All Safety News – Page 1466
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Growing up
Boeing has begun assembly of its firstnew-generation 737.Guy Norris/SEATTLE IT IS UNPRECEDENTED but, by mid-1997, Boeing's Renton site in Seattle, Washington, will be producing six different models of the same jet airliner. The aircraft is the best-selling 737, and the ramp-up represents the phase in its development when production of ...
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Osprey tilts the balance
A leaner, cheaper, V-22 tilt-rotor is taking shape, thanks to advances in manufacturing technology. Graham Warwick/FORT WORTH MAJOR PIECES OF THE FIRST production-representative V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor are coming together at Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing Helicopters, and confidence is growing that the dramatic cost and weight reductions achieved ...
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Boeing tackles 'tail-wag' problem on United 777s
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING PLANS TO MAKE changes to the 777 gust-response system as part of efforts to eliminate a slow yawing motion, or "tail-wag", experienced by crews on the first few United Airlines aircraft. "We sent a team out to fly with the aircraft on revenue ...
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AlliedSignal wins 2h cockpit-voice recorder certification
A solid-state cockpit-voice recorder (SSCVR) made by AlliedSignal Aerospace, which stores 2h of digitally recorded sound, has received US Federal Aviation Administration certification. An SSCVR will be required on all Part 121 transport-category aircraft in Europe by April 1997, and AlliedSignal believes that the FAA will require the ...
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Sabena hit by strike
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS STRIKING SABENA workers closed down the airline on 29 November in the first of what is expected to be a series of industrial actions following the abrupt cancellation of all labour agreements on 27 November. The unprecedented contract move surprised observers who are ...
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Airbus extends widebody family
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIRBUS INDUSTRIE HAS launched the shortened, longer-range, version of its twin-engined A330 widebody and confirmed its development of the ultra-long range A340-8000. The A330-200 is scheduled to be flown for the first time in the middle of 1997, and to be ready for service ...
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FAA safety ratings sting Latin American/Caribbean carriers
SANCTIONS HAVE begun to bite at airlines in Latin American and Caribbean countries judged by the US Federal Aviation Administration to have inadequate safety oversights. An increasing number of carriers has been unable to put aircraft into service because bilateral agreements have been frozen by the USA until their safety ...
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Finnair maintains strong position
THE FINNAIR GROUP continued its impressive performance improvement in the six months to the end of September. Compared to the same first-half period of 1994, Finnair made a FIM462 million ($110 million) profit before reserves and taxes, against FIM298 million. Turnover increased by 7.7% to FIM3.6 billion, while ...
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Lufthansa posts profits despite continued exchange-rate trials
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA achieved a growth in profits for the first nine months of 1995, despite the massive exchange-rate losses which have blighted German industry all year. The German airline's pre-tax profits, before special items, showed a modest DM4 million ($2.9 million) improvement on the corresponding ...
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Concorde wins race against US TCAS ban
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS and Air France have avoided the threat of a ban on their Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde operations to the USA, after Rockwell-Collins finally solved technical problems associated with the external antennae for the traffic-alert and collision-avoidance systems (TCAS) which it is supplying for the supersonic airliner. ...
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Air traffic mismanagement
The Western air-transport industry realised around 1989 that the most enormous commercial opportunity in the entire transition to the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) was opening up before its very eyes: Russia needed a new navigation infrastructure. Since then it has deluged Moscow with advice - some of it wrong, ...
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American grants Hawaiian a reprieve
FINANCIALLY TROUBLED carrier Hawaiian Airlines has secured a last-minute, but still tentative, agreement with American Airlines to restructure long-term lease agreements for its fleet of ex-American McDonnell Douglas DC-10s. The carrier has until 8 December to put together a set of renegotiated financial agreements with its creditors before ...
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IATA agonises over CIS air-traffic management
Kieran Daly/LONDON A SPLIT IS EMERGING inside the International Air Transport Association (IATA) over the development of air-traffic management (ATM) in the CIS. Russian ATM authority Aeronavigatsia is considering whether to accept an offer of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development funding, supported by the USA, ...
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Flowers of Asia
Asia-Pacific is awash with new startups and domestic carriers expanding off shore. Tom Ballantyne looks at how big a threat they are to the region's majors.They are like bees attracted to the honey pot, says one executive from a major Asian airline of the rash of new startups swarming to ...
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Fortunes return
After a slight hiccup in the previous year, the money spinners of the airport industry are back on the upward curve. Revenues for the top 45 reporting airport authorities in 1994/5 rose 8.3 per cent, while their collective net profits leapt an enormous 17.8 per cent. The resumption ...
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Asian Express
After a bitter defeat in Europe three years ago, Federal Express is now taking on Asia to compensate for declining yields at home and develop high yield premium international business. By Mead Jennings.Fred Smith, founder and CEO of Federal Express Corporation, has never had trouble thinking about the big picture. ...
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China stakes on the line?
Recent high-level signals from Beijing suggest the Chinese authorities are backing away from a policy which clears the way for foreign investment in airlines and are directly contradicting plans for foreign stock market listings for China's three main carriers. In late October, Civil Aviation Administration of China's deputy ...
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Merpati mire after sacking
Indonesia's troubled government-owned airline industry is in turmoil following the sacking of the president of domestic carrier Merpati Nusantara over his refusal to obey a Transport Ministry directive to lease 16 aircraft through a local company. Ridwan Fataruddin's departure came just a few months after the resignation of ...
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New deals aid Taiwan
Compromises on symbolic points have produced new air agreements between Taiwan and both Hong Kong and Macau. Following expected ratification in December, Taiwan will have five-year agreements that straddle the return of both territories to Chinese control. The deals provide new opportunities for Taiwan's airlines and an end to the ...
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'Economic' spying bugs Japanese
Not many people were surprised to learn, in October, that the CIA undertook 'economic' spying on US trade rival Japan. The high-profile impetus for the intelligence gathering was the US-Japan automobile trade talks that were resolved in July after the two sides negotiated an eleventh-hour settlement under the spectre of ...