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Bell Boeing moves closer to civil tilt-rotor decision
Bell Boeing will make a decision on launching development of a nine-passenger civil tilt-rotor, dubbed the D600, "later this year", says Bell Helicopter Textron president Webb Joiner. Bell and Boeing Helicopters are conducting pre-design studies into the market for a 6,350kg-class tilt-rotor, he says. A cabin mock-up has ...
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Taiwan to produce MD-95 empennage
AERO INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (AIDC) of Taiwan has been selected to develop and manufacture the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-95 empennage. AIDC is eager to take on more commercial work, to reduce its reliance on Taiwan's Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF) programme, which is expected to be wound down by 1998. Meanwhile, ...
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European debutante
This year sees the start of production of the first true Eurocopter product for the civil market: the EC 135. Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Cutaway by Giuseppe Picarella ALL EUROCOPTER AIRCRAFT to date, apart from the military Tiger, have been either French, from Aerospatiale's stable, or German, of former ...
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Romancing the UK, Air Jamaica fashion
RED CARPETS on the tarmac, on board fashion shows by cabin crew and Mumm's Cordon Rouge champagne in economy class, are the ploys, which the new Air Jamaica intends to use to woo the UK traveler, when the carrier re-introduces a London-Montego Bay-Kingston link on 30 March, after an absence ...
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Slow rise to recovery
Although the helicopter industry continues to struggle, the HAI convention booms. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Julian Moxon/PARIS HELI-EXPO '96, THE Helicopter Association International (HAI) convention in Dallas, Texas, 22-24 February, comes as the industry continues to suffer depressed sales levels for new helicopters and is dogged by ...
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Planet lap-top
The US Comsat Mobile Communications company has introduced a 2.7kg lap-top-sized personal satellite telephone, called the Planet 1, which can be used anywhere in the world, via the new Inmarsat 3 communications satellites, the first of which will be launched in March. Calls will cost about $3 per minute. ...
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Honeywell predicts Pegasus boom
MORE THAN 700 Boeing 757/767s and McDonnell Douglas MD-90/MD-11s could be retrofitted with Honeywell's newly developed Pegasus flight-management system (FMS), according to the company. The Pegasus FMS has 25 times the throughput capacity and up to 16 times more memory than that of the existing systems and will ...
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Call Red
Air-ambulance work in Europe is in its infancy, but is already establishing its credibility. Tony Booth/LONDON IN 1989, THE UK'S West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) launched a project to provide a five-county area of the central UK with air-ambulance cover (the County Air Ambulance service). The idea began ...
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GEC-Marconi
Lonnie Muir has been named vice-president for marketing and technical services at GEC-Marconi InFlight Systems (GMIS). Most recently vice-president at AT&T Wireless, he replaces Michael Rhode. Muir worked for GMIS before joining AT&T Wireless in 1993. Source: Flight International
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TWA will replaced L-1011 fleet with 757s
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES (TWA) is to acquire 20 Pratt & Whitney-powered 757-200s - ten purchased from Boeing and ten leased from International Lease Finance - to replace its 14 Lockheed L-1011s and some Boeing 727s. The carrier will also hushkit 28 McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-9-30s, and is negotiating with MDC ...
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Mesaba puts 328 and 340 on its shortlist
NORTHWEST AIRLINK carrier Mesaba Airlines has shortlisted the Dornier 328 and Saab 340 for an order worth almost $400 million to replace its fleet of 26 Fairchild Metro IIIs and 25 Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-100s. It plans to replace its fleet between June and the fourth quarter of 1998. ...
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Light and easy
The new Bell 407 proves to be more than just an upgraded 206. Peter Gray/SINGAPORE Photography by Mark Wagner BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON introduced two new helicopters at Asian Aerospace '96 at Singapore - the intermediate-sized, twin-engined 430, with its advanced four-blade main rotor, and the manufacturer's ...
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Aerospace mergers begin to reshape US industry ranking
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON WITH YEAR-END results now in for most of the major US aerospace groups, the effect of mergers and acquisitions are beginning to show through in the industry rankings. Lockheed Martin, as predicted, has pushed ahead of strike-hit Boeing in the world league table, and ...
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Singapore pushes West to support AE-100
SINGAPORE WANTS prospective Western partners to commit to taking a greater stake in the development, production and marketing of China's planned AE-100 regional jet. Singapore Technologies (ST) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) to take a 10% share in the programme. ...
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'Freeze JAA rule-making', says IFALPA
THE EUROPEAN JOINT Aviation Authorities (JAA) should be barred from developing or adopting new aviation regulations (JARs) until its status as a European rule-making body has been established, says the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations (IFALPA). The objection follows a European Commission (EC) Transport Directorate working paper ...
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Technology challenge
Making it easy is not part of the latest Branson challenge. Andrew Doyle/LONDON WHEN VIRGIN AIRWAYS chairman Richard Branson and balloon manufacturer Per Lind- strand launch their attempt to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon, it will be more than a test of human endurance. The performance of ...
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MDC improves China training
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA AIRCRAFT manufacturers are moving to upgrade training for Chinese airlines. McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has ordered a Vital ChromaView visual-system from FlightSafety International to upgrade an MD-82 simulator operated by China Northern Airlines. In January, MDC ordered a ChromaView visual to upgrade a China Eastern MD-82 simulator. ...
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Russians sign avionics deal
AVIACOR, THE SAMARA-based manufacturer of the Tupolev Tu-154M, has formed a strategic alliance with Honeywell, covering the use of the US avionics-maker's equipment on the Russian manufacturer's aircraft. The agreement, which was signed at Asian Aerospace '96, specifies potential programmes for the installation of Honeywell's integrated avionics, flight-management ...
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GEC-Marconi aims to quieten the Hercules
WHATEVER THE virtues of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, cabin quietness is not one of them. Now GEC-Marconi Avionics plans to do something about it. The UK company began trials of an active noise-control system on a US Air National Guard C-130H late in 1995. Active noise ...
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Infrastructure
Winner: Airways Corporation of new Zealand Location: Wellington, New Zealand Achievement: Implementing the first satellite-based oceanic traffic control system, opening up the use of Future Air Navigation Systems in the Pacific. Airways Corporation of new Zealand has become the first air-traffic-control organisation to install a satellite-based oceanic ...