All Safety News – Page 1468
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Engineers of many talents wanted
Sir - I have purposely waited to write this letter, so that I can ask the gentleman in charge of appointments at Airbus Industrie whether he has filled the advertised avionics-engineer position (Flight International, 23-29 August, P53). The advertisement includes the statement: "Candidates must be fluent in French, ...
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Lufthansa Technik chief angry
THE CHAIRMAN AND chief executive of German maintenance company Lufthansa Technik, Wolfgang Mayrhuber, says that he may complain to the European Commission about the low prices which some loss-making, government-subsidised, European airlines and maintenance companies are charging. Mayrhuber says that he does not mind if a government helps ...
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Canadair delivers Special Edition
BOMBARDIER HAS formally unveiled its Canadair Special Edition (SE) corporate jet - an adaptation of its CRJ regional airliner - and delivered the first example to Middle-East distributor TAG Aeronautics. The SE - first disclosed at September's National Business Aircraft Association convention in Las Vegas, Nevada - will ...
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SAS will hushkit DC-9s despite 737-600 order
Andrew Doyle/LONDON SAS IS TO HUSHKIT ALL of its remaining McDonnell Douglas DC-9s by January 1997, despite having placed an order for up to 76 Boeing 737-600s earlier this year (Flight International, 22-28 March). The carrier has been forced to take action as Scandinavian airports ...
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American Airlines MD-83 crashed on approach
An American Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-83 from Chicago hit trees and force-landed, in heavy rain and darkness, just short of the runway at Bradley International Airport, USA on 12 November. None of the five crew or 72 passengers was injured. Bradley's tower had been damaged in the storm, ...
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TTS builds 777 for Orbit subsidiary
THOMSON TRAINING & Simulation (TTS) is to install a Boeing 777 full-flight simulator at its Orbit Flight Training subsidiary at East Midlands Airport in the UK. The simulator will be the first for the 777 to be operated by an independent European training-centre. British Airways, has agreed to ...
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Northwest fumes at KLM activities
NORTHWEST AIRLINES has effectively accused its Dutch partner, KLM, of attempting to gain control of the company, as boardroom friction between the two airlines heads towards legal action. The accusation comes in a letter to Northwest employees, explaining the board's decision to put a "poison pill" in place ...
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Hull-loss accident rate climbing
COMMERCIAL JET HULL-loss accident rates are increasing, according to Boeing's chief of systems engineering, Earl Weener. If the trends are sustained, the number of hull losses per million departures will be higher than it was 20 years ago, Weener told a Flight Safety Foundation seminar in Seattle on 6-9 November. ...
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Austflight signs Shanghai manufacturing venture
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Australian ultra-light aircraft manufacturer Austflight has signed a joint venture agreement with the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory to build the Australian-designed Drifter SB582 two-seat ultralight aircraft in Shanghai. Under the agreement, the joint venture also plans to offer to supply components, to two other ...
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Inconsistency in BALPA policy
Sir - The Independent Pilots Association (IPA) commends the letter from Chris Darke, general secretary of the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) on licence validations within the European Union (EU) (Flight International, 11-17 October, P49). The IPA is also concerned that licence validations have been issued to non-EU ...
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The first assembly missions
Flight 1A/R Nov 1997 Russia Russian Functional Energy Block (FGB) launched on the Proton, to provide propulsion, guidance, communications, 3.2kW electrical power and thermal control. One front-docking system, with forward and lower ports, and one rear docking system. Flight 2A Dec 1997 USA STS88/Endeavour ...
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Messier-Dowty plans to lower cost of landing gear for Airbus
Andrew Doyle/LONDON MESSIER-DOWTY AIMS to slash the cost of manufacturing Airbus landing gears by 20-40%, while increasing commonality of parts across the product range and reducing the cost of ownership for airlines, says Geoff Smith, managing director of the Anglo-French joint-venture. According to Smith, a ...
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Air-traffic-controller strikes blamed for European delays
Julian Moxon/PARIS STRIKES BY AIR-TRAFFIC controllers and the shortage of airport and airspace capacity are being blamed for a serious increase in departure delays in Europe during the July-September period. The Association of European Airlines (AEA) describes as "appalling" the figures for the three months, in ...
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BFGoodrich develops standby indicator
BFGOODRICH AEROSPACE has introduced a flat-panel standby attitude-indicator. The GH-3000 combines a colour liquid-crystal display with a solid-state inertial sensor in a 3ATI-size unit interchangeable with existing electromechanical standby instruments. The US companies Avionics Systems division says the $22,500 GH-3000 offers high reliability, with a design mean time ...
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Zeppelin prototype enters final assembly
Zeppelin Luftschiff-technik has begun final assembly of its New Technology (NT) airship prototype - the first rigid airship the company has produced since the Second World War. The 68m-long prototype, LZ N07, is scheduled for completion in July 1996, in time for an "official" first flight in early ...
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Lower minima and TCAS for HGS-fitted 737s
BOEING 737-300s FITTED with Flight Dynamics head-up guidance systems (HGS) have been approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration for take-off operations in visibility conditions as low as 90m (300ft) runway visual range (RVR). Operators of HGS-equipped 737-300s were cleared to perform landing operations with RVRs of 210m ...
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Technology aids are a comfort
Technology aids are a comfort Sir - I am perplexed as to the state of flight in, which Capt. Bill Pike achieves "full back stick" on his Boeing (Flight International, Letters, 1-7 November, P64). Perhaps the captain is an exponent of the "snatch" rotation technique on ...
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Pilot fatigue: no simple answers
Sir - The editorial "Regulatory fatigue" (Flight International, 1-7 November), augmented by pilots' views on P8, permits the reader only two possible conclusions. The first is that pilots in different parts of the world have different physiological characteristics as indicated by the fatigue levels ascribed to them by ...
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Novel design
Peter Henley/NORTH WEALD A MERE GLANCE at the Grob 200 reveals its designer's novel approach to his task. The airframe is constructed of composite materials, its engine is mounted behind the cabin (driving a three-bladed pusher propeller which lives on the end of a long tailcone), directional stability ...
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Flight of fancy?
The debate about free-flight air navigation continues. In the USA... Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration and the civil-aviation community "...stand at the threshold of a great opportunity to safely re-order the [nation's] air-traffic system". This statement supporting "free-flight" air navigation is taken ...