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Lord NVX system quietens DC-9/MD-80 cabin
LORDHASRECEIVED US certification for its NVX active noise-and-vibration control system on the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80. The company says that its system is the first to be approved for use on large commercial aircraft, and "...is being considered for several DC-9/MD-80 installation programmes." Approval follows installation of the NVX ...
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Masters of aviation
Pilots' careers finish relatively early, leaving them with no credit for accumulated knowledge and experience beyond that learned during the period of their licences. A postgraduate level of education in the aviation industry would be attractive to some motivated licence-holders who want future employment, early positions as management pilots, or ...
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Piper offers buyers trade-up incentive
BUYERS OFA new Piper aircraft are being guaranteed almost 100% of the original purchase price when they upgrade within 18 months to the next aircraft in the company's product line. New Piper Aircraft says that its Step-Up scheme offers a lower depreciation than would otherwise be experienced when trading in ...
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Rising power
Hydrogen was first used as a means of "powering" flight with the manned flight of a hydrogen balloon only ten days after the Montgolfiers' first manned hot-air balloon flight in 1782. Despite achieving an excellent safety record - 50,000 passengers carried without a fatality - the use of ...
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Flexible flying
For aspiring pilots who mortgage their careers until middle-age to earn a full airline pilot's licence, airline sponsorship is the ultimate dream. Yet, would-be pilots know that such offers are few, and the schemes, reacting to market behaviour, have been sporadic. When sponsors do announce a course, many are called, ...
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New evidence reveals fire on doomed Challenger's booster
New evidence that part of the right-hand solid- rocket booster (SRB) of the Space Shuttle STS 51L/Challenger was breached and caught fire at lift-off on 28 January, 1986, has been revealed by controversial aerospace engineer Ali AbuTaha. Seven crew were lost when the Shuttle broke apart at T+73s, in what ...
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US airline safety ratings to hit Internet
Safety data on US air carriers are to be put on the Internet by the Federal Aviation Administration, in a bid to make them more accessible to the travelling public. The agency says it will not, however, rank airlines according to their accident records, although information on accidents and some ...
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Boeing expected to agree late change to new 737 flightdeck
Boeing is close to agreeing to airline requests that it replace electro-mechanical standby instruments on the 737-600/ 700/800 flightdeck, with a single, solid-state, liquid-crystal-display (LCD) unit. A final decision is expected when the manufacturer can ascertain whether enough of the units can be supplied to meet planned next-generation ...
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British Midland lobbies EC for European slots at Heathrow
British Midland (BM) has entered the fray over the British Airways/American Airlines alliance, arguing that slots should be made available for its European feeder services rather than exclusively for new transatlantic operations. Chairman Sir Michael Bishop says that the move follows the recent intervention of European competition commissioner ...
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Aviacor prepares Tu-154 for Iran
Aviacor is preparing to deliver the first of 12 new-build Tupolev Tu-154s to Iran, which were ordered by the Iranian Government for its airlines in September 1996. The Samara, Russia, based manufacturer is scheduled to hand over the first aircraft during early February. It is designated Tu-154M-100 and ...
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Emirates picks Trent 700 engines for A330s
Emirates Airlines has selected Rolls-Royce to supply 320kN (72,000lb) Trent 700 engines for its fleet of 16 Airbus Industrie A330-200s. The order is worth $500 million. The airline has already ordered the Trent 800 to power its Boeing 777s. The deal is expected to be signed on 17 ...
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Airline safety in the frame
While Michael Crichton's latest book, Airframe, sat atop the bestseller list in the US, Federal Aviation Administration officials were surveying the crash site of a Comair EMB.120. Coming after a record year of commercial aviation accidents, the crash and the book are notable for doing the same thing: undermining - ...
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The sales of the century?
The sales of the century? NetsAAvers, CyberSavers, E-Savers or On-Line Travel Specials - under various names, four of the largest US carriers, plus a handful of others, are experimenting with using the Internet to promote special fare deals. They are selling what is essentially 'distressed' inventory - seats on weekend ...
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Credits roll on the Douglas era
One of the most pressing concerns for airlines should the merger between Boeing and McDonnell Douglas go ahead centres on whether the current Douglas product lines will remain intact and, by implication, what will happen to the residual values of Douglas aircraft they own. No-one knows for sure ...
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Free for all over the mega-alliance
What a mess. The lobbying machines pushing for and against the proposed American Airlines-British Airways alliance have moved from overdrive into hyperdrive. Thousands of trees have been felled to produce the paper required for submissions, opinions, complaints and press releases. Shares in Panasonic jumped through the roof as regulatory agencies ...
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Gulf Air split put on hold
Gulf Air's future remains in doubt as Abu Dhabi still looks set to succeed in its bid to take control of the carrier. The bid by the oil-rich Emirate was put on hold following new objections from Qatar and Oman. Concerned about their ability to grow their own ...
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Courts cap Dutch action
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Northwest Airlines both claim small victories in the legal battle between the two alliance partners which suggest the simmering dispute is no nearer a settlement. The New York supreme court made an interim decision upholding only two of six KLM arguments in a ...
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1997: very best of the decade?
There is an extraordinary degree of optimism about world economic prospects in the year ahead. Equity markets, the global barometer of business health, stand at or close to record levels on both sides of the Atlantic and have been climbing in the Pacific; oil prices have begun to flatten after ...
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Atlantic trio boost links
Swissair, Austrian Airlines and Sabena have enhanced their integration with a joint order for up to 29 Airbus A330s and the launch in February of a joint North Atlantic operation with Delta Air Lines. Officially, the A330 order follows a joint evaluation, but in practice Sabena has closed ...
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Web fever
Business gurus like to portray the Internet as the best marketing opportunity ever and most airlines and aerospace companies have jumped onto the bandwagon. Richard Whitaker goes surfing to see what is on offer, and Jane Levere discusses the trend towards airlines using the Internet for distress sales of inventory. ...