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Permali supplies DC-8 cabin interior
PERMALI GLOUCESTER HAS supplied a fireproof cabin interior for an African International Airways McDonnell Douglas DC-8-54F freighter. The cabin walls are made from a woven-glass composite material, called WFT/22, which was chosen for its self-extinguishing, low-smoke, low-toxicity characteristics. WFT/22 is a phenolic-based material, which is water-resistant and has a high ...
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SIA orders ATEC test system for use on 777s and A340s
Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE AEROSPATIALE HAS sold one of its ATEC Series 6 automated test systems to Singapore Airlines (SIA) for use on the carrier's Boeing 777s and Airbus A340s. The French company says that it expects the airline to order more "...once its 777 budget is in place". ...
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Banned aid?
THE EUROPEAN Commission has set some far-reaching policies and made some bold decisions in its time. Some of them have been good; some of them bad. Few have been as misguided as its latest decision over support for Iberia Airlines (Flight International, 20 December, 1995 - 2 January, P5). That ...
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American 757 crashes
An American Airlines Boeing 757, which left Miami for Cali, Colombia on 20 December, crashed into mountains at night, killing all but four of the 167 people on board. The aircraft was on its descent into Cali from the north, which requires a step-letdown procedure using VHF-omni-range/distance-measuring-equipment navigation beacons. The ...
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Cathay Pacific is warned on future
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE A MAJOR CHINESE shareholder in Cathay Pacific Airways has issued a blunt warning to the Hong Kong-based carrier that it faces competition after the colony is handed over to China in 1997. In an interview with Hong Kong's main English language newspaper, the ...
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Executive Airlines to fit GPS to ATRs
PUERTO RICO-based American Eagle carrier Executive Airlines is equipping its ten ATR 42s and 72s with global-positioning systems (GPS) to allow cost-saving direct routing. Executive has selected Universal Avionics' UNS-1M GPS-based navigation-management system for its aircraft. The airline's decision follows a six-month proof-of-concept programme, which demonstrated ...
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Flying backwards
A return-to-launch-site abort would test the Space Shuttle to its limits. Tim Furniss/WASHINGTON DC BRYAN O'CONNOR, FORMER Space Shuttle commander and now director of the Shuttle programme at NASA's headquarters says, "To a pilot, it's a crazy bunch of attitudes." He is describing the procedure for a ...
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Airport Systems steers to Indonesian joint venture
AIRPORT SYSTEMS International (ASI) plans to establish a joint venture in Indonesia to produce navigation aids (navaids) and landing systems. The Kansas-based company has reached agreement with Indonesia's PT LEN and PT Elektrindo Nusantara, to form the Asian country's first navaids manufacturer. ASI projects that the ...
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Airline navigation
Kieran Daly/Editor Air Navigation International THE OPERATOR-community will see only a little more of the future air-navigation system (FANS) turn to reality during 1996, but, across the globe, a vast amount of development work will take place. That has to happen if the numerous target dates ...
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Downwind turns: more to do with pilot perception
Sir - In reply to the letter "The dangers of down-wind turns" (Flight International, 13-19 December, 1995), I believe that Mr Maskens is barking up the wrong tree. The dangers of low-level turns have nothing to do with "the sum of potential and kinetic energy", but everything to do with ...
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Air transport
Andrew Doyle/TECHNICAL REPORTER Kevin O'Toole/BUSINESS EDITOR THE GOOD NEWS, at least for manufacturers, is that aircraft deliveries reached the bottom in 1995. The less good news is that the upturn in 1996 will be moderate. The big three, airframe manufacturers (Airbus, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas), ...
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Las Vegas lasers shut down
Alan Staats/PHOENIX Hotel and casino operators in Las Vegas have been ordered to suspend their laser displays following an incident involving a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 first officer being temporarily blinded by a burst of laser light. The event occurred even though the hotel involved ...
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Kitplane upgrade
Aero Designs has added hydraulic brakes and a cabin heater as standard to the $19,450 Pulsar XP kitplane, in response to growing customer demand for features available in certificated, factory-produced, aircraft. Aero Designs says that 350 kits are under construction and 100 Pulsars are being flown. ...
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X-33 partner to be selected in July
NASA WILL SELECT its industry partner for the X-33 single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO), technology-demonstrator in July, and plans to begin initial flight tests in early 1999. The vehicle could lead to the development of a replacement for the Space Shuttle. A draft co-operative agreement notice for the design, fabrication and ...
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LA is lax on fee
After a two year battle with Los Angeles International airport, airlines won a decisive round when a Department of Transportation ombudsman backed an internal investigation which found $32.7 million in airport revenues collected from landing fees had been improperly used. From the improper spending of $33,750 for a ...
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Alitalia faces capital test
Alitalia is treading a fine line as it finalises its new restructuring plan, trying to avoid the attentions of Brussels over its capital injection and further conflict with its unions. At presstime, the Italian flag was considering a report on Alitalia's restructuring drawn up by an independent financial ...
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Euro unions strike out
The signs in Europe for labour relations are ominous - and it's not just carriers with the more 'radical' unions facing a difficult start to the year. Strike action at Sabena started at the end of Nov-ember with one-day strikes after management cancelled all labour contracts. ...
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Delta joins low-cost club
Delta Air Lines' success in getting a tentative agreement from its pilots on the establishment of a low-cost airline is seen as a direct result of Southwest Airlines' moving into Florida this month. It is also an opening move in the row over pilot concessions. Delta has studied ...
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USAir looks to life alone
After its brief fling with United Airlines, USAir is settling down, if only momentarily, to its old position: alone with its high costs amidst a bevy of low-cost players. The only new wrinkle is that the airline may soon face even tougher competition, if Delta Air Lines succeeds in creating ...
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A system approach
O&D revenue management systems can increase an airline's revenues by a valuable 1 per cent, but they require airline managers to look at the system as a whole rather than an individual route. Richard Whitaker looks at one and answers common questions about the concept. Every yield manager knows that ...