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Canada to test voice control navigation
CANADA'S NATIONAL Research Council (NRC) plans to begin voice-control flight tests in July, using its Bell 412 Advanced Systems Research Aircraft (ASRA). A Canadian Marconi (CMC) speech-recognition system will be used to control selected communications and navigation functions in the helicopter. The flight trials will be funded by ...
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Tri Star to start with BAe 146s
START-UP NEVADA-based carrier Tri Star Airlines will begin services on 17 July, from Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon with three British Aerospace 146-200s. The airline ran a series of proving flights for five days from 5 July before beginning three ...
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Survival techniques
The past few years have been tough, but fixed-base operators in the USA are optimistic about the future. Karen Walker/ATLANTA SOMETHING OF A revolution is happening in the fixed-base operator (FBO) industry, the highway-service system of general aviation (GA) in North America. Across the USA, ...
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Inflite: putting the record straight
Sir - The Panorama television programme broadcast by the UK's BBC on 12 June covered the international problem of counterfeit or uncertificated aircraft spares and parts. During the course of the programme , which was instrumental in bringing the activities of a company featured to the attention of ...
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Fokker chooses Collins GPS for JetLine
FOKKER HAS SELECTED Rockwell-Collins' AVSAT-900 flight-management/global-positioning system (FMS/GPS) as standard on its JetLine series of regional aircraft. The Collins system will replace a Honeywell FMS in the Fokker 70 and 100, beginning with 1997 deliveries. Fokker is the launch customer for Collins Commercial Avionics' AVSAT satellite-based avionics. The ...
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British World to expand fleet
BRITISH WORLD Airlines is considering expanding its fleet early in 1996, to meet increasing demands in the UK charter market for aircraft in the 130-seat range. The Southend, Essex-based firm is believed to be looking for three aircraft in the Boeing 737-200 class, having had its fleet of ...
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Boeing wins first round of JAA certification row over new 737
David Learmount/LONDON BOEING HAS WON the first round of a battle to have its new 737 family of aircraft declared as derivatives by the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). The move will allow the US company to claim "grandfather rights" and avoid having to meet current safety regulations ...
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Cleaning up
The international civil-aviation community is bracing itself for the next imposition of environmental standards for aircraft. These new standards should lead to a significant reduction in the impact of airliners on the environment, which can only be welcomed. Unfortunately, there is a danger that individual pressure groups pandering to local ...
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Satellite-navigation-approach first for Alaska Airlines 737-400
AN ALASKA AIRLINES Boeing 737-400 has been flown successfully on satellite-navigation (satnav)-based instrument approaches to a 300ft (90m) decision height at Juneau, Alaska without using any ground-based navigation aids. The pioneering flight was undertaken by Boeing and Smiths Industries as a proof-of-concept demonstration to the US Federal Aviation ...
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Monarch to take on Alitalia leases
Gnter Endres/LONDON MONARCH AIRLINES is on the verge of taking over the contentious wet-leased Boeing 767-300ER operation, now provided by Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services on behalf of Alitalia. The new deal is an extension of a long-standing agreement between Monarch and Ansett, under which the UK ...
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Collins and Dassault team up on GCAS
ROCKWELL-COLLINS has linked with Dassault Electronique of France to develop a ground-collision avoidance system (GCAS). Airbus Industrie will flight-test a "red-label" prototype of the Dassault unit in late 1995, in an A319, and the system is to enter service with Air Inter in early 1997. Rockwell's Collins Commercial ...
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Clearing the cost block
Continental Airlines' president, Gordon Bethune, says the airline must focus on revenue gains rather than cost cuts, and must improve its poor reputation. Mark Odell reports from Houston.Gordon Bethune, the president and chief executive of Continental Airlines, doesn't mince his words. His energetic and hands-on management style has ripped ...
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Boom conditions shift to slowdown
It was only 12 short months ago that the global financial markets were gripped by fear of overheating and inflation. Robust economic growth, particularly in the United States where output soared to 4.7 per cent in 1994, sent the yields on government bonds round the world sharply higher and the ...
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Taiwan takes direct route
Conceding the inevitable, Taiwan has taken the first fateful steps that could lead to direct air links to China within two years. But Beijing's willingness to facilitate such flights will depend on whether CAAC pragmatists prevail over policy ideologues who hope to capitalise on Taipei's recognition that direct links are ...
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Phone-in plan riles agents
Japan's travel agents are up in arms over a new ticketing drive by the country's major airlines which allows domestic travellers to bypass agents by ordering airline tickets directly over the telephone and paying by credit card. Initiated by the country's biggest carrier All Nippon Airways in April, ...
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Qantas all set to float
With its long awaited A$2 billion (US$1.4 billion) public flotation now in sight, Qantas has taken steps to reassure prospective local investors that privatisation is not a step on the way to integration with 25 per cent stockholder British Airways, and that the company remains committed to European markets. ...
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Ghosts, phantoms and funnel flights
Some airlines are manipulating schedules to get improved marketing visibility.When is a new route not a new route? Answer: When it's a codeshare, funnel flight, ghost flight, change of gauge, or yet another figment of a marketing executive's fertile imagination. The intention behind the survey of new route developments in ...
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Euro pilots strike out
Continuing management efforts to cut the European majors' operating costs are resulting in clashes with pilots at KLM, SAS and Alitalia. If pilots do not concede the need to reduce costs, carriers may seek alternatives. KLM is insisting on a longterm programme to cut its aircrew costs, which ...
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Rotary researches
Eurocopter believes that helicopter technology could develop dramatically over the next decade. Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Although ancient toys and drawings show that the basic principle of rotary-wing aircraft dates back centuries, the history of the helicopter as a useful flying machine is generally thought to have ...
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Back to break-even
The world airline industry ended 1994 close to break-even, but cost of reduction is still top of the agenda. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON At times, it seemed that it would never happen, but the world airline industry at last appears to have ended its record run of ...