All Safety News – Page 1419

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    NASA looks at ways to save PCA during crises

    1996-10-16T00:00:00Z

    NASA is studying a potential application of its recently completed Propulsion Controlled Aircraft (PCA) system, which would allow a twin-engined aircraft to survive a catastrophic engine and flight-control failure. The PCA was developed following the 1989 crash of a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 with disabled flight controls. The crew ...

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    Helicopter medevac will be aided by GPS

    1996-10-16T00:00:00Z

    STAT MEDEVAC, a Manassas, Virginia-based helicopter emergency medical service (EMS) operating in western Pennsylvania, has signed a deal with Satellite Technology Implementation to set up a network of 13 global-positioning-system (GPS) approaches at remote hospitals. Installation of the US Federal Aviation Administration approved GPS approaches will allow helicopter ...

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    R-R develops a low-emissions combustor for RB.211-535E4B

    1996-10-16T00:00:00Z

    ROLLS-ROYCE is developing a new combustor for its RB.211-535E4B turbofan, which it claims will reduce the engine's nitrogen-oxide (NOx) emissions by up to 40%. The new variant is due to enter service, powering Condor's first Boeing 757-300, in the first quarter of 1999. According to David Snape, chief ...

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    USAir investigates new 'no-frills' division

    1996-10-16T00:00:00Z

    DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN USAir and its pilots could lead the way towards the creation of a low-cost service designed to counter operations such as those of the newly created Delta Express, Southwest and ValuJet. Successful negotiations between management and members of the Air Line Pilots Association over the start-up ...

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    An-124 crashes on approach to Turin

    1996-10-16T00:00:00Z

    Andrea Spinelli/GENOA Paul Duffy/MOSCOW THE TWO PILOTS of an Aeroflot Russian International Airlines (ARIA)-operated Antonov An-124 were killed, along with at least two people on the ground, when the aircraft crashed into houses short of the runway while attempting to land at Turin's Caselle Airport, Italy, on 8 ...

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    Airbus Industrie creates freight airline for Belugas

    1996-10-16T00:00:00Z

    AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has set up a subsidiary to operate its A300-600ST (Super Transporter) "Beluga" outsized transports on commercial cargo charters. It is estimated that the new division, Airbus Transport International (ATI), could earn the consortium up to $15 million-worth of revenue each year using spare capacity on the Beluga fleet. ...

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    Germany to lead free-flight trials in Europe

    1996-10-16T00:00:00Z

    GERMANY'S civil-aviation authority, the DFS, is working with Lufthansa to carry out trials of free-flight technologies in Europe. "We're looking at how to implement free flight in Germany as soon as possible," says Dr Klaus Dieter Ehrhardt, responsible for CNS/ATM planning in the DFS. "We will look at ...

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    SAS to begin using ADS-B system in 1997

    1996-10-16T00:00:00Z

    Scandinavian carrier SAS is to equip "at least" ten commercial aircraft, and ground vehicles, with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) systems in 1997, and plans to equip its new Boeing 737-600s in 1998. The trials are part of the European-Commission-funded North European ADS-B Network programme, which has established a ...

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    Airlines are 'confused' over European free-flight issues

    1996-10-16T00:00:00Z

    Julian Moxon/AMSTERDAM A MAJOR INITIATIVE to prove the cost benefits of flying in a "free-flight" air-traffic-management (ATM) environment must be mounted if the system is ever to become reality, say leading industry officials speaking at the Flight International Airline Navigation '96 conference in Amsterdam on 9 -11 October. ...

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    IPTN plans N270 talks in December

    1996-10-16T00:00:00Z

    SENIOR OFFICIALS from Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) and its US subsidiary, American Regional Aircraft Industry (AMRAI), plan to meet in mid-December to re-evaluate development of the proposed stretched N270 turboprop. The Indonesian meeting is expected to conduct a complete review of the yet-to-be launched, programme in ...

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    No-gain pain

    1996-10-16T00:00:00Z

    AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS ARE effective, if often tragic, teachers, and the aviation community always learns greatly from them. Incidents - the accidents which didn't quite happen -- can be just as effective teachers, but the aviation community learns far less from them. The reason is fear of disclosure- a fear which ...

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    At cross purposes

    1996-10-16T00:00:00Z

    Sir - In the article "Highly rated" (Flight International, 11-17 September, P46) the acronym CCQ is written as cross-crew qualification. I have heard, however, the term crew cross-qualification. I believe that the latter is correct, since it depicts what it is, the cross qualification of crews between two or more ...

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    747 conversions

    1996-10-16T00:00:00Z

    Boeing has received a contract from All Nippon Airways of Japan for the conversion of one 747-200 to full-freighter configuration - the second of the airline's 747s to be modified. The aircraft will be delivered to Wichita in April 1997 for the conversion work, and is scheduled to be handed ...

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    Simulator helps students

    1996-10-09T00:00:00Z

    A LOW-COST simulator, aimed at helping aeronautical- engineering students understand the mechanics of aircraft flight, is being used at London's City University, in the UK. The MP520-T, developed by UK-based Merlin Products, includes an enclosed, single-seat cockpit mounted on a three-axis hydraulic, or two-axis pneumatic, motion system. ...

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    Power shares

    1996-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Engine manufacturers had a successful 1996, with orders picking up and new programmes unveiled Andrew Doyle and Jennifer Pite/LONDON   WITH THE AEROSPACE industry firmly out of recession, orders have finally picked up for aero engine manufacturers during 1996. This year has also seen ...

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    Documentation shortfalls force IPTN to delay certification N250

    1996-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) has been forced to delay the maiden flight of its first N250-100 certification prototype, as the result of component documentation falling below US Federal Aviation Administration requirements. The second prototype N250, had been due to fly in May, but ...

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    US Safety Board sees need for post-Cali crash modifications

    1996-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says that newly certificated long-haul commercial passenger aircraft should have an automatic system for retracting speed brakes if the pilots start an emergency climb. The system could have saved the American Airlines Boeing 757, which crashed ...

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    Kiwi files for Chapter 11 as ValuJet resumes flights

    1996-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Kiwi International Airlines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, blaming rising debts and the fall-out from the ValuJet crash and the grounding of Kiwi aircraft. Ironically, the filing took place on 30 September, the day that ValuJet returned to the air and at ...

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    Honeywell talks to Lockheed Martin about APALS involvement

    1996-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES HONEYWELL IS IN talks about becoming involved in Lockheed Martin's Autonomous Precision Approach and Landing System (APALS). The US avionics company confirms: "There have been talks, and we are certainly kicking it around." The discussions are led by Honeywell's Business and Aviation Systems ...

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    NTSB proposes more 737 rudder system changes

    1996-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Boeing will have to revise the design of 737 rudder control system components, develop a cockpit display showing rudder position, and establish service life limits for certain rudder control parts if several proposals under study by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are made compulsory. The aim is to ...