All Safety News – Page 1437
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HGS brings Horizon new benefits
US REGIONAL Horizon Air has begun "improved" Category I operations into Medford, Oregon, using Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8s equipped with the Flight Dynamics head-up guidance system (HGS). Operations to the fog-prone airport began after the US Federal Aviation Administration gave Horizon clearance to make the initial approach ...
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CL-415 - fighting fit
Canadair's dedicated fire fighting amphibians are not beautiful, but they are effective. After evaluating the CL-215 30 months ago, Flight International tests its follow-on, the CL-415. Harry Hopkins/MONTREAL FIREFIGHTING IS A matter of timing - getting sufficient water to the right place (even remote places) early, and ...
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The future's controller
Air traffic control in the foreseeable future will continue to depend heavily upon direct human input. David Learmount/BRUSSELS THERE IS A BALANCE to be struck in air-traffic-control (ATC) provision for the future: the balance between the capabilities of advancing technology and the fact that ATC will involve ...
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Airbus ozone project gathers momentum
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE is close to completing in-flight analysis of the ozone layer in the first phase of a European Union (EU)-backed atmospheric research programme. Airbus, which is leading the project with France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientific (CNRS), hopes that the results of the project will be used by ...
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FANS pays its way
Airlines are demanding hard cost benefits as FANS moves off the drawing board and into the sky. Kevin O'Toole and Julian Moxon/AMSTERDAM ALMOST BY definition, the debate over the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) has been strong on the benefits of tomorrow's technology, but a little weaker ...
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DC-10 misses Frankfurt runway - by 300km
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS David Learmount/LONDON A NORTHWEST AIRLINES McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40 carrying 241 passengers from Detroit to Frankfurt missed its intended destination by 300km (160nm), landing at Brussels Airport by mistake on 5 September. The pilots of Flight 52 only realised their error when they ...
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USAir Express launches Magellan GPS/ACARS
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA USAIR EXPRESS HAS become the launch customer for Magellan Systems' CNS-12 communication/navigation/surveillance system. USAir has ordered systems to equip around 100 de Havilland Dash 8s and Dornier 328s operated by subsidiaries Allegheny, Jetstream International and Piedmont Airlines. Magellan says that it plans to ...
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Honeywell lands Moscow GPS order
HONEYWELL IS TO install a satellite-based landing-system at Moscow's Zhukovsky airfield for use by Russia's Department of Air Transportation to establish certification and operational procedures for precision approaches using the global-positioning system (GPS) and its Russian equivalent, GLONASS. The US company will supply its SLS-2000 differential-GPS (DGPS) ground ...
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Grob fears for Strato future funds
GERMAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Burkhart Grob says that its Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft programme is being threatened by the refusal of the Government to hand over outstanding funding for the project. The Federal Ministry of Research and Technology has still not paid the DM46.75 million ($31 million) ...
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Ayres considers Dual Pac power for new types
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES FRED AYRES, developer of the Ayres Turbo Thrush agricultural aircraft, is designing a series of new types - ranging from a fire fighting tanker to a utility freighter - using the Soloy Dual Pac with two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6As as the power plant. ...
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Hong Kong and USA agree bilateral treaty
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE HONG KONG AND the USA have finally reached an agreement on a new bilateral air-services treaty, which will extend beyond the colony's 1997 hand-over date to China and promises to open up new routes in Asia and North America. The deal comes at ...
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Eurocontrol
Arnold Vandenbroucke has taken up a five-year appointment as director of the Eurocontrol Air Traffic Control Centre in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The control centre guides air traffic over Benelux and northwest Germany in the upper air space, ie above 24,500ft (7,500m). Vand-enbroucke's previous job was administrator-director of the Belgian Airports ...
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MHI takes major share in Dash 8-400 programme
BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE has signed up Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) as a major risk-sharing partner in its recently launched de Havilland Dash 8-400 70-seat turboprop programme. The Japanese company will be responsible for the design and manufacture of the aircraft's forward-, mid- and aft-fuselage sections, wing-to-body fairing, and vertical ...
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Europeans in split over Asian regional plan
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE DAIMLER-BENZ (DASA) has withdrawn from the European team competing to develop a new 100-seat regional aircraft with China and South Korea, after failing to solve major differences with its partners. The German manufacturer could not agree on a common proposal with Aerospatiale and ...
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Boeing heads for 700-seater launch decision next year
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING IS considering launching a family of stretched 747 derivatives in 1996 if market conditions are right. The possible introduction of the 700-seat aircraft emerged in evidence given by British Airways to a public inquiry on the expansion of London Heathrow Airport. ...
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Crack causes delay in Trent 777 ETOPS tests
THE START OF extended-range twin-operations (ETOPS) testing of the Rolls-Royce Trent-powered Boeing 777 is to be delayed by "two to three weeks", says the engine maker, after a seal crack developed in the low-pressure (LP) turbine. The crack, in the seal arm of the LP1 turbine disc, ...
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EATCHIP: defining the human ATC tasks
EUROCONTROL'S Dr Manfred Barbarino, leading the Job Description Task Force (JDTF), has to determine all the ATC tasks, which will have to be performed in a control centre of the future formed under the European Air Traffic Control Harmonisation and Integration Programme (EATCHIP), then define the role of each of ...
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Glass flightdeck
The CL-215T cockpit has been substantially improved. Both pilots have electronic flight-instrument systems, while liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) show engine and systems data. Subtle changes have improved the aircraft's user-friendliness. New handgrips above the windscreen make it easier to reach the seat, and there are extra padded grips on the back ...
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Beware non-EU pilot licence-holders
Sir - Capt. Rackham would appear to be confused on the subject of licence validation within the European Union (Flight Inter-national, 20-26 September, P76). A European Commission directive in 1991 brought down his perceived barriers to the movement of labour within the EU. All EU licence-holders are subject ...
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ProLine 21 gives Raytheon jet avionics first
ROCKWELL-COLLINS' Pro Line 21 integrated avionics, launched on the Raytheon Premier I, is the first business-aircraft suite to have large liquid-crystal displays (LCDs). The Premier I has two 200 x 250mm pilot-side displays as standard, with options for third and fourth displays. Collins says that the ...