All Safety News – Page 1454
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KLM profits news marred by strike action
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON KLM HAS REVEALED record profits, although some of the shine was taken off the announcement by pilots staging a second one-day strike. The Dutch carrier reports net profits of DFl470 million ($300 million) for its financial year to the end of March, staying ...
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BAe/ATR finalise deal as Germany looks to Asia
THE REGIONAL-aircraft joint venture between British Aerospace and ATR partners Aerospatiale and Alenia has been signed and intense negotiations are now expected to take place at the Paris air show over bringing Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) into an enlarged consortium. Speaking in the run-up to the air show, new ...
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No definition
The European Commission (EC) does not want member nations of the European Union (EU) to negotiate bilateral air-transport agreements with foreign countries - especially with the USA. It has long wanted to take on that duty itself, on behalf of the EU as a whole. The trouble is that the ...
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GE90 test delay could hold up 777
Guy Norris/Los Angeles BOEING AND General Electric are believed to be making contingency plans, for a possible delay in the certification and delivery of the first GE90-powered 777 following a fan-balance problem experienced during ground tests. Test flying of the two GE90-powered Boeing 777 test ...
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Dash-8 crashes in New Zealand
THREE PEOPLE WERE killed, and four seriously injured, in the crash of an Ansett New Zealand de Havilland Canada Dash 8-100 on 9 June. The crew, who were among the injured, did not report any emergencies before the crash. The aircraft, which was approaching Palmerston North airport on ...
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Ariane 5 evolution
The need for an early growth version of Ariane 5, to meet the demand for higher launch weights, has been deemed essential by Arianespace if it is to compete with other launchers into the next century. A decision on development of the Evolution will probably be taken at the Toulouse ...
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Vulcain main-propulsion system
The Ariane 5 cryogenic propulsion system consists of the main engine, feed lines, valves, pneumatics and tank-pressurisation systems and is the responsibility of France's Soci,t, Europ,en de Propulsion (SEP) which, as a prime contractor, leads a group of 37 European companies "Our objective was to develop an extremely ...
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Launching the Ariane 5
The Ariane 5 ground operation at Kourou covers 2,500Ha (5,190 acres), and is split into three main areas: the ELA3 launch site; booster zone (containing the solid-propellant plant, booster-integration building and solid-booster test stand) and cryogenic-fuel preparation zone. The site is new, and cost around Fr6.3 billion ($1.27 billion). ...
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The Shuttle/Mir missions
The objectives were: to gain engineering and operational experience in conducting research on an orbital space station; to characterise the environment relative to micro-gravity and life sciences; to better understand past and future investigations; to conduct specific investigations in medical support, life ...
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S/MM-01
STS71 Atlantis, 23 June, 1995 Mir 19 launch-phase crew: Anatoli Solovyov, Nikolai Budarin. Mir 18 re-entry and landing phase crew: Vladimir Dezhurov, Gennadi Strekalov, Norman Thagard. Gibson will fly the Atlantis towards the Mir from below and will perform the docking using television monitors ...
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Safety procedures are efficient
Sir - The article "Confidential safety" (Flight International 24-30 May, P49) makes some controversial statements, which need correcting: it is not only airlines which have to report "those relatively serious events which result in physical harm to people and damage to equipment". UK Civil Aviation Investigation of Air ...
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Logic behind greater thrust
Sir - I was surprised to read in the article "GE looks at increasing GE90 thrust levels" (Flight International, 26 April-2 May, P6) that the preferred approach to achieving greater power is by removing one or two high-pressure stages from the core. Such a change would allow a ...
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Nose to nose
The Paris show is the first major event for over a decade to feature aircraft from both Boeing and Airbus Industrie Kieran Daly/LONDON The significance of symbolic moments should not be exaggerated, but Paris '95 serves as well as any event to mark the start of ...
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Bite of the underdog
Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas will be competing in some vital sales contests in the near future Kieran Daly/LONDON The next few months will see the outcomes of some of the most significant aircraft sales contests in the history of the aviation business. Purchase decisions to ...
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Exhausting issues
Aviation is coming under fresh attack from environmental lobbyists. Andrzej Jeziorski/Berlin There was an air of apologetic embarrassment about environmentalist Karl Schallabock as he gave his presentation on air transport and the environment at the Berlin Climate Summit in March. The audience at ...
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X-31 crash pilot 'badly briefed'
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH FAILURE TO TELL the pilot of critical changes to the aircraft led to the loss of a Rockwell/Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) X-31 in a crash on 19 January, say sources close to the project. Test pilot Karl Lang, is believed to have been insufficiently ...
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Power play
Civil-engine discussion at Le Bourget will be overshadowed by the big-twin power struggle. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Big engines, mergers and the first hints of new orders will dominate the chalet gossip at Paris this year. The top end of the power battle will be represented ...
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Jobs: unacceptable behaviour
Sir - An interesting juxtaposition of opinion emerges between Gordon Bretag's views (Flight International, Letters, 10-16 May, P89) and the comments of Emirates' Capt. Graham Jenkins in the article "Next-century strategy" (Flight International, 17-23 May, P34). Mr Bretag typifies the attitude of many in his position, where applications ...
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Polished performance
The North American version of a Polish trainer is likely to find favour in the USA. John Wiley/Atlanta Polish manufacturer PZL of Warsaw and US company Cadmus, of Northfield, Illinois, have teamed up to build, certificate and market the Koliber II light-trainer aircraft. On the ...
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FAA approves Horizon HGS
HORIZON AIR, the Alaska Air Group regional operator, has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval to operate its fleet of de Havilland Dash 8s to Category IIIa minima, using a Flight Dynamics head-up guidance system (HGS). The clearance enables Horizon to land the Dash 8 in visibility conditions ...