All Safety News – Page 1478
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Fokker submits its bail-out plan to Dutch Government
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH FOKKER HAS delivered a stark warning to the Dutch Government that the company will be left facing a crisis unless the state shareholder approves a major injection of cash. The warning came as Fokker handed over a new business plan to Dutch economics minister ...
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Technology-transfer key to regional-jet deal
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA'S AND South Korea's selection, of a Western partner to help develop a new 100-seat regional jet, will be determined by the level of foreign technology transfer. According to South Korean aerospace sources, local industry access to new technology will be the key ...
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How cabin-noise suppression works
There are three principal sources of noise in the cabin of a typical twin-engine turboprop aircraft. The first is a result of engine vibration transmitted through the wing structure, which causes the cabin walls to vibrate. Secondly, cabin noise is generated by the propeller slip-stream, coming into contact with the ...
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How green is a hushkit?
Sir - The article in Flight International, 23-29 August, on hushkit fitment to European Aviation's 20 BAC One-Elevens highlights the fact that, even 12 years after the first One-Eleven Tay re-engining proposals (Weybridge, 1983), the "thinking" operator prefers a re-engined aircraft to one fitted with hushkits. A similar pronouncement, was ...
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Koliber II is fast, but not that fast
Sir - I refer to the flight test of the Koliber II (Flight International, 7-13 June, P112). I was not a little surprised to read that the Koliber can reach speeds of between 170kt (315jm/h) and 260kt (and this with the cockpit canopy not completely closed), which to ...
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Martinair orders zonal dryers
MARTINAIR HOLLAND has become the launch customer for CTT Systems' zonal drying system (Flight International, 10-16 August 1994). They will be fitted to the Dutch charter carrier's fleet of six Boeing 767-300s. The sixth aircraft will have the system factory-installed by Boeing before delivery in November. Nykoping, Sweden-based ...
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Cabin safety research to be 'more systematic'
EUROPEAN AND NORTH American aviation authorities, have made an unprecedented joint invitation to the air-transport industry, to take part in a review of progress in cabin-safety research. The subject retains a high political profile, particularly since, during the last five years, all the authorities involved have postponed decisions ...
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Airbus flight-tests longer range A340
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE HAS flown the first high gross-weight version of the four-engine A340-300. Delivery of the first of 17 aircraft ordered by Singapore Airlines (SIA) is due in April 1996. Maximum take-off weight of the modified aircraft, termed the A340-300E by SIA, is increased to 271t from the ...
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Safety board seeks FAA AD for CF6 fatigue-crack inspections
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON, DC THE US NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has called for an airworthiness directive (AD) to be issued requiring fatigue-crack checks on General Electric CF6 engine high-pressure compressor (HPC) spools. The US Federal Aviation Administration says that an AD is imminent - only ...
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Pilots attack draft for centralised JAA
David Learmount/LONDON AN UNRELEASED DRAFT convention attempting to define the role and legal status of a fully unified European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) has been attacked by the International Federation of Airline Pilots' Associations (IFALPA) for leaving essential points "shrouded in mystery". IFALPA has written to ...
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The race is on to hit BA 777 delivery date
BOEING IS confident that it can deliver the first General Electric GE90-powered 777 to British Airways on schedule, on 28 September, despite the grounding of a flight-test aircraft for compressor-blade repairs. Certification flight-testing continues with the first GE90-powered 777, and ground runs have begun on the first production ...
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Airlines are checking Hamilton propellers propeller checks follow EMB-120 crash
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA AIRLINES ARE inspecting Hamilton Standard propellers on several regional-turboprop types after the 21 August fatal crash of an Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia following blade failure (Flight International, 30 August-5 September, P12). On 25 August, the US Federal Aviation Administration ordered the ...
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Smiths and Collins link up to offer CNS/ATM upgrade
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON SMITHS INDUSTRIES IS licensing its flight-management-system (FMS) software to Rockwell-Collins, allowing the firms to offer an integrated cockpit-upgrade which could be fitted as standard across an airline fleet. By combining the Smiths FMS, already fitted on Boeing 737s, with Collins AVSAT satellite-based avionics ...
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Lockheed U-2R crashes at Fairford
A Lockheed U-2R reconnaissance aircraft crashed shortly after take-off from RAF Fairford on 29 August. The pilot ejected, but later died from his injuries. The aircraft may have been intended to carry out last-minute reconnaissance of potential targets in Bosnia in the run-up to NATO air strikes launched on the ...
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Extra extreme
Photographing the Firebird Extra 300's aerobatic capabilities is nothing if not dramatic. Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICHMark Wagner/LONDON Flight International photographer Mark Wagner, enthusing about his passenger-seat introduction to the Extra 300, says: "I was taking a couple of shots from the front cockpit, when we went completely berserk. ...
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Concern mounts over JAR 65
Sir - Having read David Learmount's article "Licence to change" (Flight International, 26 July-1 August, P25), Aircraft Engineers International would like to offer its input on this important issue, which concerns future European maintenance engineers' licensing as it will be covered in the forthcoming Joint Aviation Authorities' (JAA) requirement JAR ...
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CAE Electronics scores with new simulator sales
Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) has ordered a Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 full-flight simulator with a 180°-wide MaxVue visual system from Canadian company CAE Electronics. It will be installed at the SAS Flight Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, in mid-1996, and will be the fourth CAE-built simulator purchased by SAS. ...
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TCTI buys trainer from ATS
Quebec-based ATS Aerospace will supply a multi-function air-traffic-control (ATC) trainer to the Transport Canada Training Institute (TCTI), which is to become the training arm of Nav Canada, the soon-to-be-formed privatised air-navigation-services corporation. The combined two-dimensional tower/radar trainer, supporting 52 desktop workstations, will provide the transition from basic ATC ...
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FlightSafety gets approval to build training centre in China
Graham Warwick/Atlanta FlightSafety International (FSI) has received approval to begin construction of its first Chinese training centre, close to Kunming International Airport. The centre, to open in 1996, is a joint venture between FSI and Xingyun, an investment subsidiary of Yunnan Tobacco. The centre will have ...
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FAA takes action on ATC failures
AIR-ROUTE traffic-control centre (ARTCC) failures across the USA in August have prompted the US Federal Aviation Administration to set up better procedures for dealing with equipment faults. Additional measures were ordered after the Oakland ARTCC suffered a power failure on 9 August, caused by a defective circuit board. ...