All Safety News – Page 1426
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Extended CRJ launch delayed to end of year
Page 8 Bombardier Regional Aircraft Division (BRAD) announced at Farnborough yesterday that the formal launch of the extended Regional Jet project, the 70-seater CRJ-X has been delayed until later in the year. However, BRAD can begin offering the aircraft for sale and can confirm performance specifications. The ...
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Process improvement
OVER THE PAST few years Europe's aerospace industry has inevitably been preoccupied with the impact of defence-budget cuts and a depressed airliner market, but, as recession ends, so the priorities are beginning to change. European aerospace research shows clearly that the new drive is for production efficiency and ...
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Safety standards must be consistent
Sir - Like Steve Kirby, in his letter "Engines should be treated separately" (Flight International, 14-20 August, P40), I was reminded of the US National Transportation Safety Board accident report on the 5 May, 1983, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar oil-loss incident. There were lessons to be learned from that near-accident, which ...
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Airbus is poised to join AE-100 programme
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINESE AND European aerospace-industry negotiators are expected to reach an agreement by the end of the month for Airbus Industrie to join the proposed Chinese AE-100 regional-jet programme. Under a plan which is now in the process of being finalised, Airbus will assume a leading role in Aero ...
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NTSB asks TWA to help
THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is asking Trans World Airlines (TWA), Boeing and Pratt & Whitney for $8 million towards accident-investigation costs in the continuing probe of the July TWA Boeing 747 crash. Meanwhile, traces of a chemical used in plastic explosives have been detected on ...
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Horizon Dash 8 order signals end for Dorniers
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES HORIZON AIR of Seattle, Washington, has placed orders and options, worth potentially more than $750 million, for up to 70 de Havilland Dash 8-200/300 turboprops. The huge deal, which includes firm orders for 25 Dash 8s, spells the end of Horizon's Fairchild Dornier 328 ...
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Honeywell and Rockwell
HONEYWELL AND Rockwell are on course for further conflict in the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance (TCAS) market as both companies announce progress with their product lines. British Airways is to be the launch customer for Honeywell's TCAS II system (dubbed TCAS 2000). The unit is scheduled for certification in ...
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Pyongyang trials cancelled
SOUTH KOREA has forced the cancellation of international-airline flight trials through the Pyongyang Flight Information Region (FIR), until procedural issues have been resolved with North Korea. Trials had been planned for 1-5 September by Cathay Pacific Airways, Delta Air Lines, Korean Air, Northwest Airlines and United Airlines. Selected westbound flights ...
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Park Air unveils VHF
PARK AIR ELECTRONICS has launched a range of next-generation digital radios, aimed at coping with steadily increasing demand for voice and data communications between aircraft and air-traffic-controllers (ATCs), using existing very-high-frequency inks. The UK company's new Series 5000 digital radios use so-called differential eight-phase shift-key modulation, replacing double-sideband ...
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Saab sells 2000s and gains 340 customer
SAAB AIRCRAFT HAS SOLD two further Saab 2000s to French carrier Regional Airlines and added an Egyptian customer to its list of Saab 340 operators. The 2000 deal boosts the French carrier's numbers of the type to seven - making it the second-largest operator of the aircraft, behind Crossair. The ...
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Vnukovo Tu-154 hits mountain in cloud
A VNUKOVO AIRLINES Tupolev Tu-154M has crashed about 10km (5.5nm) from Longyearbyen Airport on the northern Norwegian island of Svalbard (Spitzbergen), while approaching the airport's runway 28. The accident to the Moscow-based airliner happened at midday local time on 29 August . Early reports said that all 129 ...
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American breaks new ground with warning system
AMERICAN AIRLINES, which suffered a Boeing 757 controlled-flight-into-terrain accident in December 1995 near Cali, Colombia, is the launch customer for AlliedSignal Aerospace's new enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS). The system is expected to be awarded US Federal Aviation Administration certification in October. The US carrier has placed a $20 million ...
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ValuJet take-off
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration reinstated ValuJet's air-carrier operating privileges on 29 August, allowing the grounded US low-cost carrier to resume flight operations as early as 4 September. ValuJet successfully completed a series of "proving runs" for FAA inspectors in late August, and the US Department of Transportation ...
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FLS launches cargo-conversion project
FLS Aerospace has received its first contract for the conversion of a Boeing 727 to cargo configuration, launching its participation in this market. The Stansted, UK-based aircraft-maintenance company has received a contract from Dublin-based aircraft-management/leasing company European Capital/ Naabi, for the conversion of an ex-Continental Airlines Boeing 727-200 ...
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Russian directory
A new, official directory, covering the civil aviation industry in Russia and the CIS, is to be launched at the Farnborough air show. The directory, which is a joint venture between Flight International and CIS Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK), gives a wealth of contact details for airlines, airports, official bodies ...
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Blown away
Hurricane Edouard, diminishing in intensity, is now headed for Nova Scotia after pounding Cape Cod. The eastern part of the Cape and Nantucket island were hardest hit, with widespread power cuts and coastal flooding. Source: Flight Daily News
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Antonov hunt for European FLA partners
Ukrainian aircraft designer Antonov has come to Farnborough to try and assemble a European consortium to bid for the Future Large Aircraft programme. Piotr V Balabuyev, general designer of Antonov, is using the show as a forum to discuss partnerships with European manufacturers to collaborate on building a FLA ...
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De-icing technology aids safety in winter
The only ice you are dealing with at present may well be the cube in your G&T, but somewhere in the world there's an aircraft taking off in winter conditions. Winter flying is, and always will be, a dangerous operation. Advances in de-icing technology are therefore always welcomed. ...
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ADS system on display 'live' at show
Visitors to Farnborough can chart progress towards a global satellite monitoring system for aircraft at the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) stand (H3/F1). NATS is a leading player in the European consortium which is trialling Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS). The ADS system harnesses the power of satellite technology, ...
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Unsung heroes
It takes a lot of contractors to manage a chalet - the constructors, the caterers, the flower arrangers. But despite these extensive preparations, things weren't quite smelling of roses under the Hughes chalet on the eve of the Show. So let us also remember those unsung heroes of ...