All Safety News – Page 1421
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Aerospace faces up to threat of cadmium ban
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE THREAT OF a European ban on cadmium being extended to aerospace is forcing manufacturers to search for alternative anti-corrosion coatings. Aerospace is exempt from an existing ban on cadmium, but this is likely to be revoked if studies into possible alternatives prove fruitful. ...
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Boeing examines longest-range 777 yet
BOEING IS studying an ultra-long-range 777-200 as a possible alternative to the development of the smaller-capacity short-bodied -100X. The study has been prompted by airline demand for an ultra-long-haul aircraft combining the range of the -100X with the higher capacity of the -200. Boeing hopes that the move ...
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Sabena brought to a halt by pilot strike. . .
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS BELGIAN NATIONAL carrier Sabena is paralysed by the fourth strike since November. This time the pilot's union, ABPNL, is opposing the hiring of four pilots by regional subsidiary DAT to fly the new Avro RJ85. The latest series of conflicts began when the ...
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Russia's air-traffic volume continues to fall
TRAFFIC VOLUMES in Russia have fallen for the fifth successive year, according to the Russian Transport Department's 1995 annual report, due to be published on 16 February. The latest decline leaves passenger numbers at barely one-third of 1990's peak, when 90.7 million boardings were recorded in Russia, then part of ...
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...as Air France risks unrest
AIR FRANCE PRESIDENT Christian Blanc has renounced long-standing agreements with pilots of subsidiary domestic carrier Air France Europe (the new name for Air Inter) risking further strike action at the airline. Blanc wants to bring Air Inter Europe into line with the existing union agreements with Air France ...
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China plans ATM tests
CHINA WILL conduct trials of a satellite-based air-traffic-management (ATM) system in Xi'an between 17 and 19 March as part of long-term plans to develop a complete communications, navigation, surveillance (CNS)/ATM airspace infrastructure. The Xi'an demonstration will be performed by an international team led by Rockwell's Texas-based Communication Systems division (CSD) ...
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FedEx go-ahead
China's civil aviation administration has given FedEx permission to launch its first air-cargo service to Beijing and Shanghai from the USA in early March, using a Boeing 747-200. FedEx is the only US-based cargo carrier allowed to operate into China, having acquired the right from Evergreen. The carrier plans eventually ...
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Talk this way
A Swedish-led technology could provide a key element of the Future Air Navigation System. Kieran Daly/LONDON THE GLOBAL-NAVIGATION satellite-system-synchronised, self-organising, time-division, multiple-access (STDMA) data- link really needs a much better name. It is one thing for the dedicated souls serving on the International Civil Aviation ...
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UK's Britannia to pioneer Contran to guard against confusion in communications
THE WORLD'S LEADING charter operator, Britannia Airways, is to be the first airline to equip its fleet with the Contran system designed to prevent simultaneous radio transmissions. The UK carrier will fit its 32-strong Boeing 757/767 fleet during the northern winter of 1996/7. At the same time, British ...
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Crash leads to Tu-154B groundings
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW THE CIS INTERSTATE Aviation Committee has grounded 15 Russian-operated Tupolev Tu-154Bs because of information emerging about the 7 December 1995, Khabarovsk Air Tu-154B crash in the Russian far east (Flight International, 20 December, 1995-2 January). The aircraft are to remain grounded until the investigation is complete. ...
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Germany reprieves Strato 2C
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE GERMAN parliamentary budget committee has conditionally voted to continue funding the Grob Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft, rejecting research and technology minister Jurgen Ruttgers recommendation that the programme be scrapped and DM72 million ($50 million) of Government funding be returned (Flight International, 24-30 January). ...
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Samsung cool on Fokker
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE SOUTH KOREAN Government and aerospace industry, are playing down speculation, that they are mounting a serious effort to buy all or part of the financially stricken Fokker group. Officials from the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy, as well as industrial giant ...
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Beyond the basics
Aptitude is not enough to win airline sponsorship for today's ab initio pilot-training courses. David Learmount/LONDON IT IS ALREADY axiomatic in the airline industry that today's airline pilots are expected not only to retain traditional piloting and airmanship skills (despite practising them less on the modern flight ...
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Twenty years young
The Concorde is set to remain in airline service for up to another 20 years. Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE BRITISH AEROSPACE/Aerospatiale Concorde is a unique airliner in many ways, not least because it has been in revenue service for two decades and there is still no new aircraft ...
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UK delays Swanwick opening by one year
THE OPENING OF the new en route air-traffic-control centre for England and Wales has been delayed until December 1997, says the UK Civil Aviation Authority. The £350 million ($530 million) Swanwick Centre, near Fareham, Hampshire, has been plagued by problems with integrating the air-traffic-management system's 2 million lines ...
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Creating/maintaining APALS databases
BEFORE THE APALS CAN be used, an approach database must be created. This is accomplished by flying the approach with the APALS in data-collecting mode. The radar collects SAR images of the terrain either side of the approach path. These are combined with aerial photographs and ground surveys to identify ...
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In-trail-climb testing inadequate
Sir - In the article "New members join in-trail-climb club" (Flight International, 6-12 December, 1995, P16), Ken Peppard of the US Federal Aviation Administration is quoted as saying that "...pilots, controller and ARINC operators feel comfortable with the procedure". The US Airline Pilots' Association (ALPA) believes this to be an ...
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USA reports increase in GA accidents
US GENERAL-AVIATION (GA) accidents increased slightly in 1995, causing concern that efforts to improve safety have reached a plateau. The US National Transportation Safety Board says that there were 408 fatal GA accidents in 1995, compared with 402 in 1994. Safety has been steadily improving since the ...
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Flight Dynamics HGS successful in Cat III
BOMBARDIER DASH 8s of US-based regional carrier Horizon Air, equipped with the Flight Dynamics-made head-up guidance system (HGS), were used for 20 successful landings in Category III conditions at Portland Airport, Oregon, on 11 January. Visibility in the area was down to around 300m (980ft) in thick ...
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Pan Am plans to rise from the ashes
MARTIN SHUGRUE, the ex-chief operating officer of Pan American World Airways, plans to relaunch the airline. Shugrue and former US Undersecretary of Commerce, for Travel and Tourism Charles Cobb have lined up $30 million in start-up capital from a consortium of investors. The airline, the world's most illustrious ...