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Starkraft ditches kitplane plans
STARKRAFT HAS dropped plans to market its Model 700 piston-twin as a kitplane and is arranging financing to certificate the eight-place, all-composite aircraft. A prototype was flown for the first time in December 1994, powered by two 260kW (350hp), liquid-cooled Teledyne Continental TSIOL-550s mounted in the nose and ...
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EC tries to close ranks over US open-skies deals
Julian Moxon/PARIS EUROPEAN TRANSPORT ministers will be asked to toe the line on a common "open-skies" policy for the European Union in a crucial meeting to be held in Brussels on 13-14 March. The matter has moved to the top of the agenda as the ...
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BA considers A330 for medium-haul fleet update
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS plans to make a decision on updating its medium-haul fleet within the next 12 months, with the Airbus A330 among the contenders. The airline says that in a year's time it will be in a position to begin "seriously considering" acquisition ...
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French Land Contract
French landing-gear manufacturer and maintenance company Messier-Bugatti has won a contract from Korean Airlines for the general overhaul of landing gear on five Airbus Industrie A300-600 aircraft, representing work on 15 landing-gear legs. The work will be carried out at Messier-Bugatti's Molsheim plant in eastern France, and is expected to ...
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Tuning Up With Aircom
Swissair has chosen the SITA/France Telecom/Teleglobe Canada/Telestra Satellite Aircom in-flight entertainment communications system for its medium-haul fleet of Airbus A319, A320 and A321 narrow-bodies. The airline has already retrofitted its McDonnell Douglas MD-11s and is about to begin equipping its Boeing 747-300s. Scandinavian Airline System has also selected the product ...
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Frustration of seeking a job
Sir - I am a pilot with a UK regional airline seeking employment with some of the major scheduled and charter carriers, to further my career. It is frustrating to be told by some airlines that they are not recruiting, and do not foresee doing so, only to ...
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Providing the answers
The causes of accidents are often not found because of inadequate flight-data recorders. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES The United Airlines Boeing 737-200 which rolled on its back and crashed for no apparent reason on the approach to Colorado Springs in March 1991 carried a six-parameter ...
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Aeroflot looks West for its fleet renewal
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW AEROFLOT-RUSSIAN International Airlines (ARIA) has confirmed plans to lease further Western aircraft until upgraded Russian aircraft become available. Replacement of ARIA's 116-strong fleet of ageing and fuel-inefficient aircraft is a priority, acknowledges airline chief executive Vladimir Tikhonov, giving his report on the airline's performance ...
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Airline seats get off the ground
SIMULA SUBSIDIARY Airline Interiors has secured a launch customer for its 16G airline seats. California-based start-up carrier Trans-Orient Express has signed a letter of intent to install the seats in Boeing 747-200s to be used on services between Los Angeles and Vietnam, beginning in late 1995. Initial deliveries are worth ...
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GE90-powered 777 reaches Mach 0.96 in dive
THE GENERAL ELECTRIC GE90-powered Boeing 777 reached Mach 0.96 during a high-speed dive in February, as part of a faster-than-expected expansion of the aircraft/engine flight envelope. "We are well into the test schedule. In fact we're already at the point that we'd normally be at six weeks into ...
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Smiths secures place on new 737 programme
SMITHS INDUSTRIES estimates that it has secured around $350 million of business on the next generation of Boeing 737, after being selected to supply the aircraft's flight-management computer (FMC) system. Smiths supplies a range of avionics equipment for the existing 737 programme, including the FMC, but faced a ...
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FAA adopts GPS plan for Olympic helicopters
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has adopted as a major project plans to develop a low-level airspace system for Atlanta, Georgia, to enable helicopters to be used to overcome traffic congestion expected during the 1996 Olympic Games. The joint government-industry project will develop a network of helicopter routes ...
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Canada will introduce charges for overflights
THE CANADIAN Government is to introduce overflight charges to airlines using its airspace, as part of a restructuring in advance of the privatisation of its Air Navigation System (ANS). The Government confirms that it will privatise its C$800 million ($575 million)-a-year ANS when it releases its plans for ...
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Swissair in regional/charter shake-up
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH SWISSAIR HAS HANDED over its regional-jet operations to its Crossair subsidiary. In a second strategic move, Swissair and Crossair will absorb the loss-making charter flights of Balair/CTA - effectively ending the latter's operations. Both moves are aimed at cutting costs and restoring group profitability. By the ...
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Boeing seeks waiver over head-impact rules
BOEING HAS requested a temporary exemption from US Federal Aviation Administration head-injury criteria (HIC) certification rules for some economy-class seats on the 777 until May 1996. The company, like others, has been struggling for some four years to find ways of meeting the HIC requirements and has experimented ...
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Sizing up all the options
I agree with the basic message of 'Stop Downsizing' by Scott Brandt (Airline Business, October 1995). No significant improvement in the maintenance cost structure has been accomplished - not only over the last five years but in the last 25 years!Bearing in mind that the major ...
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Norse code
After less than a year in the industry, SAS president and chief executive Jan Stenberg is well on course to meet the target set in the cost cutting programme initiated by his interim predecessor Jan Reinås. Including the proceeds from the disposal of non-core activities such as SAS Service Partner, ...
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Touch and go
Time is becoming a critical factor in air traffic control. Harry Hopkins/BOSCOMBE DOWN Research and planning for more efficient European air traffic control (ATC) in the next century emphasises the precise use of the fourth dimension: time. The UK Defence Research Agency (DRA) at Boscombe Down, in ...
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Jetstream aims for J41 backlog
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON JETSTREAM AIRCRAFT aims to build a three-year backlog for its J41 30-seat turboprop to take into the alliance with ATR when the merger is completed by the end of this year. Marketing director Nick Godwin estimates that orders for the J41 earned it ...
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An-70 investigators face FDR problems accident
Kieran Daly/LONDON THE INVESTIGATION of the fatal crash of the first and only Antonov An-70 prototype may be hampered by a lack of useable information from the flight-data recorder (FDR). Sources close to the Antonov flight-test operation allege that pressure on staff to accelerate the ...