should be, supported by all their regional allies around the world, but they ...
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Investigators probe DarkStar accident
THE LOCKHEED Martin/Boeing team is hurriedly revising plans for its second DarkStar unpiloted surveillance aircraft, following the destruction of the first aircraft in a crash at Edwards AFB, California, on 22 April. The accident compounds already-serious delays to the Tier III Minus DarkStar programme, which is being developed ...
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Airborne chooses TIMCO for 767 conversion work
US AIRCRAFT-modification specialist TIMCO says that it has been selected by Airborne Express to develop a freighter conversion for the Boeing 767. Express-package carrier Airborne has acquired 12 ex-All Nippon Airways 767-200s for $290 million, including modification, and plans to acquire between ten and 15 additional aircraft for a total ...
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SIA seeks six extra-large-capacity aircraft
Paul Lewis/TOULOUSE SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA), has outlined a need, for an initial six new 500- to 600-seat, ultra-high capacity-type aircraft, now being studied by Airbus Industrie and Boeing. "We need around six to start with," says SIA managing director Cheong Choon Kong. "It does not ...
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Cargo return
Lufthansa Cargo is to return five McDonnell Douglas DC-8-73F freighters to lessor Deutsche Leasing by the end of 1996, by which time the Lufthansa subsidiary will be operating 12 Boeing 747-200Fs and one 737-300F. Source: Flight International
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Hong Kong urges second runway for Chek Lap Kok
Paul Lewis/HONG KONG HONG KONGS' NEW Airport Authority (AA) is pressing the Government to begin construction of a second parallel runway at Chek Lap Kok, before the airport opens in April 1998. The second runway could be completed as early as the end of 1998, ...
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Race for cheap carbon brakes hots up
Andrew Doyle/PARIS MESSIER-BUGATTI believes that, within four years, it will be able to offer aircraft carbon brakes, which are as cheap to operate as their equivalent steel brakes, according to chairman and chief executive Yves Leclere. "We will match the direct operating costs [DOCs] of ...
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Kitplanes rev up for air-racing market
TWO KITPLANE manufacturers believe that they have identified a potential market for high-performance racing aircraft as low-cost alternatives to the "warbirds", such as the North American P-51 Mustang, now widely used. Both companies cite the high cost of buying and racing aircraft such as the P-51, and the outcry caused ...
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Alliance moves to expand East African partnership
Gunter Endres/LONDON THE CHAIRMAN OF EAST African carrier Alliance has proposed a merger with Air Tanzania and Uganda Airlines - both 10% stakeholders in the multi-national long-haul carrier. The merger call by Ugandan parliamentarian and Alliance chairman, Adrian Sibo is seen as an attempt at ...
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Sun 'N Fun
Five deaths in three crashes at the 14-20 March Sun 'n Fun fly-in - after just four fatal accidents in the previous 21 events - marred a show which otherwise indicated that the small-aircraft market is maturing, with a resurgence in production aircraft and an expansion of kit-built designs into ...
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US carriers hit by pilot shortages
SOME US AIRLINES, ARE experiencing pilot shortages as they attempt to add services, to meet traffic demand. Northwest Airlines says that it will reduce its monthly schedule by 150-200 flights for the rest of this year to cope with the shortage. Northwest operates about 45,000 flights a ...
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American proposes short-haul Fokker 100 operation
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA AMERICAN AIRLINES wants to establish a low-cost short-haul operation within the carrier, using its Fokker 100s. The proposal to the carrier's pilots' union is designed to compete with the low-cost operations already started by United and planned by Delta. Under the ...